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What Browsers Do You Use?

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  • sra
    sra Posts: 4,673 Forumite
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    I'm using Bon Echo - Which will soon be the next version of Firefox.

    It has anti-phishing built in along with a spellchecker and a lot of other improvements.

    It's still an alpha, but I'm finding it very stable and using much less memory than 1.5

    For features see:
    http://mozillalinks.blogspot.com/2006/05/bon-echo-aka-firefox-2-alpha-2-review.html
    http://mozillalinks.blogspot.com/2006/05/firefox-2-alpha-3-review.html

    though I'd wait a few weeks if you want your extensions to work without tweaking them

    :)
  • T4i
    T4i Posts: 1,845 Forumite
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    Opera.

    Stuff I like:-

    Fast
    Torrent Downloader
    IRC Client built-in

    If you shut down your pc without closing Opera next time you bootup it will ask you if you want to continue from last session, opening all your previous pages. Now that I do like!
  • icefall
    icefall Posts: 1,125 Forumite
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    firefox, I cannot go back to ie now,:rolleyes: when I am forced to use it, I close the minute I can and go back to firefox! :T
    I always wanted to be a procrastinator, never got round to it...
  • Hellfire
    Hellfire Posts: 283 Forumite
    opera.

    when i reopen it, it takes me to the last viewed page, and it's faster than ie. on two occasions when my isp had problems and bb connection was down I had to go on dial-up, and opera proved to be much faster than ie.

    i don't use ie anymore but i don't want to uninstall it in case the whole system gets screwed up.
    ok, so i'm hot... ;) :cool:
  • 996ducati
    996ducati Posts: 290 Forumite
    Opera here too.

    Fast & lots of fuctions added in. Also light on resources.

    I have IE7 beta too but tbh it doesnt do anything different/better than Opera & will be more prone to attack in the future (due to its popularity)
  • masonic
    masonic Posts: 28,191 Forumite
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    Avant browser and Opera. Both have the modern bells & whistles: tabs, mouse gestures, feeds, abilty to save/reopen previous sessions etc. Avant supports multiple proxies and has more flexible security settings (c/o IE). Opera is ultimately more customisable (although it takes a bit of setting up) and has a lot of extra quirks and features I am currently exploring. :)
  • masonic
    masonic Posts: 28,191 Forumite
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    Quincy wrote:
    Aah, but that one is 'Which'. This one is 'What'. :D
  • Quincy_3
    Quincy_3 Posts: 2,204 Forumite
    masonic wrote:
    Aah, but that one is 'Which'. This one is 'What'. :D


    hehe.gifhehe.gifhehe.gifhehe.gif
  • fiish
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    I use a mixture of browsers: Firefox is my first choice most of the time as I've been using it for years and have customised my extensions and themes packages perfectly as I like it; I use Opera and Internet Explorer for browsing sites that Firefox doesn't display properly. Also, I do my Windows updating manually, so I use MSIE for that.
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