2010-10-20, 08:05 | Link #81 |
Spoilaphobic
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: USA
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Firefox is the main one for me. It's the extensions that really make it great. BBCodeXtra, DM BBCode, Resizable Textarea, and Back to Top make using forums so much easier.
I do use IE for secure transactions though. I feel it's a little safer and compatible with more websites as well.
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2010-10-20, 08:08 | Link #82 | |
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2010-10-20, 08:58 | Link #83 | |
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Excerpt from http://news.softpedia.com/news/Opera...e-161194.shtml
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2010-10-20, 09:58 | Link #85 | |
Twintails are wintails!
Join Date: Mar 2010
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Using Firefox 3.6.10 here, it simply works the best for me. Second place goes to Opera, which is suffering from the lack of extensions.
Chrome is not only 100% Google spyware, but also anything you do in Chrome belongs to Google, as pointed out in their Eula. They own anything you do in Chrome and can do anything whatsoever with it, including modifying it however they see fit, selling it to 3rd parties etc. Quote:
Good, extensions where always the one thing that was seriously lacking in Opera. I really wonder why it took them this long to finally add them.
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2010-10-20, 19:46 | Link #87 |
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I switched to Google's chrome, but I changed back to FF when I found out how much chrome crashes. It has something to do with the engine that chrome uses that allows them to gain more speed while sacrificing system stability. Something like that. Someone tried to explain it to me, and I was like "DURRR"
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2010-10-20, 20:23 | Link #88 |
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Indonesia
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I use all four: Chrome, FF, Opera, IE. My primary is chrome, but whenever it crashes or acts funny, I switch to the others. The crashes are starting to bug me lately -_-
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2010-10-21, 01:23 | Link #89 |
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Location: Philippines
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Still using Firefox (as long as no other add-ons except Noscript is installed -- the more add-ons you load in, the bigger plugin-container.exe becomes bigger); tried Chrome but sometimes it becomes buggy while running along with a Gameguard-enabled MMO.
In case I need to go lean-and-mean, I use Lynx.
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2010-10-22, 01:58 | Link #90 |
Sleepy Lurker
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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Opera v11 Build 1029 Alpha is now available for download.
Screenshots of the extension platform: - http://www.opera.com/bitmaps/product...installing.png - http://www.opera.com/bitmaps/product...win_ext_yr.png - http://www.opera.com/bitmaps/product...xt_manager.png
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2010-10-25, 23:56 | Link #91 | |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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2010-10-26, 07:12 | Link #92 | |
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(With a virtual chaebol monopoly within the South Korean MMO development industry, I think Gameguard's gonna stay longer, even as I criticize its "protection" methods for the games it's supposed to shield, but deeper discussion about Gameguard will warrant a thread of its own.) Going back to topic, I liked Chrome at first -- it was fast, responsive, and somewhat has smarts built into it -- but as there are some bugs cropping up, I'm sticking to FF because it can be customized and tweaked, and IMHO a bit "fail-soft".
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Just for the record, I've used it several times and it's just a resource hog, who consumes ram, CPU cycles and bandwidth even when its not running; so no love from me.
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2010-11-11, 16:19 | Link #96 |
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I'm currently using Firefox and waiting for the next update to speed it up. It's starting to feel a little bloated and I gave a try to SRWare Iron (a Chrome variant without the potential privacy issues), but FF has a few add-ons that trump the other browsers: Better Privacy, NoScript, Ghostery, FireFTP, and StumbleUpon.
Switched back, since saving half a second in loading times wasn't worth it in comparison. It was nice, though, that Iron could import all the bookmarks and passwords with one click. It's also something that made me question the security of FF. Ye, I know; it's possible to lock the passwords behind a master key, but that's yet another password to remember. |
2010-11-28, 19:35 | Link #97 |
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Personally, I hate every browser, but especially IE. Chrome, having that same "where the hell is the menu" kinda look pisses me off too, -plus google seems to like insisting on installing its update programs and whatnot. IE 8 was less pathetic and more like an actual browser, but meh, still not convincing. I pretty much only use it to download another browser on a new system.
Firefox has been my browser of choice for a long time, but that has more to do having a lot of choices for customization as well as the great library of extensions. It's also not IE. Indeed, noscript is God, and is the reason I haven't used any other browser. However, Firefox seems to be getting less and less reliable. 3.5 was absolute trash and I've had it fail to startup on a fresh install- I turned off updates for a long time til 3.6. Apparently someone had the bright idea of making it read the IE cache or something; I just facepalmed. That and the community kinda annoys me with their frequent blaming everything on the user, and stuff like refusing to admit there was a memory leak for the last 10 millon versions. It's getting more and more bloated. 3.6 is better though, though that plugin-container.exe crap annoys me. For this reason, I recommend for casual browsers who don't care about addons and such to use Opera. Opera performs very well in most cases and it seems faster than firefox, addons or not. So it is my backup browser. It may become my primary browser depending on what happens next.
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2010-11-29, 04:09 | Link #98 | |
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Also, it would seem (for now) IE9 is the most technologically advanced browser out there. The upcoming Firefox 4.x series seems to want to be the crappiest series to date. If you don't like chrome you can use Safari, both have practically the same layout engine; it has it's own downloader nonsense but you should be able to turn it off. Another alternative is Iron.
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2010-12-01, 20:36 | Link #100 | |
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