IE / Netscape / Mozilla / Phoenix / Opera ... POLL !

[Savatage]

Was just reading a thread about some of these browsers and read a post saying we should create a Poll on this topic. So, here it is . This poll is based on what browser you think works and or like best in Windos OS i.e: 95/98/98SE/ME/2000/XP.

 

[BFG10K]

Internet Explorer 6; fast, stable and compatible.

 

[elkinm]

IE6, all said before.

The rest are prety bad, mozilla has some featres but the slow netscape base hurts it too much.
Anybody know of a non tabbed version of an IE6 like browser. Crazy and MyIE are tabbed which I don't like and have their own set of bugs. What I am looking for is some browser or a way to modify IE (via some SDK) to add remove permanant features and specificaly remove or limit built in java and javascript handlers.

Thanks

 

[Savatage]

On my system IE6 runs great. But the thing that's so anoying(sp?) is pop-up ads as well as ads that stream across the face of the browser and get right in your face before your able to close them. I decided to check out other browsers as a " backup " browser and see if I could get fast preformance as well as ad blocking. After checking out most that are listed on this poll, I ended up choosing Phoenix 0.5

For me it's now become my " main " browser because I was able to learn and tweak it a bit and preforms excellent and fast here as well as NO POP-UPS and REDIRECTS

 

[Sunner]

Gimme a Galeon option.

 

[zCypher]

IE still holds the melting candle. Mozilla/Phoenix (essentially the same browser) are nice, but they're slower and have some bugs. But the features they have are unique when you compare them to Intarnet Explodar's. Popup (and other things) blockage is good, as is tabbed browsing. I think there's a bright future for Mozilla. Netscape is stupid and pointless. It's just an old build of Mozilla, so it's always one step behind in technology. What's the point in that? May as well kill it off completely, nobody uses it.

As for IE - the major problem is SP1 on non-XP machines. It's major suck. I make sure not to use SP1. It doesn't work properly, fails to load GIFs often (especially annoying when you frequent ATOT and it doesn't load half the images half the time). This bug doesn't seem to affect XP machines. Anyway, they should fix this, cause I consider it to be a pretty severe bug.. but I guess they don't.

Other than that, IE could add tabbed browsing and some of the features that Mozilla has, and that'd be good.

As for Mozilla, they should implement at least an OPTION to render pages like IE, so that pages can be viewed properly (the ones that cannot normally be viewed properly in Mozilla).

zCypher

 

[Nothinman]

Netscape is stupid and pointless. It's just an old build of Mozilla, so it's always one step behind in technology. What's the point in that? May as well kill it off completely, nobody uses it.

The Netscape name still has recognition. I've seen numerous people download and install Netscape 7 just because of it's Netscape name.

As for Mozilla, they should implement at least an OPTION to render pages like IE, so that pages can be viewed properly (the ones that cannot normally be viewed properly in Mozilla).

Mozilla has a 'quirks' mode for when pages aren't fully standards compliant. If you click the lock icon (usually for getting SSL information) there's a General tab that tells you what rendering mode it's using.

Personally I use Mozilla on Windows and Galeon on Linux. IE has gotten long in the tooth, to me it's just a security problem that MS won't let me remove now.

 

[thornc]

Posted using Avant Browser!

And I do like it better then IE, basically because it has tabbed browsing and popup blocking!

I only use it because Phoenix doesn't have a multi-proxy select option!! With avant I just select the proxy
I want to use and it's set!

 

[Armitage]

Looking at the KDE 3.1 announcments, it looks like Konqueror may finally become a mainstream option ... sounds like the rendering engine & javascript capability has made big steps, and they've added tabs.

IE is just a security incident waiting to happen (again). Can't believe anybody still uses it now that there are alternatives.

 

[elkinm]

Most of the other IE like browsers were bad for me because they had tabs. From what I hear, most of you realy like tabs but I hate them as I need to open the program and find the right tab which is very anoying and wuick switching between two windows is also complicated, but just click on the taskbar to minimize and maximize. So basicaly what I am asking is if there is usualy a way to disable tabs mode for all such browsers or are they tabs only?

Thanks
elkinm

 

[TheWart]

Crazy Browser.

 

[Confused]

Originally posted by: elkinm
Most of the other IE like browsers were bad for me because they had tabs. From what I hear, most of you realy like tabs but I hate them as I need to open the program and find the right tab which is very anoying and wuick switching between two windows is also complicated, but just click on the taskbar to minimize and maximize. So basicaly what I am asking is if there is usualy a way to disable tabs mode for all such browsers or are they tabs only?

Thanks
elkinm

I am using Phoenix, and it will only do tabbed browsing if you WANT it to. So you can have multiple windows open, and links that open a new window (such as links posted here at AT) will only open in tabs if you want them to.


One really cool thing I found for Phoenix a couple of days ago, is that if you use the middle button on a link, it will open it in a new tab, and using the middle button on a tab header will close that tab.

I've only accidently closed the entire browser window, rather than just the tab i'm on, about 3 times in the 2 weeks i've been using Phoenix, and those were the first couple of days of using it


Confused

 

[Nothinman]

I don't see how you could find tabs more confusing than windows, it gets really hard to find things when you have 30 Windows open but having 5 windows with 6 tabs each is more than managable. And switching tabs is just a click or ctrl+arrow, but either way tabs can be disabled at will in all the mentioned browsers.

 

[vash]

My favorite browser is still Mozilla. Browser tabs rules, the ability to block popups in the browser, better cookie management, etc. However, some sites only run on IE5+, so I must switch to using IE for those sites. I'm now posting from Opera7 and its speed is nice, but I don't forsee myself jumping onto the Opera boat quite yet.

The best combo for any system is any browser + privoxy! Privoxy rocks, it can stop a lot of junk that plagues the internet, so its well worth the time to install and configure (minutes, at most).

vash

 

[rudder]

Ever since netscape started losing the browser wars to IE around version 4. something or other, I had always used IE. Worked great, but I just downloaded and installed Opera yesterday, and so far I am enjoying it. Takes a little getting used to, but I can see it becoming my default browser before long.

 

[TheLogLady]

I was a frustrated IE user up until a couple of weeks ago. Was getting sick of pop-ups, spyware auto-installs even though my settings should have prompted me, history items that didn't delete when they should have, etc. Installed phoenix 0.5 and have not looked back since. I had never really looked into mozilla based browsers because I never liked netscape and just thought, "same old crap". But I'm really glad I did because phoenix rocks my arse.

Tabbed browsing: love it. Can't stand not having it actually now.

Pop-up blocking: how can you not love it? Worked flawlessly so far.

Customizability: skins, more preferences to tweak and extensions which brings us to:

MOUSE GESTURES: completely rule.


I would check out Opera too because it seems like a great browser, but I don't want to pay for the ad-less version and I'm too dang happy with phoenix to worry about it.

 

[CrowDog]

I voted for Opera 7....at first it has some annoying crap ( not being able to stay logged into these forums), but once you get everything setup to your preference its great. Unfortunatly at first its kinda annoying....and that will turn the less patient away.