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What's the best alternate browser?

Mozilla and Opera are probably the next two biggest browsers besides IE.

Both are good. Try them both and just pick the one you like.
I prefer Mozilla.
 
I like mozilla. I've installed firebird before but it was lacking some features that I liked in the mozillla browser.
 
Mozilla Firebird. It's fast, it renders pages well, and it's multiplatform. The Thunderbird mail/news client looks like it's coming along quite nicely as well.
 
Since you are new to the alternate browser scene, I should explain to you the choices:

If you have a Linx of OSX browser, Safari and Konqueror, based on the KHTML rendering engine, are very speedy but have a couple kinks in the rendering. A very good choice if speed is key.

Opera became popular during the time Netscape was rebuilding their browser (i.e. creating Mozilla). They invented tabbed browsing and have a good, stable system with a skinnable UI. The only downside is that you have to pay for it.

Mozilla, which is a less bloated Netscape 7.x (RIP) is an open source, cross platform project that was meant to be the developer of Netscape. With the demise of Netscape, Mozilla it now an end-user product. It is big, but full featured, with tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, a competant mail client, skinnable, an IRC client, a composer, and you have the option of getting extensions for even more features. The rendering engine is the most standard-compliant out there. Also, the fact that it is open source led to the creation of offshoots like Galleon, Epiphany, Phoenix, Minotaur, and Camino.

After releasing Mozilla 1.3, the developers decided that Mozilla was getting too bulky. The Phoenix Project, a slimmed-down Mozilla with just the browser, was chosen to be the successor to the Mozilla browser (it is now called MozillaFirebird due to copyright issues). Thunderbird (formerly Minotaur) will replace the mail client as a stand-alone program. The final version of Mozilla 1.5 on will be based on Firebird. Firebird, while speedy and small (1/3 the file size), is in beta form and does not have all the bugs out of it.

As long as you don't mind the occasional stability issues, Firebird is the best. If you want a rock-hard browser, try Mozilla or Opera if you are willing to pay for it.

Note: This post was written on Firebird, and I have Mozilla on my system as well, so I am somewhat biased here. 🙂
 
why not use IE?

If you really want to alter the web browser, I would recommand the Netscape 7.01.

In term of speed, I dont think Netscape is the fast, however, the Opera would be as fast as the IE.

The reason i like the Netscape 7.01 is because when I install Linux, Netscape 7.01 is the only browser that i can configure to use Flash and the Java plug-in!!!! LOL!!! I am usre Mozilla can too but I like the skin of the Netscape Browser!!!

But who cares!!! Both of them are open-source product!!!! That mean they are FREE SOFTWARE!!!!!!

GPL ROCKS!!!!!!
 
Frankly I consider IE an alternate browser and a bad one at that. I use Mozilla daily on every machine I use on Linux and Windows and I'd rather install Opera than put up with IE.
 
I really appreciate the feedback. I'm leaning towards Firebird.

If I install it....can I shutdown or dismantle IE?

....or is it always there and I just have to avoid using it?
 
Originally posted by: Ferocious
I really appreciate the feedback. I'm leaning towards Firebird.

If I install it....can I shutdown or dismantle IE?

....or is it always there and I just have to avoid using it?
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Avoid using it, make firebird the default browser. Enjoy no pop-ups and auto password completion!
 
Originally posted by: MGMorden
Mozilla Firebird. It's fast, it renders pages well, and it's multiplatform. The Thunderbird mail/news client looks like it's coming along quite nicely as well.
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I've been using Firebird since .6 came out, its an excellent browser - beats IE in every area. I can't wait for Thunderbird to come along a little more, I tried it a few weeks back but decided to wait until the beta version comes out before I start using it daily.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
If I install it....can I shutdown or dismantle IE?

....or is it always there and I just have to avoid using it?
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Thanks to MS and their binding everything to IE it has to stay.
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You can, however, go to add/remove programs and chose "Set Program Access and Defaults." You can basically hide IE from everywhere that you don't want it. You can do the same with OE and Windows Messenger. But, for example, some sites are not standards-compliant and only show up in IE correctly. Some won't even load at all, like BuyMusic.com, which requires IE and WMP9. Bastards.

 
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