I use Safari usually, sometimes Mozilla firefox if one is not working properly. I like them both. Only Mac users can obviously use Safari what about the rest of you.

My primary webbrowser is Firefox. But upon need I have also Opera, Konqueror and ELinks.
Opera is very enjoyable too, but I use Firefox because of some of its' extensions.
(I'm on Linux)

My browser is opera. It's much faster than IE and has very good built-in features (mouse gestures, instant translations, download manager).

Firefox is my favorite. I looked at ELinks, it appeared too confusing. Heheh, all those images actually have a practical reason.

My primary webbrowser is Firefox. But upon need I have also Opera, Konqueror and ELinks.
Opera is very enjoyable too, but I use Firefox because of some of its' extensions.
(I'm on Linux)Yeah I can see you using Firefox when you have linux.

I hate Internet Explorer, it sucks nothing really else to say.

i use firefox, w00t. Then kongueror after that, but you can't beet firefox.

Yeah I can see you using Firefox when you have linux.

? He can use firefox with linux
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/system-requirements
Oh since you use a Mac, I can ask you. When I use Firefox+Photoshop+ITunes, it freezes. How come? (I haven't tried a diffent combination, but I'm fairly sure it's not supposed to do that and it happened on different computers a few times.)
I didn't like Safari either.

Firefox all the way... Konquerer reminds me too much of IE... Opera (free version) is just annoying and gaudy, and I sure as hell am not paying for a browser... especially when the speed and beauty of Firefox is free.

? He can use firefox with linux
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/system-requirements
Oh since you use a Mac, I can ask you. When I use Firefox+Photoshop+ITunes, it freezes. How come? (I haven't tried a diffent combination, but I'm fairly sure it's not supposed to do that and it happened on different computers a few times.)
I didn't like Safari either.Yeah for some reason my firefox bunches up as well. Whenever I have a lot of programs open. Also It does not seem to download that fast on my mac either, at least not nearly as fast as safari.

Whoa what the hell I didn't make a poll...? Very strange

opera is my primary browser, but i also have firefox installed jsut incase(i cant stand the reloading on te back button, what abou those of us on dialup for fucks sake?)
i use mozilla on all my computers but this one(onboard ntwork not supported so i cant use net in linux). and at school i use netscape

I found that when I tried other browsers that have been mentioned here already I had more pop ups and other crap happening than I do with IE 6.0. Since I've tried many others, which some offer better things, I've always returned to IE.

Funny. Because I have zero pop-ups. You had ad-block extension installed, yes?

I have firefox with almost no extra extensions dowloaded; as it came from that dl button on the site, that's how I have it. All pop-ups blocked.

Since there is a pool now I'll vote for the two browsers I most frequently use for webbrowsing (I use Konqueror as my primary local file browser, but not for the web).

Nobody is using IE yet. Remarkable. Only nerds must be browsing this forum.

whitewolf is not a nerd (actually, I pity her computer), but she uses Firefox. I think that these days it's not that only nerds use other browsers.

There are so many wonderful browsers you overlooked in the poll...

For windows, kmeleon is my favourite. Fast as hell, like a skinned down firefox.

For linux, dillo is also nice, but I normally find myself using firefox for the great extensions.

I think they fit the 'other' category. I'm surprised ELinks made as a distinction.

I use Mozilla, don't know how to switch, at school I use Internet Explorer

That's what I'm talking about.

I'm on Firefox as well, but I still have IE installed. For some reason, I've lost all of my bookmarks twice on Firefox (I've been using Firefox for maybe a year or so now). Don't know why it happens, but I just export my bookmarks now. ahem. anyway.

I use Safari, IE, and Firefox at school in our Digital Photography Lab, I really don't like any of them, but Firefox is still my favorite. I just wish our Macs had scroll wheels in the center of them for easy tabbed browsing, but eh. whatever.

