Browser poll! Firefox? IE7? netscape? Opera?

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Rebelgium · #1 Post by **Rebelgium** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 5:22 pm

With the new Internet explorer 7 coming out, I was wondering what you guys think is the best browser.

feel free to comment your vote

#2 Post by **jdhurst** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:12 pm

I use the browser that fits me. ... JD Hurst

#3 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:32 pm

I'm not an Apple owner but from all the time I spend using Mac OS X in my school's graphic arts program, I've really taken a liking to Safari. Since that's not on the poll and because I'm a PC user, I voted Firefox for it's unbeatable interface.

DIGITALgimpus · #4 Post by **DIGITALgimpus** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:44 pm

Firefox, but I'm a Firefox hacker, so kinda bias. I use Safari on the Mac quite a bit too though.

christopher_wolf · #5 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:52 pm

I use Opera primarily now, but also use Firefox 2; I uninstalled IE7.

epbrown · #6 Post by **epbrown** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:51 pm

I like Firefox, but I use Opera more nowadays - Firefox does not handle lower resolution displays as well, like downsizing images or wrapping text. It has options for these settings, but in my experience they don't actually do much. A big issue for someone whose main laptop is only SVGA.

RUSH2112 · #7 Post by **RUSH2112** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:52 pm

Firefox 2 here. I've been using Firefox since 1.0PR (Yes, yes, I know some of you have used it since the Firebird / Pheonix days, but 1.0PR is pretty good

).
I havent installed IE7 yet because I need IE6 to test web sites in.
Opera is bloated if you ask me. Not my gig.
Netscape used to be good, but now its laughable.

christopher_wolf · #8 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 10:59 pm

Any Netscape above 4.7 was, ahem, "bloated"; really. For me, it is just the opposite, however. Firefox 2 gets seriously bloated, in terms of memory use, whilst Opera stays at the same usage level over time. I have seen this kind of behaviour since before 1.5.7 and I have really no idea what causes it. I used to think "Oh, must be themes and extensions" but I really didn't have any of those running and the bare install used to do that.

epbrown · #9 Post by **epbrown** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 2:36 am

RUSH2112 wrote:Opera is bloated if you ask me. Not my gig.

That's a suprise. Typically when browsing a forum, I open a new tab for each thread I read. With Firefox, I get "running out of memory" warnings with over 20 tabs open (my t-note has 320MB); I read forums the same way with Opera and have yet to get this. Opera also seems to have a smaller footprint as far as drive space.

BigWarpGuy · #10 Post by **BigWarpGuy** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:27 pm

I like using Mozilla's SeaMonkey.

Rebelgium · #11 Post by **Rebelgium** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:30 pm

Interesting...

I've been using Firefow for about a year or two now. And i must say i'm very pleased with it.

In the beginning , coming from Internet explorer i loved the new idea (for me) of tabs.
Now IE7 has tabs to so it got me wondering.
But all i've heard about IE7 is negative...

#12 Post by **K. Eng** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:10 pm

I'm a FireFox 1.5 user. I'm going to wait a couple weeks to see if any major bugs shake out of FireFox 2.0.

I still use IE for some sites, but not all that often.

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