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X40Nick

15-01-2008, 05:20 PM

Hi.

This is a poll to see the most popular web browser!

Out of:

Microsoft Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Opera
Apple Safari
K-Meleon
Other

Thank you for voting.

Nick

PeteA

15-01-2008, 06:13 PM

FireFox

Taxation

15-01-2008, 06:25 PM

IE
i havent used the rest, so i dont know how they stack up

Jonny2Bad

15-01-2008, 07:01 PM

The ie7 is good enough for me have used most of the rest but its just simple and easy and already there, so i stick with that.

matz

15-01-2008, 07:08 PM

i use both! BEBO is for IE but anything else it has to be firefox coz of the tabs so i can control everything in one window slot :)

Jonny2Bad

15-01-2008, 07:23 PM

ie 7 has tabs now also, so there isnt much between them these days ie copied the competion and its just as good now.

Conrad

15-01-2008, 08:06 PM

Opera!

Jleagle

15-01-2008, 08:56 PM

FireFox purely for extensions.

15-01-2008, 09:57 PM

IE7

djgandy

15-01-2008, 11:05 PM

Firefox. It's nothing great, crashes quite a bit, eats a lot of memory. Does have plugins though which is nice, especially the cookie blocking ones.

Ben

16-01-2008, 09:45 AM

Firefox :)

Have to use IE for some apps at work though.

16-01-2008, 09:53 AM

Firefox :)

Have to use IE for some apps at work though.
IE sux's IE7 rocks :P

X40Nick

16-01-2008, 04:09 PM

Bit of a narrow choice?

I didn't expect so many to choose IE7.

But it is good, but I can't play videos with it. For that purpose I go for Firefox.

The best sites are not ASP.net and AJAX. They are HTML written by a editor not Dreamweaver!!!

Nick

16-01-2008, 04:14 PM

???? download the codex then n00b. Everyone has to do this on a fresh install of xp... Flash are the best :P

PeteA

16-01-2008, 04:20 PM

Really I should have said.

Firefox
IE6
IE7
Opera
Netscape

I design websites :D

16-01-2008, 04:39 PM

Really I should have said.

Firefox
IE6
IE7
Opera
Netscape

I design websites :D

nice... <HTML> <php?> :P I like working with photoshop then inporting it into deamweaver then tweeking it in the HTML code.. Jobs a duna...

PeteA

16-01-2008, 04:50 PM

HTML, CSS, PHP, a little of ASP, some JavaScript.

I mainly try and use CSS for websites. I hate using image, mainly because of the load times. Even then I try and limit the actual template images to about 50k. Which is 10 sec on a 56k line.

Photoshop is very good. After Effects is good as well

matz

16-01-2008, 04:55 PM

yeah im geting 4 gcse in Dida

Diploma in digital applications
done unit 1n2 to distiniction A* standard and starting my final unit 4 in a few days time :)

use alot of adobe programes

X40Nick

16-01-2008, 05:18 PM

Hmmmmm, I never thought about downloading a codec???

That is a really good idea. In fact maybe my computer has those already.

Or maybe Windows Media player will just not play a video in a webpage. i.e. a blog.

Gee, I dunno.

Idiot.

Lexxor

24-04-2008, 06:30 PM

Opera

Torrent Built-it -
Tabbing is easy-
Hugely customisable for closed source-
Easy to use-
Looks nice-

04-09-2008, 12:29 PM

I have been converted...... Mozilla Firefox :P

Conrad

05-09-2008, 01:09 AM

Anyone tried Google Chrome yet? I haven't bothered yet, may do when it's a bit more tried and tested. Apparently it's full of bugs but is a whole lot faster than any other.

WillBill

05-09-2008, 11:55 PM

Firefox for windows, Safari for Mac.
Sorted :D

system7

05-09-2008, 11:59 PM

Not many people seem to know this about the Firefox browser, but if you highlight a phrase and right click "Google Search" it opens a new tab with all the search links.

El Duderino thinks I am a genius for finding things out, but in truth, I just know how to google stuff... :P

Mouse

06-09-2008, 07:24 PM

Anyone tried Google Chrome yet? I haven't bothered yet, may do when it's a bit more tried and tested. Apparently it's full of bugs but is a whole lot faster than any other.

