Browser Of Choice

For me it is Opera. I've been using it for years now (I remember it having the ad banner back in the day).
I've used Firefox, Chrome, Safari and many other browsers but I find nothing to be as good as Opera.

I like Opera because it feels lighter and easier than FF.
Maybe that`s just subjective.I don`t know.

Firefox pwns everything else.

Opera owns IMO.

FireFoX makes every other browser look noobsauce ;)

Firefox just has the 'opensource' and 'linux' look and feel to it. It just reminds me of about any program I've ever used in linux. Opera on the other hand looks like a polished piece of software that you'd expect if you paid money for it. And Opera crashes less(never).

like petalx said, firefox pwns ;) i used opera once and didn't like it that much, but that might have been version 7 or 8 or something, it wasn't recently

I have to stick with IE because all - and I mean all - my contacts use it. Perhaps this erudite and learned group are the exception in preferring just about anything other than MS products.......

I have to stick with IE because all - and I mean all - my contacts use it. Well then,show them the way,the truth,and the light.:cool:

Whether it be Opera or Firefox is mostly down to personal preference I guess. I use Firefox myself and have done for a number of years.

Whatever your preferences, they are both more secure than IE, which should be avoided like the plague wherever possible. :p

Regards Howard :)

Firefox always takes longest to load up it seems, i cant stand that. Opera is light on the eyes, it gets the job done. I.E just blah, too many problems for me.

I use Firefox but... It's using 211 MB of RAM right now, that about sums up what I don't like.

I used firefox for 5 years now...tried Opera...liked speed and interface, but there is still to much that is unsupported...ei plugins...if opera had ff's support and was open source, I would always use it :)

i've been using firefox for years and happy with it.
though ie7 seems to be great, but firefox 2 come faster in my eyes...

That Firefox open source argument I think only holds water if you use Open Office instead of Microsoft Office. Maybe you just like Firefox better, thats fine, but don't tout it being Open Source as a major reason you are using it if you aren't supporting other open source projects.

Firefox just has the 'opensource' and 'linux' look and feel to it. It just reminds me of about any program I've ever used in linux. Opera on the other hand looks like a polished piece of software that you'd expect if you paid money for it. And Opera crashes less(never).

hit the nail on the head, as well as opera's lush mouse gestures

Mouse Gestures?

What do you mean by that Jtickner?

Firefox and Mozilla classic... I only use IE for those websites (like some government ones) that aren't FF or Mozilla friendly.

Mouse Gestures?

The mouse gestures are a nice little feature Opera has, for instance you hold down the right click button on your mouse and press left click to go back a page, or hold down left click and press right click to go forward a page, there are many more, such as hold down right click and drag the mouse down to open a new tab, or hold down right click and drag the mouse down then right to close a tab. there really good. make browsing a lot quicker and better

jtickner1 - its actually customizable. Or at least the way I use them is different than you. I hold right mouse and just flick my wrist left and that goes back, flick to the right and it goes foward. Those are really the only 2 I use, they get used extensively though. Really sucks to have to use IE or FF because I find myself using mouse gestures and having nothing happen :(

Opera is the best I have ever used. Starts up faster and loads pages faster than Firefox or IE, and looks much better too. It has a cleaner interface IMO and the widgets and other features like Mouse Gestures make for icing on the cake.

Of the three, I'd prefer Opera. However, because of browser driven development, I use IE7 alot. The current Hierarchy of browser usage for me is IE7, then Opera, then Browzar (standalone IE alternative that automatically clears its own caches when closed), and then Firefox.

to make IE7 more like Opera, I also have a FREE add on for IE7 called IE7Pro (www.ie7pro.com). Among other things such as forcing single instances, extra ad blocking, flash blocking (really really nifty) dictionary and spell checker, address bar macroing (like putting in "ts" for www.techspot.com/vb/ ), and custom user scripts, it also includes customizable mouse gesturing (what a fun feature in Opera. =), now it can be used in IE! ). Best of all, it makes IE just as feature rich as Opera, but its still more bloated and slower though. =p

FF works for what its worth, and is really nice in regards to its impressive library of extensions.

Relying on a program to be secure and to protect you is foolish, as I believe it is more up to the user to be wary of his or her surfing habits, and to practice safe browsing of the Internet and not open emails that you do not know who they are from (or blatantly spam).

As we say in the office, the weakest point in a security system is not necessarily the programs used within it, but the people who use the programs.

~madboyv1

The mouse gestures are a nice little feature Opera has, for instance you hold down the right click button on your mouse and press left click to go back a page, or hold down left click and press right click to go forward a page, there are many more, such as hold down right click and drag the mouse down to open a new tab, or hold down right click and drag the mouse down then right to close a tab. there really good. make browsing a lot quicker and better

Oh FireFox also has those mouse gestures too, I use them when im looking on alot of pages so I can switch tabs faster

Firefox is my first choice, but I leave my "Verizon Yahoo" browser as my default. It's a heavily modded version of IE6, but with slightly better security and TABBED browsing.
Firefox has a few quirks (in my experience). Certain websites can't be visited by direct window, but must be opened in tabs or else they open in the sidebar which is really annoying. "Webshots" won't display thumbnails in Firefox but they are displayed correctly in Opera. (Again referencing my installations).
At the end of the day I guess I'm easily moved by a pretty face (GUI), and I enjoy the many faces of Firefox.
I run the browser with "No-script" and "Flashblock".

jtickner1 - its actually customizable. Or at least the way I use them is different than you. I hold right mouse and just flick my wrist left and that goes back, flick to the right and it goes foward. Those are really the only 2 I use, they get used extensively though. Really sucks to have to use IE or FF because I find myself using mouse gestures and having nothing happen:(

yeah i hate that. thats why you dont use an inferior browser :D, about the wrist flicking gestures, thats a default one, i just prefer the clicking one.

