What browser to use!!!!

mrobjo said:

Avast web rep,free download manager,googletoolbar,and java console,have ditched googletoolbar,and a couple of other add ons that i rarely used,but compatabilty reported and fixed the others,and firefox is running well now so all good.

Google Toolbar for FF5 and all later has been discontinued. You don't need the Java Console unless you are a developer, all java sites like youtube will still work ok with it disabled. Avast Webrep is an interesting issue, they dance all around it on the Avast forums, but Nightly Tester Tools, or Compatibility Reporter will force it to work, and it does work fine. Free Download Manager was also broken by FF4, and FF5 apparently, the suggestion is to use Flashgot. As far as I know, these will all work when compatibility is forced. This is a bad move by FF, and I believe it will hurt them if they continue down this path. I am happy with Opera :)

A Guy

I like it rough Can't miss what I never had, lol.

A Guy

mr pc said:

but Opera doesn't have smooth scroll

I've always found that Opera has the smoothest Scrolling out of all the browsers perhaps its down to different graphics cards ?

mrobjo said:

Avast web rep,free download manager,googletoolbar,and java console,have ditched googletoolbar,and a couple of other add ons that i rarely used,but compatabilty reported and fixed the others,and firefox is running well now so all good.

You really don't need any of those add ons. Google toolbar especially. I have been using FF for quite a few years and use it as my default browser. I have never had any problems with it, and use about 8 or 9 extensions. I like the large selection of themes so it's never boring like IE. Chrome has a selection of themes, but they aren't as nice. I installed Chrome when it first came out, and keep it to watch as it develops. It gets better and better, and is fast as advertized. I tried Opera twice, but don't like it.

I use Chrome as my main browser because it is fast, secure and doesn't have toolbars, FireFox for any heavy downloads because I prefer its download manager and IE9 for any site that won't work with either Chrome or FF (very few).

I mainly use IE9 with no problems, I've tried a few others like Firefox, Chrome etc: but always go back to IE9. At the moment I'm here using Maxthon 3 browser, I used it years ago when I had XP but thought I'd have another look at it.
It's a nice browser with some good features, I'll see how long it lasts before I go back to IE.