Originally posted by acidosmosis
As far as Spybot/AdAware, well you will have to have those anyway no matter what browser you use. Then again if you are smart and know what your doing you won't get Spyware/Adware. The only spyware/adware I normally see on my PC are cookies which I could care less about. Maybe every 3 months something else might come up, but I *never* have any popup problems or anything of that kind.
IE is right for me.
P.S. I hate "tabbed" browsing. It's seriously annoying and inconvenient.
Here I have just got to comment on something I did in school a month or two ago.
I do surf some pron I'll admit that but this time it was just to proove my point...
I searched for porn via google using IE and happily clicked all links that came up... I did this for about 30 minutes.
Then we scanned that computer with Ad-aware, it found 30 running spyware processes and over 300 spyware files!!!
Next I did the same thing with Opera, I visited the same sites etc (well, as close as I could..) After 30 minutes of porn surfing we closed Opera and did a new scan with AD-Aware, the only thing it found this time where 4 cookies!
So I fail to see your point here Acid that regardless of what browser you use you have to have AD-Aware installed...
P.S when I do porn surf I don't blindly search on google, I have my "ad-free" sites ;-)
P.S.S; tabbed browsing is great. but that is just because just like you say I'm "crazy" and often have over 20 windows open... (I usually let them download and then read them when I have disconnected since I'm on dialup but I do the same on broadband...)
Let me give you a good point to use Opera; when it crashes (or your computer) it remembers what windows you had open and asks you if you want to open them all up again, now that is a time saver when the power goes out and you just had to have all those links in your next-day work ;-)
It also remembers what windows you just closed so you can simply go to Window > closed and get it back... No need to bang your head against the wall...
I could go on and on but I have better things to do now, downloading... "family pictures"