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The war of browsers

Flaimer · 2005-10-27 19:18:37

Hey Lads. Let's find out what browser is the best and why.

27-10-2005 7:18pm

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Flaimer

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Hey Lads. Let's find out what browser is the best and why.

What browser is the best? 120 votes

Microsoft Internet Explorer

0% 0 votes

Mozilla Firefox

11% 14 votes

Opera

75% 90 votes

Netscape Navigator

10% 13 votes

Other browser

2% 3 votes

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#2 27-10-2005 7:20pm

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:rolleyes:

I've a better idea - let's all start nonsensical threads

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#3 27-10-2005 7:21pm

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Use Links - God's browser

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#4 27-10-2005 7:29pm

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WizZard wrote:

Use Links - God's browser

Don't you mean Lynx?

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#5 27-10-2005 7:30pm

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I'am using Mozilla Firefox and I think that this is the safest and fastest browser on earth. It has a great stability + it can be personalised with great themes and extensions. Firefox rules!!!

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#6 27-10-2005 7:34pm

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These get started every few weeks and the result is always the same, Firefox wins, the bloody end.

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#7 27-10-2005 7:38pm

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Flaimer, your sig is too big read the sig rules here

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#8 27-10-2005 7:39pm

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lol! well i use firefox 1.5 beta cant wait until the 1.5 comes out and i use IE7 too
though i hate it after trying for two hours to make my website work perfectly in IE7, the problem was some spaces in the code,. like wtf mate it firefox showed it perfectly when ie7 fudged up thats why i hate ie bad ba d BAD!!!!

//edit
forgot to say heres my screen of ie7 for those who didnt see it

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#9 27-10-2005 7:43pm

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Deerpark to be precise!

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#10 27-10-2005 7:49pm

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Macros42 wrote:

Don't you mean Lynx?

Gentoo user, it's links(2) for us

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#11 27-10-2005 7:51pm

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TimAy wrote:

Deerpark to be precise!

thats the code name, and its called 1.5 beta 2 on the mozilla website now

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#12 27-10-2005 8:06pm

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what ever is there, firefox, safari, dillo, links/lynx/elinks,

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#13 27-10-2005 8:10pm

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if you beleve apple website safari is better that firefox, in i stay quet about ie cus its crap

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#14 27-10-2005 8:23pm

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they're all the best

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#15 27-10-2005 8:28pm

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Firefox wins what a surprise*

*I'm a firefox user...

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#16 27-10-2005 8:41pm

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Firefox wins for me also.

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#17 27-10-2005 8:45pm

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Cabaal wrote:

Firefox wins what a surprise*

*I'm a firefox user...

LOL windows moderator thats kind of like ewwww windows

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#18 27-10-2005 9:03pm

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WizZard wrote:

Gentoo user, it's links(2) for us

suprisingly good browser, no gui

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#19 27-10-2005 9:09pm

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vvv

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#20 27-10-2005 9:21pm

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Why haven't you included the Atari Jaguar browser option?

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#21 27-10-2005 9:45pm

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What about Flock - http://www.flock.com/ ?
Its based on Moz code

Enter wrote:

LOL windows moderator thats kind of like ewwww windows

Just because people use Windows don't mean they gota use everything Microsoft
I also dispise Outlook

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#22 27-10-2005 11:53pm

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Firefox and Camino ftw

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#23 27-10-2005 11:59pm

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RuggieBear wrote:

Flaimer, your sig is too big read the sig rules here

ROFL - says he of the huge Ruggie pic

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#24 28-10-2005 12:01am

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Flaimer wrote:

I'am using Mozilla Firefox and I think that this is the safest and fastest browser on earth.

Actually it appears that the most secure browser is Opera*. I was an Opera user for many years until FF appeared - it was the open source/free bit that did it for me

* According to this month's PC Plus - they did a study based on threats and advisories. Opera won hands down. IE didn't really come close to either FF or Opera surprisingly enough

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#25 28-10-2005 12:05am

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Macros42 wrote:

ROFL - says he of the huge Ruggie pic

his has been edited

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#26 28-10-2005 9:51am

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Firefox will win but its a pain when u try to use it on windows update.

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#27 28-10-2005 1:03pm

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RuggieBear wrote:

his has been edited

Ah - my apologies Mr. Bear

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#28 28-10-2005 2:17pm

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man this topic has been done so many times. Who cares what browsers people use. It displays the same stuff.

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#29 28-10-2005 2:40pm

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Opera !!!

Firefox smells funny

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#30 28-10-2005 3:16pm

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gline wrote:

man this topic has been done so many times. Who cares what browsers people use. It displays the same stuff.

Technical your right but your also wrong
Some webmasters are lazy and code only for Internet Explorer because they can't be arsed following set standards

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#31 28-10-2005 3:27pm

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timeout wrote:

Firefox will win but its a pain when u try to use it on windows update.

That's pretty much by design from our friends at Microsoft.

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#32 28-10-2005 11:07pm

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Any good, non-RAM intensive browsers? FIrefox takes up a fair bit of resources it seems.

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#33 28-10-2005 11:17pm

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Stephen wrote:

That's pretty much by design from our friends at Microsoft.

A joint decision also involving a seperate thought process by our friends at the Mozilla Foundation. Its not like Microsoft didn't set out to ensure that Windows Update doesn't work through Firefox, MF didn't give them the chance to make that decision.

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#34 28-10-2005 11:19pm

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Cabaal wrote:

What about Flock - http://www.flock.com/ ?
Its based on Moz code

I came across that during the week, and haven't had a chance to look at it properly yet. Maybe next week once things have died down at work.

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#35 28-10-2005 11:22pm

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When in X it's firefox, when in console it's links

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#36 29-10-2005 12:27am

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Well, all firefox has to do is implement the extremely horrible and hackable ActiveX control system in firefox and Windows Update will work with firefox. Thankfully though they havn't. Very very few places still use ActiveX, and the main one of those is Windows Update.

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#37 29-10-2005 12:40am

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safari is not bad but strang it will not work on some Apple Build.
webcites bit Messed up on apples side & as always Firefox is the best for most webpages. so in the long run Firefox wins

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#38 29-10-2005 1:28pm

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Well, i'm not tapping in morse, i'm using it to tap out my ethernet
frames and IP packets in binary..

I tell you, it's really difficult to keep up with 10baseT and having
to count ahead to work out the checksum..

Source

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#39 29-10-2005 8:22pm

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I want to add few words about Opera browser. It's good, but sometimes it has a problems with webpage encoding. For example, if you want to take a look at non-english website. :eek:

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The war of browsers

What browser is the best? 120 votes

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