Another Primary Web Browser Poll?

[alisajid]

What browser're you using?

Why?

What did you ditch in the first place?

 

[notfred]

I'm using IE at the moment, but only because I'm at work. I voted for Safari.

 

[Nothinman]

I voted firebird because that's what I'm using now. I usually use Galeon on Linux at home though, both are gecko based so it's largely irrelevant.

 

[ClueLis]

Firebird. (Even managed to make it so that it was completely self-contained on my student drive at school and saves my settings for all computers. I'm so proud. )

 

[Mitzi]

Firebird all the way. Why? Tabbed browsing, privacy controls, small, fast, customisable and updated regularly.

 

[TheVrolok]

Mozilla 1.4 .. because I like it. Tabbed browsing.. popup blocker, etc.. etc.. etc..

 

[CTho9305]

http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

 

[Schadenfroh]

IE with adshield, blocks popups and banner ads and flash ads

 

[Nocturnal]

I just started using Mozilla. I can't say that it sucks like other shareware that people preach about. It's actually pretty nice.

 

[Whitecloak]

myie2

 

[Sid59]

Firebird!

Thunderbird Mail is AWESOME!

 

[NapalmKing]

After only a few days using Firebird, IE was out of the window. That browser rocks!

 

[RalfHutter]

Mitzi said it best so far:

Originally posted by: Mitzi
Firebird all the way. Why? Tabbed browsing, privacy controls, small, fast, customisable and updated regularly.

I'll add "stable" to his list to round it out.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: RalfHutter
Mitzi said it best so far:

Originally posted by: Mitzi
Firebird all the way. Why? Tabbed browsing, privacy controls, small, fast, customisable and updated regularly.

I'll add "stable" to his list to round it out.

The last time I tried Firebird was probably about three or four months ago, and at that time it had problems with stability, and wasn't a whole lot faster than Mozilla, so I stuck with Mozilla. If it has gotten much better, I might have to give it a try again.

BTW, I use Mozilla 1.4, because it is standards-compliant (IE doesn't even comply with the ancient CSS1 spec fully, and it sucks). It also supports tabbed browsing, privacy controls, popup blocking, and more.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: jliechty

The last time I tried Firebird was probably about three or four months ago, and at that time it had problems with stability, and wasn't a whole lot faster than Mozilla, so I stuck with Mozilla. If it has gotten much better, I might have to give it a try again.

It's very stable for me, and though I haven't used mozilla in a while, last I checked, it wasn't *that* much faster than moz for me either. Much less buggy though. Mozilla was one buggy POS sometimes for me.

 

[jimmyl930]

Right now, it's mainly Opera / IE, sometimes Mozilla 1.4.

 

[Buddha Bart]

Thanks for that google link. It closely mirrors my site's stats, its amazing to see IE 5.0+ dominate so much, especially 6.

There's gonna be a wierd few years for the next two or three between when IE absolutly ownes the client side (say 5% more than it has now), and when linux desktops actually become usable (perhaps in large corporate installations). Lets hope we don't wind up with netscapes old fear of "mshttp://"

What would be real fun would be to compare this forums browser staistics to the poll's results. Thus showing the "member to zealot" ratio.

 

[Nothinman]

What would be real fun would be to compare this forums browser staistics to the poll's results. Thus showing the "member to zealot" ratio.

The problem with that would be that people may vote for something other than what they're currently using for various reasons, like they're not allowed to run Linux or Mozilla at work. Like when I voted last week I was running Firebird on Windows which is far from the norm for me.

 

[Czar]

crazybrowser

 

[krackato]

Nice to see that 51% of people who answered the poll have moved to Mozilla or Firebird. Not a scientific poll in the least, but it's good to see a reemmergence of the browser wars along with browser innovation.

 

[dukdukgoos]

Firebird nightly build

 

[ethebubbeth]

firebird 0.6.1

i'm too lazy to deal with updating with nightly builds... i'll take the stability of milestone releases over new features anyday too.
hmmm i switched because i want to stay away from using any microsoft programs other than windows. that and firebird is a speed demon

 

[mindwreck]

opera ie6 for me

 

[krackato]

I need to give some serious thought into migrating to Linux now that I have replaced almost all my Microsoft software. Maybe when I build a new rig, I'll let that run Windows XP and turn my XP 1700+ into a Linux box. There seems to be very little reason to run Windows XP for just your average web browsing, email checking, office document creating, mp3 playing, video watching.... do everything but play games computer these days.

Ironically enough I quite a bit of Microsoft hardware including a 802.11b router, USB wireless adapter, and mouse. I wonder if those would play nice with Linux.

 

[Nothinman]

Ironically enough I quite a bit of Microsoft hardware including a 802.11b router, USB wireless adapter, and mouse. I wonder if those would play nice with Linux.

What's good about MS hardware is that it's not made by MS, it's almost always manufactured by someone else and given a MS label. The only thing I would wonder about is the USB network adapter since I have no idea what it really is.