What Web Browsers You All Usin?

Dubers · February 2003

Jus wonderin what you guys use?

I've been usin IE for years and jus kinda discovered OPERA by chance and been usin it since. It's so much better than IE it's not funny.

It's amazing what you find once you remove the wool microsoft pull over your eyes.

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'> Bill Gates

Smoke_Nova · February 2003

I use IE 4.0

I simply use it cuz i'm too lazy to upgrade and i've had bad luck w/ opera and Mozilla.

*I'm a Minion! finally*

FlatlineUTD · February 2003

Opera is good, but I don't like the banner that you have to watch in the unregistered version. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'>

I'm using IE 6 at the moment, and Mozilla when I'm in Redhat.

Sirus · February 2003

IE. It's all I need.

TikiTorchBob · February 2003

Mozilla. Best browser ever <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Marik_Steele · February 2003

I'm a proud user of Opera instead of IE, a Microsoft Natural Elite split keyboard instead of regular, and Trillian instead of AIM, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, and IRC (yes, Trillian alone can and <b>does</b> replace all 5 of those services.)

I still don't consider myself a hardcore alternative-program user, though. I gave up on RedHat and other distro's of linux when I got too frustrated with my other computers' slowness from age, and haven't tried dual-booting Win2k and Linux (don't have the time to do that kind of experimenting on my main 'mech)

Should I mention again how much Opera rules over any other browser I've even heard of? Built-in smarter popup prevention, better memory and screen space management, etc... All in all, I find it very much worth having a # by # cm space taken up by the unregistered version's single in-browser ad bar, especially now that I've blocked it from updating using my hosts file trick. (gotta love ad-killing tweaks built into the OS itself <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'> )

FlatlineUTD · February 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Marik_Steele @ Feb 3 2003, 11:52 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> All in all, I find it very much worth having a # by # cm space taken up by the unregistered version's single in-browser ad bar, especially now that I've blocked it from updating using my hosts file trick. (gotta love ad-killing tweaks built into the OS itself <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'> )  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Tell me what you did. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

I was thinking about reshacking the .dlls, but the infamous "Flatline is a lazy ****" factor kicked in. As usual.

Dirty_Harry_Potter · February 2003

yea opera is a REALLY good browser, it remembers which pages you were at last time you were online, its much easier to have more pages open at a time, it just have one problem, some pages won't be displayed correctly, but that should have been fixed in 7.0, going to install opera again, installed XP some time ago, and i haven't reinstalled everything yet.

mojojojo · February 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> and Trillian instead of AIM, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, and IRC (yes, Trillian alone can and does replace all 5 of those services.)</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Have you tried using GAIM(http://gaim.sourceforge.net/)? Its open source, and supports all those protocols too. I'm still using trillian myself at the moment, but a friend of mine is using the latest beta of Gaim and says its quite good, although still a bit buggy. But now they seem to have stopped updating the free version of trillian, Gaim should probably become more stable soon.
I currently have Mozilla at work and Opera at home. I would switch over to Mozilla completely, except for the way it sometimes just locks up.
I mainly switched because of the extreme bugginess of early explorers, but I stayed for the tabbed browsing.

J3U · February 2003

most of my online time is spent on a music messageboard that doesn't work with opera, so I never bothered to get it. but IE gives me a lot of problems so I mainly use netscape unless for some reason a page won't load on it. I use IE for video streams, but netscape works for just about everything else. it's a bit of a memory hog but that's cause it has a lot of stuff built into it. I have plenty of RAM, though so I don't have to worry about it anyway.

Tenebrae · February 2003

The current version of IE both at home and at school.

BuGi · February 2003

Opera 7 most of the time and IE 6 when opera cant show pages.

Nemesis_Zero · February 2003

Opera 7 to browse, Mozilla to use Touchgraphs visualized google version.

Scabbage · February 2003

I use IE with Crazy Browser Plugin

www.crazybrowser.com

Dezmodium · February 2003

Opera all the way. Swear by it.

IE is good but opera (on my now AOL56k connection) is exponentially faster. I have to wait forever for anything to load in IE.

Only use IE to see those pages with fancy html code in them. (and its usually not woth it)

ot:

By the way.... until i get a satallite connection I will be using aol for a month r two.

**Please Please Please**

If anyone knows a trick to get online games to connect decently through an AOHELL connection please PM me with the answer or I will have to go a month with no HL MODS. AAAAAAIIIIIIEEEEE!!!!!!!

