Browsers - whats your favourite?

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What's your favourite browser and why? I use Advant 'cos of its unser
friendly interface and regular upgrades.

KR's
 
P said:
What's your favourite browser and why? I use Advant 'cos of its unser
friendly interface and regular upgrades.

KR's
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Avant isn't a browser in it's own right, it is an IE shell (although....
it's my personal favourite aswell).

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P scribebat:
What's your favourite browser and why?
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Mozilla Firefox, because of its cool logo, its quickness and the fact
that it is a bit safer than the IE. (Does not know Active X, is not
bundled with functions of the OS and so on)

bye,

Onno
 
Onno Tasler said:
P scribebat:

Mozilla Firefox, because of its cool logo, its quickness and the fact
that it is a bit safer than the IE. (Does not know Active X, is not
bundled with functions of the OS and so on)
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+1 for FireFox
 
P said:
What's your favourite browser and why? I use Advant 'cos of its unser
friendly interface and regular upgrades.
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Anything from Mozilla (not Netscape with all the AOLcrap(tm) bolted on).

It's fast, powerful, extendable, standards compliant, secure, and free.
 
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What's your favourite browser and why? I use Advant 'cos of its unser
friendly interface and regular upgrades.

KR's
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At the moment Mozilla 1.6 with the MultiZilla extension (works better
than Avant as you can save more than one tab session & reopen with
either the last one used, or select previous sessions from a drop-
down menu). Roboform works with it too. There are a also lot of add-
on extensions to provide almost any function you want. Being a
person who used Avant for around a year, I'm now looking at
uninstalling it because I never use it any more.

As per FireFox (same engine), it's a lot safer & infinitely more
secure than IE - Avant. At the moment I prefer Mozilla as it comes
with the whole suite (browser, email etc), but FireFox is very
tempting as it's getting a lot of good feedback.
 
Anything from Mozilla (not Netscape with all the AOLcrap(tm) bolted on).
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I'm just curious as to what you consider to be all the "AOL crap" bolted
onto Netscape?

I use Netscape 7.1 and it certainly does not have any AOL crap bolted to
it. However, it does run better than any of the Mozilla browsers, including
Firefox, and actually knows how to sort it's bookmarks!
 
P said:
What's your favourite browser and why? I use Advant 'cos of its unser
friendly interface and regular upgrades.

KR's
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I've tried most of the IE browsers and keep coming back to slimbrowser.
It's simple to use and fast.
I keep trying to like mozilla but trying to set it up so it works the way I
want it to seems complicated to me so I end up starting with it as my
default and then open up slimbrowser when I get confused.
 
Avant isn't a browser in it's own right, it is an IE shell (although....
it's my personal favourite aswell).
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It might just be my favorite as well if only it had an option to CLOSE ALL
TABS when you OPEN A NEW GROUP. How do you put up with that Steve? I wind up
with 237 tabs open if I forget to close groups before opening new ones.

Bob

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What's your favourite browser and why? I use Advant 'cos of its unser
friendly interface and regular upgrades.
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MyIE2 /IE by far.

Honorable mention to Avant /IE

I like the looks of FireFox, but I would never finish my morning browsing on
time using it. I hope the FireFox team give most of the powerful
functionality and flexibility of MyIE2 to Firefox on the first final
release. That would be a heavy body blow to IE.

That said, IE is not standing still. The next update will have many cool
features such as an integrated popup blocker.

Bob

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It might just be my favorite as well if only it had an option to CLOSE ALL
TABS when you OPEN A NEW GROUP. How do you put up with that Steve? I wind up
with 237 tabs open if I forget to close groups before opening new ones.
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Bob,
I don't actually have that problem as I generally only have a max of
around 6-7 windows open at any one time, and never use the "Groups" (never
have to be honest). In saying that, you may want to consider asking about it
over at the Avant forums.

www.avantbrowser.com/forum

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Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

Disclaimer:
I know I'm probably wrong, I just like taking part ;o)
 
Avant isn't a browser in it's own right, it is an IE shell (although....
it's my personal favourite aswell).
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Agreed, its not a browser but a shell for the IE engine... but does put
IE on steriods which is cool. (ummm not that was a good use of the term)

Is my fav at the moment as well..


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I'm just curious as to what you consider to be all the "AOL crap" bolted
onto Netscape?
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Any version of Netscape post-v4.7.8 (although AOL had been been bundling
WinAmp in so early as 4.7.5, if memory serves).
 
I'm just curious as to what you consider to be all the "AOL crap" bolted
onto Netscape?
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Do you ever see Netscape recommended here? Ever wonder why?

Tell me, why is the Netscape full download 29MB when the full Mozilla
Suite is only 12MB? Is AIM really 17MB in size? What are they doing,
smuggling luxury cars in the damn thing?! }:O)

If that isn't bloatware, I don't know what is. I won't go near anything
that AOL has touched. Besides, development of Netscape is nearly dead
and what development there has been of late has seen many formerly user
customisable options disappear and more decisions being made for the
user in what gets installed by default.
 
On 21 Feb 2004, P wrote
What's your favourite browser and why? I use Advant 'cos of its unser
friendly interface and regular upgrades.
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(This contribution will be off-topic for the group, as I use a paid-for
shell. You asked, though, for "favourite browser", and not "favourite
freeware browser".)

I started with Netscape and moved very quickly to Opera, around 1998.
Since then, I've tried various IE shells (MyIE/Avant/CrazyBrowser);
settled for a while on MyIE; and have tasted the various incarnations
of Phoenix/Firebird.

About a year ago, though I tried (and immediately purchased) the IE
shell called "iRider". I would dearly *love* to find a freeware
product that comes witin miles of this thing. (Of great appeal to me
is the way it handles background loading and sequencing of pages,
groups and pop-ups, and -- particularly -- the display of the open tabs
as thumbnails, in a side-bar tree display.)

Until a free tabbed browser -- or a shell -- comes up with this sort of
functionality, I'm sticking with (and happy to pay for) "iRider/IE".
 
Bob said:
That said, IE is not standing still. The next update will have many
cool features such as an integrated popup blocker.
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Security enhancements, plugin/add-on manager and as you mentioned, a pop-up
blocker (all this for XP only, I believe).

Am I missing something?
 
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