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On September 18 2010 19:40 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
what is with the OP
netscape was never that great , take off those rose coloured glasses
the biggest shame of that whole era was the downfall of altavista , it's just a pathetic yahoo clone now
netscape at the time was more reliable than IE in its heydays.
netscape entered into the market before IE. microsoft tried to catchup fast so very little attention was paid to stability or security. around the time of IE 4, IE still freezes or crashes more often than netscape. from IE 5 onwards the difference became less obvious.
while IE 5 and 6 did not have the crashing/freezing problems it had with IE 4 prior, a new problem came. IE 5 and 6 by default automatically install tool bars or changes the program settings without the user knowing. so IE high jacking was exploited by many websites. porn sites being the most well known abusers of this problem.
so ya, IE was always plagued. furthermore, most worms and viruses abuse the holes left in the standard security setting on IE. so using IE 5/6 during those days was like having sex without a condom..
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On September 19 2010 02:26 dybydx wrote:Show nested quote +On September 18 2010 19:40 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
what is with the OP
netscape was never that great , take off those rose coloured glasses
the biggest shame of that whole era was the downfall of altavista , it's just a pathetic yahoo clone now netscape at the time was more reliable than IE in its heydays. netscape entered into the market before IE. microsoft tried to catchup fast so very little attention was paid to stability or security. around the time of IE 4, IE still freezes or crashes more often than netscape. from IE 5 onwards the difference became less obvious. while IE 5 and 6 did not have the crashing/freezing problems it had with IE 4 prior, a new problem came. IE 5 and 6 by default automatically install tool bars or changes the program settings without the user knowing. so IE high jacking was exploited by many websites. porn sites being the most well known abusers of this problem. so ya, IE was always plagued. furthermore, most worms and viruses abuse the holes left in the standard security setting on IE. so using IE 5/6 during those days was like having sex without a condom..
If IE5/6 is like having sex without a condom then common sense surfing the web must have been like dating to see if the girl was disease ridden.
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I have used Chrome pretty much 100% of the time since it came out :>
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Opera and Firefox are my browsers. Opera the most frequent.
Opera has some compatibility issues with far more sites than Firefox does.. It's been happening less and less though.
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On September 18 2010 15:08 Madcatcf wrote:My beloved Opera... why you're always the least used browser 
I love Opera, but Chrome is an incredibly close second. You can skip FF, imo.
On September 19 2010 02:26 dybydx wrote:Show nested quote +On September 18 2010 19:40 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
what is with the OP
netscape was never that great , take off those rose coloured glasses
the biggest shame of that whole era was the downfall of altavista , it's just a pathetic yahoo clone now netscape at the time was more reliable than IE in its heydays. netscape entered into the market before IE. microsoft tried to catchup fast so very little attention was paid to stability or security. around the time of IE 4, IE still freezes or crashes more often than netscape. from IE 5 onwards the difference became less obvious. while IE 5 and 6 did not have the crashing/freezing problems it had with IE 4 prior, a new problem came. IE 5 and 6 by default automatically install tool bars or changes the program settings without the user knowing. so IE high jacking was exploited by many websites. porn sites being the most well known abusers of this problem. so ya, IE was always plagued. furthermore, most worms and viruses abuse the holes left in the standard security setting on IE. so using IE 5/6 during those days was like having sex without a condom..
So you're saying IE 5/6 felt better, but were hazardous to your PC's health?
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Netscape is your granddaddy.
IE is your retarded cousin that you hung with when you were a socially awkward kid.
Safari is your retarded cousin's best friend.
Opera is your hot cousin that you've only seen once.
Firefox is the cool kid from high school that only hung with you because he felt sorry for you.
Chrome is the rich guy at the office that buys everyone a round on Friday nights.
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On September 18 2010 21:25 Polis wrote:
After seeing new FF beta I did make sure to have auto updates off, what is with this minimalistic GUI shit, would you remote with one button as well? I want fast access to my bookmarks links (seriously how can you browser without it? It would be like going back to not having tabs, and opening everything in diferent windows for me), and other options as well. I also like to have open tabs to not be at the of the screen but closer to where I have my mouse pointer. Tabs above other menus, wtf? So starved for height space? You should think about that before buying movie screen aspect ratio for PC.
I use Opera speed dial. I visit a limited number of sites (9 or less), so it works perfectly for me. Also, I can type at a decent speed, and unless the book mark is like 2 clicks, I can probably just type it faster. I pretty much never use my bookmarks unless it's an obscure site. Speed dial is seriously the best thing ever. New tab. Click. DONE.
On September 18 2010 20:14 Latham wrote:
I use FF now, but 1-2 years ago before I defragmented my HD, I used Opera and was quite happy with it =(. After another defrag I'll prolly try Chrome and if I won't like that, I'll go back to Opera. FF seems to suck the juices out of my CPU + is very unstable. I don't take advantage of it's addons either.
