What Browser Do You Use?
#1
Posted 14 April 2004 - 06:17 PM
You can poop in my toilet anytime champ.
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#2
Posted 14 April 2004 - 08:19 PM
#: #reqs: #pages: browser --: -------: ------: ------- 1: 6769816: 238255: MSIE : 6223915: 216243: MSIE/6 : 539815: 21684: MSIE/5 : 5884: 284: MSIE/4 : 27: 27: MSIE/7 : 151: 13: MSIE/3 2: 520867: 37717: Mozilla : 267193: 20206: Mozilla/1 : 861: 70: Mozilla/0 3: 31581: 2134: Netscape (compatible) 4: 47203: 1689: Opera : 45330: 1592: Opera/7 : 1565: 87: Opera/6 : 308: 10: Opera/5 5: 18352: 1098: Netscape : 12425: 625: Netscape/4 : 5908: 459: Netscape/6 : 8: 8: Netscape/8 : 9: 4: Netscape/3
Test against the last two major versions of IE and the last stable version of Firefox. The vast majority of users are on IE6, IE5 or Mozilla1.
#3
Posted 14 April 2004 - 08:29 PM
Tabbed browsing, baby.
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#4
Posted 14 April 2004 - 08:49 PM
Short and simple: Safari.
Right on Ice, I love surfing the web without any pop ups and having a google search in the top right corner at all times. Eat it Bill Gates... and those other guys.
Edited by CustomSnake202, 14 April 2004 - 08:50 PM.
#5
Posted 14 April 2004 - 09:16 PM
You do know the Google toolbar provides both of these features for IE, right?Short and simple: Safari.
Right on Ice, I love surfing the web without any pop ups and having a google search in the top right corner at all times. Eat it Bill Gates... and those other guys.
Mozilla has both of them built in and supports tabbed browsing as well.
Safari: What you use if you are stuck on a Mac.
#6
Posted 14 April 2004 - 09:17 PM
Tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, & mouse gestures, baby.
Safari: What you use if you are stuck on a Mac.
Exactly I love you man.
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Edited by SkiMan, 14 April 2004 - 09:21 PM.
#7
Posted 14 April 2004 - 09:29 PM
You do know the Google toolbar provides both of these features for IE, right?
Mozilla has both of them built in and supports tabbed browsing as well.
Safari: What you use if you are stuck on a Mac.
Uhhh...yeah, of course I know. Well I don't care: some people like Mac and others like Windows and what not. I just prefer the look of Panther on my iBook and the User Friendliness.
#8
Posted 14 April 2004 - 09:30 PM
Firefox is cross-platform too. Bitch.
Edited by Zero Talent, 14 April 2004 - 09:32 PM.
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#9
Posted 14 April 2004 - 09:33 PM
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#11
Posted 14 April 2004 - 10:35 PM
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#12
Posted 14 April 2004 - 11:01 PM
Firefox began as a project (Firebird) to seperate the browser out from the rest of Mozilla. Lots of people wanted a browser without chat, email, news, and other bloatware. After that point, Firefox entered into a completely seperate development tree. So, Firefox was more or less a subset of Mozilla, but has now become an entity with a divergent evolutionary path.
Netscape is basically a branded version of the last major release of Mozilla. Netscape 7.1 is based on Mozilla 1.4 which was recent at the time 7.1 was released. Of course we're on Mozilla 1.6 at the moment so it's obvious why this isn't going to work out too well for Netscape.
So, in short, every browser with a major market share is either IE or is based on Mozilla. Personally, Firefox is my favorite. Its got all the strong points of Moz but has a leaner, faster exe that's very appealing. In addition, the development cycle is hyper-speed so there are improvements to download every few months.
I also use IE quite a bit because it's the only browser that fully supports the (MS-centric, natch) extensions for the Exchange webmail component which I have to use at work - and actually like quite a bit.
#14
Posted 15 April 2004 - 01:29 AM
What it boils down to is:
Netscape
v ^
Mozilla -- Phoenix -> Firebird -> Firefox (win/linux/mac/other browser)
| \
| Camino (mac browser)
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Thunderbird (mail)
They had to change the name from Phoenix for copyright issues or something, then they decided to switch again since Firebird was used by another open source project, so now the standalone browser from the Mozilla code is Firefox.
