What Web Browser do you use and why?

**Adam** · 07-15-2007 01:22 PM

I have gone through IE7, Firefox, Opera and now trying out Safari 3.

So wondered what you guys use and on what OS, and the reasons

**Alex D** · 07-15-2007 01:44 PM

Camino on OS X Tiger.

Why? Same basic browser as firefox, renders things exactly the same etc, but it has a slightly better design.

I'd use Safari 2, but that's really bad when it comes to flash for some reason, so that's a no-go. Maybe Safari 3 will fix that.

**ninja9578** · 07-15-2007 02:15 PM

Safari 3 Beta on OSX, because it's by far the fastest rendering and I need speed.

**Ynot** · 07-15-2007 03:01 PM

vanilla firefox mostly
sometimes firefox disguised as IE to fool my banks crappy online banking system

*edit*
on a similar note
this was published today
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/13517/53/

*edit 2*
reasons....
too lazy to try anything else

**sourcejedi** · 07-15-2007 04:19 PM

Konqueror (on Linux).

Because... it integrates rather nicely with the rest of KDE. You can configure it to create new tabs just after the current tab, instead of as the last tab, so you can keep related tabs together while flipping to and fro. You can duplicate individual tabs (or an entire window) very easily, and they copy the history as well so you can copy your current tab and go back, while leaving your current page intact.

If you find a page with lots of links you want to open in tabs, but you've already got lots of tabs open, you can "detach" the current tab into a new window. And if Konqueror can't render something properly, there's a menu item for "open with", so you can switch to Firefox or whatever easily when you need to.

Sounds funny that I'm so attached to Konqueror's tabs, but that really is what I like most about it.

**Replicon** · 07-15-2007 07:09 PM

Firefox. It's not just about tab browsing and "quick link" bookmarks (which rock, by the way), but also some of the extensions:

- Flashblock: Makes it so any flash that loads in your browser needs to be manually clicked on first. This means that you don't get interrupted by annoying flash banners that just waste bandwidth (and not to mention sometimes play sounds you don't care about).

- AdBlock: You can use a wildcarded expression to block any url from being accessed by firefox. Essentially, any page you go to a lot (facebook or whatever) is as ad-free as you want it to be.

- FireBug: This is more interesting for developers, but this thing shows you all http requests (and timing for them), DOM details, various debug messages, and all kinds of other REALLY nifty stuff.

- GreaseMonkey: For a given site, you can install a custom javascript to modify the page into pretty much anything you want. For example, if I wanted the "++ Quote" button on this site to open the "quick reply" box and manually paste the quote in, I might be able to do it (with a bit of work).

**BeautifulDreamer** · 07-16-2007 09:56 PM

Firefox, easier to use, adblocker, nice themes, add ons... IE7 is a bad copy of Firefox.

**bob_barker** · 07-17-2007 09:09 PM

firefox

cause of the add on things

like foxy tunes

**Karillion** · 07-17-2007 09:17 PM

Firefox for this theme and for the great add-ons. Can't wait for FF3 to come out as it will supposedly improve page rendering times by quite a bit, which is my only gripe with FF.

**Penter** · 07-18-2007 03:07 AM

Firefox. The only other browser I've really used is Internet Explorer, and Firefox is just way better. But I don't care enough about a browser to try out all of them and experiment.

**bitness** · 07-18-2007 03:32 AM

Currently, I am using Safari 3 on OS X. I would be using Flock, but the latest release is bogged down by all the bloat. Safari 3 seems to be really fast at least perception-wise compared to Firefox. Probably cannot beat Camino though.

**Adam** · 07-18-2007 09:44 AM

Originally Posted by Karillion

Firefox for this theme and for the great add-ons. Can't wait for FF3 to come out as it will supposedly improve page rendering times by quite a bit, which is my only gripe with FF.

You tried this?

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=38277

**•Neko•** · 07-18-2007 09:37 PM

Originally Posted by AdamA

You tried this?

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=38277

Wow, that actually works.

**Dragos Dreamer** · 07-19-2007 12:20 AM

I use Advanced Browser...yes it's really called Advanced Browser...

After I realized how much I hated IE, I started looking around and found it. Haven't tried much since because I love this one, so I don't know the many features they might have, but some of the features I enjoy on Advanced Brower are:

-The ability to center-click a link and have it automatically open up in a new tab, with settings for opening either on top of or below your current tab.

-The ability to hold right click and press left click and have it go back to the previous page, and vice versa to go forward a page.

-An option where you can individually allow Advanced Browser to delete stuff like cookies, temporary internet files, search history, and several other things every time you exit Advanced Browser. <--- I love this one.

-Simple, effective, and customizable design.

**hopefullninja** · 07-26-2007 07:00 PM

Firefox with my windows XP. I tired IE, but it slow, not too good to look at and could get overcrowded. Firefox is exactly the opposite. It usually doesn't slow down with multiple windows/tabs.

**Indeed** · 05-29-2010 04:13 PM

I agree with the guy above.
Chrome is the greatest.

**slash112** · 05-31-2010 10:37 AM

lolbump

Anyways, yea, Chrome is great. But it has a lot of problems. vB4 has quite a few problems with Chrome (And that's what DV uses now)
And it has plenty of problems in other situations too.

Basically, it's a shitty fucking browser, but I still love it.

**marcher22** · 06-07-2010 10:36 AM

Firefox, my brother started using it when I was like 11, and then I caught on. It's must faster than IE and I haven't tried IE7 but don't want to bother going back either. I also have Chrome but I found FireFox to be faster and theres been a few issues on Chrome when loading certain websites.

Both run on Windows XP

**kookyinc** · 06-30-2010 02:55 AM

Safari V 5.0 with the Glims plugin. The activities window is helpful for downloading stuff like YouTube videos. Plus, I've used Safari since I got my Mac, and I don't change very often.

**Forsaken** · 06-30-2010 06:55 AM

lol I think this poll might suffer from the problem of most IE users not knowing or caring what browser they use, thus skewing the results wildly.

**no-Name** · 06-30-2010 07:02 AM

Originally Posted by Forsaken

lol I think this poll might suffer from the problem of most IE users not knowing or caring what browser they use, thus skewing the results wildly.

there's nothing really being messed with, is there? it's a valid answer. sure, it's the most common answer IE users will report; but it's hardly wrong.

**mattbrox** · 07-14-2010 02:22 AM

Firefox 4.0 is fantastic. Go get it.

**Xedan** · 07-14-2010 04:26 AM

I've posted here before getting opera. Now that I've tried it I really like it, but I've grown fond of Chrome and it's style, and don't see too much of a reason to use opera instead. Except in the case of my laptop where for some reason out of the blue Chrome just stopped working on it or even opening, and I couldn't successfully re-install it either. So on my laptop I use opera and it seems to me to be very reliable, I haven't had any real problems with it. I don't even think it's ever crashed.