MyIE2. Love tabbed browsing and mouse gestures. Can't do without mouse gestures.
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Geeky1University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited May 2004
IE mostly, sometimes avant. I've used mozilla and firefox. I don't like them. Both of them are slower than IE6/Avant, and I've never been fond of the netscape/mozilla GUI. Ever.
Firefox. I can't see why anyone would use Konqueror as it has to be the worst web browser ever. I also can't see why people would use Opera as they could get everything they need in Mozilla without the adverts or paying..
IE mostly, sometimes avant. I've used mozilla and firefox. I don't like them. Both of them are slower than IE6/Avant, and I've never been fond of the netscape/mozilla GUI. Ever.
To each his own. I am used to Mozilla now, and use it and Thunderbird for email mostly due to the builtin antispam in email, the spell-checking in email parts, the search functions in Mozilla 1.7, and the bookmarks management as well as the much better ftp client. Since I am an OEM and am also a tech who supports things, I do get most of my Windows updates in OEM\sysadmin archive form, via FTP, from Microsoft downloads and technet, from within Mozilla. In Linux, and they get burned to CD in Linux as archive collections. These CDs run fine in Widnows boxes.
Is this legal??? Yes, I conform to the class for which these ftp archives are made available for install on whole nets or enterprise use, and the routing actually was and is intended for IT Pros. I will not update illegal installs of Windows, which is the clincher to making this legal.
IE6, started to use Firefox, but I like MyIE better than firefox right now. I need to start playing with some of the firefox plugins.
Hint with Firefox and Mozilla-- look at the helper application interface. You can link to apps also, I have done this with Acrobat Reader 6.0 and not used the plugin as I like the full Acrobat Reader interface better than the plugin run result. I told Mozilla and Firefox to use the program file for Acrobat Reader as a helper application, get a full run of Acrobat Reader 6.0 when I click on an acrobat reader file on the web, with the file open after it downloads. I also have Opera set up this way, no plugin run of full application associated to browser's understanding of type associations.
Most Mozilla and Netscape 6.1 plugins (and some Netscape 6.0 plugins) will work with Firefox and Mozilla, some will work with Opera also.
But, you do NOT have to use a pure plugin interface, either.
I just use Internet explorer... I've kept away from everything else since I first used Netscape. Bleagh! Tried one or two others, maybe for a few minutes at a time, didn't feel like getting used to them. The tabbed browsing of my ie was cool, but I just didn't like it. Again, didn't feel like getting used to it all over again. I've used Internet explorer since Windows 98, (never could get the internet up on 95) and never switched.
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Straight_ManGeeky, in my own wayNaples, FLIcrontian
I just use Internet explorer... I've kept away from everything else since I first used Netscape. Bleagh! Tried one or two others, maybe for a few minutes at a time, didn't feel like getting used to them. The tabbed browsing of my ie was cool, but I just didn't like it. Again, didn't feel like getting used to it all over again. I've used Internet explorer since Windows 98, (never could get the internet up on 95) and never switched.
USe what works for what you want to do.... I've gotten used to Tabbed interfaces, like them. Also the fact that if I want a window I can have one instead, that most of the pfishing sites that can force IE to run a full-screen with no resize or bottom icon showing secure connect or not cannot do this with Mozilla, things like that. Essentially, FireFox is Mozilla minus some of the bells and whistles I like in Mozilla... So, I use Thunderbird for email, and install Mozilla WITH COMPOSER and SANS email\newsgroup module.
Actually, I use Konqueror also sometimes, when I want to not surf from XP because that box is busy and Mozilla or Opera will not talk to a vendor's site right. Then I tell the vendor about my experience. NewEgg's site now works for sales transaction processing with Mozilla and Opera and IE, for example, now, after working with IE only for a while. Three banking sites also do, now, that I know of.
Lot of times it is the SITE being coded and tested with only one browser in mind that is part of problem. Hotmail web site email browsing also now works from Mozilla and Opera, so does ComCast's site-- actually, it took European governments and users together to get this last to happen, and it was a login problem set that caused IT not to work with Mozilla and Opera.
The Gr81-->If you were to wait about a month and try FireFox or Mozilla, you might find its changed a lot-- there were some things I hated about Netscape Communicator Gold 2.0 and up through 4.97 that Netscape 6.1 and 7 and then later Mozilla (because it let fewer ads feed) had no longer done that way. Depends on what version you used, what the interface will be like, really, when you compare what you tried to current version.
I frankly do not think there is one browser that is universally best (best for all users) or worst, and if I could vote multiples, WOULD.
