Firefox vs. Opera vs. Internet Explorer

[Corban]

Hey, I was wondering who used which so I thought I'd make a poll to find out what web browser people use on windows (or the one you would chose if you used it). I personally use Firefox and after switching from IE there is no way I could ever go back.

[Devari]

Konqueror!

Oh... On Windows...? I haven't booted into Windows in... months. Maybe 4 times in the past year? So, I guess I can't respond.

[Kraken]

i use my butt.

[Pillsburyhitman]

Firefox. Ex-Opera user, ex-ex-IE user.

[windhound]

forgot Mozilla, Netscape and.. *small shudder* AOL


I use firefox m'self

[The Beatles]

I personally use Firefox and after switching from IE there is no way I could ever go back.

Switch your operating system. You'll never want to go back.
http://opensuse.org/

[windhound]

http://fedora.redhat.com
wait 5 more days and Core 5 comes out nice and shiney..

However, there is a large difference between shifting web browsers and operating systems.
I love fedora, but it has many more quirks than windows.

[Pillsburyhitman]

I personally use Firefox and after switching from IE there is no way I could ever go back.

Switch your operating system. You'll never want to go back.
http://opensuse.org/

There's a good possibility that he wants to play games on his PC, Beatles .

[Devari]

Hey! I have games on Linux.

[The Beatles]

I know Fedora has quirks, but SuSe has an order of magnitude less to a Windows-user.

[Floppy_Drive]

There's a good possibility that he wants to play games on his PC, Beatles  .

That's what a dual boot is for.

I use firefox on Windows.

[Freenhult]

Hrm...I use both equally. But I do have to say that Firefox is overall better, but slower compared to IE.

[The Beatles]

On Windows: A fast Gecko browser is K-Meleon. A faster but terribly ugly browser is Opera. Firefox is a bit slower but still the most functional, mainstream, and likely more secure one. IE is like the raving lunatic relative whom you can't get rid of, but can't let out because it would bite you badly... Just never go near it and hope its code is never invoked. (This is trying to be a security analogy.)

On Linux: Galeon's an amazingly fast and fetatured Gecko browser, pity it can't match Firefox's extensibility, or even UI niceness. Mozilla Suite is quite good and decently fast, but the defaults need to be tweaked. If you use mail or IRC, go with the Suite. Konqi is a middle-man: it's got some nice UI bits, it's got some horrible UI bits, and its rendering engine isn't as preferable as Gecko.

On OS X: Who uses that anyways.

[Devari]

Linux: Konqi is, excepting script speed, faster than the vast majority of Gecko browsers. Actual standards support is, I believe, superior to Gecko. However, a lot of the non-standard stuff that Gecko supports, KHTML does not. The UI isn't great, though. Better than Opera, worse than Firefox. Galeon... Never really used it. Horribly ugly, but it looks quite good functionally. Pity I don't like GNOME. I hate the Netscape look of Seamonkey (suite is now dead), but it's faster than Firefox. Epiphany is... odd. I haven't tried a recent version, granted, but I don't see an advantage over Suite, Galeon, or even FF.

OS X: Safari. KHTML-based, and quite good. Camino might be good. Mozilla tends to be cruddy on OS X.

Windows: K-Meleon is awful. Granted, I tried it a long time ago, but I couldn't get rid of the preloader icon! It felt like spyware. Opera can be made to look good, but I'm actually finding Opera 9 (on Linux) to be kinda slow and unreliable.

[The Beatles]

Galeon's tab management is the only sane tab management I've seen. Then again if you open several tabs at once, some of your requests are likely to be forgotten about.