Poll: Which browser(s) you use?
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The original installed... IE...
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Most of the time IE, occasionally firefox.
Sometimes firefox can't load properly and they said I didn't download the necessary plug-in. What plug-in is that? -
Flash, Java, PDF, Shockwave, Realplayer, WMPOriginally posted by technoboy:Most of the time IE, occasionally firefox.
Sometimes firefox can't load properly and they said I didn't download the necessary plug-in. What plug-in is that? -
Hmm...I think Opera would be faster in both cases. In my experience, Firefox took up over hundreds MB of RAM after running for a few hours with 10+ tabs on, but that wasn't the case for Opera. Opera seems to limit itself to a certain amount of RAM (below 150 at almost all times), no matter how many tabs (within a reasonable number, obviously) were on or how long it has been running for, without any noticable drop in performance.Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:I guess it's really dependent on systems... Firefox is faster on a slow machine, whereas Opera is faster on a fast machine. But then again, I love tweaking, anything close-sourced doesn't allow me to fiddle around too much... so not my favourite.
And regarding tweaking, Opera does have a "opera:config" page for users to change advanced settings.
Besides, Opera is the only mainstream web browser on the Windows platform that passes the Acid2 test. For me, it is quite an important feature as I often have to deal with CSS code (briefly, CSS handles the alignment of elements in a web page) and having a browser that can render CSS accurately would save me unnecessary time on "debugging" code that wasn't even wrong in the first place. And from there, I work on fixes for IE and FF based on the CSS code that renders correctly in Opera.
But of course, Firefox has its strong points as well. For the first part, FF renders CSS code correctly for 99% of the time. It has a wide library of user-contributed addons, some which are useful for web development (Tamper Data, Web Developer's Toolbar etc), and some that make NSFW sites "legal" during work (credits to Adblock Plus). And the upcoming FF3 (or Fx3, according to the official abbreviation) is able to pass the Acid2 test as well. So, if FF3 is more efficient in memory handling than its predecessor, I may consider a switch in the future. But for now, Opera - FTW.
Well, the above points may be irrelevant to you at all. At the end of the day, I guess it all boils down to what you are using the browser for. If you are one who just surfs the net and enjoy skinning your browser plus those "Today's Weather" add-ons, go with the fox. But if you are a speed-hungry minimalist, get Opera on your side. Nevertheless, our dear old IE is still usable if you don't really spend much time on the web or you surf mainly IE-only websites.
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No probs so far. I'm using it now to surf sgForums. Anyway, which version of Opera were you using then?Originally posted by turbo_drift:From wat i see, Opera usually get hang when i surfing sgforums. Now i'm not really using Opera now.
That's my point of view.
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Opera 9.22...Originally posted by LatecomerX:No probs so far. I'm using it now to surf sgForums. Anyway, which version of Opera were you using then? -
Hmm that's strange. I am on Opera 9.2 as well. Tried re-installing it already?
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Opera don't hangs la...
but 1 thing i hate about Opera it loads web quite slow compared to Firefox. -
Internet Explorere 7 plan on switching to Firefox 3 when it is released
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firefox of coz
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have to agree , to certain extent, firefox consumes quite a portion of memory when multiple tabs r on ...
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Mozilla as main, IE for hotmail so I don't have to go to hotmail and key in my stuff
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I use IE 6.0. Doesn't gives me any headaches thats why..
I don't think much of other browsers, because.. can browse is good enough.
so, so many browsers out there also like not much use, -
firefox for me.
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Hmm...maybe different computers have different results, I guess. Anyway, here's a benchmark between web browsers. Just skip to the conclusion part if you find it wordy.Originally posted by Y_Shun:Opera don't hangs la...
but 1 thing i hate about Opera it loads web quite slow compared to Firefox.
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html
One thing that I like about Opera is that it caches the pages and doesn't re-render it when you click on the "<- Back" button, so for me, "going back" is never a pain. Whereas in FF, it always take a few seconds to view the previous or the next page as it always re-render them. But there maybe some options in FF which could change this that I'm not aware of. -
thats what i like about opera. i can go back when my internet connection is having its far too common problem and waiting for it to come online again...
i use Opera mainly,
testing safari
using ie 6.0 for wmp plug in -
IE
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Internet Explorer.
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www.major-geeks.com/brow/ipillowOriginally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:Linky? -
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ie7 to view certain blogs as they appear out of shape in ff
oso for hotmail-ing
ff for many other things such as games cos in ie7, everytime when got flash or java thingy, we need to "click here to activate or use this control" before we can use it
opera got use before but now no more as my windows skin will c0ck up opera's fonts
oso opera doesnt show an updated page of the website, i need to refresh everytime i visit any website in order to get updated content -
camino
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fox!!
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only firefox.
unless viewing certain blogs with problematic skins den i use IE.