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  1. thedevilsreject Registered Senior Abuser Registered Senior Member

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    is firefox the best internet browser or are there any better ones
     
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  3. The Devil Inside Banned Banned

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    depends.

    when i want to download a file, i use Opera.
    when browsing, i use firefox.
     
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  5. thedevilsreject Registered Senior Abuser Registered Senior Member

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    thanks for the opera heads up, ill check it out in the morning
     
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  7. AntonK Technomage Registered Senior Member

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    It has a myriad of flaws. Given that, I still use it. However on my Mac machines I use Safari, its integrated much nicer and is also nicer on memory usage.

    -AntonK
     
  8. cato less hate, more science Registered Senior Member

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    I like firefox. whatever you do, dump IE ASAP.
     
  9. The Devil Inside Banned Banned

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    the crappiest thing about opera is the absolutely shitty interface.

    without customization, it is EXTREMELY unattractive and not very user friendly.

    hence, i use it only for file downloads. it is a bit more reliable than firefox in that arena.
     
  10. Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    For web browsing I mainly use Konqueror, it has gotten a lot better in recent versions.

    For file downloads I use wget, it's a terminal app made for that purpose.

     
  11. Athelwulf Rest in peace Kurt... Registered Senior Member

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    The memory usage gets annoying, but I think Firefox tends to load pages faster than IE does. It's also more minimalistic in look, with a few even more minimalistic skins available. In IE, you get a shitload of buttons at the top of the browser window that I'm sure most people rarely use, and it's just bulky and ugly.
     
  12. John99 Banned Banned

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    I can't see how anything could be better than Opera, there all good though...even IE, don't know why it get's trashed so much.
     
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    Isnt that really because so many people use it, and so people are more likely to try exploit it? If Firefox was more popular it could be just as vunerable.
     
  14. The Devil Inside Banned Banned

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    firefox use is more widespread, i would wager.....except by the computer illiterate.
     
  15. cato less hate, more science Registered Senior Member

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    you have to go out of your way to make IE safe, firefox is already pretty safe. plus I bet most hackers hate IE more than firefox. moreover, why try and hack the computer literate? they will probably have other protections in place. if I were a hacker I would only go after IE users, as they probably have no idea how to stop/get rid of viruses.
     
  16. Stryder Keeper of "good" ideas. Valued Senior Member

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    A quick check of my websites stats for the past year reveals some information, however it's not completely accurate since after my website doesn't really contain anything of use so nobody really visit (unless by accident, or if they are after a Mentor MR4A/UK Manual that I have on there for a router I once had.)

    The outcome was this:

    Only 58.3% of the hits on my website over the past year have been human, Apparently I extremely well spidered even though I lack content.

    From the hits that were actually browsers, the stats still might be slightly faulty as some robots can be manipulated to clone a browser, and usually it's Internet Explorer thats cloned.

    Anyhow:

    IE 40.48%
    Mozilla 34.13%
    Konqueror 17.32%
    Netscape 7.20%
    Java 0.86%

    (Rounded to two decimal places so will be slight inaccurate)

    The stats from about 5-6 years ago would of had Internet Explorer >= 80% which obviously proves that the market has slowly started to diversify a little.
     
  17. android nothing human inside Registered Senior Member

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    Opera's the best so far
     
  18. RubiksMaster Real eyes realize real lies Registered Senior Member

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    Not really. If there's a difference, it's negligable.

    Not true at all. The toolbars are customizable. I only have the buttons I use.
     
  19. (Q) Encephaloid Martini Valued Senior Member

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    I would agree with that, I tried Opera for a while and experienced much the same thing. Glad I'm not the only one.

    Firefox is definitely better that IE, especially for greeblies. IE seems to attract data miners and other such nuisances. Ad-Aware and SpyBot need to work overtime trying to flush them out.
     
  20. Xerxes asdfghjkl Valued Senior Member

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    Forget wget, curl all the way, BABY!
     
  21. Absane Rocket Surgeon Valued Senior Member

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    I don't know. I notice a page load difference.

    And the memory hog thing does suck.
     
  22. Athelwulf Rest in peace Kurt... Registered Senior Member

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    Yes really. I think I've even seen a graph somewhere. The speed is definitely noticeable.

    EDIT: I probably should point out that this was probably a year ago. For all I know, things may have changed. I'm investigating right now, actually.
     
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  23. Athelwulf Rest in peace Kurt... Registered Senior Member

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    More people will try to exploit it, perhaps. But I think I've heard something about Firefox's source code being in the public domain and open for anyone to modify (or something to that effect), sorta like the Linux kernel. If this is true, then that means bugs and vulnerabilities are always being fixed. I know this isn't the case with Internet Explorer. There's also the point that perplexity mentioned.
     
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