Choosing a good webbrowser


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I know that there are plenty of topics in these boards asking for the best webbrowser but I really want to make up my mind for once at all!

I've currently using 3 differente webbrowsers: Firefox, Opera and Maxthon.

Firefox - there is 1 thing that I love in this browser: it's the most basic that you can get. But on the other hand I think that it's a little bit heavy for what it is.

Opera - one of the best browsers for sure! but it has much stuff that I don't use and it won't (rarely) open some websites or work with them well.

Maxthon - light, complete, fast... but it works under IE. Is it safe?

Help me out choosing a good webbrowser please! :(

Sorry for creating another topic like this.

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You can use IE if you are an experienced user that rarely gets fooled by spyware/adware/virus scams.

Firefox is the way to go, although i personally use all 3.

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YAYAYAYA another thread.

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I personally use Opera, Maxthon and IE.

Firefox just doesnt cut the mustard for me.

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I'm using Firefox and it's pretty good and safe from preventing spyware and some nasty stuff like that. That's why it's a bit heavy...! Your choice eventually!

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Browsers are like religion. People are generally heavily biased on their personal choice and see anything else as the wrong answer to all questions?

Since you?ve tried all major browsers, what kind of advice are you seeking?

As my personal biased opinion, I would recommend Firefox. IE is just not doing many of the things I?ve grown to depend in Firefox, Opera is definitely an awesome browser but as you pointed out, some websites won?t be completely rendered as expected or would in other browsers. For security, I?m no expert but I have the feel that while IE is reputed for been quite insecure, I believe it is possible to raise the security level higher, at the expanse of some features. Firefox?s reputation is still quite good, but that may all be because of low user base (when compared to IE at least).

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well....

the choice is yours mate

I use IE personally, have tried FF and Opera, but both give me problems with language encodings (i surf webpages that use 2 or more different encondings) and IE doesn't give me those problems, that why I stick with IE

find it pretty good, IMO

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I'm going the standards compliancy route because I like people using a browser that actually works well with advanced sites. Go Firefox or Opera. Browsers based on Trident (IE) just suck.

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First of all, standard compliancy isn't something an average user would directly get benefit from.

From my experience, IE was the browser that shows most of the websites correctly, simply because most of websites are written for IE.

While IE undeniably has the most security holes among the popular browsers, you can easily manage to get no spywares and viruses at all if you know how to avoid clicking "yes" to those "CONGRATS YOU JUST WON A MILLION $$$$$". (And you would have your A/V + A/S installed on your computer no matter what browser you're using anyway)

So the browser I'd like to recommend would be Maxthon.

It's one of the most feature-rich browser out there, although not as much as Opera, yet it consumes so little memory and the application itself is very fast and light.

You can easily disable ActiveX, or even better, you can specify certain file extensions that you'll allow donwloading.

I agree with you that Firefox is too heavy for what it is capable of, I don't understand why so many people are crazy over this browser. :huh:

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Well, basically, I do think using IE is going to open you up to vulnerabilities - and guarding against them while using IE I find to easily be the equal of dealing with web idosyncricies in FireFox or Opera.

So, the two big ones. I'd say it depends on whether you find it easier to build FireFox up or trim Opera down to what you need. Now, I don't use Firefox because the ones I've tried 1.0x seem clunky to me, but this is of course my opinion.

You mentioned that you find FireFox somewhat heavy, and Opera seems lighter, but too much stuff for you.

Well, I don't think you can really trim FireFox down any more than it comes - as that's the point of the base install, to be a really bare bones browser. So I have two suggestions.

One, of course is to use Opera. I have my setup to be like Netscape 4 with tabs. Pretty much. Just the browser. In Opera 8, the mail/chat/rss etc don't show up unless you start using them, so for me they don't exist. The panels are simple to get rid of - right click, customize on anything, set to off or remove from toolbar. To get even more nitty gritty, go to the opera.com forums and the customize forum, ask there.

The other suggestion is to try K-Melon (sp?). As I understand it, it's Gecko, in a native Win32 UI rather than the SLOW XUL. I'm not sure if it does extensions or not. In the end, any browser will have a community that will do their best to help you with questions.

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I know that there are plenty of topics in these boards asking for the best webbrowser but I really want to make up my mind for once at all!

I've currently using 3 differente webbrowsers: Firefox, Opera and Maxthon.

Firefox - there is 1 thing that I love in this browser: it's the most basic that you can get. But on the other hand I think that it's a little bit heavy for what it is.

Opera - one of the best browsers for sure! but it has much stuff that I don't use and it won't (rarely) open some websites or work with them well.

Maxthon - light, complete, fast... but it works under IE. Is it safe?

Help me out choosing a good webbrowser please! :(

Sorry for creating another topic like this.

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Firefox is bulky? It is light IMO, the only thing that would make it bulky would be the extensions and those are the best part about Firefox, well that and tabbed browsing. Firefox is totally tweak able I mean once you get Firefox there are some many guides of how to make it even faster than it already is. Also people are making nightly builds every day (our very own bangbang023 for instance) with bug fixes etc.

GET FIREFOX

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Firefox is an abomination. It's UI is a horrible buggy mess.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate and use open source software. I run Linux ,KDE and use Konqueror to browse the web. But they messed up. And they know it. Firefox is a bandage on an old crusty abomination called Mozilla. Thats all it is.

Now, the gecko renderer is fine, but wrap it with some good old fashioned native UI and it is wonderful. Take Galeon, Kmeleon or Epiphany as examples.

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