I've got Chrome and Firefox. Chrome looks a lot like Firefox I thought, one thing I do like about Chrome is that when you open it you are shown screenshots of your recent history, so far I haven't found any bugs with it though. :?

banger

09-09-2008, 01:31 AM

Firefox.

I tried chrome on a virtual machine and it was faztttttttt !

angelinadavid

04-11-2008, 08:22 AM

IE
Fire fox
Opera

Nox

05-11-2008, 10:05 AM

iron :)

based on google chrome but with stuff taken out and more sensible default options.

Nox

mattk

05-11-2008, 11:11 AM

IE & Firefox. depends what im doing.

Ratty

05-11-2008, 12:09 PM

Chrome (Main Browser)
IE7 (For those sites that need it, e.g. OWA)

Mechanics Fan

10-11-2008, 07:34 PM

Firefox, although I use IE7 if I want to specify a save download location.

sniperdude

11-11-2008, 01:56 AM

firefox is my default

i think it's miles better than ie7 but every now and then i come accross a site that don't support firefox then i use ie7.

the net wouldnt be the same for me without firefox and greasemonkey (firefox add on)

some great scripts out there for greasemokey the one im using for youtube at the moment is amazing

lets you resize video windows in youtube removes the ads and allows you to download you tube files in FLV, HQ FLV and MP4 :D

Lieff

27-11-2008, 12:50 PM

Opera, nothing more to say

djgandy

28-11-2008, 06:35 PM

I'm on chome. Have been for a while now. I use the dev version which gets fixes ever two weeks or so. Once this has plugins it will be the browser of choice. Firefox is so fundamentally poor. It's sooo slow it's unreal. Chrome is just so quick, it's a dream on a laptop.

Urrys Currys

17-05-2009, 11:20 PM

IE with obiously win, because is installed as standard. i use firefox i would never trust IE again after a MASSIVE security flaw was annouunced.

Helior

17-05-2009, 11:49 PM

firefox 3.5 beta 4 is excellant, almost as fast as chrome with none of the issues!

The Underdog

18-05-2009, 01:01 AM

Firefox my world x).

coursemyhorse

18-05-2009, 07:43 AM

Firefox because I want to.
IE7 because I have to.

skunksmash

18-05-2009, 08:10 AM

x64 minefield.......;)

523

:)SK

shaffaaf27

18-05-2009, 09:55 AM

ff or ie8 for **** (with its inprivatenees) :D hahah

Sybex

18-05-2009, 10:43 AM

IE8 and Firefox

jackvdbuk

18-05-2009, 11:45 PM

ff or ie8 for **** (with its inprivatenees) :D hahah

LOL! the first time i saw that private browsing feature i thought... **** hehehe

gotta be opera though, speed dial, trash, bookmark system love it!

riboflavin

19-05-2009, 12:39 AM

Chrome

(10 char)

system7

19-05-2009, 12:50 AM

IE7, IE8, Firefox and Chrome...:biggrin:

I trust Firefox and know it's ways and shortcuts and have had no virus issues with it. Chrome is very stripped down, very fast, and has great recovery features from lockup without invoking Task Manager. Chrome looks almost amateurish, but it does the job when you know it's ways:

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/3001/chromei.jpg (http://img98.imageshack.us/my.php?image=chromei.jpg)

http://www.google.com/chrome

Worth running alongside whatever your browser of choice is. :thumbs:

Cnr

25-05-2009, 02:33 AM

I use Firefox as it has some handy addons.

Aaron78

25-05-2009, 07:07 AM

Firefox...........

guardy06

25-05-2009, 07:26 AM

I've got safari 4.0 running on the laptop at the moment, still getting used to it, but i quite like it. Its fast.

magichater

25-05-2009, 08:57 AM

firefox mainly for me but occasionally use IE7 but not very often

J1993

25-05-2009, 09:10 AM

IE8, because i have all my favourites and i know where everything is. I tried moving to chrome, ibut its just a habit of clicking IE sign

pete10smith

25-05-2009, 10:16 AM

I use the standard browser on Windows XP and it does fine for me.

robyrantor2

25-05-2009, 01:11 PM

i think the best browser probs be firefox:rolleyes:

moppy89

25-05-2009, 02:01 PM

Firefox because Ive got too used to addons like flashblock and adblock and stuff. Tried to use Opera cos Firefox is a resource hog, but Opera was nearly jus as bad.