That mac 1-button mouse is the biggest and and most miserable apple joke

Actually, no problem with it if you spend a day getting used to it. No need to right-click. No need to decide where's right, where's left.

I have no need to decide, it's auto-pilot for me.

I use IE pretty much exclusively. It's utilitarian for me. It works, doesn't give me problems. *shrug* It's just a freakin browser for chrissake. Translate words into formatting commands and a keen layout. Neato. No reason to get all uppety about new pieces of software to perform simple tasks like that unless the tools you have don't work. It works for me.

No need to right-click. No need to decide where's right, where's left.

After all, who would wish to suffer such a monumental burden? :D

Ours have right-click buttons, just no scroll wheel in the center.

Because you all want to know: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=macally+imousepro

If you don't have the middle button and want to open tabs easier, can't you just hold Control while left clicking?

If you don't have the middle button and want to open tabs easier, can't you just hold Control while left clicking?
Yes, but I like to surf without lifting both arms at once.

Because I'm lazy.

And I got spoiled with the combination of scroll wheels and tabs.

i thought only ie could acess the web, shows you how much i know about computers

oh? here, check out Firefox, because it appears that most people use it here -> http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
it's free of course
i thought only ie could acess the web
umm, just a question, I hope you don't mind:
Did you think that people on Linux use IE to access the web?

whitewolf is not a nerd (actually, I pity her computer), but she uses Firefox. I think that these days it's not that only nerds use other browsers.

ive installed 3 copies of firefox, and 4 of opera out of 8 computers which i fixed internet problems on in the last month. thats why its not the nerds only using it

Of course, that's how it happens mostly.
Out of curiousity, why did you install Firefox on some and Opera on others?

p.s. Don't you think that some people might get pissed off by the google advert atop?
It doesn't bother me (when I use Opera), but it seems that it is better to install Firefox. Just a thought.

I use Firefox on my desktop, Laptop and at work. I am forced to use IE at school. The only strange thing is that Firefox had a tendency to just disappear for no reason no matter what computer I run it on.

Ever since someone suggested Firefox here a long time ago, I almost never use anything else.... I only use IE in occasions since my uni's network's Microsoft based.

That brings about one question:
Certain links open with IE (which I still left on my comp) by default. Some websites (like that of my bank :mad: ) refuse other browsers. Does anyone know what to do about those webpages?

There were questions around as to why not IE. I have nothing against IE, but against Bill Gates. Don't use MS Office either ... :p

I sent a mass of emails with complains about IE only errors and suggestions how to fix them to my banks' computer department. In a few months they had the i-bank compatible with w3 standarts and Linux.

If it's only the notification that you should use another browser, you can set that your browser identifies to the net like IE6.

firefox, of course

the only browser worth anything

Of course, that's how it happens mostly.
Out of curiousity, why did you install Firefox on some and Opera on others?

p.s. Don't you think that some people might get pissed off by the google advert atop?
It doesn't bother me (when I use Opera), but it seems that it is better to install Firefox. Just a thought.

well it depends on both the connection and the skill of the user. people with jetstream or the newer phone lines on the other side of town i give firefox. people with slow connections i usually give opera.

And people who barely know how to use IE let alone learn to use another, i give firefox because it is so similar in appearance.

I use Firefox on my desktop, Laptop and at work. I am forced to use IE at school. The only strange thing is that Firefox had a tendency to just disappear for no reason no matter what computer I run it on.

my school is changing over to a new security software called deepfreeze, it lets you install or change whatever, but it reverts to the defaults on restart. of course since there is free access and alteration of everything until you log out, it took us about a week to have it cracked.

my school is changing over to a new security software called deepfreeze, it lets you install or change whatever, but it reverts to the defaults on restart. of course since there is free access and alteration of everything until you log out, it took us about a week to have it cracked.
My school has been using DeepFreeze for as long as I've been here, although I'm not sure what you mean by "free access and alteration of everything", don't they set your computers to limited accounts anyway? I'm talking about the labs and such when it comes to accounts, btw, not your own personal computer.

