Do you love your browser so much?


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I think it's just silly, it's only a web browser. :p

There REALLY isn't a worthwhile argument between Opera and Firefox. If Opera does something better than Firefox, it's probably a feature that probably sounds good, but won't have any bearing on anything as it stands (Like passing the Acid Test).

And vice versa.

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It still blows my mind how oddly passionate people can get over a browser, or an OS, or a game console. Sometimes you just need to find something else to care about

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LMAO... you can see the humour in it, even if I would never go to such extremes. I use Firefox because I like it - I've tried Opera and IE7 but I really like either of them, or at least not the last time I tried them. I couldn't care less what browser other people use.

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Fanboyism at it's worst there. Wasting money on stupid crap like that. This and that stupid Firefox logo that someone cut into a corn field that can be seen on Google Earth, are the dumbest things fanboys have ever done. Don't forget the ones who waste money buying the new game consoles just to smash them in front of the people actually waiting to buy one.

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i spend money all the time promoting firefox

once a month at my school i hand out install discs and tshirts trying to let people know that firefox exists.

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i spend money all the time promoting firefox

once a month at my school i hand out install discs and tshirts trying to let people know that firefox exists.

Sarcasm is hard to put across on the net. Was it sarcasm?
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Yeah, baby!

This shows you how how much "fanboyism" controls what is used on the internet, instead of people using their own "intelligence!"

Firefox is just a POS browser, that only gained it's populairty due to all the zombies out there that can't think for themselves!

Normally, I would set here and argue with anybody in a Firefox vs Opera debate (of course Opera wins!), but, hell, I don't even use it or have it on any of my computers anymore.

Now I use IE7 and K-meleon. Love the fact that this version of K-meleon didn't even require an installation. Just send .exe file to desktop and it opens.

But, anyway, it's just a browser!!

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I bet the website owner is loving it :p

Hehe, yeah, i'm sure he does :)

It's silly, it's (as someone said above) just a frekkin browser, nothing else. Although I kind of felt a knife burrowing into my chest yesterday when I installed Firefox after like 10 years of Opera use... I guess my heart will always be with Opera, no matter what. However, I wouldn't spend a dime trying to convince a FF user to switch to Opera, there's just no need.

People may use whatever they want, as long as it's not IE :)

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I actually stopped using Opera because of the Fanboyism. It got tiresome dealing with them on the forums when I was wondering about a feature that I liked with IE that Opera didn't support.

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I use FireFox as my default browser, but find myself using Opera more and more. Only ever use IE for testing webbsites I've made.

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*sniff sniff* I smell intelligence

whatever, am I the only one that thinks that it's ok to use any browser the person likes, as long as it's not IE?

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I don't smell intelligence from you. I've used Opera, FireFox, SeaMonkey, Mozilla, Netscape 7 and 8, K-Ninja, K-Meleon, I've even played around with ELinks, Links and Lynx, but in the end I'm always going back to IE or an IE shell. All the standards support, neat features and performance mean nothing if the sites you actually visit don't render properly. I've had a number of important sites that rendered in a screwed up fashion in Gecko and Opera, and only a single one that I was checking out once that needed a non IE browser for transparent PNG support. The page was designed badly anyway though as it was just overlapping text with the image - it wasn't good design use of transparent PNGs. Aside from speed, which can't be improved upon, security and features can be added to IE or to an IE shell. If you use an HTTP malware monitor it downloads everything first, scans it and sends it to whichever browser you're using anyway, so the speed difference ends up being negligible.

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I can understand arguing for Firefox on the grounds of open source because there is a bigger cause involved, but to idolize software is just stupid. Its a tool that you use to do a job, do you regularly walk around shouting how much claw hammers rock and that there no good alternative in real life? Then why do it online?

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I don't smell intelligence from you. I've used Opera, FireFox, SeaMonkey, Mozilla, Netscape 7 and 8, K-Ninja, K-Meleon, I've even played around with ELinks, Links and Lynx, but in the end I'm always going back to IE or an IE shell. All the standards support, neat features and performance mean nothing if the sites you actually visit don't render properly. I've had a number of important sites that rendered in a screwed up fashion in Gecko and Opera, and only a single one that I was checking out once that needed a non IE browser for transparent PNG support. The page was designed badly anyway though as it was just overlapping text with the image - it wasn't good design use of transparent PNGs. Aside from speed, which can't be improved upon, security and features can be added to IE or to an IE shell. If you use an HTTP malware monitor it downloads everything first, scans it and sends it to whichever browser you're using anyway, so the speed difference ends up being negligible.

I've only ever had one or two sites render incorrectly, one was a site where the guy included every image via a IE only css extension, this extension is horribly slow mind you, and one where people assumed Word was a web site designer.

And IE7 finally supports PNG alpha channels properly (even though that was slated for IE4).

But hey, eventually IE won't suck so much any more (not rendering properly isn't a feature)

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I don't care what the reason for a site rendering incorrectly is, only that it does. If the site is important to me, I use a browser that handles it. There isn't a site that's important to me that IE doesn't handle. There are sites important to me that Gecko and Opera can't handle (haven't played much with KHTML). I always keep several alternate browsers installed, incase a website doesn't work for me, but only once has using a non-IE browser helped things - the rest of the time the site design just sucked anyway or it was a server problem. I prefer for consistency's sake to use a single browser the majority of the time. A browser that works 99.99% of the time is better than one that works 90% of the time.

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