With thenumber of options available now , it is becoming more and more difficult to chose your favourite browser. I am a great Firefox fan, but the Opera users swear by it.
It is like the new Cable connections, there are so many channels, that your finger starts hurting while using the remote!
The point of this thread is to learn more about the options available to us. The browser is the entry point for all the work and searching etc that we do on the Internet. It is good to have a discussion about it and see the options available to us. If we had only the original two options - i.e. Netscape and IE - this discussion would be irrelevant.
Without a good browser, most of our surfinf would be futile.
I'm a Firefox fan. I've never used Opera or Safari but I have seen screenshots and I'm willing to believe they are better than IE.
I can never understand why there is Mozilla Netscape and Mozilla Firefox; are they from the same company?
No one seems to use Netscape and it's performance is very similar to Firefox so why does it exist at all? I'm surprised it hasn't been taken off the market.
I myself personally like firefox the best, but I still have Internet Explorer downloaded on my computer if I want to change it up.
firefox and for anyone who use windows, i hate the fact that we have to keep IE, Windows Messenger, Media Player and Windows itself requires it. (I try deleting it off once, did not do so well)
i use opera, don't want to say how much better it is, just try it yourself
((can help it, i'll tell ya: opera is faster and lighter, and has more features :p))
i use opera, don't want to say how much better it is, just try it yourself
((can help it, i'll tell ya: opera is faster and lighter, and has more features :p))
Ye but opera also has some problems with viewing websites. Firefox used to be now because such a large number use it most websites work properly and sometime better in FF! Opera still has problems so I think until they are sorted it will never get bigger.
i almost never have problem with viewing sites, since version 9, they've been improving it a lot. i don't think i've found any problem since then. btw, it passes the acid2 test, that means something.
test : http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html
about the test: http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2/guide/
well a downside of all these browsers are when you design sites, it a massive pain to get things working right.
Not if you build it for Firefox and redirect anything that isn't :)
<?php
if (!stristr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], "Firefox")) {
header( 'location:http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/' );
exit();
}
echo('HTTP_USER_AGENT identified as Firefox');
?>
that is one option
Yea hehe . I just like pasting that thing everywhere, got so happy when I put it together
I have always only used IE, but I am more and more using FireFox and I think I will switch fully soon. I has alot of advantages.
//Andreas