What browser do you use? And if you use multiple ones (like I do) which one is your favorite and why?

Since I do web development, I have to have most of them installed for testing but I mainly use MyIE2, an IE6-based web browser, as my everyday browser. It’s basically a wrapper for the IE6 engine but it adds all of the mostly missing features from basic IE6 such as pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, more useful plugs, ad blocking, UI configuration, and a nice skinning system. It’s also “free” which is nice.

http://www.myie2.com

God. This poll will be impossible to answer properly because my browsing habits are so schitzophrenic. IE is set as my default and I’m currently posting through it (because it came up when I clicked on this story with my RSS reader). It’s what I use for a quick Google search and then closed quickly. MyIE2 is my favorite browser and I typically use it for browsing art (fine, pop and erotic), news aggregation and forum sites where I will probably launch a lot of new windows. I use Firebird for certain sites I used to have in Netscape bookmarks for years, unless I’m testing page compatability. Opera I only use for compatability and the only browser I use to go to Yahoo Mail. Figure that one out. I also have Savannah (an IE-based Safari knock-off) installed on my TR just for fun.

IE6 about 70% of the time, MyIE2 about 20%, and Mozilla the remaining 10%. The Google Toolbar really makes IE better, with the built-in search field and popup blocking. I cant believe I forgot to install it until yesterday.

MyIE2 is great which explains why I haven’t used it for months, basically I have spent hours tweaking all the rest of my apps and always forget to do IE. The most important thing for me on my comp is speed of launching and so IE6 was a great improvement over IE5.

Rod

[quote author=“Buckerine”]How do you guys deal with the text size in these browsers?  ISn’t it unbearbly small?

As I stated in your other thread, you may want to check out MyIE2 which allows you to zoom web pages without needing to change the screen resolution.

As I said in another thread I’m using Firefox

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IE.

I keep it simple. I have no desire to try out alternative browsers, even though I hear that they are really good.

Erik

[quote author=“tifosiv122”]IE.

I keep it simple. I have no desire to try out alternative browsers, even though I hear that they are really good.

Erik

i agree with u erik, i wonder why one would go the trouble to switch from IE? can anyone give us a compelling reason? Opera actually looks like it has promise with skins and all - i am all into making my interface look better….but my IE already looks like a mac browser due to styleXp and the OSX theme. 

i wonder too if things like Canon easy webPrint works in other browsers, or if that function is already included.  IE’s print facility has always irritated me, and easy-webprint at leasts allows for multiple column printing / page combining, and a print q of collected web pages with preview.

[quote author=“jiggy”][quote author=“tifosiv122”]IE.

I keep it simple. I have no desire to try out alternative browsers, even though I hear that they are really good.

Erik

i agree with u erik, i wonder why one would go the trouble to switch from IE? can anyone give us a compelling reason? Opera actually looks like it has promise with skins and all - i am all into making my interface look better….but my IE already looks like a mac browser due to styleXp and the OSX theme. 

i wonder too if things like Canon easy webPrint works in other browsers, or if that function is already included.  IE’s print facility has always irritated me, and easy-webprint at leasts allows for multiple column printing / page combining, and a print q of collected web pages with preview.

I know offhand, 1. Popup blocker, 2. Tabbed Windows. Beyond that i’m not sure…for me, I don’t need either of those features.

Erik

IE for me, but I will be trying out myIE2 when I get back to my own computer.

I have been using Firefox for a month now as my default browser and am very happy with it. I do still use IE a bit .

MOZILLA IS TEH ROXOR. IE IS DEAD.

Actually, geek pride aside, mozilla, only because it seems to load 1/20th of a second faster, and plays better with me, but IE is the google/whenever browser. Either way, it’s all good.  Plus IE seems to funk around with my cookies sometime.

~nox

just evaluated opera 7.51 and liked it so much i made it the default. the tabbed pages and “save the entire sheebang on exit” feature is great, as there are certain pages that i always use when online, like radio feed, and it just starts right up without me doing any clicking - just like windows startup folder but for a browser!  i also like the total customization of the interface, they even have skins. downsides so far: some websites dont like opera, like macromedia, which surprised me.  also, no matter how i set it, images seem to take longer to load, well at least you see all the alt text first, then the image…annoying…i have broadband and this does not happen in IE6.  well, i’ll keep on testing till i find something really bad, but so far its all good. here’s a screenshot:

[quote author=“nox”]MOZILLA IS TEH ROXOR. IE IS DEAD.

Actually, geek pride aside, mozilla, only because it seems to load 1/20th of a second faster, and plays better with me, but IE is the google/whenever browser. Either way, it’s all good.  Plus IE seems to funk around with my cookies sometime.

~nox

i prefer mozilla to firefox ... as firefox does not support control-enter to open a url in a new tab

[quote author=“tifosiv122”]IE.

I keep it simple. I have no desire to try out alternative browsers, even though I hear that they are really good.

Erik

Ditto

With all of the spyware/malware that’s been cropping up over the past few months and the author of CWS shredder now calling it quits, I’m now seirously entertaining the idea that I should move my company over exclusively to Firefox.