06-20-2005, 01:42 AM | #1 |
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What is your favorite?
I used to use explorer all the time, but then a friend told me of firefox. I am still getting used to having one window, with several tabs... What is a good one to use? Firefox speeds surfing up for me a little, i have 56k connection... [img]graemlins/1disgust.gif[/img] Any good recommendations for a faster browser?
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06-20-2005, 03:47 AM | #2 |
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I use Firefox... for some reason I have never gotten the tabs to work, always have multible windows, like in IE...
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06-20-2005, 04:33 AM | #3 |
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I use firefox for some time now. I like it a lot.
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06-20-2005, 05:48 AM | #4 |
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You use the middle mouse button for tabs and right click and open in new window for a new window.
I often have 20 tabs open and about 4-5 windows.
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06-20-2005, 05:50 AM | #5 |
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They now have Netscape 8.0 which is Firefox with some extra stuff. I don't know if it performs any better though. I still use Firefox.
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06-20-2005, 07:03 AM | #6 |
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I used to write a lot of scripts so I found Netscape/Mozilla to be vastly superior. The very root of their scripting syntax is based on object-oriented thinking. You can actually let your own objects inherit from a DIV element. Microsoft with their VB based chaos never really understood that.
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06-20-2005, 08:58 AM | #7 |
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Firefox all the way, I have been using it back when it was known as Firebird. I think first version that I started to use was 0.5x
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06-20-2005, 09:16 AM | #8 |
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I use Firefox. I have Opera too but I rarely use it.
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06-20-2005, 09:38 AM | #9 |
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I use Mozilla (firefox) or IE at work and IE or Netscape at home although mostly IE. We're probably going to put Mozilla/firefox on our machines at home soon since the hubby dl'd the program last week.
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06-20-2005, 09:41 AM | #10 | |
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For me, the best part of Firefox is the extensions. I currently use Adblock, Download Statusbar, EMButtons, Greasemonkey, keyconfig, KeywordSelection, Tab Mix, and View Background Plus, although at one point I had almost 50 of the things. The regular updates are good, too - 1.1 is expected out later this year (second alpha in the next few days/weeks), and the builds that are to become it already have some major improvements (Opera-esque instant-back, revamped preferences window, easier extension install/uninstall, simplifying of some startup code/config files (possibly also improving startup speed), more advanced tab handling out-of-the-box...), and there's a fair bit more to come (save webpage as PNG or PDF). And ofcourse the focus on interoperability (both with the way the web is going and the way the web is now). /rambling ad Anyway, if you want something faster possibly try an optimized build of Firefox (www.moox.org has some popular ones), or Opera (which out of Firefox and Opera is faster at rendering pages is hotly debated, and seems to vary alot depending on alot of things - the give-us-money-or-we'll-give-you-even-more-ads is real annoying though). Or, if you want something realy fast, but don't mind getting fairly basic pages, Google for 'Dillo' - not sure if it runs on Windows, though. EDIT: Ok, I just downloaded and tried dillo for myself... it is extremely fast. Just don't use it for javascript-heavy pages (eg, Ironworks uses Javascript excessively), or if you want to see pages which have been designed as works of art rather than as a way of delivering information (no CSS support). But Dillo is the fastest browser I have ever come across - quite possibly even better than Lynx! [ 06-20-2005, 09:49 AM: Message edited by: LennonCook ] |
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