Chrome is fast but too stripped down. I need those addons.

greeme

26-05-2009, 12:23 AM

Firefox is the way to go, but only because google chrome hates my version of windows 7 :mad:

monkeymonk

26-05-2009, 09:43 AM

firefox all the way

LegendKillerUK

27-05-2009, 04:28 PM

Started using FireFox as my main browser since it has moved to 3.x as before it took ages to start up so I just used IE.

Recoil

27-05-2009, 04:35 PM

Google Chrome for me. Its sleek, simple and does the job extremely well. And its the most secure browser out there at the mo.

R

Callidus

27-05-2009, 04:45 PM

Opera here as well

Having used FF for the past few years I'd noticed it becoming less stable with each update ( not saying it's terrible but it had become more apparent for me ) I gave chrome a go but found it fell over more than FF did, I used to use opera a lot about 6-7 years ago so I thought I'd give it another crack, so glad that I did

I wouldn't use the built in torrent plugin as utorrent simply cannot be beaten, I rarely customise browsers as I'm more interested in the content of the pages than if the buttons co ordinate with my desktop, it is very simple to use though

Cal

cje

27-05-2009, 05:54 PM

Firefox. Don't really know why. Windows has just updated IE to version 8. I'll check it out later....

Lambda

27-05-2009, 09:08 PM

Firefox, switched between it and Safari until recently when realised Safari 4 beta had garnished my HDD with 3gb of cached files that it doesnt delete unless you do it manually. I'd use chrome if it was out on OS X, and won't use Opera as it doesn't support multi-touch gestures like FF/Safari.

Duke

27-05-2009, 09:37 PM

Firefox with a couple of useful addons.

Brooksie

31-05-2009, 06:49 PM

Been using Firefox for years.

Jambone

31-05-2009, 07:20 PM

Firefox woop woop :D

cheechm

31-05-2009, 07:25 PM

Firefox - Extensions for web design are absolute life savers!

Jambone

31-05-2009, 07:54 PM

Ahh good old colorzilla ;)

monkey7

31-05-2009, 07:55 PM

Used to be on firefox but flash died on me... Enjoying opera now.

UKGouki

31-05-2009, 07:56 PM

im now on firefox 3 now its XP stable :D

madmaca

31-05-2009, 09:02 PM

Chrome

Used the Dev releases for a while and ver 2.x is AWESOME. Soooo fast and very simple to use! :OMG:

It's like the Ronseal of web browsers - does exactly what it says on the tin :)

(ok apart from it doesn't work with "some" websites yet - but's it's the new boy on the block - give it time ;))

Mr. Lime

31-05-2009, 10:12 PM

Google Chrome all the way :D i love it :D

djmikeyl

31-05-2009, 10:21 PM

Firefox All The Way!!!:biggrin:

Mr. Lime

31-05-2009, 10:31 PM

Lol i have tried all the bigguns opera firefox safari IE8 Chrome :D and Chrome was the one i liked the best

Phobia_mp3

01-06-2009, 02:24 AM

FF has to be the best =D

Winston

10-06-2009, 11:59 PM

Opera by a country mile. I have others installed: IE7, Firefox with a few addons, Safari, Chrome but always end up using Opera apart from the odd occasion where a page doesn't render correctly. Thankfully there are very few sites i visit where i encounter that problem now.

DTX

11-06-2009, 01:53 AM

My Firefox:

[/URL][URL="http://img3.imageshack.us/i/ff2r.png/"]http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/6572/ff2r.png (http://img35.imageshack.us/i/ff2t.png/)

Beautiful browser. Screenshot lacks bookmarks bar which is nearly always present.

As you may be able to see I have the "IE Tab" extension which allows pages to be opened with the IE engine, so I really have no need for the IE browser at all.

I experimented with Chrome for a while, it is very fast but it lacks the features of Firefox.