What browser do you use?

I use Opera and Safari. Sometimes Firefox. I only use IE for 2 websites (school related) because whoever coded the pages is an IDIOT and makes it unusable, and unusable for other browsers.

The Earth came with cliffs, IE users should use them.
 
MadDog said:
I only use IE for 2 websites (school related) because whoever coded the pages is an IDIOT and makes it unusable, and unusable for other browsers...
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Opera has the answer, goddaM... I mean Maddog um, it has the "identify as..." option, simply select "Identify as Internet Explorer." VERY nice!!

As for Gecko based browsers, Konqueror will be my main browser once I get KDE 3.5 compiled and installed, if ever :).

Has anyone used LYNX? Very fun text browser, takes you to 99 percent of sites and translates the heavily graphics drenched pages over to text. Makes me horny...

I really didn't think their would be even TWO regular-IE users on this post, I'm amazed. For shame.

IE users, go here http://www.somethingawful.com/nointelligence/index.htm
 
Because of all the fuzz about MIE here I'll check out Firefox and see what I think... I'll give feedback once I've had a chance to test.

EDIT: Browsing with Mozilla Firefox now... Since this topic is about browsers, can someone give pros and cons? Why should Firefox be a better browser for me (common users).

I'm sure there's different needs for different kinds of users, but the great masses that use MIE is the common users that doesn't know much about computers/programming etc. So what can this thing do that MIE couldn't?
 
inane said:
Opera has the answer, goddaM... I mean Maddog um, it has the "identify as..." option, simply select "Identify as Internet Explorer." VERY nice!!
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First of all, Firefox has that, too. You can get an extension to do that (Firefox is a *lightweight* browser -- it's not supposed to be overloaded with rarely used features from the start; that's YOUR job).

Secondly, that doesn't do jack shit when the site was coded by a barrel of monkeys on dope. And that seems to hold true for every GeoCities site out there -- and all the bollocks that uses ActiveX for "constructive" purposes.

Lots of idiots use JScript for important functionality or abuse CSS in ways that only "work" in MSIE. It's amazing some of these don't collapse under their own messiness and form a giant black hole.

In return, Firefox has support for many features which are not yet widely (= in MSIE) implemented. Even if it doesn't have built-in support, you can still get an extension that does the job -- and these extensions, by nature, tend to be easier to create than plugins for other browsers.

And if the site is so fucked up even Firefox's bullshit-transcoder can't decipher it, you can still fall back to a worse browser.
 
Maxthon. Because no-one else will answer that, and everything thinks its IE. And It has been about 6 months (when I switched) since I had to look at a goddamn flash ad for more than a second (The time it take to press the "Kill flash and flying ads" button that kills the ones the browser doesn't block on its own).
 
Ashmo said:
Secondly, that doesn't do jack shit when the site was coded by a barrel of monkeys on dope. And that seems to hold true for every GeoCities site out there -- and all the bollocks that uses ActiveX for "constructive" purposes.

Lots of idiots use JScript for important functionality or abuse CSS in ways that only "work" in MSIE. It's amazing some of these don't collapse under their own messiness and form a giant black hole.
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ROTFLMMFGDAO couldn't have said it better myself!!! Oh and the reason I go with Opera is because I don't have the time to spend setting up FF the way that I like and since I'm constantly changing my OS around to various distros of Linux I reinstall my browser WAY too often. Secondarily I find that many of the extensions, and I need MANY, are way too glitchy (well maybe not a lot) but the ones that I like. Paste and go, only tabs, IRC with extended options AND I like having my mail client in a tab, it's flippin SWEET!
 
I use firefox and portable firefox and a usb drive for work computers where I can't install it. I love it and can't imagine using any other browser at this point.
 
I scorched a FFx 1.5 nightly onto a mini-CD for whenever I'm at university.

I don't have any USB sticks and my MP3 player requires a USB cable (the one before that broke because the built-in male USB connector became loose -- #1 cause of death for USB sticks), plus many of the computers run Win2k or don't have front-USB.
The disc is small enough to keep it in my wallet and it does the job. I've also got Opera on it for cross-browser testing (since all the computers have Windows, adding IE 6 was not neccessary), jEdit for source code editing (if the dweeb that set the system up didn't allow the Zip tool to be the default application for Jar files and set file associations as admin permission only) and a hex editor.

I could've added more, but that's the basic list of on-CD tools I need when working on a different computer.

Compilers would have been neat, but right now I only work with Borland and Eclipse and the latter is installed on all university computers.
 
Nice, another browser-discussion :-)

I m using Firefox for serious tasks, sometimes Dillo (which has an excellent html bug meter).

The last Konqueror which i've tested was not very usable because of many bugs (css etc..)

I can't say i am a fan of Konqueror. The bugs sure are fixed now, but this deep integration in KDE makes me nervous (i remember another browser which has the same problem... :D ). As i said, i prefer FF in combination with Enlightenment or Fluxbox.

Opera has - in my opinion - too many features which i'll never use...
 
I'm using Netscape. Some kind of tradition... I never thought about using any other browser.
 
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