Chrome is really, really nice. I use it at work because I have to connect to some proxy with Opera, and I have no idea what the password or username is, and Chrome doesn't require that.
On September 18 2010 21:20 Catyoul wrote:
<3 Opera, most browser innovations come from them and I'm counting on them in the future as well. Been using tabbed browsing since 1997 or so (that might be older than some of our new members) !
Opera>All other browsers, imo. I haven't been tabbing windows since '97, more like '01... I tried Opera back then, and it had advertisements in it, so I dropped it, but it was fast as fuck. I was using Avant browser back then (which was just a skin for IE).
The toolbars in Chrome seem really limited. And I'm not one to download a bunch of extensions for a web browser. I just want it to not suck right out of the box. It's like buying a Honda and putting 30k into it to make it fast, or just buying a fast car to begin with for like 50k. I don't want to put the extra work into it.
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On September 18 2010 17:13 T0fuuu wrote:
whats with the ie bashing ? its actually pretty lightweight and remarkably does not crash on me every few hrs. something that i could never get ff and chrome to not do. the only bad thing is that the download manager is prehistoric and accelerators are useless.
opera is by far the best browser i have ever used however some sites hate it ):
Yeah, I dropped FF when 3 came out, because of constant crashes with flash issues. Not being one to DL extensions, I moved on to Opera.
On September 18 2010 15:38 Najda wrote:Chrome and Firefox for life! Chrome for general browsing while Firefox is my toolbox  I also use Firefox for livestreams because adblocker plus owns hehe. I really like Chrome for it's fluidity, ease of use, and because the browser itself takes up so little room. The address bar on Chrome is just so awesome! I use it to do Google searches, when I wanna make a search on YouTube I just hit y-o-u-TAB then type what I want to search. I don't believe you can do that in any other browser I'm pretty sure Chrome and Firefox are the top used amongst people who actually know anything about computers (and thus look beyond the default browser). Do any of you know someone who uses IE over the other browsers based on preference?
Amazingly, yes. My dad uses it, and he is far from being computer illiterate.
On September 18 2010 16:09 smileyyy wrote:Opera all the way they invented most of the standard browser features like tabs, adblock, sessions.  Imo the best browser that has been around for the last years. ![[image loading]](http://pictures.deadlycomputer.com/d/26490-2/firefox_vs_opera_vs_ie.JPG)
Awesome pic. Agreed on Opera. I don't understand why more people don't use it. It's sleek, and fast. It has speed dial, which owns bookmarking things. There's nothing about the browser that doesn't reek of incredible.
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Opera is one for me, hardly ever touch IE unless compatibility issues crop up. Use Safari on my MacBook though (for obvious reasons).
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I started using Chrome early this year, and I've never looked back.
For compatibility issues, I just use IE.
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After trying most of the browsers im now using Opera for like few years. Its the best browser for sure
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On September 19 2010 05:04 SkelA wrote:
After trying most of the browsers im now using Opera for like few years. Its the best browser for sure
i would hardly call it the best, i would say it has the best customization and features out of the box. but vs a stable version of FF or chrome with proper add ons to fill in those features opera is the slowest and frankly the least compatible and least secure. the security part isn't much of an issue with it's low market share it's hardly a target.
I just use it due to built in mail client, password management i like and ability to redo the ui to my fitting.
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![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/ASz9W.jpg)
says it all ...
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On September 18 2010 15:30 SonuvBob wrote:Show nested quote +On September 18 2010 15:24 SpiritoftheTunA wrote:On September 18 2010 14:59 SonuvBob wrote:
TL's numbers:
Firefox: 51.94%
Chrome: 25.72%
Internet Explorer: 11.54%
Safari: 6.29%
Opera: 3.89%
Chrome is growing pretty fast, or maybe just popular among the SC2 crowd. January (pre-beta) numbers:
Firefox: 57.43%
Internet Explorer: 17.29%
Chrome: 14.68%
Opera: 5.33%
Safari: 4.56% Man, what's with this opera->other stuff shift? Opera for life, baby. Though realistically I use Opera, Firefox, and Chrome, in order of decreasing frequency. It's not that people have switched browsers, just that there's so many more visitors now. Apparently SC2 players don't use Opera. I'm kinda surprised IE didn't go up, actually. :p
I use chrome cause on my old computer firefox took forever to start up and now im used to this.
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I am using this right now
Mozilla 1.4.3
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.3) Gecko/20040803
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does opera have adblock? i've never used it
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thedeadhaji
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I despise how tons of asian sites dont bother with compatibility other than IE
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On September 19 2010 05:44 thedeadhaji wrote:
I despise how tons of asian sites dont bother with compatibility other than IE
I only mind the lack of compatibility when they block every other browser except the browser it's suppose to be compatible with it. be it IE FF or chrome.
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