I'm looking for performance and compatibility. Any particular recommendations?

[This message has been edited by KnobZ (edited March 25, 2004).]

Mozilla FireFox.

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Er.. that was odd. My post got deleted, and replaced by Pheonix's..

Opera!

www.opera.com

It's got tabbed browsing, an awesome pop-up blocker, and it's just all around good.

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

[This message has been edited by happydud (edited March 25, 2004).]

Opera's pretty good. Not sure if it's free or not because I got it on a CD with a PC magazine but I guess you could do a quick Google search and find out for yourself.

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Opera is not free. Go with Mozilla FireFox. If you don't like it today, download an updated version tommorrow.

... Opera is free.. Legally too.

Sure, you get a single banner add, but really.. without the banner add, you get about 5 cm of viewing space back (on my res). They put it in a place where if you remove it, all that's going to be there is the background of the skin.

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

Opera is startlingly standards strict. I personally prefer Firefox because of its extensions and simply the fact that it is maintained by so many people.

Love FireFox

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In Tribute to Adam Sliger. Rest in Peace

10/7/85 - 12/9/03

Even without the banner add, opera seems to leave a small amount of space for the webpage itself, which annoys me.

I say go with Mozilla or Firefox.

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I have my monitor at 1280x1024, and so i don't really notice any problems with the viewinf area of Opera. I like it alot. It has lots of skins you can download to personalize it, easily modified toolbars, tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, and a great pop-up blocker.

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"No good can ever come from staying with normal people"
-Outlaw Star
"Some people play tennis. I erode the human soul"
-Tycho, Penny Arcade
"I'm a Cannabal-Vegitarian. I will BBQ an employee if there is no veggie option"
-DX:IW

I use SlimBrowser
it's got tabbed browsing and a good popup blocker. it uses IE's engine so there's no question about compatibility.
it also has skins, groups and a number of other great features.

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Immorality- 1 Cor. 6:18, 2 Tim. 2:22
Impure thoughts- Col. 3:2, Phil. 4:8
Alcohol- Eph. 5:18, Prov. 20:1
Anger- Gal. 5:22, Prov. 20:3
Pride- 1 Peter 5:5, Dan. 4:37
Worry- 1 Peter 5:7, Phil. 4:6-7
speech- James 1:26, Eph. 4:29-5:2

[This message has been edited by djwguitarman (edited March 25, 2004).]

What res did you use it at? Maybe my viewing area is gigantic because I'm running at 1600x1200..

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

I use it too, and have had VERY few problems. It's excellent.


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-There are easier things in life than finding a good woman, like nailing Jello to a tree, for instance

-Tazz

Noble: Firefox has all that and more. Neener, neener.

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Opera has even more besides. Neener, neener, neener.

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"No good can ever come from staying with normal people"
-Outlaw Star
"Some people play tennis. I erode the human soul"
-Tycho, Penny Arcade
"I'm a Cannabal-Vegitarian. I will BBQ an employee if there is no veggie option"
-DX:IW

Nuh-uh.

Yah, probably not. but i will say its just as good as firefox

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"No good can ever come from staying with normal people"
-Outlaw Star
"Some people play tennis. I erode the human soul"
-Tycho, Penny Arcade
"I'm a Cannabal-Vegitarian. I will BBQ an employee if there is no veggie option"
-DX:IW

Yay! I'm not alone!

it's acctualy kinda funny, I started useing it then got my roommate on it and then got my parents to use it.

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On a Swedish chainsaw: "Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands or genitals."
Immorality- 1 Cor. 6:18, 2 Tim. 2:22
Impure thoughts- Col. 3:2, Phil. 4:8
Alcohol- Eph. 5:18, Prov. 20:1
Anger- Gal. 5:22, Prov. 20:3
Pride- 1 Peter 5:5, Dan. 4:37
Worry- 1 Peter 5:7, Phil. 4:6-7
speech- James 1:26, Eph. 4:29-5:2

[This message has been edited by djwguitarman (edited March 25, 2004).]

The fact thats its based on IE is the number ne reason NOT to use it.


You cant go wrong with Firefox.

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IE with Google Popup blocker > *

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BABIES EVERYWHERE!!!

