What Web Browser do you use?

[maxpower]

Per post in Spurs forum about browser use.
Is netscape navigator still around?

[Shelly]

I use Firefox, but I have to use IE for my work's bank when I do Direct Deposit. Their website works fine in Firefox for everything else, just not DD.

And what did I select in the poll? IE! D'oh!

[Spurminator]

Perhaps someone could give a slightly computer-incompetant person a quick 1-sentence synopsis why I should try FireFox over IE? Also, is it available on Mac?

[maxpower]

It's Windows-based. Here are some browsers available for download.

http://www.download.com/sort/3150-2356_4-0-1-3.html?

[Duff McCartney]

IE...Bill Gates....he'll always have a hold on me.

[xcoriate]

Opera, ooh yeah

[MannyIsGod]

Firefox just has better features. Tabbed browsing is my favorite.

[Guru of Nothing]

Firefox just has better features. Tabbed browsing is my favorite.

Can someone explain "tabbed browsing" to me? I use IE at home and at work, because that is what I got. Except for threads like this, it never crosses my mind what browser I am using.

I pay little mind to the gasoline I pump into my truck; the batteries in my TV remote; navel lint; and, my browser.

[3rdCoast]

I use to use firefox, but when i tried to upgrade to the newest version some error occurred and now i cant use firfox. i hate IE, so I am running on advanced browser, sucks compared to firefox, but its all i got.

[MannyIsGod]

GoN, download it and try it out. It's one of those things that you don't appreciate untill you use.

[ShoogarBear]

I pay little mind to the gasoline I pump into my truck; the batteries in my TV remote; navel lint; and, my browser.

Hence, your screen nick.

Tabbed browsing means you have several windows open in a single frame, and there are "tabs" which allow you to easily navigate back and forth.

I alternate between Opera and Firefox. I would probably use Firefox more, but I find downloads are much slower with it.

[Guru of Nothing]

Hence, your screen nick.

Tabbed browsing means you have several windows open in a single frame, and there are "tabs" which allow you to easily navigate back and forth.



Back and forth? Back and forth between what?

[manustarting2gd]

Windows maybe????

[ducks]

opera you have to pay for

anything that is not made by bill gates

[ducks]

Perhaps someone could give a slightly computer-incompetant person a quick 1-sentence synopsis why I should try FireFox over IE? Also, is it available on Mac?

yes I run it on my mac

[ducks]

Can someone explain "tabbed browsing" to me? I use IE at home and at work, because that is what I got. Except for threads like this, it never crosses my mind what browser I am using.

I pay little mind to the gasoline I pump into my truck; the batteries in my TV remote; navel lint; and, my browser.

instead of lots of windows open
on the top by the browers you just hit the tap (or window) at the top to go to your other site you got open

[Guru of Nothing]

Well fuck! Alt-Tab always got the job done for me.

Color me text.

[mattyc]

Firefox. Haven't used IE for any extended period of time for ages.

[timvp]

Well fuck! Alt-Tab always got the job done for me.


Yeah, that's what I don't get about "tabbed browsing". Why not just open a bunch of explorer windows? If you are working on a bunch of things at the same time, I'd rather just have a browser open on the bottom that I can go to when I need it with one click than to click on the Firefox browser and then have to find the right tab.

I have Firefox but I use explorer for most things. Firefox is better if you are surfing because the pages load faster, but for just doing everyday things on the internet ... explorer works well.

[Hook Dem]

Firefox also has a built in pop up stopper and it can be used on a Mac. I prefer it over IE but still use IE on some things. Firefox is better in my opinion. All you have to do is go to www.mozilla.org to download it. It's free.

[MannyIsGod]

I LOVE the quicklinks also in firefox. I didn't know about it at first, but af riend came over and was googling like crazy, and he showed me how. It's awesome.

[baseline bum]

To me the best feature of Firefox is the ability to change the size of text to anything I want by holding CTRL and moving the mouse wheel. That feature allows me to just kick back on the couch and chill when I'm reading this forum or checking scores.

Tabbed browsing is way better than opening multiple windows imo, because you can still easily switch to other apps or other folders on the taskbar without having to wade through 20 browser windows.