Marik_Steele · February 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Flatline[UTD] @ Feb 3 2003, 11:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Marik_Steele @ Feb 3 2003, 11:52 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> All in all, I find it very much worth having a # by # cm space taken up by the unregistered version's single in-browser ad bar, especially now that I've blocked it from updating using my hosts file trick. (gotta love ad-killing tweaks built into the OS itself <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'> ) </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Tell me what you did. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

I was thinking about reshacking the .dlls, but the infamous "Flatline is a lazy ****" factor kicked in. As usual.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
I did a bit of explanation of the hosts file in the forum thread, "Argh! Freakin' Pop-ups!: plaese help" here <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=10&t=21868' target='_blank'>http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/in...ST&f=10&t=21868</a>

You'll still have the bar take up some screen real estate, but I haven't seen it display many (any?) ads other than the ones advertising opera itself.

Either that or I haven't been paying attention. Who does pay attention to banner ads? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>

The hosts file is the most legal way I can think of "removing" advertising from websites, Opera, etc. all in one go without 3rd party software. Sure, there are ways of editing Opera so you don't have that bar, but it's a good enough peice of software that you should either put up with it or put up the money to pay for the full.

Dubers · February 2003

You all keep talking about the ad bar but I closed it the first time I started opera and it has never bothered me again. What u guys talking about??

roXet · February 2003

I use <a href='http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/phoenix-release-notes.html' target='_blank'>Phoenix!</a>, all the good stuff from Mozilla, just not as "big"

Hand_Me_The_Gun_And_Ask_Me_Again · February 2003

Konqueror.

Or w3m.

Or Mozilla.

Or Lynx.

Or IE when I'm in Windows (ack, spit, puke).

Injury · February 2003

Phoenix.

TikiTorchBob · February 2003

Slycaster · February 2003

Standard IE, i havn't had any problems with it, so i don't see a reason to change. =)

TractorCow · February 2003

I use Tencent explorer... obscure chinese browser. *lol*

Ok, so it's practically built on IE 5... but it adds a lot of nice things such as tabbed browsing and cute options. ^_^ And I wish Trillian would add support for oICQ... there's a whole other market out there.

I also use Phoenix occasionally, and IE 6 for ftp (on the rare occasion I do any ftp'ing).

Thansal · February 2003

in windows:
IE b/c I can't bebothered to switch browsers when a page can't be displayed in other browsers (and seeing how as mozilla is buggier then IE)

in linux I use Phoenix, it works just SOMUCH better then mozzilla it aint even funny anymore

hehe, who needs multi windows suport when you can just have multiple workstations any way (go black box and bbkeys ;D)

yah, I like working in linux due to some nice things (like emacs for programing and 3+ workspaces just makes doing CS labs so much esier)

however I am a gamer at hart and thus MUST use windows seeing how as all games come out first and tend to work best in windows <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> (and don't give me squat about wine)

oh well, my 5 cents

Cry_Havoc · February 2003

I had to install Netscape on my old comp when all the text in IE displayed pages suddenly became large one day. It had nothing to do with any of the settings, so it was weird.

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>

Just_Ayane · February 2003

IE 5.5 SE with high security settings and Opra

Dirty_Harry_Potter · February 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DuBERS @ Feb 4 2003, 12:28 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>You all keep talking about the ad bar but I closed it the first time I started opera and it has never bothered me again. What u guys talking about??</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
if you brough it you can easily take the banner away, but if you just downloaded the free version, <i>then</i> you can't remove it at all.

Dubers · February 2003

I have the FREE version and I swear on my grandmothers grave that when I closed it I have never seen it again.

What the hell?!?

Novakoala · February 2003

I too use <a href='http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix' target='_blank'>Phoenix</a>.

I love that program. Fast, ad-blocking (it kills popups automatically), that useful tab thing, skins, etc.

AllUrHiveRblong2us · February 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DuBERS @ Feb 7 2003, 12:21 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I have the FREE version and I swear on my grandmothers grave that when I closed it I have never seen it again.

What the hell?!?  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
I also did this, back when I used Opera(back before Opera and windows started having fistfights ona daily basis)

TenSix · February 2003

Im qriting this from Opera right now, and I dont see anything resembling an Ad whatsoever. No ad's when I was using 7.0, then I uninstalled it and got 7.01 and still no Ads. Maybe im special? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

What Web Browsers You All Usin?

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