I like the speed and compatibility of IE, but I like the tabbed interface of more modern browsers, so I use AvantBrowser now. It uses the IE engine for compatibility, but has the tabbed interface and customizability of the modern browsers. Just my two-cents.
http://www.avantbrowser.com
I run Netscape 7x on my desktop and Firefox on my laptops.
Downloaded Firefox a month ago and can't believe how good it is. Will never go back.
I run Firefox or Mozilla on my Linux boxes and am able to view well over 95 percent of the sites I visit. I use Firefox for all of my ecommerce stuff incuding bill paying and have been very happy with the results. Even on Windows, I have IE, Firefox and Opera all there, but I won't use IE, because of the swiss cheese like security, unless a site that I badly want to see will do nothing except IE.
My favorite right now is Firefox. It is fast, reliable, and doesn't have as many security problems as IE, and it runs under both Windows and Linux, although I run Linux most of the time.
Just switched to Firefox, 2 days ago.
Love it.
Wrong!
Mozilla has been GREAT and an obvious no-brainer substitute for IE since 2002. Only now is it catching on, but it's been great since 2002 (v. 1.3, IIRC).
In general, I don't even use the tabbed browsing...I developed a habit of running a separate copy of the browser for each thread or page, and using the system tray (stacked two or three rows high on my Gigantotron monitor) to manage them. I suppose I'll eventually adapt, but in my opinion, tabbed browsing is not the best feature of Firefox.
Rather, I think its best feature is its open source code, and light, nimble size. It's elegant. Compared to that, IE seems sclerotic and, well, Soviet in its design. Not to mention that IE and Lookout! are like huge sewer pipes pumping virii and malware onto the hard drive.
Mozilla/T-bird is truly the best free option available.
The only thing it doesn't do is improve the weather. ;O)
Firefox is terrific. I just ran my virus scanner a few minutes ago and it picked up 2 new exploits I received from Microsoft IE security holes. I only run IE when a page won't load correctly in Firefox (which is rare) and even on though I seldom use it I still get a security breach.
I may just delete IE entirely and get it over with. Microsoft better wake up because Firefox is a real competitor and it's spreading fast.
I use the MOOX builds of Firefox since they are hands-down the fastest out there with full pipelining support and custom tailored to high-speed computers on high-speed connections. (http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/)
Now if Microsoft would finally get around to releasing a version of Windows that supports the 64-bit extensions for my Athlon 64 3400+ and I'll finally be a happy man (I'm tired of having to reboot into SuSE in order to take advantage of my processor's 64-bit support while rendering videos).
2004 IE 6 IE 5 O 7 Moz NN 3 NN 4 NN 7 December 67.0% 4.7% 2.1% 21.2% 0.2% 0.2% 1.2% November 68.5% 5.0% 2.2% 19.3% 0.2% 0.2% 1.2% October 69.5% 5.7% 2.2% 17.5% 0.2% 0.2% 1.3% September 69.6% 6.2% 2.3% 16.9% 0.2% 0.2% 1.3% August 70.3% 7.0% 2.3% 15.5% 0.3% 0.3% 1.4% July 71.0% 7.7% 2.3% 13.8% 0.3% 0.3% 1.4% June 72.4% 8.3% 2.3% 11.8% 0.3% 0.3% 1.4% May 72.6% 9.2% 2.2% 11.0% 0.3% 0.3% 1.4% April 72.4% 10.1% 2.1% 10.3% 0.3% 0.3% 1.4% March 72.1% 10.7% 2.1% 9.6% 0.4% 0.4% 1.4% February 71.5% 11.5% 2.2% 9.0% 0.4% 0.4% 1.5% January 71.3% 12.8% 2.1% 8.2% 0.4% 0.5% 1.5%
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Opera's tabbed pages can also be dragged off the window onto the desktop, and the 'session' feature allows a preset collection of multi-tabbed, multiple windows to be started with one click.
If for instance you have a dozen web pages to browse for stock market data, another 8 for economic/business news and 10 more for forex and commodity data, they can all be started with one click grouped as three windows (for example) and will load pre-arranged on your screen(s) completed with forward and back button pre-loaded as however they were last used.
Very efficient memory and CPU use.
Combined with zonealarm's ad blocker, it's great.
I'd like to see Opera add a feature that enables java script or java by website, like it does now for cookies.
I'll give it some more time.
My ieSpell doesn't work though. :(
We have DirectTV satellite for TV, but they want us to pay $600 for some sort of box to use them as an internet provider. Plus another $100/month to use their services.
AOL (I HATE AOL -juvenile IM and all the other Mickey Mouse crap and pop-ups) is the only ISP with a local access number.
Regardless, I can travel to any city in the USA or any country in Europe or South America and transact email business on a local dial-up connection from my hotel.
Any ideas?
How long does anyone think it will be before MS introduces a tabbed interface to it's IE browser?
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