QUOTE(alexviii @ Aug 5 2006, 11:06 AM) Hi every one!!!! I whould like to ask you, what is better: Internet Explorer, Opera or Firefox???? If you care about security and don't want your computer infected by all of the malware that is written to take advantage of the many vulnerabilities that Microsoft has written into IE, then Firefox is your obvious choice. The fact that is open-source ensures that the code will get constant peer review from a talented band of programmers and contributors around the world.

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I voted Firefox, I realize, but it's because it's familiar to me and it's my favorite to use. But above all, I would prefer Opera if it was a little more compatible with cool and crazy stuff. It has widgets, yes, but Firefox has so many. The people who voted IE are being silly. Firefox crashes every now and then, for me, but when IE crashes, it used to be so hard to end that task without ending another program. I'm a little thankful for the beta though. Although the fonts are incredibly blurry, it's a great deal better than IE 6 was. When it's released, I hope they not only fix that but the CSS errors designers have been clamoring about for nigh a century.

OK, not really a century, but it's still pretty important!

Opera has been in the shadows for a little while. It's very sleek, very easy, powerful, free, and more, but it seems to exude this angelic aura - all ye worthy touchest it not! Firefox brings that to the normal user, with a glitch here or there. Those of you who report that Firefox is more glitchy than IE have to remember that IE has a long and troubled history of being buggy, unsafe, and so much more. Firefox, because it's in the media spotlight, attracts more attention than Microsoft's rag-tag child.

So yes, the best browser is probably Opera. But the most casual browser I would say is Firefox.

 

 

 

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All of us know IE diplays everything(almost) OK>
May be there are security loopholes which does not affect a normal user much.

And let me speak something towards the mozilla fuss over there:

Mozilla isn't perfect. There are drawbacks. First, it is a separate download (www.mozilla.org) of about 12MB. If you want Java support, that's another download. Flash and shockwave are still more additional downloads. Still, if you have broadband, it's not a big deal. Dial-up users will always need a friend burn a CD.

The biggest drawback, however, is there are sites out there that are programmed to work only with IE. A few sites even will refuse you entry unless you are using IE even though they work with Mozilla at least partially. The prefbar addon for Mozilla allows you to easily impersonate IE and can help with such sites. This isn't a failing of Mozilla, but a failure of the webmasters to follow the web standards. However, you, as a Mozilla user, still have to deal with it.

Sites that use ActiveX, which is a security disaster (ActiveX is what makes the drive-by-downloading and a host of other problems possible), won't work properly with Mozilla, although there is an obscure plugin to support ActiveX in Mozilla. Considering the security aspect, this really is more of a benefit.

And for Netscape, let's be honest, they lost all hope of competing and now using IE's rendering engine.(They openly declare it while installing on your computer; if you have IE already installed)

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I use OPERA for a few years now and i am veeeery happy with it! They are the one who invented tabbed browsing which is now integrated also in firefox and IE if you wish (they coppied it!!!) However, Opera is also the fastest browser on the planet at the moment and that certainly is a big plus for it - for me the most important. OPERA is also known for a verry huge working space so you dont have almost any border and stupid buttons and stuff...

OPERA is PLAIN AND SIMPLE, TABBED, THE FASTEST ON THE PLANET! I do not need more and i also use Mini Opera on my mobile phone - it rocks there too!!

greetz

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Another browser poll? Firefox, as ever since it´s there. Yeah, I´m another one anti-Miscrosoft dude. Not only they are bloody rich, their products are miserably bad and always late copying what their competitors have to offer.

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i like firefox cos ot it's special extention (add on)
weeks ago i used Avand browser
its not a independed browser cos it uses IE for browsin but i advice to who want speed in their navigation

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SAFARI !!!!
Any Mac users out there? I switched after 10 years of M$ and have not looked back. (except to help friends with thier viruses).
I do use firefox for google video it is much mor stable, but they're working on safari now.
I recomend OS X to everybody especially coders and graphic artists. Superior in every way!! say I.

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Lol, I find mac has the wordt tools ever, the mouses alone annoy me!

I most applications are made for windows, I would not be able to do alot of the things i can do on my windows on a mac computer, unless I used that hack, but I still hate the interface etc, it wastes alot of my time, we had to do work on firefox at school, I got 1/4 of it done in 1 hour, and I did the rest at home in half an hour because windows has much easier tools, and a better interface.

Safari, well thats just crazy, its slow, firefox is fast, firefox is very stable, and you can use it easily and it has a nice interface, and you can change the themes and do addons for it.

We have safari at school, well... we had safari at school, and the server got a virus from a site because safari did not detect it, so the school swapped to firefox, and everything has been great ever since.


I say that windows rules, mac drools! And firefox is clearly better, leading the votes... lol sfari did not even make it to the list!

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Mozilla Firefox is faster and safer

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I love free things and Firefox is one of them

It is quite fast, safe and all its extensions and skins are cool and are growing on at a rapid rate too.

Tapped window feature is excellent.

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