The Browser War.

[Aaron]

For what I spend my time doing online, I'll admit that web browser differentiation is simply too nuanced for me to notice and/or care about in most cases. As a result, I tend to use whatever is on a machine to begin with. Right now, that's Safari. If I leave the office and go crash on the couch with my media PC, it's IE.

If I did a lot of web development or frequented sites that tended to be on the bleeding edges of emerging web standards, perhaps I'd care more. :-/

 

[Human No More]

The idea of a separate searchbox is simple enough - you can search when you want to search, and the URL bar is for typing URLs in. I also prefer having a dropdown list of addable searches to having to find the correct one then press tab to select it. I have also noticed a few strange things in chrome's search functionality, such as that some torrent trackers will not be selected by automplete for some reason (conspiracy? ) so it's an extra keypress to tab to them to search them. This only ever seems to happen for torrent trackers.

 

[Fosus]

some torrent trackers will not be selected by automplete for some reason (conspiracy? )

Cospiracy indeed. lol. I once mistyped tpb and Chrome suggested "Did you mean theepiratebay.org". It led to a pishing site that looked exactly like real tpb. :shock:

Then, for no reason I searched google for "theepiratebay.org". Now the google said: "Did you mean the pitatebay.org"

WTF???? If I typosearched for anything else, Google would have suggested the page I wanted to search. But no, when i type theepirate it must mean thepitate :facepalm:

 

[EywaBlessMe]

One word
SAFARI
'nuff said.

 

[Aaron]

One word
SAFARI
'nuff said.

Safari is nice and clean and works very well. I like it also. I only wish its support for animated GIFs was better--misstammie's signature constitutes a DoS attack on Safari! More than two animated GIFs on the screen and Safari becomes a total dog, even on the zippiest hardware. Of course, that's why I never visit the Pictures of Jake thread... :xD:

 

[Theorist]

I use Netscape Communicator. Because it's the best. And I've Netscape since used it since windows 95. Originally I had Netscape Navigator.

 

[iron_jones]

I would put my junk in Chrome if I could

 

[Clarke]

Firefox 6. It's fast, it does HTML5, it has extensions. What more could you want? :awesome:

 

[Human No More]

Firefox 3, because addons actually work with it, unlike later ones, and because mozilla always insist on breaking things and adding pointless crap to new releases, so it's sensible to wait for options to revert the pointless crap and fix the bugs to come along first.
FF3 is also far less fugly, and has tabs in the right place and a proper menu bar

 

[Moco Loco]

I would put my junk in Chrome if I could

This. :xD:

 

[Clarke]

Firefox 3, because addons actually work with it, unlike later ones, and because mozilla always insist on breaking things and adding pointless crap to new releases, so it's sensible to wait for options to revert the pointless crap and fix the bugs to come along first.
FF3 is also far less fugly, and has tabs in the right place and a proper menu bar

Looks fine to me.

 

[Theorist]

note: I was kidding when I said netscape communicator, I don't think anyone uses that anymore?

 

[Human No More]

It was finally killed off a few years ago, if I remember correctly.

Also, I've since had a play with Ff5 and managed to get it almost-decent looking, and got addons back onto it thanks to downloading the package, hacking their config file's maxVersion to 9001 - works with no problems

Ff5 is buggy though, when I downloaded it, the fonts were so blurry as to be unreadable, and it took a config window hack to fix that.

 

[Fosus]

It was finally killed off a few years ago, if I remember correctly.

Also, I've since had a play with Ff5 and managed to get it almost-decent looking, and got addons back onto it thanks to downloading the package, hacking their config file's maxVersion to 9001 - works with no problems

Ff5 is buggy though, when I downloaded it, the fonts were so blurry as to be unreadable, and it took a config window hack to fix that.

Wow, you're really dedicated to firefox, aren't you ?

 

[Clarke]

It was finally killed off a few years ago, if I remember correctly.

Also, I've since had a play with Ff5 and managed to get it almost-decent looking, and got addons back onto it thanks to downloading the package, hacking their config file's maxVersion to 9001 - works with no problems

Ff5 is buggy though, when I downloaded it, the fonts were so blurry as to be unreadable, and it took a config window hack to fix that.

Be sure to switch on network.http.pipelining and network.http.pipelining.maxrequests.

 

[Human No More]

I did that years ago

Even with the list of manual bugfixes that grows longer with each version (I keep an actual list), it still has a lot no other browser does

 

[Ja'k Dawsiin]

Mozilla Firefox for the win! hell yeahhh!!!

 

[Fosus]

Does firefox still lose an unfinished forum post if you accidentally navigate off the site? I might try to abandon chrome sometime soon. (cause google is stooopid)

 

[Clarke]

The newest versions don't, AFAIK. Although some forum software messes it up by rewriting the content of textboxes.

 

[Ikranosphere]

IE from W8 on my laptop, Chrome on Xperia