How many browsers do I have to use?

yuandrew

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Here are the 4 I can use at my own disposal (I'm using my newly aquired FireFox right now)
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cy

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Firefox is the way to go!!!

I only use IE for the few sites that's broken for everything else. then I'll simply boycott, unless there is no other way.
 

diggdug13

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Firefox with all it's extensions and themes is the best out coupled with thunderbird for email you don't need microsoft for browsing or email for that matter.

Doug
 

KevinL

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"Mozilla/5.0 Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0"

Man, I remember when Gecko was a standalone browser... 1996! And we all used Netscape anyway because Netscape was da bomb. Then we switched to IE because Netscape was a hog and they dropped the ball. 3.01 Gold was their best version, or so it seemed back then. 4.0 left a few things to be desired.

Now it seems that we have come full circle....
 

geepondy

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Everybody sings the praises of Firefox but I find several pages it can't render correctly including my banking information. PC World in their browser reviews pointed this out as well despite giving Firefox their highest ranking out of the browsers they tested. People have posted that's because some web pages are made exclusively for IE instead of using standard code but PC World said Firefox was the only browser that had trouble rendering some web pages.
 

Roy

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I tried FireFox but went back to OE. FireFox seemed to slow down my system...ie., took longer for CPF pages to load. I also tried the FireFox e-mail program but never figured out how to get the mail rules to work.
 

greenLED

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I tried several before stumbling onto Firefox. I don't use anything else. In fact, my bro and my wife were IE junkies and are now Firefox users. Don't forget the extensions. Did I mention *tabbed* browsing? (now, *that* rulz /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif)

I've found that very few pages don't load properly, and most of the time it's either:
A. code as IE specific (sux)
B. my own security settings
 

nethiker

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Firefox 95% of the time. IE for those sites that insist on using Microsofts personal version of coding.

I think it's important to support the open source communiy, especially when they offer a superior product. Let those sites that blindly follow Microsofts own standards that you use another browser.

tabbed browsing is awsome.

Greg
 

chipper

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Well last night I got the some horrendous spyware.
Spent hours trying to get rid of it with no joy, when you do a search in google all it does is fetch up adverts and porn and it just appears like a regular google search. TBH, I think it's more likely a virus or trojan but anyway went onto firefox today and I think it's great, although I have come across a site that doesn't work properly.
 

IsaacHayes

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FF is super fast on all systems I've used it on and never has crashed on mine. I keep a version of FF on my flash drive that's tweaked to load fast. That way any computer with a usb port I just stick my drive in, and I have FF fast loading, and all my bookmarks no matter where I go!!!

BTW AOL browser uses IE as it's engine. Yuk to both!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon15.gif I've fixed many computers that the AOL system repair has totally fubared!!
 

Hookd_On_Photons

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Firefox works fine for me.

I stopped using Netscape when they were acquired by AOL. I really should have stopped using it sooner, as it was rapidly devolving into bloatware. The AOL acquisition was just the last straw. Ironically, I went back to using IE. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon3.gif

I've used Opera, and it turned me on to tabbed browsing. However, I'm too cheap to purchase the registered version, and the banner ads in the free version annoyed me.

I have Firefox configured so that three tabs open up at start-up: my web-based e-mail, my customized home page at one of those big ol' portal websites, and (of course) CPF.

Firefox is preferable to Opera, because there are more third-party plugins (e.g. Macromedia Flash) available. Of course those might open up some security holes in the future, but I'm not aware of any threats from Firefox browser plug-ins... yet...
 

Duncan

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I like Opera a lot. Like Firefox though, it does run across a few pages it can't render properly. I'm not quite sure it's so much the browsers fault as some bad/too elaborate coding on the part of the webpage designer. I'm pretty sure Opera/Firefox are both 100% standards (W3C) compliant, unlike IE which will forgive a lot and hence usually has a better chance at rendering pages viewable. Another plus are mouse gestures (not sure if Firefox has them). But when you're too lazy to bother using your mouse, there's always Lynx (http://lynx.browser.org/)... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif Good tool if you're designing webpages too.
 

DavidNL

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I haven't tried FF, but I'm happy with Enigma. It does a good job of filtering pop-ups, cookies, cleaning the cache, etc.
 
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