Features aren't the main reason firefox is so good though... the browser is faster, uses less memory, and is just a way better design than IE. Also, it's so much more secure. Security is one of its primary concerns, and I've never had the problems with downloading spyware or having my browser hijacked by ads, search bars, and new startup pages. Conversely, IE is so full of buffer overrun holes that its impossible to use it for any extended amount of time on a high-speed connection and not get infected by nasty shit unless you're running some heavy duty anti-virus stuff (which I absolutely refuse to do considering how much RAM it uses and how much it slows dow a system). An OS should be secure by default, but Gates doesn't give a fuck since he has monopoly power.

[maxpower]

Well fuck! Alt-Tab always got the job done for me.

Color me text.

Regarding tabbed browsing ..not being able to use the alt-tab was the biggest adjustment. However it did not take long. What I like about tabbed browsing is you only have to open one window thus your system is not being taxed as much as opening an explorer window for each website. One thing I especially like is being able to assign my regular web sites to all open when I open firefox. In other words ..when I press the "Home" icon, Firefox goes to the six websites I visit on a regular basis. I guess you could say if it were a tv ..it would have the ability to have as many picture in picture channels as you want. Then just click on the one you want and it takes over the main screen.

The pop up blocker works much better than the google toolbar blocker which I thought was great before I saw Firefox's.

[Shelly]

Firefox takes some getting used to...kinda like gmail did.

One of the main reasons I got it was the better spyware protection.

[JoeChalupa]

I'll have to try this Firefox browser and see what all the rave is about.

[MannyIsGod]

Woah, how do you do the multiple home pages? That I have yet to do

[maxpower]

Woah, how do you do the multiple home pages? That I have yet to do
tools>options>general>homepage

http://1stpage.com|2ndpage.com|3rdpage.com|etc.

[whottt]

The latest XP service back installs a pop up-blocker into IE, a really good pop-up blocker that always gives you the option of seeing the pop-up it just blocked if you really want to see it.

I've tried other browsers, but what keeps me with IE is the full screen browsing and autohide. I love it, that's what made me start preferring IE over Netscape in the first place and it's what keeps me with IE still. I realize you can get similar features in other browsers, but they just don't work as well as they do in IE.

I'm with TimVP on the subject of tabs...I have no problem going with multiple browser windows. It's really not that big of a deal.

Edit: And since I don't spend 90% of my time cruising porn sites(only about 25% of the time), I don't have a problem with any malicious programs...I use AVG and it catches just about everything. I'm also not really worried about security since I don't keep any data I don't want someone to get, on my hard drive.

[Useruser666]

The latest XP service back installs a pop up-blocker into IE, a really good pop-up blocker that always gives you the option of seeing the pop-up it just blocked if you really want to see it.

I've tried other browsers, but what keeps me with IE is the full screen browsing and autohide. I love it, that's what made me start preferring IE over Netscape in the first place and it's what keeps me with IE still. I realize you can get similar features in other browsers, but they just don't work as well as they do in IE.

I'm with TimVP on the subject of tabs...I have no problem going with multiple browser windows. It's really not that big of a deal.

Edit: And since I don't spend 90% of my time cruising porn sites, I don't have a problem with any malicious programs...I use AVG and it catches just about everything.

With Firefox you are almost immune to spyware from websites. It is quite amazing really. You can troll the gutter of the net and come out smelling sweet as a daisy. And Whottt, with Firefox you can set it to block pop-ups from selected sites or make exceptions for them. This also works with cookies, passwords, and form data. It's really a nice feature. Firefox also can store a list of your passwords, which can come in handy.

[Guru of Nothing]

Well, I downloaded Firefox. So far, I like it.

[SpursWoman]

I usually just use IE, which is the default AOL uses....but User downloaded Mozilla on mine and was showing me some things. It looks pretty cool....I like the password thing-y.

:)

[MannyIsGod]

Quicksearching. I fucking love it

Go up the address bar and type in "g [whatever you want to google]" and surf away

[Useruser666]

Quicksearching. I fucking love it

Go up the address bar and type in "g [whatever you want to google]" and surf away

The find on this page bar at the bottom is also cool. Not once has my homepage been hi-jacked either.

[maxpower]

The find on this page bar at the bottom is also cool. Not once has my homepage been hi-jacked either.

Control-F, right? I think ie has some sort of find feature but have never used it till firefox.

as for the quicksearch is that instead of the second google window?
BTW I use a custom skin(Littlefox) that uses small icons...on 11" of vertical screen I get 9¾" of viewing window.

