Browser Face-Off

PCWorld ^ | 28 November 2005 | Erik Larkin

[ShadowAce]

[Sofa King]

I still like Netscape.

Yes, you heard me, Netscape.

[ShadowAce]

Actually, I read you. :)

Why do you prefer Netscape?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thats in the Dark Ages.....

I recommend the AMD X2 3800+ for effortless browsing!

See :

CNET Prize Fight : AMD Dualcore vs Intel Duals ~ AMD wins all 7 categories

And Firefox....

[adamsjas]

Yes, you heard me, Netscape.

Why netscape and not Mozilla?

The secret of Mozilla (as opposed to FireFox that every one raves about) is that Mozilla launches faster than netscape, opera, firefox. It does this using the same trick MSIE does, by keeping part of it resident all the time.

When you are in and out of your browser as often as I am, this matters.

There's just no reason on earth to still run netscape.

[thoughtomator]

When I hear Microsoft saying "increased security" I get flashbacks of administration officials talking about border control.

[MaryFromMichigan]

I use Netscape, too.
We have Safari, IE, FireFox and Netscape.
I've been using that browser for 8 years or so and I'm comfy.

[antiRepublicrat]

I'll be really interested when they announce that IE no longer uses system-level DLLs.

[ShadowAce]

Yeah--that would be nice. But then they couldn't claim it's part of the OS, could they?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Until MSIE designers embrace the concept of "on-the-fly" customization á la extensions in Firefox...it will always lag behind Firefox. At least as far as overall use-ability is concerned.

[xcamel]

I've been using Opera in Linux for 5 years now, it's a killer browser, and I'd never go back. I just upgraded to version 8.51 yesterday and all my freeping is done in and using opera.

[PAR35]

Firefox supports my operating system from Microsoft. IE isn't able to replicate that feat. So even if IE 7 is great, I won't be using it.

[Sofa King]

"The secret of Mozilla (as opposed to FireFox that every one raves about) is that Mozilla launches faster than netscape, opera, firefox. It does this using the same trick MSIE does, by keeping part of it resident all the time."

I do not consider this a desirable feature. I'd rather wait the second or so that it takes Netscape to launch than have it sitting in the background all of the time eating up memory and doing god knows what else. If I'm going in and out of my browser then I'm probaby not doing anything memory intensive and can just leave Netscape up all the time.

I also like Netscape's UI better. There's not a hell of a difference between the browsers' UIs, but where there is I like how Netscape does it better.

[newcats]

Hear Hear...
The best part is the embedded mail server. Only need to have one program running for browsing and mail.

[Sofa King]

See post #15

[tutstar]

I like netscape's mail, you can right-click links to open in new tabs or windows and I can't stand outlook mail.
What mail program do you use with mozilla?

[Red Badger]

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[Sofa King]

My AMD Athlon 64 3200+ browses quite nicely, thank you very much.

Now when the next Unreal Tournament game comes out using the Unreal 3 Engine....