^ I've never met anyone who uses it because its "the cool thing to do". Most people I know use it because you can visit about 30% more of the internet without the worry of browser hijackers. God I hate Browser Hijackers.
Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Regular Mozilla (or Netscape, or Camino)
Opera
Safari
Galeon, Konqueror, or another linux-only browser
Some other browser
"What are you talking about? Umm, Windows?"
^ I've never met anyone who uses it because its "the cool thing to do". Most people I know use it because you can visit about 30% more of the internet without the worry of browser hijackers. God I hate Browser Hijackers.
I use it becuase i use linux, IE really isn't a option.
Firefox no question. Looks nice, works nice, and I just can't use anything else. Lovu.
It can't be denied Firefox is a cool thing. IE was quite dominant before Firefox appeared. Netscape was dying out already, and Opera (and many others) were quite marginal. Of course Linux was getting more popular, and with the lack of IE (if it's even proper to say so) other options gained popularity. Considering all that, it's just cool to pick something else than the mainstream application. The sheer cool factor must be lessening now when it has already got maybe tens of percents of popularity, and it's hardly rebellious or "different" anymore.
One funny thing is that when you visit browser threads at almost any forum, the IE users always end up looking like losers, and Firefox users as winners. This was actually one of the reasons why I initially switched to Firefox a long time ago.
Last edited by Kraco; Sun, 04-09-2006 at 04:04 AM.
Opera, because it's easy to use
Firefox here too.
I also don't think people are switching to firefox because it's "cool," but rather because of the security. It was pretty simple for me - norton would pick up "threats" after I opened IE after a scan, and no more problems appeared after I started using firefox.
I have not tried this with IE. Since it is deeply, sexual intercourse way, intergrated in to windows. (may be you can try it with IE7 beta, anyways).
I obtained superspeed ramdisk Plus. Made a virtual drive M: (128 MB). Turned off windows restore on it (it can hog 12% of drive space).
Installed firefox on M: drive.
reinstalled firefox on C:/program files (need to tell windows FF is installed in proper place, trust me this step comes in handy if things don't go your way)
run the fire fox see if everything works.
Click start --> run, Type firefox.exe -profilemanager
make a new profile, which has its data saved on M: drive.
Now go to M:/firefox/ and run firefox.exe (make a desktop shortcut if you like)
Holy crap man. speed is crazy.
Simply put this attemps to put your entire firefox data in RAM, and does not even bothers with harddrive. Good for people with a lots of RAM, who use fire fox every 15min.
p.s. make sure your cache size is 50 MB or your little 128 mb drive will be full in no time.
I am not responsible for destroying your computer.
Firefox cause I have this cool tool extension thing on it. But I sometimes still use IE.
Mozilla Firefox for me
Back about a year ago I used to use IE because I could swear there was nothing wrong with it, despite people constantly complaining about it and saying it was insecure. Then, on a whim I tried Firefox, and it's so incredibly awesome I've never looked back. It has all the functions of IE practically built-in, and then some. I LOVE the tabbing system.
I know, I know, welcome to 6 years ago.
I think I know precisely what I mean
when I say it's a schpadoinkle day
I love Mozilla Firefox. I never get any popups. I always get crazy IE popups like a week or two after I reinstall Windows.
Hehe yeah I love the tabs too, but it sucks when you hit the all tabs link and end up tabbing all of your bookmarks.
Seems i'm the only Safari user...
Why? It's the fastest browser on OS X(Yes, it's faster than firefox).
firefox for me.
LaZie made this...a long time ago.
"It was a very depressing time in my life, since I had no money I was unable to screw the rules" -Kaiba
Firefox as well, all other browsers are stupid(especially IE)
hey after dl Tab mix plus, is there anyway to make the regular tab exit button on the right go away?
R.I.P Captain America.
Reasons not to use safari:Originally Posted by Ciber
(1) Historical rendering bugs (you weren't a mac user back then, you wouldn't remember the numerous display bugs the pre-panther days, but they were there). Nowadays, it passes acid2, but history and the crap browser that safari 1.x was turned a lot of people off to it regardless.
(2) No UI customizability. You can get it in any theme, as long as it's brushed metal.
(3) Bad UI layout choices (close button on tabs, can't drag bookmark toolbar bookmarks to the trash to get rid of them).
(4) No ad removal tools means suffering through every cpu-raping bandwidth-whoring skyscraper flash banner in the goddamned world. Sure, safari's fast at rendering html/css, but when you toss in the difference between loading and rendering a meg of irritating flash on a page or not, those render times go out the window.
(5) How many of these people are mac users? Of those, how many are exclusively mac users, such that using safari would pay off for them? Are you maybe mistaking this for Mac Achaia? If you don't have mac users, you don't have safari users, and mac users can afford to buy anime, so probably don't download it all the time-- which is good for them, because mac's bittorrent support also blows.
So there ya have it. Why are you so surprised, man?
it would have to be firefox, it's fast, it blocks pop-ups, you can neatly organize multiple windows in one, and you can download sexy skins?
that's basically all i need.
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Opera for me. To me, the functions are pretty much the same as Mozilla Firefox, except just a tad easier to use.
Reasons not to use safari:
(1) Historical rendering bugs (you weren't a mac user back then, you wouldn't remember the numerous display bugs the pre-panther days, but they were there). Nowadays, it passes acid2, but history and the crap browser that safari 1.x was turned a lot of people off to it regardless.
(2) No UI customizability. You can get it in any theme, as long as it's brushed metal.
(3) Bad UI layout choices (close button on tabs, can't drag bookmark toolbar bookmarks to the trash to get rid of them).
(4) No ad removal tools means suffering through every cpu-raping bandwidth-whoring skyscraper flash banner in the goddamned world. Sure, safari's fast at rendering html/css, but when you toss in the difference between loading and rendering a meg of irritating flash on a page or not, those render times go out the window.
(5) How many of these people are mac users? Of those, how many are exclusively mac users, such that using safari would pay off for them? Are you maybe mistaking this for Mac Achaia? If you don't have mac users, you don't have safari users, and mac users can afford to buy anime, so probably don't download it all the time
So there ya have it. Why are you so surprised, man?
Umm there are plenty of ad removal tools for safari that get rid of ads including flash(I use them...). I'll list two that i use:
1. Saft
2. PithHelmet
As for BT... Maybe it has been a long time since you've used OS X, because there are PLENTY of BT clients and BT sites for Mac and don't forget USENET.
crap...i started using firefox...and it was ownage... XD
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