alaska Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 How do you surf and what "board" do you use and why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yelluh Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 I use IE6 because its the most used browser in the world.. and with that in mind most website's are designed to work best with IE6. Furthermore I get much better performance with IE6 then with any other browser I installed on my (old) PC. I tried Firefox for a little while but that didn't do it for me. :stare: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elderbear Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 How do you surf and what "board" do you use and why? I've been using Firefox since it was Firebird. It's a lite browser, it's virtually 100% CSS compliant (better at a number of things than IE). It has great plug-ins that let me add the features I want and need and ignore Xtras I have no use for. And then there's the miracle of tabbed browsing. Favorite plugins? One that lets me highlight a plain-text URL and open it in a new tab. A right click on a link lets me copy the destination to the clipboard. Bookmarks Synchronizer, which lets me u/l & d/l my bookmarks from an FTP site. Keeps my bookmarks synched up nicely between three or four machines. It runs very well under Win98 (still got one of those old PII 400s w/128MB RAM), and was much less prone to crashing than IE. Plugin for opening a page in IE if it won't render in FireFox. IE6 got too big & heavy for my old PII 400, so I tried FireBird & liked it. Once I used to use Opera (back in the 3.x days), but it cost money to upgrade and I wasn't that happy with it. Its ergonomics didn't fit my working style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elderbear Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 You left out Mozilla! :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaska Posted February 6, 2005 Author Share Posted February 6, 2005 Another cool feature of the Firefox browser is DictionarySearch. Highlight a word, right click, and it brings up the definition! It's nice for when you need to spell check just one word quickly. I left out Microsoft too Elderbear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yelluh Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 IE6 got too big & heavy for my old PII 400, so I tried FireBird & liked it. Funny.... that was the same reason I tried Firefox... but instead of loading much faster then IE it takes about 3 times as long... just to start up, on my old PIII. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 I used to use IE6, but I got to the point where it was beginning to bug me. As a dabbler in website design IE really annoys me because of the idiotic way it renders CSS. Whats the point of having a standard if one of the more widely used browsers doesnt follow it? IE6 is also in need of a major overhaul, its been too many years since the last version. Now I have switched to using Firefox, which seems to be a growing trend. I've tried mozilla, but Firefox uses the same engine but looks much nicer. As an habitual multitasker I have to love the tabbed windows. Much easier to keep track of where my convuluted mind is going that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GigamanD87 Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 Firefox is the only way to surf! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkusSVK Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 IE6.It isn't good it isn't bad.That's all folks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLaDio Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 Opera B) i would recommend any browser but ie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karimw786 Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 Firefox... It's better than IE in terms of loading pages, but its startup up is a bit slower than IE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepfan Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 Firefox. It's just better. And safer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killbenau Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 I use IE6 because its the most used browser in the world.. and with that in mind most website's are designed to work best with IE6. Furthermore I get much better performance with IE6 then with any other browser I installed on my (old) PC. I tried Firefox for a little while but that didn't do it for me. :stare: my senitments exactly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewbacca Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 FIREFOX! I used Netscape for many years before switching to the far superior Firefox about 3 months ago. IE is at the bottom of my list of browsers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiteShdw Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 Firefox is decent, but Opera has significantly more features built into the browser, like mouse guestures, and email. Also, when I use firefox, I've found that it's "tabbed browsing" is a bunch of bull. Clicking a link opens a new WINDOW, not a new tab. I even tried the tabbed preferences extension, but it still makes those tabs open in the background. Opera defaults to only using ONE window, and EVERY page is a tab. Not to mention, I click go back and forward without moving the mouse, by holding the right mouse button and clicking the left (or visa-versa for forward). Anyone who hasn't at least tried it should really give it a look. http://www.opera.com or http://snapshot.opera.com for the newest beta. Works on Linux, Windows, and Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elderbear Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 Opera B) i would recommend any browser but ie. Well, Lynx would make browsing this site a wee bit difficult ... B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbbb Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 I use IE. It's already on Windows and has all the features I need, except that it does not tell me what my connection speed is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elderbear Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 Firefox is decent' date=' but Opera has significantly more features built into the browser, like mouse guestures, and email.[/quote'] Mouse gestures can be added to Firefox for those who want them. I believe there are a number of plug ins. Personally, I don't want email in my browser. I want my browser to browse. So I use Mozilla Thunderbird as an email client. Also' date=' when I use firefox, I've found that it's "tabbed browsing" is a bunch of bull. Clicking a link opens a new WINDOW, not a new tab. I even tried the tabbed preferences extension, but it still makes those tabs open in the background. Opera defaults to only using ONE window, and EVERY page is a tab. [/quote'] I liked that about Opera. I also like Firefox's flexibility. Lets me have a few windows, each with numerous related tabs. Right-clicking on a link allows you to choose between opening in a window or a tab, as well as numerous other options (such as copy target destination to clipboard). With Opera & Firefox, I suspect it's largely a matter of taste. But they're both incomparably better than IE6!!! Even IE 5.5 was better than the bloated, buggy, insecure, crashing IE6. Oh yeah ... for all those of you still surfing with the "most used browser, IE" ... remember, it's also the least secure and the most exploited by malicious websites, warez, adware, spyware, tracking cookies, etc. Firefox gives you much more fine grained control over security than does IE6. Doesn't force you to turn of cookies entirely, disable javascript, disable active X, etc. It lets you make intelligent decisions for most sites. The spoofstick plugin - for FireFox or IE When I first read about this I wondered what kind of dummy would need a plugin to tell them which domain they're surfing. Then I read more deeply, and saw some of the hijacks possible. It's integrated into my FireFox. It's free. And you IE people can integrate it into your browser. Why not give it a shot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRenegade Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 Call me out of date, but i have never heard of Opera or Firefox, I am going to try them both. I just use IE cause it is what comes with windows and hell I am to lazy to do anyting about it... Lets get up from under this rock and check some stuff out :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRenegade Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 Ok, I have tried Opera and Firefox, and I am going to stick with Opera. Pretty cool and once you figure some things out WAY better to deal with... To bad I can't change my vote... :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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