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Which Web browser do you most often use?

Microsoft Internet Explorer
2 (40%)
Opera
1 (20%)
Netscape
0 (0%)
Mozilla Firefox
2 (40%)
Konqueror
0 (0%)

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Leritzi

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Web Browser
« on: September 23, 2005, 09:58:53 pm »
With the latest release of Opera (with no ads) and all the current security announcements about Firefox, which Browsers do you use the most and why?
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Leritzi

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Re: Web Browser
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2005, 10:02:22 pm »
I myself have always been a loyal user of Internet Explorer~ i wouldn't touch Firefox with a beanpole. Though as loyal as I am, I have tried out the latest Opera. And I'm impressed but I'd never totally change from IE
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Re: Web Browser
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2005, 07:37:50 pm »
In my professional opinion, Firefox is a timebomb.  The authors had all the right motives, but they are now finding that it wasn't really incompetence that made all the IE vulnerabilities (well, maybe some :) ), but rather the complexity of really large projects.

FF grew too fast to ferret out the bugs in an orderly manner.  I expect that we'll see a lot more FF bugs over the next year or two.

I've never tried opera, but now that it's free, I think I will.

Also, coming from a business environment, IE is THE standard web browser that almost all software is developed for.
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Re: Web Browser
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2005, 07:06:05 am »
i would vote for mozilla firefox
it is really very fast and problem free
however there is just one problem
it does not offer active ex and so some sites dont open
in that case i use internet explorer
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Re: Web Browser
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2005, 07:18:19 pm »
IE7 looks like it is going to close the gap with FF on things like tabbed browsing, etc.
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Leritzi

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Re: Web Browser
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2005, 07:26:03 pm »
You can get tabbed browsing in ie6 now with msn toolbar
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Re: Web Browser
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2005, 07:34:37 pm »
I know I need to get over it, but I still equate toolbars with spyware and viruses.
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Leritzi

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« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2005, 09:40:33 pm »
Yeah thats true, i was scared of them for ages. But though i should try the msn one as it got lots of media. And i'm quite impressed. Though I don't really used tabbed browsing much.
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Re: Web Browser
« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2005, 09:43:56 pm »
I installed FF to get the new uber cool tabbed browsing.  I used it once and I don't think I've used it since.  Maybe I'm not attention deficit enough to fully use it, though.
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Re: Web Browser
« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2005, 12:03:40 am »
I use Firefox.  I don't like Explorer at all (and two of my systems don't even run Windows so it would not be an option).
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Re: Web Browser
« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2005, 09:33:29 am »
I like firefox too.  I think it's just being different that I like, though.
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Leritzi

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« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2005, 01:43:59 pm »
I've used Firefox, but I couldn't see what all the hype was about. It seemed to crash a hell of a lot more often and the features I never used. With IE, you'll know webpages will come up like they were designed to as well
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Re: Web Browser
« Reply #12 on: October 18, 2005, 09:49:10 pm »
IE seems noticably slower to me.  Firefox, however, has one very annoying characteristic when run on Windows... it does not always completly shut down, so when you restart it you loose your toolbar!  It took me a long time to figure out where my tool bar was going and how to get it back.  :D
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Re: Web Browser
« Reply #13 on: October 19, 2005, 06:52:50 am »
Which toolbar?  I've never experienced that.  Also, I find your comments on the speed interesting - I find exactly the opposite to be true, especially on start up.  Now, there are a few squirrely things that IE will do where it goes into never-never land for an unexplained reason (repeatably) while FF does not have that problem. 

My main concern with FF is that there will be a good number of serious vulnerabilities over the next few years found with it, and despite how fast they get fixed, the exploiters are increasingly financially motivated to exploit the holes as soon as possible.
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Re: Web Browser
« Reply #14 on: October 23, 2005, 10:35:23 am »
I'm going to side with Leritzi on the Opera note.  It's pretty nice and even better now that it's free!
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