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View Poll Results: Which browsers do you use?
Internet Explorer 7 23 23.96%
Internet Explorer 6 10 10.42%
Internet Explorer (other version) 0 0%
Mozilla Firefox 73 76.04%
Opera 20 20.83%
Netscape 3 3.13%
Safari 13 13.54%
Lynx 10 10.42%
Other (let me know which) 5 5.21%
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Old 24th January 2007   #1 (permalink)
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Which is your best browser?

I use IE7, however I always have to have Mozilla Firefox installed (just in case)
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Firefox, definately - i only switch to IE if a site that i 'need' refuses to work.
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Another vote for firefox. I always try to avoid using IE these days, just find FF better.
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f/fox i f I want to see the pictures, lynx for everything else
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I use FireFox, and IE7 quite equally, only use IE7 since it was a recommended update from IE6 - and find it much less stable than IE6 and much slower.

Both IE7 and FF are equally as bad at not releasing unused memory from tabbed browsing too.

But atleast IE does give the option to allow each new session/window to start with a new process, while I have not found this with FF yet, so even starting a new FF app seems to use the existing FF process and bloat it even more. (Atleast FF has crash recovery which is really cool!)

I do also have Opera and Lynx installed but only very rarely use them for some tests.
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No real preference, they al do the same thing at the end of the day just everything is in a differnt order.
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I shifted to FF back when I.E was so unsecure it was pointless using it (back when you needed to install popup blockers and the alike) however I.E 7 seems fine these days but I still prefer FF
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I tend to use FF, IE7, Safari and Opera at random, which ever is closer to the mouse pointer


The browsers are good but there will never be a browser than can fix the stupidity of some users, clicking all those, free xxxx adverts and free computer scans.

But what really boils my soup is The Google search bar, the zango bar, my web search bar, countless numbers of computers i have connected ot to offer remote assistance and found a quate of the screen being used by these adverts and so called tool's
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I voted for FF and Lynx but use elinks more than lynx in reality.
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Firefox, I prefer it over I.E and Opera although I have been known to use the other two sometimes
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another vote for firefox, lynx on the nix boxes
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I am using Mozilla Fire Fox.
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Its one word - FIREFOX

See my other post!
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Camino, on both of my Macs.
Firefox on Windows.
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I use IE but have FF installed just in case I need it. I cant seem to get used to FF, maybe I've been using IE too long lol.

From people that know me on FWS am known as the Anti-FF lol.
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