On many computers around campus we don't even have enough privileges to install AIM, let alone do anything else (not that anyone here minds of course, who wants to save files on a public computer anyway?).

firefox, of course

the only browser worth anything
How right. You're with me and the majority so far.

my school is changing over to a new security software called deepfreeze, it lets you install or change whatever, but it reverts to the defaults on restart. of course since there is free access and alteration of everything until you log out, it took us about a week to have it cracked.

I've been using Deep Freeze Pro at work for a while. It's probably the best program ever made (I work at a library). No one can crack it because there are still restrictions on the computers, but it doesn't limit a regular user's options. No one needs to go into the system files and such at a library anyway. I know how to crack it, but it would take a very talented person (of which there are very few and none of them would bother using old computers at an under funded library). I also run Net Op on the computers so that we can monitor computer activities, do I'd be able to spot a hacker (cracker, actually) before they would get far enough to do damage. On the computers at work, I have exclusively firefox on all of the computers, but I have the IE icon on the desktop so that dumb people don't get confused.

Or you can have a Firefox icon, but named "Internet Browser" or "INTERNET"

I had that at first, but people ask for the "blue E". Ir they'd say "where is the internet". You wouldn't believe the different types of people that come into my workplace. They are to lazy to even look quickily across a screen to read "internet".

I use Firefox of course. I'm on Linux, but wouldn't use IE if I were on Windows. I use Konqueror too, but not for web browsing.
From time to time I'll use elinks as well, if X isn't running for example.
I've been using Deep Freeze Pro at work for a while. It's probably the best program ever made (I work at a library). No one can crack it because there are still restrictions on the computers, but it doesn't limit a regular user's options.That's a pretty big assumption. I can crack it.

Or you can have a Firefox icon, but named "INTERNET"

thats exactly what i did on mikes computer. *draws curtain and looks around suspiciously*

I use Safari usually, sometimes Mozilla firefox if one is not working properly. I like them both. Only Mac users can obviously use Safari what about the rest of you.


I don't have any lag time when I use IE. I just click and go. I really don't understand , except for the security thing which could be said about other browsers as well, what the BIG differences are between them. This speed thing is is also based on your server, modem, and ram so its just not the browser that makes it speed along.

three words: extensions, tabs, themes

three words: extensions, tabs, themes
I totally do it for the tabs; the themes and extensions were just an unexpected (yet welcome) bonus.

firefox

three words: extensions, tabs, themes

The new updated IE6 has all the same tabs, extensions, ect., ect. as the others have, now.

all the same extensions? really? and themes too?

I'm asking just out of curiousity, don't use windows

all the same extensions? really? and themes too?

I'm asking just out of curiousity, don't use windows

Perhaps not all the themes or tabs but I'd say it is pretty close to everything the other browsers have. It is about on par with them.

Do you know where I can have look on the list of features?

In Firefox I use the extensions that allow me to
update my blog without going to the blog page,
does adblocking,
gives me power to remove any region or object from a web page permanently,
javascript execution only for trusted domains,
integrated google, yahoo, amazon, wikipedia, webster, ebay and imdb search,
does dictionary search on a selected word,
does spell check on any text field,
downloads files to particular directories dependant on their file type,
auto fills web forms
and translates any page from French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and others to English.

These functions I use daily.

When I use Win xp, I use Firefox, Opera and sometimes IE, but only when Firefox or Opera can't handle the website for some reason.

When I run Fedora I usually use Firefox.

Please look at all of these numerous extensions (what allows Avatar to do what he does with his browser, and more) for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/showlist.php?application=firefox&category=All It also has dozens of themes, which allow you to alter the way your browser looks.
But, the best thing about it is that all of these functions and appearances are *optional.*

Firefox almost exclusively. IE sucks, as many people have said before.