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Which browser do you use?  

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  1. 1. Which browser do you use?

    • Internet Explorer.
      78
    • Netscape.
      1
    • Mozilla.
      29
    • Opera.
      26
    • Phoenix.
      40

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Phoenix for me.

Reasons:

Launches pretty fast.

Doesn't require multiple windows like IE.

Lots of available extensions and addons - Optimoz (mouse gestures), Tab Extensions, Leecher, Image Nuker, etc.

Great visual interface, lots of good skins available.

In active development - bugs get fixed in the nightlies which are released often.

Relatively good compliance with the majority of websites. Haven't run into any serious problems.

Wonderful ability to disable javascript/reloading/plugins/images in a specific tab (useful for pages with auto-reloading banner ads, frames, no-right-click scripts, etc).

Very effective popup blocking.

Now has extension to kill Flash banner ads/popups.

While its still got a ways to go development-wise, I use it, because even at this stage, it kicks IE's a$s in amount of features, skinnability, and customization. I can't wait for the next milestone release. They're changing the name :( :( :( :( *sadness*

But it will always be Phoenix to me.

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whipper25

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i use mozilla...i use to refuse to use anything else but IE, just because i was so accustomed to it..but sometimes you just have to try things out..so i tried mozilla and although it gave me problems at first i stuck with it, and now i'm so familiar with it i hardly touch IE (only for windows update)...i just think mozilla has an upper hand with it's tab support and mouse gestures..i can't do without them now...

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ring0

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opera 7.03, all the way.

i love the speed and customizability of it, as well as the wand feature, the ability to show or block all images on a page, the built-in popup blocking, and low RAM usage.

you want minimal? check the screenshot below. the first button is my Menu (File, Edit, View, etc all drop down when you click it), the second is my favorites list, forward, backward, refresh, the hotlist (not really necessary, but nice), the wand, show/hide images, and the rest you can figure out.

opera = win.

edit: if they can minimize Phoenix's RAM usage and make it more customizable, i might switch. until then, it's opera all the way

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pHuzi0n

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IE <50% MWAHAHAHA first time ive seen that happen here

It sure as hell isn't true for the entire internet though. My sites (roughly 10k uniques/day combined) show:

IE with 95%

Netscape/Mozilla with 4%

Opera with 0.14%

A ton of spiders/bots....

And Konqueror with 0.02%

Now if I could get ahold of Neowin's apache logs... ;)

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