[MannyIsGod]

yeah, quicksearch opens it right in the tab you are using. just go up to the address bar, type in g, then a space and a search string and check it out.

[Shelly]

I usually just use IE, which is the default AOL uses....but User downloaded Mozilla on mine and was showing me some things. It looks pretty cool....I like the password thing-y.

:)

Yes, on the password thing-y. I never remember mine, let alone my user name

[whottt]

With Firefox you are almost immune to spyware from websites. It is quite amazing really.

The only problem I have with websites is them trying to put a pop-up trojan or something like that, something like gator...and for some reason a lot of lyric websites try to put that on my PC, but AVG always catches it. That is a pain in the ass with IE, but it's not a frequent one.



with Firefox you can set it to block pop-ups from selected sites or make exceptions for them.

You can do this with IE also.



This also works with cookies, passwords, and form data. It's really a nice feature. Firefox also can store a list of your passwords, which can come in handy.


I never store passwords, form data, auto search, complete, MRU or anything like that...I also don't keep any credit card info or PI on my PC.

BTW, I have firefox, opera and Mozillia on my PC(I actually have Netscape too)...But I still like the full screen and autohide interface of IE better than any features offered by anything else.

[Useruser666]

Whottt, check out some of the extentions you can d/l for Firefox. I think there is one for autohide/fullscreen.

I don't know if IE does it, but with Firefox when you enter a password you get three options to choose from. Store my password, use it only for this session, and never remember it. I like those options, and I like being able to set them on a per-site basis.

Firefox also has an extension to be able to zoom pics right on the site you are viewing. There is even one that will launch the same page in IE if there is a problem loading in Firefox.

[Shelly]

Dang...there's a lot you can do with Firefox that I didn't know can be done :oops

[Tres_Till_it_MHz]

Firefox is the cats ass, this browser rocks. I've been using it for awhile now and have never looked back.

The only bad thing about FF was the intial DL it had no security certificates to prove this was the real deal and not a comprimised root kit.

[Slomo]

Whottt, check out some of the extentions you can d/l for Firefox. I think there is one for autohide/fullscreen.

I don't know if IE does it, but with Firefox when you enter a password you get three options to choose from. Store my password, use it only for this session, and never remember it. I like those options, and I like being able to set them on a per-site basis.

Firefox also has an extension to be able to zoom pics right on the site you are viewing. There is even one that will launch the same page in IE if there is a problem loading in Firefox. With extensions you can pretty much cutomize the way that Firefox behaves one function I liked in Opera was that when you open the browser it comes up exactly as you left it when you last used it - and now I have it in Firefox (even a computer crash won't mess it up). Or you can have an extension that opens a link in IE (for the WOAI videos).

Timvp, Whotttt,
You consume much more memory when you open multiple IE windows as opposed to multiple tabs in Firefox. You also can not save a multiple window layout in IE. What I do is I have folders with specific sets. For example I hav e a folder called "NBA" where I've put links to my favourites NBA websites, I then click on the folder and choose "open in tabs" and all the links load up in my browser each in its own tab, If you then chose the same function in another folder the complete content of you browser changes instantly. This function is very useful when you look for information on specific subjects.

The customizable quick search function is awesome I have OpenBSD man pages search in there (it's a very obscure thing - but you can have it as a quick search - I love it)

[pooh]

I use both IE and Firefox. Ironically, Firefox runs slower than IE on my comp. But that's probably only cause my computer is so old...but if I had to make an overall choice it would be Firefox.

In answer to the first question in this thread, yes...they still make Netscape Navigator. I downloaded last year after doing a format on my drive, but in all honesty, they ruined it when they made the leap from just simple browser to their "navigator" thing.

[baseline bum]

Control-F, right? I think ie has some sort of find feature but have never used it till firefox.

One thing I love about Firefox is it lets you do things both the Unix way and the Windows way. For example, like you said the quick find can be done as CTRL-F just like it is in IE, Notepad, Word, and a ton of other Windows apps. However, you can also search the page by pressing / just as in vi, less, and countless other Unix apps. I know it seems small, but its nice that its made to be convenient for both the Unix and Windows crowds.

[Brodels]

Mozilla and IE