What's the best browser to use with W7?

[Barman58]

Jumplists are kind of neat, but that doesn't mean I can flip3d between mozilla tabs does it?

Not yet AFAIK, although as Windows 7 is still at the pre-release stage you have to expect Microsoft's own apps to be ahead with support for the new features of the OS at this stage. I think that by the actual release in that apps such as Firefox will be fully compliant

 

[joe7dust]

All I do to navigate between tabs is Ctrl Tab.

I noticed if I have 2 tabs open in SRWare Iron, Ctrl+Tab will take me to the first tab but not back to the 2nd tab. I tried adding shift but that didn't work, is there a way to do that?

 

[rajat4all]

FireFox 4 is best till now....

 

[Windows 911]

IE9: Great overall browser. Put any website in it, and it will crunch it out correctly. (compatibility mode) Even ones from the late 90's. Secure and very fast.

Firefox: Very customisable, very secure, lacks in resource efficiency and speed compared to others.

Chrome: Flat out fast, very secure, but little of anything else beyond that... I have several problems with compatibility sometimes. HOWEVER, it has a wonderful feature of having flash player and pdf reader built in! That means you don't need to have a separate plug in on your computer or worry about updates!

Opera: Probably my favorite. Great features! You can sync it across all of your electronics, integrate your mail boxes into it. Incredibly secure (Hackers use it) Fastest software acceleration out of all browsers, but lacks hardware acceleration. Very fast. Also, very customizable.

Bottom line:
All of the browsers are just about equal nowadays in terms of speed, especially on an OS like W7. All of them will work very, very well. However, you will have to try each and see what your personal perference is. For example, I don't like how FF renders big pages like BBC News, or how Chrome doesn't let you "open" a download, you can only save it on your computer, and then open it. Opera has several issues with compatibility. I even see that Amamzon.com doesn't look the same as the other browsers when you using it.

Right now, I am totally loving IE9. It seems to have the best of all worlds thus far. It has tracking protection, a form of NoScript that I personally love, called "ActiveX Filtering" built in.

Hope that helps...

 

[Rockfella]

Opera hands down! Best there.

 

[JDobbsy1987]

Opera hands down! Best there.

I'm with you on that one
I do tend to flick to firefox (4.0) here and there.

Although i must say, the final release of IE9 is better than i expected

Regards,
JDobbsy1987

 

[stve]

Opera has plenty of Aero skins this is one of the more transparent ones.
The history panel is open on the left with the by time visited view you also have by time & site & site options.
Right clicking on a page the context menu has an edit site preferences option where enabling or disabling javascript is one of numerous options.
There are also several extensions available that might be suitable.

 

[JDobbsy1987]

Opera has plenty of Aero skins this is one of the more transparent ones.
The history panel is open on the left with the by time visited view you also have by time & site & site options.
Right clicking on a page the context menu has an edit site preferences option where enabling or disabling javascript is one of numerous options.
There are also several extensions available that might be suitable.

Hi,

If you don't mind me asking...

How have you split the web pages into 3 sections?
Also what is the name of that theme?

Regards,
JDobbsy1987

 

[stve]

Way back when the world was young & Opera was just a toddler instead of tabs it used a Multiple document interface to open windows inside the main window , you can still use the MDI today by right clicking on a blank part of the tab bar then Arrange & choose from the Cascade, tile vertically & tile horizontally options. Each sub window can have a different zoom level etc....
the skin is Ultra Glass static 2

edit The Independent news is not a tab, its a panel you can drag any tab onto the panels bar & have it as a panel

 

[JDobbsy1987]

Thank you very much for the info

Regards,
JDobbsy1987

 

[fseal]

So you use mozilla and noscript but you are just theorizing a way I could accomplish the same with IE? Why am I not comforted in that...

It's not a theory, it works.

Set your internet zone to a more restrictive level, customize it. Then put trusted sites into your trusted zone which allows scrips and anyone of 50 other options to run or not run. This functionality is (and always has been) built in.

It's just not quite as flexible as some of the FF plugins because there are only three zones to play with so you can't set exact settings per website. Just a general trust, no trust and REALLY no trust settings. All websites default to "Internet" zone settings unless you put them in "Trusted" or "Untrusted" lists. (Generally though "Internet" should be considered "Untrusted" as far as it goes with scripting and most other things disabled)

 

[Nemix]

Chrome ATM between the latest browsers: Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4.

Firefox 3.x is my all time favorite, guess I'll just wait till they fix up Firefox 4 or release Firefox 5.

 

[IntelCoreI3]

to me is IE9

 

[mickey12gauge]

I personally find myself jumping between Firefox, Opera and Comodo Dragon. All three are great browsers.

 

[natedp]

My choice would be Internet Explorer 9

Add-ons:
Advanced IE History Bar - Click Here
Quick History For Google And IE - Click Here


These are both useful, I prefer the Advanced IE History Bar myself.

 

[Coke Robot]

Yep, with your system specs, IE 9 is the best way to go. It's pretty, rather reliable, and uber fast. I believe IE 9 still holds the rank of the best browser compared to chrome, firefox, safari, and opera. My reference is Tom's Hardware Guide's review of the browsers.

 

[galaxys]

Internet Explorer 9 (32bit) rocks for me

 

[Al Fairclough]

Over the years I have used most browsers out there. Firefox has interesting ad-ons that can quickly turn the browser into 'bloatware'; Chrome is clean and fast, with possibly the most unattractive GUI I have seen and it collects pop-unders like nobody's business; Opera comes really close to my ideal, but it is not terribly fast and IE8 is well, IE8. However, I have found my ideal browser in IE9, clean, fast and secure. I have always wanted to like an IE browser for it's integration with the OS and now I finally can.

 

[Oaken]

I used Firefox for a good few years but got fed up with my favorite addons not being updated very quickly. I then spent a year using Opera until the speed dial feature was changed to my disliking. Next I looked at Google Chrome and didn't like the privacy element, especially the connection to Google servers at every keystroke. Google Chrome also installs an updater which loads at every Windows start - no thanks.

I then came across SRWare Iron (based on Chromium source code) which has all the benefits of Google Chrome, without the points mentioned. Iron is compatible with most Google Chrome addons and overall is a nice balance of the things I like in a browser.

When IE9 was released I decided to give it a whirl, and although it is much improved it just doesn't tick enough of the boxes for me. So I'll be sticking with Iron for the foreseeable future...

 

[malexous]

Anything of a privacy concern can be turned off in Google Chrome now.

Unlike SRWare Iron, Google Chrome has a flash and PDF plug-in built in and you can clear Flash Local Shared Objects using the Google Chrome interface.