Edited by SkiMan, 15 April 2004 - 01:33 AM.
#15
Posted 15 April 2004 - 03:39 AM
#16
Posted 15 April 2004 - 08:32 AM
Just curious, can you turn off pop-ups with IE, Netscape, Mozilla, etc? That's one of my favorite things about Safari, but I don't know if you can do it on other browsers.
I also use IE, as my G3 iBook came with it. It can do some stuff that Safari can't, but it's a little slower. Like right now. My dad blocked me from using Safari until my project is done, and so I'm using IE.
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#17
Posted 15 April 2004 - 11:45 AM
Best. Web browser. Ever.
Oh, and yes, Mozilla does allow for the turning off of pop-ups and for tabbed browsing.
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#19
Posted 15 April 2004 - 04:07 PM
Well I am glad some one said it. I use Avant Browser, no popups and minimizes the use of the toolbar.I personally use IE, but a friend of mine uses Avant which is very good.
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#20
Posted 15 April 2004 - 05:07 PM
Whenever your Avant browser requests any page, there's also a request for a file that doesn't exist on my server, and the referrer site shows up in the logs as http://www.avantbrowser.com/
Needless to say it's rather troubling when a particular browser keeps looking (600+ times a month) for a file on my server that doesn't exist. Since this request is an apparent bounce from their website, it looks an awful lot like a privacy issue as well.
Their support people claim it's just a harmless bug and say they've probably tracked it down. Time will tell I guess.
By the way, can someone explain to me why tabbed browsing is so great? I always thought Windoze kind of had that feature built in - I hit cntrl-n and a new window pops up. I can preload a web site in that window while reading a different window. There's even a spiffy (alt-tab) hotkey to change windows. I love Firefox, but the pro-tab propaganda on their site is more than a little silly:
Browsing with Tabs makes browsing the internet faster and more efficient. You can concentrate on reading each page without the confusion of having to switch between windows. As you're reading each page, links you have opened in background Tabs load, so when you're ready to read themthey've already loaded and you don't need to wait.
I guess it's browsing optimized for people on dialup or something but the whole 'confusing windows' thing is a joke. I think it would be more confusing for most people to learn a whole new interface for windowing rather than the one built into their OS.
Anyway, insight appreciated.
#21
Posted 15 April 2004 - 06:17 PM
But nah, it's not that big of a deal unless you're assailed by pop-ups.
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#22
Posted 15 April 2004 - 07:26 PM
#23
Posted 15 April 2004 - 07:32 PM
My mouse has a button for each of those operations your described. I even have a refresh button on my mouse... and I can set the buttons for different functions.I really like the tabbed browsing in Firefox mainly because I also use the Mouse Gestures extention. Instead of hitting alt tab and alt shift tab, I can hold down the right mouse button, and scroll the mousewheel to flip through the open tabs. Along with the roll right-click to left-click for 'Back' and roll left-click to right-click for 'Forward', it makes for some very speedy browsing.
It's quite the mouse.
I use IE 6 because I can't use anything else without my mom thinking it will destroy the computer.
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#24
Posted 16 April 2004 - 12:36 AM
For a very long while, my primary (as in, most used, not as in best) computer was Max, my crappy Pentium 120 laptop that I brought back and forth to school. I do not have X installed at all on Max. I used Links for web browsing, and I used NTAIM for Instant Messaging. Emacs for writin' and codin' (vi sucks balls!). GCC for compilin'. GNU Go and GNU Chess for entertainin'. And of course, bash for file browsin', program executin', and minor scriptin'. The only graphical thing I needed was some good ol' Quake action, which I ran through SDL, and I was freakin' set, man.
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#25
Posted 16 April 2004 - 12:44 AM
I used Lynx back in '93 or so when there were two browsers - Lynx and Netscape. Netscape didn't run too well on the DEC VAX/VMS mainframe that provided my internet access. Interestingly, both Lynx and Links are text-based browsers.
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