What browser do you use?

[ForumMaster]

opera all the way. it's fast, has many features, and just includes all the firefox addons by defuallt. therefore it is better then firefox. and it's free!

 

[powerMarkymark]

Firefox


M@rc

 

[imported_LoKe]

Firefox. Win!

 

[Patt]

Mosaic 😛

 

[Laogeodritt]

Mozilla Firefox.

I hear Opera is faster and less large (in RAM usage) than Firefox. But does it have the customizability of Firefox?

Reasons for my choosing Fx over IE:
- Popup blocker. With help from NoScript, I've had absolutely no popups get past; without it, I get relatively little.
- Tabbed browsing.
- Optional extensions; themes.
- about:config
- Open source.
- lack of ActiveX which AFAIK is a very common vector for malware.

Things I dislike:
- WMP plugin always causes fatal errors, and crashes Firefox something around 25% of the time.
- Memory hog.

 

[Future Guy]

FireFox

 

[microAmp]

Primary - Firefox only because of AdBlock
Secondary - IE for sites that don't work with FF.

 

[Fish11]

Opera.

Nothing else comes close for me.

 

[xtknight]

Opera+Proxomitron pwns FireFox+AdBlock.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: Laogeodritt
Mozilla Firefox.

I hear Opera is faster and less large (in RAM usage) than Firefox. But does it have the customizability of Firefox?

Most of it, yes.

Reasons for my choosing Fx over IE:
- Popup blocker. With help from NoScript, I've had absolutely no popups get past; without it, I get relatively little.

Opera has this

- Tabbed browsing.

Opera has this


- Optional extensions; themes.

Opera has this (not as many extensions, but most of the features (gestures, tab managers, downloads, etc are included by default). Plenty of themes to choose from though.
- about:config

Opera has this, but in a nice menu/preferences window


- Open source.

Opera isn't open source, but that shouldn't be a determining factor IMO, its security track record is superior to either IE or FF.


- lack of ActiveX which AFAIK is a very common vector for malware.

Opera doesn't have this either. See above regarding security.

 

[SpunkyJones]

Opera has been my favorite for a couple of years now.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
IMO, its security track record is superior to either IE or FF.

I think this may be security through obscurity. Look at FF. As soon as it really took off we saw security issues. Before that everyone was saying it was better.

 

[RSMemphis]

lynx is key when retrieving text information from questionable websites

 

[Xyclone]

Opera! 😎

 

[JBT]

mostly IE. I donno none of the others really do it for me. I use FF sometimes, but not much.

 

[xtknight]

I'm pretty sure Opera does have support for ActiveX.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: xtknight
I'm pretty sure Opera does have support for ActiveX.

Not natively, but it can if you use a plug-in.

Source

Opera does not have in-built support for Microsoft's Windows-specific ActiveX technology

 

[Noema]

Firefox.

I love the Stumble Addon.

 

[secretanchitman]

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1

IE 6 for sites that dont display correctly under firefox or when im using windows/office update.

 

[Azndude2190]

Good old IE with google toolbar.

 

[gizbug]

Mozilla Firefox for Windows 1.5.0.1 RC1

 

[weezarrgh]

i'm split between opera 9 and firefox 1.5

 

[biff 24 2000]

Firefox

 

[theMan]

95% firefox, 5% opera. just started trying opera the other day.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: dartworth
if you want something added to the poll...let me know🙂

Now it's Seamonkey.