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IE with auto-installing spyware and crashing > * ... wait ... no.

Firefox is free, no stupid banner ads, and plenty of support.

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Google's Pop-up Blocker isnt spyware...

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And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon...
DSettahr's Homepage | Cantina Cloud | Rally NY

But why download a plugin when it comes built into another better browser?

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firefox is streamlined and nippy... its all you need.

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Drugs & Stupidity, Tons of it.

Why the hell would you even say something like that?

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lol

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In Tribute to Adam Sliger. Rest in Peace

10/7/85 - 12/9/03

I am willing to concede that the mozilla rendering engine is superior to IE (mainly because it's fact not opinion), however I much prefer Internet Explorer's GUI which actually looks nice and is consistant with the rest of Windows (say it and you're banned, GBK and anyone else).

Personally i'd like to see a kind of modular approach taken to web-browers. Where you can actually download different rendering engines to plug into the browser you prefer. It'd be pretty cool being able to switch between Mozilla, Opera, IE or even Lynx on the fly.

That would be pure gold to developers, b/c you could test your pages for backwards-compatility without having to find, d/l and install the older browsers.




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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

Um yes, Opera has been built from day one to be fairly neurotic about w3c standards. This is pro and con, pro in that it's just idealogically pleasing, con in that the vast majority of the internet has never even /heard/ of web standards and so it sometimes gags on horribly designed pages. Now IE can dealw ith them because it has some proprietary bad-html-fixer-parser-thang which they refuse to tell anyone how it does what it does. Opera has a similar sort of feature in its Quirks mode which i don't entirely understand but i think it basically softens up ie if a page doesn't have a doctype defined or something.

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"You'll have to face it, the endings are the same however you slice it. Don't be deluded by any other endings, they're all fake, with malicious intent to deceive, or just motivated by excessive optimism if not by downright sentimentality. The only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die. John and Mary die. John and Mary die." -Happy Endings [Margeret Atwood]
NPC.Interact::PressButton($'Submit');

Opera's rendering engine is funky.

Fire Fox + SmoothWheel, RadialContext, and Tabbrowser Extensions extensions = Best browser EVER.


EVER.

plus Fire Fox has a really GREAT Popup blocker. I havnt seen an unwanted popup since I installed it.

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[This message has been edited by SAS | nauticus.enigma (edited March 26, 2004).]

Well, err, no, IE is just lax on its markup interpertation..

Then of course theres the plethora of sites that use IE-only web plugins, ActiveX objects, etx. But thats no real loss, as the only thing ActiveX has ever been used for is spam, spyware, and other malicious crap.


..And yes, I do consider Windows Update to be malicious...

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

From now on, usage of the ' ' emote is limited to funny remarks.

FIREFOX!

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Off topic but i'd use Firefox if:-

I could use anti-aliased fonts
I could turn off the image placeholders while the images are loading. They are so ugly.
And I could move the googlebar onto the same row as the address bar.
I Could increse the speed of the scroll wheel and arrow key scrolling.

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[This message has been edited by TheJkWhoSaysNi (edited March 26, 2004).]

*if* you could customize the layout and interace to your preference and needs with any degree of anything..

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[Blue Mink Bifocals !] [fsck -Rf /world/usr/] [<!-- kalimonster -->] [Capite Terram]
"You'll have to face it, the endings are the same however you slice it. Don't be deluded by any other endings, they're all fake, with malicious intent to deceive, or just motivated by excessive optimism if not by downright sentimentality. The only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die. John and Mary die. John and Mary die." -Happy Endings [Margeret Atwood]
NPC.Interact::PressButton($'Submit');

IE is w00tage. Becuase nothing else runs.

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The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever.
-- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, The Father of Rocketry

Wow. you must have a horrible computer if you are reduced to saying that....

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"No good can ever come from staying with normal people"
-Outlaw Star
"Some people play tennis. I erode the human soul"
-Tycho, Penny Arcade
"I'm a Cannabal-Vegitarian. I will BBQ an employee if there is no veggie option"
-DX:IW

TheJkWhoSaysNi: Firefox can do all of those things.


Tony: Explain yourself.

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Thanks, after some searhcing of the extensions and the forums I've got firefoz set quite nicely.

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