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What browser do you use?
As per title, im interested to see what browsers people use for surfing the internet. So what ones do you use and why? Ill start.
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MYIE and IE :) Like the multiple tab feature of MyIE and the auto-refresh ;)
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IE 6 and FireFox 0.6
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Firefox
IE 6 - for special plugin sites |
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I use mozilla firefox, i found IE was crashing all the time when i was opening mulitiple windows and getting to annoy!
mozilla is going great though! i like the download bar add-in and skins- nice touches |
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Mozilla 99% with IE6 only if I don't seem to get to the website via mozilla.. There are still some websites that don't work well in mozilla...
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IE6 and Opera for me :)
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IE5 & IE6
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I have IE6 and Firefox 0.8 on my laptop and IE6 on my other computers.
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Mozilla Firefox on both windows and mac os x.
I absolutly hate IE, if a site doesnt want to work in mozilla its not worth my time. |
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IE6.x on Windows
Mozilla on Linux |
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FYI the stats from images I post on NTHW show 76% IE6, 8.5% IE5 then 7% Netscape 6. :) |
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Ie 6.x
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I use Mozilla Firefox and Opera IE 6 as a last resort :angel: :) |
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IE.. dont have any problems with it.. dont really want a foriegn browser on my machine any more.
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Mozilla Firefox, but use IE6 for those sites which don't work on Firefox.
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opera...and ie for the obvious!
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avantbrowser (tabbed interface).. i'm never going back to IE
firefox and opera for testing web-development |
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IE6, because when tweaked, its fast, efficent, and has an excellent layout. :D
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Ie 5.01 Sp4
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firefox execpt for those sites that wont work with it then i use i.e
like my forum due to the game on it. :( |
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Whats the diference between firefox and opera please?
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well i do it to improve web page browsing mostly..... then to allow IE to do more then the limited 4 (i think) downloads window limit in IE6 you can adjust it to more downloads... also you can priortize DNS and other internet settings in the registry, so webpages do load faster and dont 'hang' as they did on default settings........... |
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I also use IE 6 and have no desire for a foreign browser on my computer. I also changed the number of connections that IE use to something like 1000. It will therefore use up to 1000 concurrent connections to open a website... Pictures load REALLY fast now. I see no need to use any other browser.
I use Proxomitron proxy server as a filter. It removes all banners, ads, crap scripts, popups, and it deactivates sneaky things such as preventing clicking of the right mouse button etc. Combining it with IE I really see no need for other browsers. |
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IE 6 on my home rig and thunderhawk on my mobile ( mpx200 ) still gotta tweak some settings, you know , fool about a bit and see if I can get a bit more :)
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Im starting to wonder what people mean by forgien browser?:dozey:
And on another point is there anyway of getting rid of IE from a windows machine? |
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Nope, it's part of the OS.
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What's the point of removing IE from XP?
It's more effort that its worth - just leave it as it is! |
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I.e sucks no tabbed browsing, no popup blocking (cept the xpsp2 one). |
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I use IE6, I tried Firefox but didn`t really get on with it. I suppose it`s down to the fact that i`m used to uncle Bill`s browser. I know just where all the buttons are.
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firefox is ace
I can't go back to IE its awful |
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So I don't have a problem with IE per se, but I do have issues with the philosophy behind it...that is to take an existing open standard and pervert it so that any sites developed for it won't work in other browsers. The W3C standard is out there, along with many related standards such as ECMAscript for Javascript, so there is simply no excuse for developers writing for one browser only (on the internet, intranets are different). It's just sloppiness on the part of the developers and they do themselves and their visitors a disservice by working in IE only. Okay, rant over, had better stop before I get onto Microsoft's perversion of Java :) BTW, anybody else use Lynx (or Links), it's great for reading books online. |
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I use IE 5.5sp2 t work 'cos it's the corporate standard although should be moving to IE6 shortly to allow me to upgrade to the latest release of the CMS we use with our corporate website. At home I have Safari for MacOS 10.2, and IE 5/mac just 'cos it's there and I can't be bothered getting rid of it. Rarely if ever use it for anything tho; Safari really showed up how slow and generally pants it is. Quote:
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OSX - Safari, and then occasionally IE if it doesn't work in Safari, but that rarely happens now.
And in WinXp - Firefox 0.8 and IE for same reason as above |
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As a developer it shouldnt matter what browser you or your customers use, developers "develop" they then pass it all on to a designer to worry about cross browser design issues. Personally I do both and much prefer the development side, a lot less hassle. As for developers telling customers what they have to use, that might well work overseas but over here customers are a little more set in their ways and expect their site's/code to work not only in their browser but in every other browser known to man.
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IMHO developers who insist their users have a particular browser, even if a popular one, are being very short sited. These days, the web is finding its way into more and more appliances that are not, on the face of it, 'computers', for example, webcams and fridges. Internet TVs have come and gone but, no doubt, will be back again. Using some proprietary extensions to HTML simply extends Microsoft's power further into these markets. Please don't do it!
