Firefox vs. Opera vs. Internet Explorer

Post by **Devari** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:45 am

Hm... Well, depending on how many dependencies it has, maybe I'll take a look at it...

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:07 pm

You know what I use mainly, though sometimes I use Opera but it kinda loads too slow since it's not intergrated into Windows...... Firefox on linux is good though

Alcaline the Badger · Post by **Alcaline the Badger** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:37 am

IE, basic, easy, no problems.

Post by **Devari** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:58 am

No problems? *snrkkkk*

Alcaline the Badger · Post by **Alcaline the Badger** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:14 pm

Devari wrote: No problems? *snrkkkk*

Honestly, I've never had a problem with it.

Post by **windhound** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:33 pm

...that you've noticed

statistically it lets in far more adware and spyware
is much less secure in general
butchers some webpages not made specifically for it (firefox, opera, konqi all display the page fine, IE eats it)
has a horrible bookmark system compared to other browsers
looks like crap

edit: wrongness. I cant use (Profanity is a sign of Maturity) (s h i t) but crap makes it through the wordfilters. bleah

Alcaline the Badger · Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:51 pm

windhound wrote: ...that you've noticed

statistically it lets in far more adware and spyware
is much less secure in general
butchers some webpages not made specifically for it (firefox, opera, konqi all display the page fine, IE eats it)
has a horrible bookmark system compared to other browsers
looks like crap

edit: wrongness. I cant use (Profanity is a sign of Maturity) (s h i t) but crap makes it through the wordfilters. bleah

Meh, I could honestly careless what my page looks like while im smashing people on a game.

And I've got spyware and adware "detectors" never had problems. Guess you guys look at to much p.orn.

Nohc · Post by **Nohc** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 2:42 am

Firefox is the best Windows based web browser I've found...

Post by **Devari** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:56 am

After re-evaluating Epiphany, I've come to the conclusion that it is ugly but awesome.

Really simple, almost painfully so - configuration is practically nonexistant.

But it has my favorite feature, the main reason I use Konqueror.

Speed.

Post by **The Beatles** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:01 am

Have you tried Galeon v. Epiphany? Galeon's better IMHO, Epiphany just lacks so many features that are actually useful and needed. At least, a version I tried a year ago...

Post by **Devari** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:18 am

Features are lacking a bit, yes. But, on the flipside, it certainly feels at least a bit faster than Galeon, and MUCH faster than Firefox. epiphany-extensions is surprisingly nice, if you like the settings they give you. The nice thing is that the extensions don't slow down the browser, like in Firefox.

Amazing how the same rendering engine can give such vastly different performance.

I'm probably still sticking with Konqueror, but Epiphany certainly is nice.

I've also learned that that Browser Speed Comparisons thingy is full of it. Epiphany isn't spectacular on benchmarks, but I know speed when I see it. Firefox has nothing on it.

Post by **Devari** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:23 am

I had a MASSIVE bug with Galeon. Whenever I typed "/" into the location bar, the program locked up. Problem was, it had "stolen" all X input, and I couldn't kill it - I had to ctrl-alt-backspace and kill X itself.

The second part didn't happen if I ran from a terminal or yakuake, but that's pretty clumsy. But it ALWAYS locked up when trying to look at the local filesystem.

Post by **windhound** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:03 pm

that might just be you Devari

my Galeon 2.0.1 redirects a / to file:///
and displays the contents of / just fine

and I'll take a speed hit for a good ui, which is what firefox has

Post by **Devari** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:47 pm

It might have something to do with missing GNOME libs. I've uninstalled all of 'em that I can without breaking dependencies.

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:30 pm

Nohc wrote: Firefox is the best Windows based web browser I've found...

Yeah dont do dogy websites on IE and you'll be fine... Anyone getting spyware throuhg IE shouldn't use a computer if they can't block or remove it

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