Which browser do you use? Is anyone else using a "Firefox" browser tonite?

[billbuckhead]

What browser to you use?

[renegade000]

1. on a windows system i just use explorer

but on linux i'm using epiphany

[alfredo]

2. FireFox is great. I used to use Safari, but FireFox is so fast.

OmniWeb is great now that it has tabbed browsing. It also has voice navigation. Works well with Via Voice too.
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/


Konqueror is pretty good. I use it in Linux and sometimes in OSX,
Safari uses KHTML, the code used in Konqueror, and Apple is supplying any changes in the source right back to the Konqueror project.
http://www.konqueror.org/

[billbuckhead]

3. The Google site built into the toolbar ought to make everyone switch

It just seems more logically easy to use

[alfredo]

4. So does Safari. I use that feature quite a bit in both browsers.

I see no reason for people to continue using IE, that is if they like the multitude of security holes, and pop up ads.

[starroute]

11. Firefox also has "Web search for" in the right-click menu

Highlight any bit of text, right-click and cloose "Web search," and it will open a Google search for that text in a new tab.

I hadn't noticed that ability until recently, but now I find I'm using it a lot at DU. Any time a post mentions something that looks interesting, or a name that might have dubious associations, I can just pull up a search tab without even interrupting my reading. Then I follow the search out at leisure.

[alfredo]

16. That's pretty nice.

thanks for the tip

[Product of Evolution]

13. Konqueror was nice...

The computers in the lab I took my intro to Linux Administration class were not that recent, so having an alternative to Mozilla that didn't 30 seconds to open was nice.

[alfredo]

15. It will benefit from the Apple programmers submitting code

they have updated when updating Safari. Look for it to improve at a rapid pace.

Open source benefits all.

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. Mostly use Mozilla 1.6 now

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had been using Crazy Browser for the previous 6-7 months,

it's a tabbed browser much like Mozilla, but "piggybacks" off IE

I've also got IE6

and Netscape 4.7

Running W98SE on a Dell P1-233MMX with 128M ram 3 HD's - Master 2.0G Slaves 4.0G each

Question:

Is FireFox free, and would it run on my system, and is it faster than Mozilla 1.6 ?

Seems to me that Firefox recommended a 500MHz processor - ?

anyone running Firefox on an ole dinosaur like I got here ?

[Rooktoven]

7. It's faster than Mozilla on any system

because it is only the (enhanced) Mozilla browser component. Eats IE for lunch.

[ConcernedCanuk]

9. OK - I'll give it a try on my poor over-tweaked system !

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and I remembered right

"Pentium 233 MHz (Recommended: Pentium 500MHz or greater)"

so my li'l 233 will just have to work a bit harder maybe -

so I'm downloading now, and will "check it out" LATER

like when I don't care if I'm on-line or not

just in case I hafta do some configuring, or uninstalling

and heck, even the 1.6 runs better than IE

and I just won't be without a tabbed browser anymore !

[TreasonousBastard]

10. My other machine died...

so I'm stuck with an ancient P200 with 162MB ram for a while.

I can't have Agent, Eudora, Opera, Irfanview, and a word processor open at the same time any more, but they all work fine alone.

So do Mozilla, IE, Netscrap, and Firefox, although I don't use them much.

Been hearing about a few bugs that showed up in Firefox that Moz doesn't have, but overall it seems to work just fine for most people.

I still use Opera, no matter what the others come out with. A Google bar and a Super Search bar built in, a personal bar for most often visited sites, tabbed windows, popup blocking, keyboard commands, Rewind, the Wand,a history/bookmark bar... Configurable and skinnable far beyond what their screenshots show.

Moz has a lot of this, and Netscrap is catching up, but I'm so used to Opera that I haven't seem any of them do anything else well enough to make me switch. I only use one of the others when an odd page requires them. Sometimes Java is a little quirky, or a bank requires IE and Active-X.

Haven't actually tested it, but it still seems like the fastest browser around, even on this ancient box. Doesn't use much in the way of resources, either, even with all the bulky features.


What I haven't personally used, but hear a lot about..

If you really want fast and small-- there's K-Meleon and OffByOne. You can find them at:

http://www.pricelessware.org/2004/PL2004INTERNET.htm

There's also Slim Browser, another IE not-really-a-shell that claims to use IE's engine more efficiently:

http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/

[Rooktoven]

6. Firefox on Linux at home

and Mac at work.

It rocks, baby.

(Oh yeah, got my folks using Fire_xxx on their (ugh) windows box...)

[madrchsod]

8. the fox

i like the new download window and the download quirk is fixed..mozilla keeps getting better

[Product of Evolution]

12. Errr...

AvantBrowser: A browser wrapper running on IE's engine.

It adds many of Opera's features to IE.

[IronLionZion]

14. FireFox is fucking awesome!

and it's an improvement over FireBird. Damn those open-source people and their common project names.

FireFox = Red Panda