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by Anonymous on February 2nd, 2007

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What web browser would you recommend? FireFox, IE, Opera or other?

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  • by - retroglide - on March 12th, 2007

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    Mozilla Firefox.

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  • by Max Power on March 12th, 2007

    Max Power

    Internet Explorer 7

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  • by Karl Plesz on February 3rd, 2007

    Karl Plesz

    I'd have to say that the most unbiased answer I could offer is - it depends on your personal taste.

    Each browser has its good and bad points for usability, security, reliability, memory use, customization, appearance, portability, and speed.

    You really need to try them out for yourself and decide which one you like.

    Now, all that unbiased-ness aside, I currently use Firefox, but I am going to give Opera another shot on my laptop, having read the recent recommendations of others.

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  • by mendicant on February 2nd, 2007

    mendicant

    This is an extreme point of contention. However, my personal preference is Opera. I began using it right after the release of Version 5 and haven't looked back since.

    Opera is small. In a small 3.6MB installer, you get a full featured brower with extras, you get a mail client, you get an rss reader. It has everything. Opera also comes with some of the more basic features that you would need a firefox extension to get, such as mouse gestures and ad-blocking.

    However, opera does require a bit of patience to set up and get used to. A little known fact is that some of the greatest features that are now taken for granted in browsers came from opera, such as tabbed browsing (long before firefox).

    But the biggest reason that I use Opera is because it just plain feels slick. Firefox and IE just feel slow and clunky, especially when using the forward and back buttons (And mouse gestures in firefox feel clumsy and slow).

    Firefox is a great browser, and has many great extensions to make it even better... but I prefer the speed and simplicity of Opera.

    I do, however, use firefox when developing websites because it does have some great extensions for debugging.

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  • by Answerbag Stuff on March 12th, 2007

    Answerbag Stuff

    Opera 9

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  • by Brian I on March 9th, 2007

    Brian I

    Firefox - love the way you can tailor it to match the way you want it to work and there are hundreds of add-ons available to customise it still further.

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  • by nfntjy on February 2nd, 2007

    nfntjy

    Novice users who don't know much about computer / network security (or security conscious users)should probably use Firefox. Use IE only if you always get updates as soon as they come out and are satisfied with your computer's security measures (ie, firewall, anti-spyware, anti-virus, port security, anti-trojan).

    For help with browser or computer-security related issues, i reccomend CastleCops http://www.castlecops.com .

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  • by nevets - badgicide on February 2nd, 2007

    nevets - badgicide

    I use all 3 because I produce websites and each browser has it's +'s and -'s.


    # Internet Explorer works best with most websites on the net, but it has the worst features.

    # Opera is fantastic all round; it is simple, fast and feature rich.

    # But Firefox is customisable like no other.


    What do you want from your web-browser? :-)


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    Note: Netscape has a browser too: http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/

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  • by Darryl61 on March 16th, 2007

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    Just my personal experience, mind you, but I have found all versions of Firefox that I have tried to be more reliable, and trouble free than than any version of IE.

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  • by - retroglide - on February 2nd, 2007

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    I personally prefer FireFox. It seems more stable to me. I have used it on several computers.

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  • by tinybubbles is sitting on the carpet read on March 17th, 2007

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    internet exploryer 7

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  • by nowxhining on February 14th, 2007

    nowxhining

    firefox from me.
    Got a virus/malware I believe using opera
    IE only good for using sites that require it.

    also IE and opera seems to be slow on my dialup connection however IE at least seems to be optimized for broadband connections and no-way to customize the max connections, etc.. like firefox....

    Altho I pick firefox, I would def. pick and am using firefox portable.. :)

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  • by Constel on March 17th, 2007

    Constel

    internet

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  • by daishotachi on March 16th, 2007

    daishotachi

    firefox, after all, one out of ten judge people recommend it. (you just can't trust the other nine)

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  • by Thundercleese on March 12th, 2007

    Thundercleese

    Firefox and IE7

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  • by Jessicax23 on March 12th, 2007

    Jessicax23

    Safari

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  • by Mrs.Dufresne on March 9th, 2007

    Mrs.Dufresne

    Firefox.

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  • by Anonymous on March 9th, 2007

    Anonymous

    MS Explorer Version 6.0

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  • by HappyJeans on March 9th, 2007

    HappyJeans

    Safari

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  • by El Soupy spanish for the soupy on May 16th, 2007

    El Soupy spanish for the soupy

    Firefox mostly.. its good and reliable.. some of my work stuff requires IE though, which sucks...

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  • by nikofontn on April 5th, 2007

    nikofontn

    Internet Explorer 7...

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  • by sleeppro on April 5th, 2007

    sleeppro

    IE 7, with My MSN as my homepage.

    In His grasp,
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    My salvation and my honor depend on God; He is my mighty rock, my refuge.--Psalm 62:7

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  • by Seraphim Shinobi on March 17th, 2007

    Seraphim Shinobi

    firefox and explorer it depends on what browser is closer to where my mouse is.

