Any guerilla fighters left in the Browser Wars?

[cybertalus]

-cybertalus, I do think that Opera was the fastest Browser I've used. I just like all of FireFox's customability. Yay Thunderbird! That was the first thing I picked up when I started moving away from microsoft and the clients my university provided.

I haven't tried Mozilla, but as far as customizability goes, I know Opera has loads (way more than I'll ever use), but lots of it seems to only be achievable through manually editing configuration files. For me, once I get my toolbars how I like them (text only, buttons in the order they were in Opera 5, and redundant clock sitting in the lower right just above the one on the Windows taskbar) I'm all set. It's nice to know I can mess with other stuff if I ever want to, but chances are I won't.

Just as an aside, much as I try not to, as an Opera devotee I sometimes get frustrated with Mozilla's popularity. I'll see someone talking about how they love Mozilla for W3C compliance, tabbed browsing, or mouse gestures and I'll be sitting there thinking "Yeah, and Opera's been doing that since before Mozilla was even announced." I think I now have an idea of what it felt like to be a Mac user when Windows came out.

Using opera.
The mail program rocks now. I wish I could use it at work.

From the reactions I see on the Opera forums, M2 seems to be something that an individual either loves or hates. I really wanted to love it, but after a month I still couldn't stand it, so I gave up.

But I'm extremely picky about my e-mail client. I must've tried a half dozen different ones at various times before Thunderbird finally freed me from Outlook Express. Even with Thunderbird I had to give up a couple of things I liked about OE, but I gained a spellchecker (OE 6's lack of one angered me to no end) and the satisfying feeling of having finally freed myself of all MS software aside from Windows itself.

Now if I could just quit trying to use mouse gestures and Opera-specific keyboard shortcuts while I'm browsing the files on my computer with Windows Explorer....

 

[Zoatebix]

Now if I could just quit trying to use mouse gestures and Opera-specific keyboard shortcuts while I'm browsing the files on my computer with Windows Explorer....

I do the same thing! I actually changed my preferences in the Mozilla mouse gesture extension I got so that it works like Opera's. It was a beautiful time of my life, but I switched because Opera would crash about once a day, maybe twice with heavy use.

Maybe I should have picked a time for this poll to close...
-z

 

[Envel]

i use Mozilla (original), or Konqueror, and thats about it.

oh and IE for site that have fancy scripts.

 

[Zulithe]

Opera 7.50 (still in preview right now) is my current favorite. It's by far the fastest browser. If nothing else, it DOES have that going for it.

Firefox is a very close second. The program's response is much slower compred to Opera (especially on my aging 800mhz Athlon based machine), but it's superior rendering engine and customizability through plugins put Opera to shame.

I like Opera's skinning engine a LOT better, but Firefox is slowly catching up. I don't think it ever will completely though.

Overall, if Opera could fix up it's rendering engine to be as accurate as it is fast, and also add a powerful plugins sytem similar to Firefox, it would easily be the #1 browser and well worth every penny of it's price. Firefox is free though, so it's a great bargain.

 

[Nifft]

Tabs, no pop-ups, and the ability to block banner ads... I lurv you, Mozilla!

-- N

 

[Chacal]

Of course, for simplicity you can't beat lynx.

Perfect for when you're stuck in a console.

And when you want the ultimate stealth mode

Chacal

 

[Zoatebix]

Yay for learning new things. Time to investigate Opera and skinning...

 

[drnuncheon]

On MacOS9, I used Opera and iCab.

Now that I'm on Panther, I use Safari for just about everything, and Firebird (haven't upgraded it yet) for the occasional thing that Safari doesn't handle well (like, oddly enough, my router configuration page).

At work, I use Firefox almost exclusively, until some wacky piece of real estate software makes me boot up IE.

J

 

[Destil]

I'm currently using firebird. Aside from the horrid IE style history I'm quite happy with it.... wonder if the most recent version of Netscape is still bloated... 'cause I really miss the history on it...

 

[Zoatebix]

One month bump, just for the hell of it.