Recomendations for a browser..

[Uber Philf]

Hey guys, im running W7 RTM x64 Ultimate, and as you may or may not know, with Firefox 3.5, it in some cases causes explorer to crash. Im sick and tired of it crashing so ive decided to move on to another browser, id like you to give me your opinion on a browser, and reasons why you suggest them.

Thanks
Uber.

 

[Creer]

You can try Opera browser, it's very fast, light for resources and reliable browser on the market. I use Opera for years and love it!
Opera Browser | Faster & safer Internet | Free Download

 

[mickey megabyte]

i use google chrome.

it's fast, stable (even the beta that i've been using for a coupla weeks), simple and doesn't have extraneous bells and whistles.

there aren't that many quality browsers out there - it won't take you long to try them all, and make your own mind up.

 

[Uber Philf]

Im currently using Chrome, but it has trouble saving the password for forums, because the page redirects before it has a chance to prompt me for password saving.

 

[mickey megabyte]

yeah, i've noticed that for a couple of sites too.

i'm not sure if that's a chrome problem, or the web site design.

it still seems to remember them anyway the next time you visit.

one day, we may have a perfect browser!

 

[Dinesh]

Apple - Safari - Download Safari - Download the world’s fastest and most innovative browser for Mac and PC

 

[miker3x]

Well personally I love having all searches available on a browser search engine, in ie 8 you can add in the right corner an add on Umiboxu search, and it will show your top three search engines and results in 3 rows, It is truelly a great add on, You might see the webpage on it, as it works fine with all toolbars and browser, ubuntu, IE 8, Yahoo, and I use Bing, hotmail, yahoo, and My Space, and facebook, and I can set it to open any 3 searches at one time. All my favs are there and in ie you can save all toolbars at a click turn one off and turn one on or even have both on with great speed. I even use the music add on foxy tunes, so I can rock while I browse. So it is worth a look. Also try Software informer, It gives you a transparent buble you can place anywhere, and no matter how many webpage you have open, you have immediate access to bring your icons to the front to open a web video downloader or dvd burner or use any other icon to load a program with webpages undisturbed in front. You all should really love that feature, I always hated to have to minimize to ge to icons or go throug all programs to find my favs,,,, now in a click im there, It also will tell you which drivers or programs have updates. Best of all its free.

 

[pillainp]

Maxthon2

 

[smarteyeball]

I've been using Opera 10 as my primary browser for a couple of weeks.
It's a good 'wean off firefox' browser. It's like running FF with minimal add-ons.

The others are good in their own way, but Opera's been the only one that I've used past the one week mark before going straight back to FF.

 

[Uber Philf]

Well ive tried Opera, and am currently accessing the forums with it, and i have to say, its a great alternative

 

[johngalt]

Fx or Opera FTW.

I use Fx b/c I have it heavily customized (both the UI as well as in terms of extensions), and I have my profiles on a non system hard drive, meaning I can format, install W7 again, then install Fx and point it to the existing profile, and *poof* everything is there. Opera is not very user friendly for making profiles exist in non-standard locations, hence my main (and honestly, only) gripe about it.

 

[Uber Philf]

Can you give em a small description of this Fx? please

 

[Creer]

Can you give em a small description of this Fx? please

I believe that Fx = FireFox. If I'm wrong please correct me.

 

[Uber Philf]

Oh dear hahaha. if so then forget my last comment

 

[brummyfan]

I use IE8 because I like it and sometimes Maxthon2 which is very fast.

 

[zigzag3143]

Here we go again


Firefox because it has almost any extension you could want, becuase its configurable (anout:config, and profile location), because it works and doesn't break other browsers (like IE "auto detect settings").
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I also like that you can backup and restore profiles at will or scheduled.

Most of all I like it because it works, and works, and works

 

[Barman58]

Hello Ken,

Up to very recently I would have agreed with you 100% and for the very same reasons

However since the 3.5 version release I have been having more and more minor Issues

I am now starting to give Opera a long term trial and so far am finding it very good.

Only two minor things at the moment -

the opera version of the sidebar does not auto hide/appear like the AIOS one in FF - think it may be possible but need to play with the mouse gesture options.

The other one is forum related - for some reason the "change editor mode" button isn't available in the post editor and is stuck in non WYSIWYG mode - not a breaker issue but weird

 

[z3r010]

vbulletin doesn't support support opera in wysiwyg mode.

 

[Barman58]

Making a double post as this may help other Opera users


It appears that the WYSIWYG issue with opera is a known issue with Vbullitin with no WYSIWYG support available in Opera.


*However In opera 10 I have set the site preferences to "identify as Firefox" and everything appears to be working*

 

[z3r010]

Interesting, if I get time later I'll see if I can get the site to do that by default.