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boran

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Jun 17, 2001
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Opera, and IE as backup for those nasty pages using IE-only stuff. curse them.
 
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BoomAM

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Sep 25, 2001
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As above.
Mainly Opera, cos its fast, tabbed browsing, skinable, ect;
I used IE for websites that have IE exclusive QT components.

I dont know if any of you know of it , but NeoPlanet was good browser.
Hav`nt used it for a while, but it was a great program. Built in email program, dialer, contact list, DL manager that supported resumes. It was the god of skinnable browsers, i remember having a skin that made it look exactely like LCARS (ST computer interface), and another that looked exactely like the interface seen in the Matrix1.
 
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pennylane

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What about Avant? I'm using Firebird right now and I think it's awesome... but people say to try Avant.
 
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DOSfan

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I would say stay away from Avant. All it is is IE wrapped up in a different package. In fact, it looks a lot like MyIE2.

(By the way, it is what I am using right now.)

I find it less stable than IE, does not "play nice" with Pop-Up Stopper, and does not do a good enough job of stopping pop up adds by itself.

If I wasn't planning a clean instal ASAP, I would revert back to IE.

Thanks to this forum however, I am looking into Firebird.
 
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chsh1ca

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Feb 17, 2003
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Mozilla 1.5b here. Tabbed browsing is simply the greatest. Esp. if you set mozilla up so that your middle mouse button opens links in a new tab. I tried firebird, didn't find it all that useful, so I went back to mozilla.
 
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BoomAM

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Sep 25, 2001
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Originally posted by: chsh1ca
Tabbed browsing is simply the greatest. Esp. if you set mozilla up so that your middle mouse button opens links in a new tab.
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You can do that in Opera 7.2 now. I think that you ca set the middle mouse button to any program function in Opera.
I`ve got it set to open link in background tab, and when i press the middle button when not on a link, auto scroll activates. Which is pretty dam sweet!
 
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ProviaFan

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Mar 17, 2001
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Originally posted by: BoomAM
You can do that in Opera 7.2 now. I think that you ca set the middle mouse button to any program function in Opera.
I`ve got it set to open link in background tab, and when i press the middle button when not on a link, auto scroll activates. Which is pretty dam sweet!
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Hmm, I wish Mozilla had that middle-button auto-scroll thing.
 
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DOSfan

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Sep 19, 2003
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UPDATE:

I am running Firebird now, and find it quite nice. It beats the hell out of standard IE, easily outporforms Avant, and is stable even on my unstable OS install. :)

There is one thing I miss about Avant, and Firebird may still have it if I look hard enough (it is just not established "by default"), was the mouse controlled browsing. With Avant. if you hold the right mouse button, and click the left you went back one page. If you held the left mouse button, and clicked the right you went forward one page. I just got used to it.

BTW, that is the only feature I found that I liked better than IE. Just to give you a comparison.
 
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43st

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Nov 7, 2001
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Originally posted by: 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.
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Mozilla is not shareware. It's Open Source, look it up.
 
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ProviaFan

Lifer
Mar 17, 2001
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Originally posted by: Nothinman
Hmm, I wish Mozilla had that middle-button auto-scroll thing.
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It can, you just havn't looked hard enough it seems.
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Mozdev is a PITA to navigate, but I did find the extension. It works pretty much like IE, but isn't quite as smooth or fast; however, I still like it. :)
 
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BoomAM

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Sep 25, 2001
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Originally posted by: jliechty
I wish Mozilla had that middle-button auto-scroll thing.
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Sorry, a bit of a misunderstanding there, Opera is set to use the middle button as open link in background, And the logitech drivers set it to autoscroll, its just coinsidence that it works together without problems.
 
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ClueLis

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Jul 2, 2003
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Originally posted by: DOSfan
UPDATE:

I am running Firebird now, and find it quite nice. It beats the hell out of standard IE, easily outporforms Avant, and is stable even on my unstable OS install. :)

There is one thing I miss about Avant, and Firebird may still have it if I look hard enough (it is just not established "by default"), was the mouse controlled browsing. With Avant. if you hold the right mouse button, and click the left you went back one page. If you held the left mouse button, and clicked the right you went forward one page. I just got used to it.

BTW, that is the only feature I found that I liked better than IE. Just to give you a comparison.
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Mouse Gestures includes a freature called "rocker navigation" which does this.
 
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FreakyGuy

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Dec 12, 2001
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Good ole IE 6 here. I run Mcafee Firewall and Antivirus as well as the Advanced Google Toolbar which blocks popups and I have Supertrick which adds most ad sites to your HOSTS file so they never get downloaded to your computer. My computer is updated at least once a week so I never have gotten any virus' or malicious scripts or anything.
 
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BFG10K

Lifer
Aug 14, 2000
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Internet Explorer has always worked fine for me and version 6 is no exception.
 
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BudAshes

Lifer
Jul 20, 2003
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Operah is my favorite but for somereason it would lag alot and freeze on me all the time, so im using firebird which is the the best alternative i've found.
 
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Sunner

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Konqueror at work on my Gentoo box.
Galeon on my RedHat box at home.
Mozilla 1.5 on my Windows box.

Which one do I vote for? :)
 
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Confused

Elite Member
Nov 13, 2000
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MozillaFirebird on all my systems, apart from IE when I absolutely need to look at something that I can't get to with FB (which isn't much, cos normally it's just not worth it anyway).


Confused
 
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DaCurryman

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Jun 20, 2001
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I've never had a problem with IE and been using it forever now. I've just started running Firebird for the past week or so. I love it with the tabbed browsing (w/ pages loading in the backgrounding) and faster page loads.

I'm still a fan of IE as well and use it as a backup when Firebird wont open a site properly, like my company intranet.

Hardest part I've had so far is trying to break the habit of clicking the IE icon. I find myself opening IE (due to habit) and then realizing it, then closing it and opening Firebird....haha.
 
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BoomAM

Diamond Member
Sep 25, 2001
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Originally posted by: DaCurryman
Hardest part I've had so far is trying to break the habit of clicking the IE icon. I find myself opening IE (due to habit) and then realizing it, then closing it and opening Firebird....haha.
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Why dont you change the short cut for IE to one for opera, but keep the IE icon/description? Then it wont happen. Just keep a proper link somewhere else, like somewhere on the start menu (assuming you have the IE icons on the desktop).
 
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TerryP

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Dec 6, 2002
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I use Opera 7.2, Mozilla 1.5, and Avant depending on what I want to do. I have no problems whatsoever with Avant.
 
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