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Pyrite - Jan 30, 2004

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    Pyrite Jan 30, 2004 
I got bored with Firebird so I decided to try other browsers, so far I tried mozilla didn´t like the splash screen and misses the full personalization of Firebird, Netscape its just too heavy and full of stuff I don´t need, IE (5.5) is really fast and light but has a thing for crashes, right now I´m using Opera and I´m liking what I´m seeing but the ad is really annoying and takes a lot of space. So whats your favorite net browser?

btw I think I´m going back to Firebird

   it290 Jan 30, 2004 
My vote goes to Firebird, although Epiphany is pretty nice too if you're runnin' GNOME (which you obviously aren't, heh). You can turn that splash screen off in Mozilla, though.

    Gallstaff Jan 30, 2004 
I've been using firebird since mid 2003. Its really the lord of all browsers

    Des-ROW Jan 30, 2004 
Firebird.

    racketboy Jan 30, 2004 
Firebird at work

Firebird at in-laws

Mozilla 1.6 at home

    mtxblau Jan 30, 2004 
Netscape. It's always been fast for me.

Konqueror (KDE) is also really nice. I default to that when I'm using Linux.

    racketboy Jan 30, 2004 

  
Originally posted by Zher@Jan 30, 2004 @ 05:20 PM

I got bored with Firebird so I decided to try other browsers, so far I tried mozilla didnt like the splash screen


I don't have a splash screen on Mozilla.

You sure there isn't an option to turn it on and off?

    schi0249 Jan 30, 2004 
I use a few. At work I use IE. And at home, depending if I'm on my Mac or PC, I use Safari or Netscape.

    Tindo@heart Jan 30, 2004 
Does anyone remember when Netscape was king? ahhh, the good ol' days of Netscape 4.78

Today I stick with IE6. Boring and unoriginal, I know. but it works great and fast, and already installed with my Win2k OS so I don't bother installing extra. (yeah, the M$ monopoly scheme is working for me)

I've used firebird, mozilla, opera, and Avant which is just an IE extension. However, IE loads and renders pages much faster on this old dinosaur (Cyrix 300Mhz 64MB RAM)

As for security, I've never had a virus. *Knocks on wood* However, I use a text based email client (Eudora 3.06/no ads) and usually don't visit risky sites.

    racketboy Jan 30, 2004 

  
Originally posted by Tindo@heart@Jan 30, 2004 @ 10:05 PM

Does anyone remember when Netscape was king? ahhh, the good ol' days of Netscape 4.78


Heck yeah -- I used to use Netscape 3 all the time. Netscape Gold was awesome because it had a visual HTML editor.

Back then, hardly anyone even heard of IE.

I remember when I first got my modem for my old 386 (was still pretty old even then) and I went to Netscape's FTP to DL the browser. It took forever, but I was so excited. When I finally installed it, it took like 8 minutes to start up. Then I tried checking my Hotmail (before it was bought out by MS) and it took like 5 minutes to load the first page! So I just stuck to FTP, ICQ (back when it was new) and IRC. hehe -- those were the days.

    mal Jan 30, 2004 

  
Originally posted by Tindo@heart@Jan 31, 2004 @ 09:05 AM

Does anyone remember when Netscape was king? ahhh, the good ol' days of Netscape 4.78


They still install that on all PCs at work. :lol:

I just use IE out of sheer laziness.

    Cloud121 Jan 30, 2004 
I use Safari and iCab. Mainly Safari, but use iCab should Safari ever display a page wrong or something. Before OS X, I was iCab only. iCab is not an Apple browser. It's third-party.

I despise IE and all its forms. In fact, I don't even a single M$ software of my Mac! :lol: :thumbs-up:

Call me crazy, but I HATE Opera!

    racketboy Jan 30, 2004 
I used to like Opera, but now Firebird makes it look kinda crappy

    Pyrite Jan 30, 2004 

  
Originally posted by racketboy+Jan 30, 2004 @ 07:46 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(racketboy @ Jan 30, 2004 @ 07:46 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-Zher@Jan 30, 2004 @ 05:20 PM

I got bored with Firebird so I decided to try other browsers, so far I tried mozilla didnt like the splash screen


I don't have a splash screen on Mozilla.

You sure there isn't an option to turn it on and off?[/b][/quote]

I´ve tryied looking in the prefences and I didn´t see any option to disable it, with netscape I had to had a command in the shortcut something like -d (I really don´t remember which letter was but I think it was it) in mozilla I have no idea where that option is. Anyway I got back to Firebird I couldn´t get away from these cool extentions .

   it290 Jan 31, 2004 
Heh, yeah, I use iCab sometimes on my old PowerBook. It works great for a browser running on a 68040! Although it is a bit faster to render pages in Firebird using remote X and surf on the PowerBook that way.

Zherae, it's not in the preferences AFAIK, but I believe it should be in the prefs.js file somewhere.

    Dud Jan 31, 2004 
I am using Avant Browser. It's ok.

    Pearl Jammzz Jan 31, 2004 
just switched over to Firebird...runs pretty good. Not THAT much a difference between it and IE on my machine. Maybe it's cuz I have a ton of ram and an athlon 3200+ .

    Gallstaff Jan 31, 2004 
Psh you overclocked you... overclocker

    vbt Jan 31, 2004 
I use :

Netscape 4.7/mozilla 1.4 at work

Internet Explorer 5.5 at home

    Tagrineth Jan 31, 2004 
Firebird.

Mostly because IE locks up randomly while loading pages. >_>

I = never switching back, except in special cases.


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