Mozilla 1.7RC2
FireFox based on Mozzie 1.6
Opera 7+
IE with all security updates for it.
Konqueror
Amaya
qtk app called Quanta Gold
Would be my choices for what I use for various purposes. Mozzie and Opera MOSTLY, others for more specific things.
I use Firefox. I am new to it but I like some of hte features.
Now my work machine and my wife's are both running IE5.5.
I can't bring myself to install 6, why is it so damn big?
I hope to move all of them to Firefox.
Jengo
Pasco, WA | USA
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Mostly Mozilla (1.7 RC2 currently), Firefox, Opera. Because they surf 90%+ of the places I want to surf, and have better FTP builtins than IE.
Sometimes IE. For the other 10%.
Far superior to IE in every aspect I need/want--not the least of which is security.
Also, this is more of a software question than a Networking question so I am moving it over
IE
because i'm used to it
LIN
I also use Safari when I am using a Mac.
To each his own. I am used to Mozilla now, and use it and Thunderbird for email mostly due to the builtin antispam in email, the spell-checking in email parts, the search functions in Mozilla 1.7, and the bookmarks management as well as the much better ftp client. Since I am an OEM and am also a tech who supports things, I do get most of my Windows updates in OEM\sysadmin archive form, via FTP, from Microsoft downloads and technet, from within Mozilla. In Linux, and they get burned to CD in Linux as archive collections. These CDs run fine in Widnows boxes.
Is this legal??? Yes, I conform to the class for which these ftp archives are made available for install on whole nets or enterprise use, and the routing actually was and is intended for IT Pros. I will not update illegal installs of Windows, which is the clincher to making this legal.
Hint with Firefox and Mozilla-- look at the helper application interface. You can link to apps also, I have done this with Acrobat Reader 6.0 and not used the plugin as I like the full Acrobat Reader interface better than the plugin run result. I told Mozilla and Firefox to use the program file for Acrobat Reader as a helper application, get a full run of Acrobat Reader 6.0 when I click on an acrobat reader file on the web, with the file open after it downloads. I also have Opera set up this way, no plugin run of full application associated to browser's understanding of type associations.
Most Mozilla and Netscape 6.1 plugins (and some Netscape 6.0 plugins) will work with Firefox and Mozilla, some will work with Opera also.
But, you do NOT have to use a pure plugin interface, either.
USe what works for what you want to do.... I've gotten used to Tabbed interfaces, like them. Also the fact that if I want a window I can have one instead, that most of the pfishing sites that can force IE to run a full-screen with no resize or bottom icon showing secure connect or not cannot do this with Mozilla, things like that. Essentially, FireFox is Mozilla minus some of the bells and whistles I like in Mozilla... So, I use Thunderbird for email, and install Mozilla WITH COMPOSER and SANS email\newsgroup module.
Actually, I use Konqueror also sometimes, when I want to not surf from XP because that box is busy and Mozilla or Opera will not talk to a vendor's site right. Then I tell the vendor about my experience. NewEgg's site now works for sales transaction processing with Mozilla and Opera and IE, for example, now, after working with IE only for a while. Three banking sites also do, now, that I know of.
Lot of times it is the SITE being coded and tested with only one browser in mind that is part of problem. Hotmail web site email browsing also now works from Mozilla and Opera, so does ComCast's site-- actually, it took European governments and users together to get this last to happen, and it was a login problem set that caused IT not to work with Mozilla and Opera.
The Gr81-->If you were to wait about a month and try FireFox or Mozilla, you might find its changed a lot-- there were some things I hated about Netscape Communicator Gold 2.0 and up through 4.97 that Netscape 6.1 and 7 and then later Mozilla (because it let fewer ads feed) had no longer done that way. Depends on what version you used, what the interface will be like, really, when you compare what you tried to current version.
I frankly do not think there is one browser that is universally best (best for all users) or worst, and if I could vote multiples, WOULD.
Mozilla 1.7RC2
FireFox based on Mozzie 1.6
Opera 7+
IE with all security updates for it.
Konqueror
Amaya
qtk app called Quanta Gold
Would be my choices for what I use for various purposes. Mozzie and Opera MOSTLY, others for more specific things.
I only use IE on windows update or sites that i definatly trust.
And let's not forget even if you trust the site the advertisers can still slip in browser hijacks and rogue code.
Now my work machine and my wife's are both running IE5.5.
I can't bring myself to install 6, why is it so damn big?
I hope to move all of them to Firefox.