Browser

[metalblade1335]

fire fox by far as you can tell by my avater

i find the best to be firefox, its pretty fast, and always works

[tntcheats]

Firefox is hands down the fastest, easiest to use, customize, and overall best browser.

And it's going to update a hell of a lot more often than IE, because that'll take 3/4 years, and will be Longhorn-exclusive

[antioco2003]

Years ago I used Mosaic, and after Navigator (Netscape); then IExplorer came with more power and things than Netscape and I started using it.

Last year I tried Opera (running under Mandrake Linux) but it didn't like me much.

Last month I tried Firefox and Mozilla, and this last one was my choice. Now I use Mozilla 1.7 both in Windows XP and SUSE Linux.

As you can see, I like trying different things to use the one I consider the most convenient

[totherescue]

I had been using Internet Explorer all my life, but I fully recommend Mozilla Firefox, as all the others have...it is simply the best out there. Here is a news article clip that lists some of Firefox's excellent features:

Mozilla's Firefox a versatile, secure alternative to IE (news article link)

While there are a number of browsers available (Opera, Safari, Netscape, Konqueror) I have chosen to highlight my preferred browsing solution as it is not only free, but functional on a variety of platforms including MS Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and to a certain extent, Sun Solaris.

This feature-rich browser comes from the open-source development community known as Mozilla, www.mozilla.org, and is called FireFox, www.mozilla.org/products/firefox, formerly known as FireBird. Currently at v.0.9.1, FireFox has been in development for a little more than two years and is predicted to have a v1.0 release sometime this quarter.

Despite being a pre-1.0 release, FireFox includes a number of features absent from IE, and is billed as a more secure browser. I do not necessarily buy into FireFox being "code-wise" any more or less secure than IE.

But I do believe that its relative obscurity among the general Internet using population and its status as an OpenSource product, a sector not typically targeted by hackers, is a major contributing factor when it comes to security and general peace of mind.

FireFox has received praise from industry analysts as well as general consumers and is the backbone of the latest Netscape Navigator releases. The advantages of FireFox are not limited purely to security, though it is a factor to be considered. FireFox is, as the Mozilla team members refer to it, a "lean, mean browsing machine."

Featuring a built in pop-up blocker, FireFox has put a stop to pop-ups almost completely. I have been using FireFox for about a year, and in that time can recall only three pop-up ads. It's always fun to show friends how you can check the weather, www.weather.com, without having to close 3-4 browser windows when you're done.

On occasion, FireFox will alert you that a pop-up is attempting to execute, and ask you whether to allow this action. With FireFox, you're in control.

Because FireFox is developed by a community of independent contributors with the users in mind, there are slew of plug-ins and expansion options, called extensions, available for free download - Dictionary/Bible search bars, Blogging tools, as well as appearance enhancements.

You can also forget about having to download and install the Google toolbar, toolbar.google.com, Google searching is integrated right into the FireFox interface, and can be added or removed at your leisure.

[totherescue]

this is quite interesting--

" Microsoft's own "Slate" online magazine is now recommending that people abandon Microsoft Internet Explorer for Mozilla Firefox, a competing free Web browser. Never before in the history of Microsoft have I seen anything quite like this. In Slate's "Webhead" column for June 30, 2004, author Paul Boutin describes Firefox glowingly and tells readers how to install it for secure Web access. " Wi-Fi Technology News

http://slate.msn.com/id/2103152

i forgot to mention that i have been using firefox for only a month now, having been introduced to it by a good friend of mine and i have to say that it is worth the download by far. haha as you should already know by now.

[cvrk3]

i shall download and swithover to firefox

[Lilith]

Originally Posted by DQuinn79

Okay just recently, I have started thinking of using Firefox, Opera, Mozilla, or some sort of browser besides I.E. However, I have never done it before and never even thought about it.

Which is the best ones? What's some of your opinions and do you use any of them? Is anybody willing to walk me through the process if I have questions considering some of them you have to install extensions and stuff and firefox had like 50 billion extensions.

Also will my Google toolbar still work in one of the programs?

Any help would be appreciated.

I realy have no idea about it, i always used IE, never thought about it before, but if someone here know better about it i ll love get the information also.
kisses for u all
Lilith

[antioco2003]

Just install and test them (they give no problem if you don't like them and decide to uninstall). The download is not big, and you'll see there's life away from Explorer :P