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You sure about that? OK, XP users - right click on any icon in your Quick Launch next to the Start button, go to Properties then go to the General tab. See the path? Quote:
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I have been using Firefox 0.8 until recently, but since they disabled cut/copy and paste in the vbulletin WYSIWYG editor and also certain things do not appear in the admin control panel for vbulletin, I have ditched it and gone back to IE6.
Even though I do love the tabbed browsing, which I now miss. |
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Pop a shortcut in the path that richard suggests and you will get an icon on your 'quicklaunch' toolbar. This usually appears at the bottom of your desktop and has nothing to do with IE. So why the curous directory name?
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Yeah, plus mshtml.dll* is used by Outlook, Outlook Express, Office, Windows Help and probably a lot more.
Ever wonder why an IE vuln nearly always applies to Outlook etc as well? I can even remember editing .htt files for to determine the display of directories back in Win98 and thinking "WTF? Javascript and HTML?" Scary stuff, I prefer my browser to be "sandboxed" like Java and Gecko are. * The rendering "engine" behind IE. |
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Opera 6.2 on my P800
Opera 7 and IE 6 on my work and home pcs. Safari (don't know the version) on my work Mac. |
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Poolking: I've been using FF 0.8 here for ages, there is nothing missing from the Admin CP and I can copy and paste as much as I want.
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Crazy Browser (small and light) http://www.crazybrowser.com or Avant Browser (includes mouse gestures) http://www.avantbrowser.com/ |
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If W3C or Mozilla or Opera or Mac or Linux wants me to develop for them, they need to give me a very, very good reason to do so, and at this point a minority market is a big negative rap on the sheet. |
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Oh well jerrek..... It proves everthing i thought about you.
I know i shouldnt have said about IE being crap and all... but it still isnt very standards friendly. And any browser i use has to be. Whitch is why i use FF |
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I didn't mean for this thread to be an argument all of a sudden i meant it to state what browsers people use and why
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Fascinating Bifta that you know so much about by coding skills.
philip: For Win32 applications, I have Delphi 7 Enterprise. Best development suite ever. For web applications, I use php or asp depending on the client's choice as a scripting language, Java for UNIX executables, and Delphi for IIS ISAPI DLLs. I don't write applications for UNIX (gnome or kde or other xcrap), and I don't care to design web pages for Opera/Firefox/Mozilla/other browsers. It is not my business at the moment. As to what kind of applications? Past projects include directional drilling mapping software to provide directional drill operators to map, in 3D, the path they want to drill, and to provide them with azimuth, force, angle, and other settings. [Technical specifications given to me by the client. I didn't know anything about directional drilling until then.] Current project is a point of sale system for restaurants, because the current stuff on the market is complete crap. And they are selling this 4-hour VB-made crap for $5,000 a piece. I can do better than that and cheaper. I already have a client that owns a restaurant chain helping me out. My plan is to sell it, and then pay 15% of the price to each person that manages to convince a restaurant to use my software. Release date is summer 2005. This will be my first commercially published software product, and I'm hoping this will make my company boom a bit. |
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Another member of the minority here. Firefox is used all the time except for the odd site or two that seem to be written for IE only. When these crop up, there's a useful Firefox extension that puts an option into the right click menu called. 'View this page in IE'. It will even open a link in IE if you know in advance that it's an IE only site.
I suppose alternative Browsers will always be in the minority but a significant number of people throughout the world do prefer to use them. This number may be small percentage-wise but must still run into millions. Looking at it that way, this is quite a market to disregard. I think if I ran a commercial site, or any sort that I wanted to be popular, I'd certainly require it to be cross-browser friendly. I have read a few opinions here and there on the Internet of people saying they just won't go back to a site that doesn't work properly with their preferred browser. Some people feel quite strongly about the issue. Not being cross-browser friendly could even mean a loss of business for companies that don't cater for the minority. I'd say any possibility of that happening would be something to care about. |
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People, if Jerrek wants to develop for a certain browser/platform combination (and risk having his apps stop working if people stop using that browser as happened with Netscape), that is up to him.
