Best browser?

Started by DragonTrainer June 27th, 2004 10:13 AM
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aRedMoon

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FireFox foreva homies. :D

Though IE does seem to load vB pages faster for me...
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Master Kwesi Nkromah

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Uhg... well it aint IE thats for sure. The funny thing is everyone uses it so I have no choice but to build websites around it >_<. For my time I choose Firefox. No browser is perfect but firefox comes close enough for right now.

The first thing I that attracted me to it was its standards compliance with W3 which makes it so much easier to design sites. Then there are other features like skin able interfaces, tabbed browsing, and popup blocking, but that can be found on a lot of IE shells. So I dont know, it just seems like firefox is kinda keeping pace with technology while ie lays stagnate. The only problem I have with it is how much memory it can use if your doing allot of work with it.. oh and how long it takes to load the advanced editor here in the community.

Opera is ugly

Netscape.. hmm, dunno what to say bout Netscape the only thing to come to my mind is too much! Netscape has allot of full add-ons that I really dont care for. It also sucks that pages that arent designed with Netscape in mind look messed-up too.

aRedMoon

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I've heard that myIE2 is pretty good, but I've never personally tried it out. And I've heard mixed opinions about Opera... I have it downloaded, but I've never taken the time to download it. =/

I basically have to use FireFox, because my IE is so hoazed due to stupid toolbars and stuff that I don't even bother to try and get rid of... >_> It's so obsurd... but at least I don't get the continual pop-ups that my parents get.
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aRedMoon

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I go to like 2 vBs, so the slow loading isn't all that bad for me. I just hope that version 1.0 loads a bit faster.

amphros23, have you tried any other browsers? o_O
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aRedMoon

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I was referring to this part of your post.
Firefox is nice, and if I didnt spend almost all my web time on vBullitens Id probably use it.
And so that's why you have the [*font=arial] around each paragraph! I was always curious why you did that.
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Master Kwesi Nkromah

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maybe it's bout time for me to get up off my high horse and head back over to IE... Lol I was about to say somthing like "there's no beating it! I have no other choice" but then i remember the conversation we were having about big businesses in the O/S thread. haha

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I go to like 2 vBs, so the slow loading isn't all that bad for me. I just hope that version 1.0 loads a bit faster.

amphros23, have you tried any other browsers? o_O


Ive used AOL and the Earthlink browser but that is it.

Kipkip

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Here's all the browsers I've tried:
IE: Do I hvae to say more?
Avant Browser: IE clone that dose what ever Mozilla has and IE dosen't. Crashes too much.
Opera: There's a freakin' banner ad on the browser! What is up with that?
Konqueror: Mozilla Clone.
Galeon: Mozilla clone except ugly.
Netscape: Same as Mozilla. Well actually, Mozilla is Netscape.
Mozilla: Good.
Mozilla Firefox: Best browser ever. Well, it's the same as Mozilla except it's stand-alone and looks nicer. It even has cool add-ons.
Yeah, I have reviewed a lot of them. Some you may have never heard of some too. So I say Firefox is best but the problem is that IE people code websites wrong and we Firefox users have to suffer with bad coding.
:disappoin

aRedMoon

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IE people code websites wrong and we Firefox users have to suffer with bad coding
Don't I know it... >_>

Ive used AOL and the Earthlink browser but that is it.
Try firefox, and see what you have to say after that. =/
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Although Mozilla does look a bit prettier, I still have to go with IE. When I use mozilla to go to sites, a huge majority of them looked messed up (including all vB forums). The text will not be placed where it is supposed to be, and all of the avatars are pushed off to the side, making it looked messed up. Also, it seems to mess up the colour font on vB forums too. Sometimes, people's posts and their location will be coloured a certain colour. o_O;

EDIT: Here it is DT: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

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aRedMoon

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When I use mozilla to go to sites, a huge majority of them looked messed up (including all vB forums). The text will not be placed where it is supposed to be, and all of the avatars are pushed off to the side, making it looked messed up. Also, it seems to mess up the colour font on vB forums too. Sometimes, people's posts and their location will be coloured a certain colour. o_O;
The reason being is that Mozilla reads coding the way it's supposed to be read, unlike IE. IE reads code wrongly, and that's what most developers use to test out their product, so if it looks right in IE, they say "Oh, it'll look fine everywhere."

And the font coloring is normally because someone has messed up coding in their signatures.
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I think Firefox is better although it doesn't support all the features in IE. ;)

atleast it's not bloated...
What people need to understand that the ratified standards mean absoluely crap all.
What makes a product is compliance with the leading product. Sure, Explorer doesn't follow the ratified standards, however, it's really leniant when it comes to accepting poorly scripted data *cough*css*cough*, and EVERYONE uses it.
So designers builds sites for it.
Firefox still feels bloated, refuses to follow accepted standards and adheres strictly to ratified ones. Which means alot of things that work fine under explorer, don't work in Firefox.
When will they learn? Don't make a browser standards compliant, make it explorer compliant.
And maybe people who give a crap how their web looks will use it.
Until then, I quite happy use Internet Exploder.

aRedMoon

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As FireFox is becoming more and more well known, webdesigners are beginning to code in a more correct way, and for some reason I doubt that the Longhorn version of IE will be as behind the times as it current is. Microsoft knows that people are starting to go to different browsers because of the tabs, whatelse, and they will move with the times.

FireFox, Opera, all 'dem are ahead of IE, and IE needs to catch up. As do the silly webmasters that code for IE.
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Bad coding.... yes... I forgot the # from the hex codes, ^_^... so it will look bad when view in mozilla..

But it's kinda funny though. ^_^

aRedMoon

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IE will read <font color="000000">???

That's just absurd. -.-;
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Wow, if FireFox and Opera are so 'advanced' I wonder why I can't go to any given site on the web and be assured it'll work? Thats advancement, for sure.
Explorer will advance to meet the needs of consumers when the time comes.
SP2 Explorer has pop-up blocking at last.
People don't understand that Microsoft have to tread VERY lightly with Explorer, and what they implement. Every new feature is a potential anti-competative behaviour lawsuit.

I'm sorry, but people will ALWAYS use Explorer.
Netscape/Mozilla have tried so very hard to loosen it's grip since like..1994, but here we are, 10 years later, and Microosft still have the dominant browser.
Funny that.

As for that retarded 'Silly Webmasters who Code for IE' comment, I'm sure if you were getting paid six figures to maintain a big site, you'd code for the browser 99.9% of the population uses, too.


Edit: And yes, IE will render a hex color without the requirement of a leading hash sign. Why shouldn't it? It's absurd NOT to.