Alternative Web Browsers??

[cypriot]

I tried Opera, Mozilla and Netscape so far. I guess best one was Mozilla. It was customizable and was running smooth unlike opera which kept using very large portion of my memory. Anyway, I am bored of IE and I wonder what alternative web browsers are you guys using...

 

[ClueLis]

Firebird. It's based on Mozilla, and eventually will be Mozilla. It is basically a stripped-down Mozilla without the calender, HTML editor, or email client, and it has the ability to heavily expand the features if you want them. Also, if you use a mail client, you might want to consider thunderbird, which is the stand-alone email client.

 

[crobusa]

If you're on dial-up and desperate for no-frills speed, you might consider Lynx.
It's a text only browser, perferred by Unix gurus.

(I'm not being a ass. I'm in surburbia paying .10 a minute for 9600.) Pretty picutres are to expensive for me until they get cable here.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: crobusa
If you're on dial-up and desperate for no-frills speed, you might consider Lynx.
It's a text only browser, perferred by Unix gurus.

(I'm not being a ass. I'm in surburbia paying .10 a minute for 9600.) Pretty picutres are to expensive for me until they get cable here.

Holy crap, that's insane! :Q

If you're in the USA, like your profile says, I'm shocked and would be curious to know why you have to pay those ridiculous prices for such a slow connection.

Anyway, I did try Lynx once, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it actually handled text-input forms in a semi-sane manner (I posted to the forums once with it - when I was setting up Gentoo, IIRC). Not to mention that it's just so freaking fast... when I used it, I felt like I had a T1, even though I only have 56K dialup.

Oh yeah, I use Mozilla here; it works fine for what I do (and works a heck of a lot better than IE).

 

[igowerf]

I'm using Firebird loaded with all of my favorite extensions.

 

[cypriot]

I just tried firebird.. when you open 5 tabs in one window, RAM usage goes upto 30MB, but then again 2 IE windows use a total RAM of 35MB so I think its better

 

[crobusa]

Holy crap, that's insane! :Q

If you're in the USA, like your profile says, I'm shocked and would be curious to know why you have to pay those ridiculous prices for such a slow connection.

It's a new house.. We used to have Earthlink DSL, wanted to keep the old e-mail addresses, and no DSL in our area, so we downgraded to Dialup. We get 9600 to Libertyville (North Chicago).

Actually that 10c a minute was the rate we were paying before I started adding 10-10-987, bringing the rate to 3c.
Maybe It's a wireing fault. (SBC crossed the lines when we got a second one, so the fax was off hook when we picked up voice. Now supposidly fixed).

Comcast has claimed they're coming "next month" for the past 4 months..
I have college labs, and dad uses internet at work, but it sucks when I visit their house to view email.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: crobusa

Holy crap, that's insane! :Q

If you're in the USA, like your profile says, I'm shocked and would be curious to know why you have to pay those ridiculous prices for such a slow connection.

It's a new house.. We used to have Earthlink DSL, wanted to keep the old e-mail addresses, and no DSL in our area, so we downgraded to Dialup. We get 9600 to Libertyville (North Chicago).

Actually that 10c a minute was the rate we were paying before I started adding 10-10-987, bringing the rate to 3c.
Maybe It's a wireing fault. (SBC crossed the lines when we got a second one, so the fax was off hook when we picked up voice. Now supposidly fixed).

Comcast has claimed they're coming "next month" for the past 4 months..
I have college labs, and dad uses internet at work, but it sucks when I visit their house to view email.

You might consider paying the extra per-month cost to add wherever you're calling to your local call zone... or look into satellite, if you don't play online games (?)

 

[dnuggett]

We get 9600 to Libertyville (North Chicago).

That sucks so bad.

Anyways I use Opera, Firebird and Netscape lite 7.1. Explorer is only reserved for when I am at MSFT's site running an update. And that is only becasue they force me to.

 

[NYCSTE2003]

hey im using firebird and im happy with it, actually i think opera is the best 7.21 to be honest, but firebird is very promising, and i wanna know how do i get flash to work, im new to using it soo thats why i have no clue

 

[thenerdguy]

Opera. A lot better than IE

 

[notfred]

Safari

 

[AEB]

Safari is the best, even though i dotn owna mac, yet i love safari. But for pc i use opera it is a lot faster than ie and the tabs are cool, thats all that matterrs to me

 

[civad]

We get 9600 to Libertyville (North Chicago).

[ot]
Ah! Chicago

I know the area: I'd interviewed with a couple of companies around that place when I was in IL [/ot]

As others have mentioned before, mozilla firebird is the way to go!

 

[21Jumper]

myIE2 is the best for me.

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: 21Jumper
myIE2 is the best for me.

 

[Jeff7181]

I kinda like IE's stripped down look... you have a title bar, menu bar, some icons, an address bar, and then a status bar at the bottom... I tried Opera and Netscape and they look a little too... hmmm... I dunno... "Macish" for me. I like IE's plain boring look.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
I kinda like IE's stripped down look... you have a title bar, menu bar, some icons, an address bar, and then a status bar at the bottom... I tried Opera and Netscape and they look a little too... hmmm... I dunno... "Macish" for me. I like IE's plain boring look.

Firebird not stripped down enough?

 

[Bleep]

I have tried most of the browsers and I cannot find anything other thatn IE that will render this site right.
If I set the font size of the threads right the forums page has such weak lookingl fonts that I cannot read them.
Bleep

 

[cypriot]

I started using MyIE2.. its really great... I currently have 10 tabs opened in one window and it's using only 20MB of ram... beside it has cool skins and tons of plugins... much better than IE and other browsers out there

 

[Jumpem]

Netscape 7.1 for me.