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Poll: Which browser do you use?
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Internet Explorer
15.79%
3 15.79%
Apple Safari
0%
0 0%
Firefox
42.11%
8 42.11%
Opera
21.05%
4 21.05%
Google Chrome
21.05%
4 21.05%
None of the above
0%
0 0%
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What Browser do you use?
#11
RE: What Browser do you use?
Firefox 3. (Which appears to be incompatible with Fasterfox 2.0.0)
"The finality of death is the coldest truth one must face. Religion makes the perfect distraction." - Anonymous
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#12
RE: What Browser do you use?
http://www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/nightly

Use at your peril. It's an extension that overrides the compatibility of extensions with newer versions. FasterFox runs fine in Firefox 3, I can vouch for that, but don't attempt to override every single extension you want Tongue
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#13
RE: What Browser do you use?
Almost everyone I meet who uses the internet tells me Firefox is best.

However I've never had any problems with internet explorer and I've been using the internet for 7 years (since I just turned 13, I'm 20 now).

I have had one problem with Firefox when I tried it though, I found atleast a few sites that wouldn't work with Firefox and all these sites worked with Internet Explorer. So I choose Internet Explorer because A: I'm still used to it despite its changes over the versions. and B: I have never had any problems with it.

I find it weird how my experience of IE is so different to most people who have used it.

Curious.
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#14
RE: What Browser do you use?
I.E is more susceptible to spyware than any other browser. It also isn't standards compliant, which means that those sites that "didn't work in Firefox" were not standards compliant. Firefox, Opera, etc are all standards compliant browsers. I.E has never been as Microsoft decides to make it's own standards for the internet.

How often do you do spyware scans?
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#15
RE: What Browser do you use?
My favorite browser is Opera but I use Firefox too.

I use Safari and IE only when I'm forced to (i.e. on school computers). My dad likes Chrome but it doesn't appeal to me

@adrian: Microsoft is in fact a member of the W3C. I'm also unaware of what standards it just "made up". The reason IE is behind the other browsers (in both standards compliance and security) is actually because, after bundling IE4 with Windows 98 to shove Netscape (which was then the dominant browser) out of the market (thus making it pretty much universal) Microsoft just decided that there was no need for improvement because they were already "the best". It came back to bite them in the butt pretty hard; Firefox is pretty much a reincarnation of Netscape.
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#16
RE: What Browser do you use?
Hmm I do use spyware as often as I can but I didn't realise I.E was more vulnerable to spyware....

I guess from now on that's enough reason to use firefox; but if I encounter a site that only I.E will run which I really want to get into...I guess I'll have to switch to I.E just for that site.

Well, 'you know, I've learnt something today'.
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#17
RE: What Browser do you use?
I've been on Firefox for a few weeks now, thanks to this thread, and it's not bad. It seems faster than IE.
There are some sites like orsm.net (not suitable for work) which have embedded videos that won't run under Firefox. Apparantly the fault of the embedding code rather than missing plug-ins.
'How can you say, "We are wise, for we have the law of the LORD," when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely? Jer 8:8
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx
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#18
RE: What Browser do you use?
(September 24, 2008 at 11:16 pm)user-56 Wrote: @adrian: Microsoft is in fact a member of the W3C. I'm also unaware of what standards it just "made up". The reason IE is behind the other browsers (in both standards compliance and security) is actually because, after bundling IE4 with Windows 98 to shove Netscape (which was then the dominant browser) out of the market (thus making it pretty much universal) Microsoft just decided that there was no need for improvement because they were already "the best". It came back to bite them in the butt pretty hard; Firefox is pretty much a reincarnation of Netscape.
Being a member of the W3C proves nothing. Microsoft are members of many groups simply because they are the dominant computer company on the planet. The W3C have consistently upgraded HTML to XHTML, and have introduced standard CSS, both of which Microsoft have failed to implement properly. I.E 6 (the most commonly used browser still) did not support basic XHTML, and the CSS required "hacks" that are still prevalent in I.E 7. I.E 8 is the first MS browser that could actually comply with a large majority of the standardizations. However, they are still well behind browsers that started their engines based on W3C specs, like Firefox and Opera.

Oh, and to all those who are now using Firefox over I.E, but find some sites that do not work, try this extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

It means you can open a new tab using IE's rendering engine.
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#19
RE: What Browser do you use?
I'm not trying to excuse IE's poor performance, I just don't like it when microsoft is described as some renegade "screw the rules, we have/want money" company that outright disregards standards when they're earnestly trying to catch up (and doing a somewhat okay job; IE 8 passes the acid2 test)

It's just plain stupidity on their part.

http://www.webdevout.net/firefox-myths#m..._standards
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