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What's a good web browser to use?

Postby Nickel on Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:09 pm

Apart from ie, opera and mozilla/firefox, what web browsers would people suggest. I'm looking to change and am not sure where to go.

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Postby papercutheart on Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:16 pm

If you want a GOOD browser, don't change, use firefox
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Postby Elron on Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:19 pm

OPERA OPERA OPERA!! Opera all the way! The most secure and quick browser, although i will admit its not the best browser for internet n00bs. But it is the best, im quite happy to put up with that tiny advertisment in the corner to be allowed to use their great piece of software!
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Postby Nickel on Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:38 pm

I changed from firefox to opera a few days ago because firefox gets really slow when you have a lot of tabs open. Opera is much faster but has the slight problem that I really dislike using it, and dont seem to be able to customise it to my liking. So I want to see what else is out there before I inevitably return the the painfully slow firefox.

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Postby Elron on Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:58 pm

What about Konqueror? Thats a linux web browser.
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Postby TheGamesMaster on Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:02 pm

I would say Opera, but I'm not too keen on v7.54 myself (I've got older versions). Perhaps the next release will be a better layout/skin.

(I'm not surprised firefox does tabs badly, it's not as good as people like to make out. After all, what original features does it have?)
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Postby RichZ on Thu Dec 09, 2004 9:29 am

So which one would you guys suggest? I recentlly tried Firefox for a while but found that it didn't seem to be completelly compatable with my digital camera picture program - when i tried to open pics it came up with a blank screen - im prob doing it wrong but im not sure, so i'm back with IE! Owwww - don't shout at me!

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Postby munchingfoo on Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:12 am

I like konqueror, ti has a built in auotmatic word by word spell checker. Very useful for people like me. The only problem is you won't be able to use it to log into most things that need passwords. This is because secure sites usually have a very narrow band of allowed browsers. So although konqueror is good, you would need to use something else as well.

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Postby The_Farwall on Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:56 pm

I have little to add to the recomendations but I just wanted to share this little description of IE that I found on another messageboard -

"IE is bad, because the internet is like a dirty beach in new jersey, the kind with heroin needs instead of sand, and great gaping multiple std infected hookers vaginas instead of an ocean. Using IE to traverse the landscape is like pogo-ing through aforementioned beach on an erect penis."

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Postby RichZ on Thu Dec 09, 2004 4:26 pm

[s]The_Farwall wrote on 15:56, 9th Dec 2004:
I have little to add to the recomendations but I just wanted to share this little description of IE that I found on another messageboard -

"IE is bad, because the internet is like a dirty beach in new jersey, the kind with heroin needs instead of sand, and great gaping multiple std infected hookers vaginas instead of an ocean. Using IE to traverse the landscape is like pogo-ing through aforementioned beach on an erect penis."

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LOVELY! Well that has certainly help me! Hehe! ;-)
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