Surely the pressure should be on Microsoft to bring IE closer to the w3c standards? |
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If enough purchasers of software solutions become aware of the issues, and the advantages of designing according to standards to reach a maximum audience, then maybe the pressure will mount on M$. |
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I also know that if you remove IE (the whole thing, not just the browser interface, which is AFAIK what litexp does), then you will cripple Windows networking, and stop windows being able to run other apps, such as Outlook and Windows help. |
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All true. Also, in some major industries (the Oil Exploration industry being one I know of) use of Microsoft stuff is severely frowned upon for various reasons (security and scalability being two). Anyone who doesn't develop to standards is missing out on some potentially huge customers. |
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So, is that part of Windows that deals with TCP/IP etc really part of Internet Explorer, simply because Microsoft says that it is? I suggest the answer is 'no', because there is ample evidence from other operating systems that there is no necessary link between your web browser and the inclusion of TCP/IP protocols in the OS. When you set about removing IE from Windows, you can just remove the browser inteface, or you can go wild and delete anything with the name 'IE' on it from the entrie OS. If you do that, as you say, you're in trouble. But this is not a technical problem - it's a conundrum created by Microsoft's marketing department. They would have you believe that IE is part of Windows simply because they choose to brand the bits that deal with TCP/IP etc as 'Internet Explorer'. A classic case of smoke and mirrors. If you can remove the browser interface - as you clearly can - then you have achieved exactly what Netscape and others long argued for, which is the possibility of a rival browser supplier gaining exclusivity on the desktop (ironically, exactly the same argument is behing the current spat with the EU over Windoze Media Player). And, with the browser interface gone, surely it becomes irrelevant that M$ chooses to 'brand' that part of Windows that deals with networking as 'Internet Explorer', or locates it in folders with that name? |
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I do agree with you actually. I was being very picky. I think MS bundled the TCP/IP stuff in with IE because at the time it was originally specified (IE this is), Windows didn't use TCP/IP for networking by default, so the rest of the Windows OS wouldn't have much use for TCP/IP (and remember, Microsoft at that time thought that the Internet wasn't really worth bothering about). Obviously, that is not the case now. I actually think that TCP/IP is as much part of the OS as the functions used to write to disk. On a related note, While I do not think that Microsoft should be forced to remove IE, I do think that they should be forced to include other browsers (in a similar way to Mac OSX including IE and Safari), and allow users to choose which browser they use. |
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The language you're using is a total contradiction to what you have been saying in this thread. IE's standards support hasn't been updated since 2001. That makes your work three years out of date. Also, CSS2 has been a W3C standard for 6 years and IE doesn't have a clue. It's great viewing what CSS can really do in a compliant browser, like the links below: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edg...al/glassy.html http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/ http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/ http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/tests/css2/ EDIT: Actually, I've had enough of that browser, I'm going to start serving up my pages with no style at all to IE and a message explaining why. At least then I'll be able to concentrate on making my site look good. :) |
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jerrek did you read the link in his post: http://www.richardm.co.uk/blog/archives/000004.html
It was IE that was having the problem. |
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So no, I'm sorry, there is no way that I'm developing user applications for Linux or UNIX at this time. End of discussion. Some food for thought: How many of my restaurant point-of-sale systems do you think will I sell if the application requires Linux to run? None. I'd bet all of them would want to be able to run Microsoft Office on the same computer. |
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Read it FFS. It says he has written perfect code, but because of IEs "features" IE wont render the page properly. Oh and stop saying minority. Remember your in a minority here, being the only american on a british board. |
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Any need for that IC :rolleyes:
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sheesh steve. You really have something againset me [img]Download Failed (1)[/img] |
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Very mature argument Jerrek.
What W3C standards Microsoft thinks that IE adheres to is anyones guess. What shows "correctly" in IE doesn't necessarily mean it conforms to the standards. With IE you can get away with sloppy HTML coding. |
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Can we not turn this thread into an argument please!!!!
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Jerrek is right by the way, IE is the main broswer so it should be the primany concern to him.
Also the USA link is nothing really theres not to much diffrance between him and 'us' the british not that i see how it compares to users using IE or not |
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Sorry to just focus narrowly on one thing, but someone who cannot debate with out resorting to swearing and having a "tantrum" should not be listened to until they have calmed down and regained their composure. |
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Hehe, people getting so passionate over browsers. :D
There's nothing wrong with a heated discussion sometimes, no need to swear though. |
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Fancy having a fight over browsers! :dozey: :pp |
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A key issue I face is that we have to distribute financial information. If we want to do it on the web, then we have to ensure we do it in a way that doesn't disbar anyone. To deny someone access to that sort of information by knowingly designing the page to work with only certain web browsers would be legally dubious in the extreme. We need a standards based approach to our web development. |
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For web applications, I use php or asp depending on the client's choice as a scripting language, Java for UNIX executables, and Delphi for IIS ISAPI DLLs. I don't write applications for UNIX (gnome or kde or other xcrap), and I don't care to design web pages for Opera/Firefox/Mozilla/other browsers. It is not my business at the moment. I made the distinction over there. Then, Richard M came I find it laughable that you say that you don't write apps for Unix/Linux and don't support the open standards of the web when you code in PHP, a language born on Linux, which is open source and is designed to coexist with the latest in web standards such as XML and XHTML. This is what I don't understand. I'm not writing apps for Unix because there is no market. All applications I write is for Windows 32-bit. I don't even code for 64-bit Windows. Target market for apps: Win32 As to web services, I write in ASP or PHP or even perl when required. It has nothing to do with the server OS because you can run any of these on any operating system. The target market then shifts to a browser-based market. In this case, I code and optimize for IE. If it works in other browsers, great. It not, tough. Target market for web services: Internet Explorer (on UNIX or Windows) Quote:
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As for my response, I had plenty of good-natured responses, but there is a time when my patience ran out. I apologize if I offended anyone. |
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Less of this rubbish, matter over with,
Now lets all go out for frosty chocolate milkshakes |
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