Members JBecker Posted January 1, 2010 Members Share Posted January 1, 2010 I tried FF due to request by many friends. It was unintuitive, memory-hogging and often didn't display pages correctly. That settled it. The other browsers I didn't even try because back then they weren't nearly at the same level. I know things have developed since then and you have new alternatives but I'm not too keen on quitting using something that already works just to try something different and supposedly better. You know, if it works, why fix it?. 1) Unintuitive is a ridiculous statement when every single browser looks and works identically. Each one appears to be a slight skinning of the other for almost all uses.2) I've been using Firefox since it was Firebird and I have never had an issue with a page displaying incorrectly in Firefox. How long ago did you try it?3) Chrome (on Windows) is at the same level from most end-user perspectives. Opera has been at the same level (and in some senses, ahead) since before there was a Firefox project.4) IE doesn't really work. It's the source of the majority of security holes in your computer, often requires workarounds from developers on modern pages because of its poor handling of the newest web standards, and lacks features relative to pretty much every other major alternative. Don't hate for the sake of hating, and don't hate at all. However, pretty much every alternative out there is better unless you have a specific use for a page that's still using Active X, but that's rather uncommon at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NeloAngelo Posted January 1, 2010 Members Share Posted January 1, 2010 active x. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PurpleStain Posted January 1, 2010 Members Share Posted January 1, 2010 I used to use Avant, and it was really good, in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LaXu Posted January 1, 2010 Members Share Posted January 1, 2010 I used to use Avant, and it was really good, in my opinion. It just IE with a more useful feature set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RiffDaemon Posted January 1, 2010 Members Share Posted January 1, 2010 YOU are becoming a piece of crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PurpleStain Posted January 2, 2010 Members Share Posted January 2, 2010 It just IE with a more useful feature set. It's based on Opera :poke: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NeloAngelo Posted January 2, 2010 Members Share Posted January 2, 2010 i tried opening a {censored} ton of tabs yesterday in ff, to websites with lots of content, and i noticed NO performance decrease during or after. someones just using an obsolete box. bunch of porn sites too, and i ran malwarebytes and a virus scan afterwards. i went to sites indiscriminately as well. no problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BarfLender Posted January 2, 2010 Members Share Posted January 2, 2010 Chrome and safari are the best i have found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members duncan Posted January 2, 2010 Members Share Posted January 2, 2010 I use Camino. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 17 Tubes Posted January 2, 2010 Members Share Posted January 2, 2010 I just remembered that some time ago it was mentioned that many of these browsers just ride piggy back over the top of IE. I take it that's not true now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TornadoOfSouls Posted January 2, 2010 Members Share Posted January 2, 2010 Internet Explorer with Windows 7. Works fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LaXu Posted January 2, 2010 Members Share Posted January 2, 2010 It's based on Opera:poke: No it's not. Avant uses IE's rendering engine and adds a different UI and extra features on top. According to Wikipedia it was inspired by Opera, that's all. Basically the browser rendering engines go like this: Trident rendering engine: IE, Avant, MaxthonWebkit: Safari, Chrome, Konqueror (KHTML rendering engine, Webkit is a fork of that)Gecko: Firefox, Camino, FlockPresto: Opera The rendering engine generally defines the web technologies the browser supports. Currently the most advanced is Webkit afaik, with Gecko and Presto close behind. Trident only does what all the other rendering engines did years ago. Firefox by far has the best support for 3rd party addons, Safari doesn't have a proper system for that and neither does Opera (Opera does come with a {censored}load more features right from the box than any competitor). Chrome's Windows version is much further than the OSX version (which doesn't even have a bookmark manager yet!) and just got extension support recently, seems to work fairly decently - the extensions available just aren't as good as Firefox's yet. PS. If you aren't using them already, mouse gestures can really make your browsing much more pleasant and they work for other programs too. For Windows I recommend installing Stroke It! and for OSX xGestures is the best. Individual browsers also have mouse gestures addons but I find that I prefer the system wide ones because they can be used in things like file browsers etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OverDriven Posted January 2, 2010 Members Share Posted January 2, 2010 as a webdesigner i am going to say that creating websites and make them webstandard compliant would be SO MUCH EASIER if that piece of {censored} IE disappeared Oh yes. OHHHHHH yes. God I wish that piece of turd would vaporize off the face of the earth. Even version 8 doesn't pass the {censored}ing acid 3 test. GET YOUR {censored} TOGETHER MS. {censored}. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NeloAngelo Posted January 2, 2010 Members Share Posted January 2, 2010 well... it will never go away. theres got to be a browser built in in order for ou to get firefox on a fresh install. and dont give me the "put an installer on a flash drive or something" {censored} either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mavesicles Posted January 2, 2010 Members Share Posted January 2, 2010 Internet Explorer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Toneranger24 Posted January 2, 2010 Members Share Posted January 2, 2010 ya firefox is awful now ,google chrome or safari are much better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JBecker Posted January 3, 2010 Members Share Posted January 3, 2010 well... it will never go away. theres got to be a browser built in in order for ou to get firefox on a fresh install.and dont give me the "put an installer on a flash drive or something" {censored} either. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10295334-56.html Try again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NeloAngelo Posted January 3, 2010 Members Share Posted January 3, 2010 yeah, in europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mike moriarty Posted January 3, 2010 Members Share Posted January 3, 2010 I gave up on Firefox months ago. Opera FTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members super56k Posted January 3, 2010 Members Share Posted January 3, 2010 Chrome is nice unless you print shipping labels through Paypal. Google doesn't seem to be in any rush to fix it either... I just use the latest Firefox myself. Great browser. I had a few troubles with it recently, but I will blame upgrading to Windows 7 for most of that because XP has been rock solid for a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MightyThor Posted January 3, 2010 Members Share Posted January 3, 2010 I was pretty pissed off at FF a few weeks ago on XP. There were certain microsoft .Net plugins that were screwing things up. I uninstalled the plugins and firefox was better. It's been decent on my Win7 machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the_bleeding Posted January 3, 2010 Members Share Posted January 3, 2010 BUMP! why is guitar billy banned? He says hes getting a message that a range of IP's have been banned, and his is one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ~Abstract~ Posted January 3, 2010 Members Share Posted January 3, 2010 I know, right? It won't even load this picture for me: wat??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RamoRenDez Posted January 3, 2010 Members Share Posted January 3, 2010 Internet Explorer with Windows 7.Works fantastic. This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NeloAngelo Posted January 3, 2010 Members Share Posted January 3, 2010 I know, right? It won't even load this picture for me: that {censored} looks so pixellated on my laptop running an hd monitor, hd graphics and 4 gigs of ddr3. you're gonna have to step your game up noob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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