What Browser do you use? Opera? IE? Mozilla?

[Tommy Tallarico]

I used Opera forever, but I finally converted to Firefox yesterday and I love it. Anyone still using IE needs to come back from 7 years ago.

[marwan]

I hate it when I click the wrong button and wipe out my damned post. Anyway, FF is a striped down version of Mozilla, as Ragnarok said. Not sure what he meant by the "spyware" comment, but FF is just the browser engine. Mozilla also includes a chat client, an email client, and a news reader, if you like. They are both very secure (especially compared to IE; just read the news on the Download.Ject/Scop trojan).

I must be cursed, because I haven't had tons of luck with FF 0.9. I've had to uninstall and reinstall twice at work. Meanwhile, I've been running 0.8 here at home without a problem. I think out of the box, 0.9 is probably fine, but I run a lot of plugins, and some of the plugins don't like each other on 0.9. The best thing about FF is the expandability. Mozilla supports a fair number of plugins, but most of the communities effort is towards FF these days. In fact, after 1.8, I'm not sure if there will be any further work on Mozilla. The number of plugins for FF is mind boggling. There's zoom image, undo close last tab, dictionary search, Sage (an RSS aggregator/sidebar), blogging software, web editing software, calculators, tetris, etc. Moz and FF have THE best built-in pop-up blocker on the planet, and it's free and constantly improving. There's even a plugin for removing any object from a webpage. So I could right-click on an annoying flash ad on IGN and block it.

Mozilla and FF store your bookmarks in a single file called bookmarks.html which is stored in your CDocuments And Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla (or Firefox or Phoenix (FF's old name). If you back up that folder, it will save your bookmarks, passwords, cookies, preferences, you name it.

I'd at least give FF 0.9 a try, since it's a small download and it won't fry your system or anything. Once you start using tabbed browsing, you won't be able to live without it.

wow, Firefox sounds like a monster. i'm using it now(As i type this) and love it, the speed is just amazing. screen no longer has to load when i hit the back button(ie IE) .

so where can i go to get all the plug-ins? also, do the plug-ins slow it down? i mainly want the ad blocking plug in, i'm an insider at IGN and hate all that flashy crap, i don't see why i have to put up with those annoying ads when i pay for the god damn service!


so far so good,

so how do you guys like Opera?

EDIT: i just love this Firefox wallpaper...

http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/downloads/?c=firefox (hi res versions)

[Tommy Tallarico]

so where can i go to get all the plug-ins? also, do the plug-ins slow it down?

Tools -> Extensions

And no, they don't slow it down.

[marwan]

whats the hell is DOM inspector?

btw, i meant where can i down load the plug-ins from?

[Tommy Tallarico]

Bookmarks -> FireFox & Mozilla Information -> FireFox Extensions

[Wolffen]

http://update.mozilla.org/extensions...cation=firefox is the address for the plugins. Adblock isn't fully working on version 0.9 yet, but it works great on 0.8 (which you can still download from the Firefox homepage, you just have to dig a bit.) The Adblock home page is here:
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/adblock

In the mean time, you can try the NukeThis! and NukeImage plug-ins.

[LOL]

whats the hell is DOM inspector?

No clue. I don't worry about it.

Extensions are at Tools -> Extensions and then there's a little link in the bottom right "Get More Extensions."

The best: Ad-block, tabbrowser preferences, IE View, and All-in-one gestures. They haven't been updated for 0.9 yet, but they still work in it. Ad-block can still block images, but it doesn't block Flash anymore until they update it.

[Wolffen]

For those looking to learn a few Kanji, you might want to check out Moji:
http://moji.mozdev.org/
It's a side bar that can help translate kanji and such.

One of my other favorite plugins, which does work in 0.9, but it's not at the update.mozilla.org site, is Image Zoomer. You can right click on any image and zoom in or out on it. Pretty cool. http://imagezoomer.mozdev.org/installation.html

[marwan]

WOW, THIS THING IS AMAZING, i downloaded a buncha plug-ins and it's endless what you can do with this thing luv it luv it luv it


anyways, i downloaded "Switch Proxy Toolbar", my question is, what does it do? i ask because my ISP bans certain sites that contain explicit material, porn and such(yes i know they suck). would switch proxy allow me to access those sites? i'm not good with this proxy thing, so someone please help me out.

thanks!

[mollipen]

well some pages such as Yahoo Mail, when i browse it through Opera(which i think is a great browser), i dont get the full content of the page. I'm missing some icons such as smilies, email formating(bold, italic, paragraphs, fonts....and so on).

See, I have to say... having no smilies or stupid HTML formatting in my e-mail rather seems like a plus to me, not a negative...