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Which Internet Browser is Best?

Started by dew7, May 14, 2004, 10:47:44 PM

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Jeysie

Yep. You're better off downloading and using a whole different browser, IMHO.

Peace & Luv, Liz

Draco9898

#21
Just do Firefox, it can automatically grab all your favorites/cookies/Etc from I.E anyway if you want it to.
It's 4.2 megabytes...reltively painless

Louisiana Night

What does everyone think of mouse gestures?

I think they can be useful, but I prefer key combinations(shortcut keys).

Jeysie

I'm too much of a spaz for mouse gestures to be useful, but most of the Opera users I know swear by them.

I'm sort of a "two-handed" surfer... right-handed mouse clickies for stuff on the top and right... scrollbar and toolbar buttons. Left hand keyboard for everything else... Z and X for back/forward, 1 and 2 for going from pagebar tab to pagebar tab, CTRL-SHIFT for Open in Background Page, etc.

Peace & Luv, Liz

Drunken Chinchilla

Are mouse gestures like the gestures in Black and white where you make cool patterns as shortcuts to spells? Or am i on totally the wrong track?
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Jeysie

Quote from: Drunken Chinchilla on July 13, 2004, 03:15:32 PMAre mouse gestures like the gestures in Black and white where you make cool patterns as shortcuts to spells? Or am i on totally the wrong track?

Hmm. I never played Black And White, but... an excerpt from the Opera help file:

QuoteGo to previous page   
Method 1: hold right button, click left button
Method 2: hold right button, move mouse left

Go to next page   
Method 1: hold left button, click right button
Method 2: hold right button, move mouse right

Go to parent directory
Hold right button, move up then left

Go to home page
Double-click in empty page   
Reload page
Hold right button, move up then down

Stop loading
Hold right button, move up

Open link in new page
Move mouse pointer to link and hold right button, move down

Open link in new background page
Move mouse pointer to link and hold right button, move down then up

Hope that gives an idea.

Peace & Luv, Liz

Drunken Chinchilla

Thats like the best thing ever for the lazy person in me!

Look! No hands! (well kinda, in a way...)
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racx_00

I usually use shortcut keys when browsing the internet :P

BTW i think Mozilla is better than Firefox because from what i read Firefox doesnt have a popup blocker :-\
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Louisiana Night

Firefox has a popup blocker.

Mozilla is finished. (V 1.7)
Firefox isn't finished. (V .9.2)

Louisiana Night

#29
Another reason that I like Firefox(and the Mozilla line).

Gnusto.
It's an extension that let's you play Z-code adventure games, in your browser.

Get it here.

dew7

I am now using my dual-boot system of 98SE and XP Pro. and they both have Firefox installed.  I will try it out for a while and see if it is better than IE.  At least FireFox is open-source and people can fix the errors quickly.  My dad is going to try FireFox also.  :>
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dew7

Well FireFox crashed on me and I had to use IE to connect.  I guess this is why it is still a beta.  :>
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Jeysie

Hee, and IE never crashes on you? You must have a magic computer. ;)

Almost every program crashes at some point, beta or not.

Peace & Luv, Liz

Louisiana Night

QuoteWell FireFox crashed on me and I had to use IE to connect.  I guess this is why it is still a beta.  :>

Try Mozilla, it's not a beta.

dew7

I am still using FireFox.  I do not mind a crash now and then and yes IE will crash sometimes too.  :>
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Louisiana Night

#35
Firefox has received a Softy award from Maximum PC( they gave it one last year also )! :D

dew7

Firefox continues to gain market share.   :)
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racx_00

I still prefer Mozilla over Firfox, Firefox is similar to IE and thats basically what I hate about it :-\
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dew7

#38
Firefox has no ActiveX vulnerabilities and that's what I like about it.  <eg>
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racx_00

Another reason I don't use Firefox is because I need to download all the plugins XD
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