what is your favourite browser and why?

[Dan]

Turing_Gamer @ 3rd February 2010, 12:42 pm wrote:

What is that???

FireFox but using only free software and images. Also has a few security related tweaks and a cooler logo

[Zren]

It's a love hate relationship that toggles between Chrome and Firefox. It's usually whatever I pin to the taskbar first when I reformat or whichever I set up extensions to first. Right now it's FF.

[BigBear]

Dan @ Wed Feb 03, 2010 4:16 pm wrote:

Turing_Gamer @ 3rd February 2010, 12:42 pm wrote:

What is that???

FireFox but using only free software and images. Also has a few security related tweaks and a cooler logo

Wouldn't the same security tweak be submitted to Firefox??

Did the Firefox community decide against it?

This is the first time I am hearing about it, but it seems to me to be like the various flavours of Linux doing things differently but essentially being the same thing.

[Horus]

On my computer, google chrome is significantly faster than firefox. But I still prefer firefox because I have gotten used to the settings.

I have 4 rows of bookmark on firefox, and it only takes 1 click to get to the site I want, whereas google chrome only allow 1 row of bookmark.

I also can't get used to the way google chrome put the tabs on the very top of window, it's hard to drag windows that way.

[Superskull85]

I use Chrome (and FireFox for the odd websites that do not allow access to the site using Safari, and also recognize Chrome as Safari). Chrome is fast, simple, compact and tabbed browsing feature is the best, in my opinion, amongst all browsers.

Using Chrome I am able to drag a tab and place in a new window without installing additional add-ons. This feature is really useful combined with Windows 7 when you want to view two webpages side-by-side. All you have to do is drag a tab off of the tab bar to create a new window, and than move the windows to fill equal halves of the screen. With enough screen width you can watch a video and browse the web without switching between tabs, and than latter combine the two windows easily without copying links (or anything similar).

Edit: Adding folders to your bookmarks tab to organize similar bookmarks (such as programming tutorials, education, most used, etc.) would reduce the amount of space needed to hold your bookmarks.

[Dan]

BigBear @ 3rd February 2010, 6:16 pm wrote:

Wouldn't the same security tweak be submitted to Firefox??

Did the Firefox community decide against it?

This is the first time I am hearing about it, but it seems to me to be like the various flavours of Linux doing things differently but essentially being the same thing.

You can find out more about it here: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

and there is a wiki page on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat


It's more about free software then anything else.

[ProgrammingFun]

I used almost only IE (sometimes Chrome and Firefox) back when I used XP.
BUT when Win7 came out, IE was soo buggy for me that I permanently switched to Firefox, Safari, and Chrome

Never looked back at IE again...

[syntax_error]

Currently I was going though a chrome phase the extension support really drove the point him; but yesterday I tried the 10.5 beta build of opera and damn is it the fastest thing ive ever used the GUI is extremely clean and clear cut Carakan engine FTW.


As a side note for browsers try: Quix. an amazing little bookmarklet

[mother teresa]

lol i use safari on everything.. my mac book and my hp witch is on win 7

[.:KHAN:.]

Firefox is the best so far, Google chrome is pretty efficient too. And for some reason i get faster download speeds from firefox