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  • by Zibbys Mind Is In the Gutter Today on March 17th, 2007

    Zibbys Mind Is In the Gutter Today

    Firefox...It's sooo cute on my homepage, but it was what was reccomended when we got the Fiber optic stuff.

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  • by TheAnswerer on March 16th, 2007

    TheAnswerer

    Firefox way faster than any other browser!

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  • by mekare on March 16th, 2007

    mekare

    i use firefox

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  • by fishnets on March 9th, 2007

    fishnets

    Firefox

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  • by Shine_The_Light on March 9th, 2007

    Shine_The_Light

    Firefox, it is the best by a long way, hence its winning of numerous awards

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  • by Anonymous on February 3rd, 2007

    Anonymous

    I've never been a big fan of IE. I used Netscape back in the day, then I switched to FireFox, now I'm using SeaMonkey which is Mozilla's new project. It's just like FireFox with a few extra features and it has an html editor built in like Netscape does.

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  • by EndlessWaves on February 2nd, 2007

    EndlessWaves

    I like Maxthon myself. It's based on IE so you get the lovely page rendering but it crashes a lot less and has a lot more features. (If I ever go back to a browser without mouse gestures I'll take me twice the time to navigate the web).

    I tried firefox back in 1.5 but it wasn't anywhere near good enough for general use (obvious options missing, poor selection of skins, that sort of thing). Looking at the popular stuff on the website though it looks like it may be improving and might be worth trying again soon (I've heard rumours that 3.0 is coming).

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  • by Brian on January 24th, 2008

    Brian

    Wow, is there some kinda link between us? I was just going to post, "What's your favorite browser- Firefox, IE, Opera, or other?" when AB xref'd me to this thread.

    Anyway, I prefer Mozilla Firefox over IE but they both (IIRC) seem to freeze up when trying to load web pages with lots of animated imagery.

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  • by CartWithoutABagMan on May 16th, 2007

    CartWithoutABagMan

    Explorer

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  • by unknown on May 16th, 2007

    unknown

    Fire Fox because some people on here recommended it.

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  • by .avallach on May 16th, 2007

    .avallach

    I use both IE and Firefox. Since IE is really the standard out there, everything's designed for it, so many of the network devices etc that I connect to require IE. I use Firefox for answerbag and other types of browsing.

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  • by MIA on May 4th, 2007

    MIA

    Safari

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  • by Anonymous on April 22nd, 2007

    Anonymous

    Netscape 8.1.3

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  • by .avallach on April 18th, 2007

    .avallach

    IE7 and Firefox.

    I tried using Firefox exclusively for a while but I found too many pages where things didnt display right, and/or required an IE-specific plugin.

    Plus Firefox seems to drag and get sluggish after a while.

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  • by globalwealth on April 3rd, 2007

    globalwealth

    I like Opera 9.1.

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  • by GBPackersfan on March 17th, 2007

    GBPackersfan

    msn

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  • by SomeOne on March 12th, 2007

    SomeOne

    Firefox, safari or internet explorer for mac

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  • by ChrisDG on February 2nd, 2007

    ChrisDG

    I really am not keen on the new look of IE, I must admit. I'm getting used to it, but it's still not as intuitive for me as others. Plus, the security seems to be overdone on this - I know you can change the settings, but even so...

    We use Firefox at uni, and I can understand why others do like it, however it annoys the hell out of me when you have to wait 5 seconds looking at an orange box whilst it loads up. It's not long, but every

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  • by Runaholism on April 18th, 2007

    Runaholism

    Mozilla Firefox. It's fast, it's free and it's easy! Internet Explorer collects too much junk/cookies/internet files so I use Mozilla Firefox. The only downside is, there are few websites that must be used by IE in order to open it, so it's still good to have IE.

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  • by cowluver on April 21st, 2007

    cowluver

    IE7

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  • by Chosun One on April 5th, 2007

    Chosun One

    Gorilla OnFirebox. ...my nickname for Mozilla Firefox.

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  • by Mustang on April 22nd, 2007

    Mustang

    Mozilla Firefox all the way! It has less bugs than Internet Explorer and it had the tab idea long before too!

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  • by 232499 on March 30th, 2007

    232499

    Google, are there others?

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  • by We_stand_alone_together on April 21st, 2007

    We_stand_alone_together

    Firefox - Too far alot better.

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  • by dabzy1 on March 16th, 2007

    dabzy1

    att ie

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  • by nascarangel38 on February 2nd, 2007

    nascarangel38

    I use Internet Explorer for the browser but for looking ANYTHING up, I use google. I go with what uses the least amount of memory. I have an OLD processor in my puter, I hate the SLOW method..(Waiting 20 mins for a screen to pop up)...OH and if you have your firewall turned ON through your internet settings you'll never get anywhere anyways. TURN IT OFF just leave your pop-up blocker on...

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  • by Phrenia on February 3rd, 2007

    Phrenia

    Firefox, definitely. IE has been screwing up and is terribly slow on my computer. It's so much easier I think too. (But then again, I'm used to it.)

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