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What is your favourite browser?
Opera
Firefox
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Other (no derivative of the main 5)
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Kiyoshi
Posted on 03-19-12 12:16 AM (rev. 2 of 03-19-12 12:17 AM by Kiyoshi) Link | ID: 9766
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I am going to prevent the thread from derailing into ponies later on.
This hacker is so random...

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Epele
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Firefox for desktop browsing for the familiarity with it mostly.

However, I must admit the Android internet browser is quite nice to use when it comes to mobile. ;)


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Firefox Nightly, for no particular reason other than to brag about a high version number help Mozilla's development! :D :P

But no, I've used Firefox since it was called Mozilla Phoenix, and haven't had much reason to switch browsers yet. :P I did briefly use Safari when I first got this laptop, but switched back mostly for Rikaichan.


Kiyoshi
Posted on 03-19-12 12:31 AM (rev. 2 of 03-19-12 12:36 AM by Kiyoshi) Link | ID: 9770
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Tried them all out, and read a lot about them.
Opera user since 9.5, love it for its speed, security, stability and functionality.
Chrome is a good second, but lacks functions like advanced settings and mouse gestures. I wonder why it needs over 250 MB of hard drive space when it has only basic functionality.
Firefox lacks all these 4 things.
IE is improving a lot with IE 10, but IE 9 only has speed improved.
Safari is crippled in the PC version to make it look good on Apple hardware. And on that it's basically an inferior version of Chrome, same rendering engine.

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I've been using Firefox since it was called Nescape Navigator. It works for all the more I do on the internet. That and I don't feel like changing because of familiarity.

Kiyoshi
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I have been an IE user for many years, since version 3 on Windows 95, until version 8 on XP. I never liked Firefox for many reasons. While a lot has improved since version 7, most still hold up.
In 2008 I decided I wanted to broaden my horizon, and gave all big 5 an honest chance. Experimented a lot and read a lot. That's how I ended up with Opera.

Try them out yourself.

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Kawa
Posted on 03-19-12 04:16 PM Link | ID: 9787
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Hey, Kiyoshi? Is this you?



If not, it might soon be.

On a more serious note, I've been an IE user up to, say... IE8, I think, then I gave Chrome a fair try. Settled on Opera 9.x a little later, where x was probably 5.


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I've been using Opera since version 7.5. My Opera folder is still called "Opera75". <_<

Before that, I went with a variety of browsers, mostly IE.


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Posted by Liliana
I've been using Opera since version 7.5. My Opera folder is still called "Opera75". <_<

Reminds me of how my personal folder on my family's old computer was called "NETSCAPE 4 DOWNLOADS".

I also liked capital letters then, I guess. :P


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I remember Firefox 1.5 being the version when I switch from IE.. >_>

That's a fair.. while ago now too. :o


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Kiyoshi
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Posted by Gywall
I remember Firefox 1.5 being the version when I switch from IE.. >_>

That's a fair.. while ago now too. :o
I remember how you hated Firefox 3.0's bookmarking, and how I told you to switch to Opera back then :P

Makes me wonder why you switched from IE6 back then in the first place. IE6 was certainly better until Firefox 2.0 came out.

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Posted by Kiyoshi
Makes me wonder why you switched from IE6 back then in the first place. IE6 was certainly better until Firefox 2.0 came out.

woah woah woah what

Then again, I remember I was used to Windows 98, where IE of course was unuable because it got filled with crap toolbars and viruses. :P (And I was on a shared computer, so "don't go to those kinds of websites" doesn't work)


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Posted by Nicole
Posted by Kiyoshi
Makes me wonder why you switched from IE6 back then in the first place. IE6 was certainly better until Firefox 2.0 came out.

woah woah woah what

Then again, I remember I was used to Windows 98, where IE of course was unuable because it got filled with crap toolbars and viruses. :P (And I was on a shared computer, so "don't go to those kinds of websites" doesn't work)
IE6 was very crashy on 98 as well, it was great on 2000/XP though.
Arguably, 98 was not secure enough for the Internet in 2001 anyway :P
Also, not many people know IE6 actually did support tabs.



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Nicole
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Well toolbars clearly don't count. :P

Hm, and now I'm also suddenly reminded of the MSN Browser... :P


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Some toolbars by legit companies we're pretty useful.
MSN Toolbar gave you tabs, while with Google Toolbar you could do a cool web search.
Ten Internets to whoever facepalms to my terrible pun.

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Chrome's really nice. Haven't heard anything about the crashing that some people are talking about. Runs like a champ on this machine, which is already on life support as it is.



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Posted by Kiyoshi
Makes me wonder why you switched from IE6 back then in the first place. IE6 was certainly better until Firefox 2.0 came out.
After two serious infections which glided through the various IE6 security holes back then.. I'm not so sure I'd want to keep running the same browser.
Posted by KP9000
Chrome's really nice. Haven't heard anything about the crashing that some people are talking about.
When I tried Chrome the first time, I got greeted by the "Send error report" window. I never did get to browse in it. :x


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Kiyoshi
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Posted by Gywall
Posted by Kiyoshi
Makes me wonder why you switched from IE6 back then in the first place. IE6 was certainly better until Firefox 2.0 came out.
After two serious infections which glided through the various IE6 security holes back then.. I'm not so sure I'd want to keep running the same browser.
It's funny you say that, since Firefox actually had more security holes than IE back then.
I did have a lot of ActiveX security problems on IE5 but not on IE6. And only when running on an admin account in 2000/XP, or just running on 98/Me which were insecure by design.
Though there was another browser at that time which already had an excellent security record ;)

Posted by Gywall
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Chrome's really nice. Haven't heard anything about the crashing that some people are talking about.
When I tried Chrome the first time, I got greeted by the "Send error report" window. I never did get to browse in it. :x
What version were you trying? It was no good until version 4.
I wonder what your findings will be if you try Chrome and Opera nowadays.
Chrome loads pages fastest of all due to its DNS prefetching. The fastest rendering depends on the pages itself; Opera is faster on graphics while Chrome is faster on data processing.
Firefox took until version 7 to get an even decent speed.

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Posted by Kiyoshi
It's funny you say that, since Firefox actually had more security holes than IE back then.
However, not as many sites targeted Firefox's holes as directly as IE which was the dominant browser back then. :/
Posted by Kiyoshi
What version were you trying? It was no good until version 4.
Likely an early version. Might give it a try if I get bored again. >_>

Although, I don't particularly want to recreate my cookie black/white list again. >_>


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Posted by Gywall
However, not as many sites targeted Firefox's holes as directly as IE which was the dominant browser back then. :/
IE5 was terrible at this, but IE6 did not accept unsigned ActiveX by default, and running a browser as an admin has never been a good idea.
Also, have you ever tried Opera? I never hear you about it, did you never try my suggestion back then?

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