OK, please vote on your favorite web browser and comment why!
Only currently supported browers please!
Thanks.
PS: I am a big FireFox fan. FireFox add-ons rock!
OK, please vote on your favorite web browser and comment why!
Only currently supported browers please!
Thanks.
PS: I am a big FireFox fan. FireFox add-ons rock!
I like Firefox very much too. Sometimes links/lynx is very helpful in problematic situations.
P.S. I voted for Firefox.
I use Firefox but only because the competition is worse. I have tried Epiphany and Konqueror but always returned to Mozilla / Firefox because they somehow felt too constrained. But I curse the memory footprint and instability of Firefox every day. (FF2 was more stable for me, but FF3 is nicer in terms of performance; still, lots of room for improvement.)
Surely bcoz of addons.... But FF3 is not that good... it consumes to much CPU and Memory.. But still I voted for FF.
I use kmeleon. light wieght.. and clean
Hmm, my browser isn't even mentioned: Mozilla. (the old, classical, fullblown, Netscape-inherited browser suite, not the Firefox derivate). I use Firefox (1.x) occasionally, but usually Mozilla is it.
The reason is partly habit: i was "raised" with Netscape when what i knew as Internet started to transform to the world-wide-wait we all come to love. A more tangible reason is: i like Mozillas capability to type text into the address line, press <cursor down> and <ENTER> and it will do a search on these words with my favourite search engine. I also like the "window-oriented" modus operandi of Mozilla better than Firefoxes "tabs-oriented" way. This is just personal taste: i like several windows better than several tabs.
On top of that i use the other parts of the Mozilla browser suite (Mozilla Mail and Address Book - i detest IRC chatting and i write my HTML code in vi) on a common basis, so there is no waste in installing a complete suite instead of a standalone browser.
I dislike the memory leakage as everybody and am acquainted with (but still hate) having to restart the browser every few weeks anew.
For IE i have no purpose at all, not even when i have to work on Windows - see here.
bakunin
The old Netscape Mozilla brower is not currently supported and support was discontinued in Feb 2008, as I recall.
This poll is for currently supported browsers.
I prefer we don't open "a can of worms" discussing all the unsupported browsers of days gone by
There you have it: i haven't updated my browser for such a long time that i have not even noticed that. In this case i will cast a vote for Firefox, because if i ever have to switch browsers i will probably use Firefox and see how much i can make it look and behave like Mozilla.
bakunin
For what it's worth, Firefox embraces and extends the use of the location bar as a general input to search engines etc. The little Google box next to the location box is basically redundant. In FF3 they call it the "awesome bar"; whoever came up with that term should be forced to work in marketing.
My vote is for FF
Am just against its memory usage. At the end, you don't get anything for free
Firefox 3, because of 'tabbed browsing' and hassle free plugins, such as 'Speed Dial' and Gmail Manager.
Firefox - It still has some memory problems but its the best for security IMO.
The evolution of the experience...
I cut my teeth with lynx back in '92. I clearly remember stumbling across ncsa mosaic (and hating trumpet winsock) in late '93. In 1994 I must have tried a good (bad) dozen "next great thing" browsers before settling on Netscape.
Firefox is my poison these days. It behaves pretty consistently across systems, and aside from a handful of Windows specific client application requirements, serves me fine.
You forgot 'telnet'
BTW: FireFox has a very handy FTP add-on.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684
(still waiting for an SSH add-on)
Also, very useful is this web developer add-on:
Both add-ons highly recommended
Firefox for me - with Opera only for those pesky IE sites that the Fox can't handle (still some around).
Keep those votes coming in!
Also, I have created a new related thread:
hmm, 21:1 for Firefox so far - i think that is glaring.
bakunin
Firefox because of add-ons and tabs....
OBTW,
In July 2008 FireFox surpassed IE as the most used brower to access this site, and usage for FireFox continues to rise steadily each month.
I was amazed when I saw this statistic.