redwhiteandthemaple Posted April 18, 2006 Report Share Posted April 18, 2006 Mozilla Firefox seems to be taking over. Very neat browser at that and much more stable than IE imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Sorbera Posted April 18, 2006 Report Share Posted April 18, 2006 Firefox for me. Looks better (which doesn't really matter, but it is a plus) and it's much more secure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlGeeEater Posted April 18, 2006 Report Share Posted April 18, 2006 Maxthon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crafty Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 Lynx. We're old school here in Crafty Land. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitarfrenzy Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 Opera is what I use... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickguard Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 Firefox for me...the extensions are really helpful. I copy a lot of text and Firefox gives extensions for automatically copying text and also for copying as plain text. Not to mention other goodies, like Greasemonkey... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weezerboy Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 i use avant. tabbed, popup blocker, shortcut keys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregP Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 Avant and some of the others are just IE with a shell. I use Opera. 'Tis goodly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jalien21 Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 safari. long live the mac! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitarfrenzy Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 Firefox for me. Looks better (which doesn't really matter, but it is a plus) and it's much more secure. I don't know about more secure, check out this article that just came out today here.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redwhiteandthemaple Posted April 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 I don't know about that.. I think as long as you have a decent firewall and don't go surfing on porn sites/hack download sites/ and those spam e-mails, you'll probably be safe.. I do all of them jk. haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattia Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 Firefox is generally a safer bet than IE; not too long ago, a big fuss was made about there being more documented 'security holes' in Firefox than in IE, but the thing is, they a) get fixed faster (note that that news story says older versions of Firefox are at risk) and are, as a rule, far less serious than the IE faults. Besides, I wouldn't even want to try using non-tabbed browsing, and I have no particular love for Microsoft products... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bytrix Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 Never had any reason not to use IE. Being a web developer I do ofcourse have about 8 browsers installed (and Gentoo Linux) (developing cross-browser friendly sites can be a real pain sometimes). Firefox has some nice plugins that can aid in developing web sites, but IE7 is on it's way and incorporates pretty much all the features seen in the other big browsers, and is supposed to get regular updates (unlike previous IE which hasn't changed much in about 3 years). I maintain a site for one of our clients who recieves about 15,000 visits a day and these are the breakdowns from google-analytics: Firefox is definitely becoming more popular, but is nowhere near 'taking over'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToneMonkey Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 I think as long as you have a decent firewall and don't go surfing on porn sites errr, this is the internet. My mum calls it the dirty picture machine - Never venture near her history, I can tell you. Bytrix, do you think a lot of that could be because people use the internet at work and IE is generally the standard work gubbins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitarfrenzy Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 Firefox is generally a safer bet than IE; not too long ago, a big fuss was made about there being more documented 'security holes' in Firefox than in IE, but the thing is, they a) get fixed faster (note that that news story says older versions of Firefox are at risk) and are, as a rule, far less serious than the IE faults. Besides, I wouldn't even want to try using non-tabbed browsing, and I have no particular love for Microsoft products... True, but the whole point I was trying to make was that Firefox has it's risk too and isn't as secure as some would like you to believe. I'm not trying to defend IE, lord no.. btw if you noticed, I use Opera. They are the inventors of tabbed browsing, and even IE is going to use it in IE 7. I'm not saying Opera is safer either, actually you should always run the newest version no matter which browser you use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattia Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 Firefox is generally a safer bet than IE; not too long ago, a big fuss was made about there being more documented 'security holes' in Firefox than in IE, but the thing is, they a) get fixed faster (note that that news story says older versions of Firefox are at risk) and are, as a rule, far less serious than the IE faults. Besides, I wouldn't even want to try using non-tabbed browsing, and I have no particular love for Microsoft products... True, but the whole point I was trying to make was that Firefox has it's risk too and isn't as secure as some would like you to believe. I'm not trying to defend IE, lord no.. btw if you noticed, I use Opera. They are the inventors of tabbed browsing, and even IE is going to use it in IE 7. I'm not saying Opera is safer either, actually you should always run the newest version no matter which browser you use. Agreed. And frankly, I was using Opera for a very, very long time before I jumped on the Firefox bandwagon. I've never used IE as a main browser, and I don't plan on starting now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bytrix Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 Bytrix, do you think a lot of that could be because people use the internet at work and IE is generally the standard work gubbins Well, not just at work.. most home users use Internet Explorer, and it does what they want to do.. browse the internet. Firefox is widespread among the more technical minded people, the people who appreciate why Firefox is better. Most people using the internet couldn't care less what browser they're using. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrasher! Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 No browser is 100% secure but in my experience IE is the worst for security. Not quite so bad now but it wasn't updated for years before Firefox starting nipping at its heels. Having been the victim of a couple of drive-by ActiveX installs and Java virii I made the switch from IE a couple of years ago. Being a software engineer who deals with security issues on a regular basis I wouldn't recommend IE to anyone - seen to many people with major malware problems. Now I only do a spyware sweep anually Of course, not using Windows is the best security of all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuitarGuy Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 No browser is 100% secure but in my experience IE is the worst for security. Not quite so bad now but it wasn't updated for years before Firefox starting nipping at its heels. Having been the victim of a couple of drive-by ActiveX installs and Java virii I made the switch from IE a couple of years ago. Being a software engineer who deals with security issues on a regular basis I wouldn't recommend IE to anyone - seen to many people with major malware problems. Now I only do a spyware sweep anually Of course, not using Windows is the best security of all I had soming to say but the forum crapped out and I lost the whole page. I dont care to repeat it. So go on about you lives like this never happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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