Oh FireFox also has those mouse gestures too, I use them when im looking on alot of pages so I can switch tabs faster

whenever i used firefox i can never do a mouse gesture? you can do a tab one with opera, hold right click and scroll away ;)

Whenever i used firefox i can never do a mouse gesture? you can do a tab one with opera, hold right click and scroll away ;)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/39

In regards to this subject, it is still does not get better than the native gesture support in Opera. Though... can you put in custom gestures in Opera? I've never tried. I know in IE7+IE7Pro you can custom set what a decent sized list of gestures will do.

I used to use Firefox as my default browser. Now I use IE7 because it just looks so good! :D

I also like IE over Firefox because some pages aren't displayed correctly in Firefox, like Microsoft Outlook Web Access, which I use frequently.

I've been with firefox since alpha days, I can get it do what I want with extensions, IE tab is a handy one, also adblock plus with easy element and easylist, bugmenot, and tab mix plus. There are many more good extensions.

I can get it do what I want with extensions

Opera does what i want and more, without extensions.

today my mom was messing with my computer and said "I CANT FIND THE DAMN AOL!!!" ( I deleted it the day I got this computer from my grandma :haha: ) and she spent like 30 minutes complaining about how AOL is WAAYYY better then FireFox until she opened it up and saw how über fast I made it with about:config ( lets you config firefox's settings )

ive used firefox for the last few years so its hard not to be biased

ive used firefox for the last few years so its hard not to be biased


Yeah i used to use it a while back, then one day one of my dads friends was like ah you should use opera, its great (this was just after it became free pretty much) and i just thought pfft, FF is the best. untill one day i used opera and i've never gone back

Yeah, I prefer firefox. I don't like IE much, but have never tried opera.

i highly recommend it, it's got tonnes of great features (http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/features/) built right into it, such as the mouse gestures and speed dial

FFF! firefox forever i mean :) i used IE for a long time (7 years) and then my geek friends started to push me like 'comon why don't you use firefox' and i've totally fell for tabs and addons, though it took me some time to get used to ff. i hate opera (please don't shoot me)... i hadn't had my pc for 1 year some time ago and i used my roommates computer and she was opera fan. that browser scares me till these days, i can't understand how some people find it user-friendly. maybe i'm too stubborn ;)

Its more user friendly than IE or FF. It has tabs, its had tabs before anything else had tabs. FF is great if all you want to do is view a webpage completely like you would have in 1996, it takes several extensions to make it user friendly at all.
The only legitimate complaint I've heard about Opera from a FF user that held any water was that Opera doesn't use extensions, so that may be a legitimate fault. But when a browser requires extensions to be more usable than Netscape Navagator 3.0 that is also a fault.

Personally, I like the way that you can bolt as little or as much onto FF as you want, e.g. eBay Companion, Forcastfox (tells you the weather in the status bar ;)), Track Me Not and IE Tab (allows you to integrate IE into a FF tab - very handy)

Obviously IE7, FF and Opera all use tabs now but I find FF loads a lot faster than IE and i prefer the interface a lot more - that you can also customize easily with skins ;)

I haven't used Opera for a few years but I didn't particularly like it when I did use it and i've grown very used to FF now to change :) Plus I just like it too much

FF is great if all you want to do is view a webpage completely like you would have in 1996

But when a browser requires extensions to be more usable than Netscape Navagator 3.0 that is also a fault.

hahahahahahaha, yes!

Opera has it's own sort of extensions, the Widgets. I know they're not as extensive as FF's extensions, but there is still the basic stuff in there like weather and currency converters and stuff like that. The Block Content feature built right into Opera is far better than AdBlock (so i've read anyway) which you have to seperatly download for FF

i loveeee Opera....its nice, cool feature, convenient, good speed..less problem compare to de other two browser

I voted other-meaning I use Maxthon (formerly IE2)-and it has become my browser of preference, but I do use FF and Opera and IE on occasion as well...

Merely because of having to use it, it goes to IE.

But I will use FF when the feeling takes me or if somethings not streaming/ loading properly :D

Firefox just need to vote the only way to go

One thing that does annoy me with Opera is the compatability with some sites, they don't work or lag to hell or are just dumbed down versions (Live image search)

Is this the people making the sites being lazy or is it the browser itself? cause i know IE and FF don't use the same source or anything and they run basically any site fine and it's even gayer when you go on a site and it tells you to go and download FF or something cause you're using a browser that isn't supported by there shoddy site

Opera is very compliant with web standards, IE is not. Opera is more standards compliant based on the tables in Wikipedia than any other web browser, so it is just poor web page design if it doesn't work in Opera.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers

Lazy peoples, Well, that was a good read, i see Opera getting a good result in nearly all of them, thanks for the link.

Firefox all the way (i think my avatar makes that clear)

A christmas tree? :D

I love Firefox, and I will always use it no matter what OS I am on. Safari is a very nice browser on Mac OS X also.

FenderGuy2112

my favorite browser is mozilla firefox. donno why but I got used to it. I also tried ie7 but no joke first run ended in a critical error... why bother?

The other day i was reading the paper and when i saw one of the ads i mentally went to block it ha, Opera is taking over my mind