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Web Browser: What Do You Use?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Lil Pun, Jul 30, 2010.

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Web Browser of Choice?

  1. Internet Explorer

    25 vote(s)
    9.0%
  2. Firefox

    130 vote(s)
    46.8%
  3. Opera

    11 vote(s)
    4.0%
  4. Safari

    18 vote(s)
    6.5%
  5. Chrome

    93 vote(s)
    33.5%
  6. Other

    1 vote(s)
    0.4%
  1. SunsRocketsfan

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    IE 9 is actually pretty good .. Plus all sites work. I have gone from IE to Firefox to Chrome back to IE9
     
  2. Lil Pun

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    Well it is an app you have to install or at least I did so.....
     
  3. Cowboy_Bebop

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    Finally give Google Chrome a try and it's pretty good until I found out how stripped down it was and hated it. Here are the reasons why Google Chrome suck:
    -CTRL+F=words searching is freaking annoying. Keeps disappearing on you if you open another -tab. I preferred to have it in the bottom left corner NOT top right.
    -NoScript=Doesn't have NOSCRIPT is a NO NO! Ran into some pages that contained some crap -pop-up that doesn't want to go away
    -Lack of Extensions/Add-Ons
    -Bookmarks are a freaking joke. Most annoying because I have lots of bookmarks in some folders and a pain in the ass to get to with the terrible slow scrolling. Not only that, it doesn't remember to keep where you have scroll down to like Firefox so instead you start from the top all over again.

    That's the thing I love about Firefox. It takes all the best from all the other browsers. The only complain I would have for Firefox would be they need to control and troubleshoot some Add-Ons because something is really screwing up and slowing down Google Maps badly.
     
  4. Dei

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    Yes, it is. UI-wise, it's excellent. I can't say putting the tabs on the side of the address bar is optimal but it's workable. The way they combined the search and address bar is the best among all the browsers. A big let-down is the lack of keyword search, though. Flash isn't as fast as other browsers, too. I haven't found a way to use userscripts, either.
     
  5. what

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    I've always come back to firefox. But I'm not a fan of 4.0 I went back to 3.6.

    The add ons for firefox are unparalleled. Just about anything you want to do you can do.
     
  6. droxford

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    I just switched to 4.0.1. Why did you go back to 3.6 ?
     
  7. Dei

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    Yeah. You can make 4 look like 3.6, easy, if the new UI's bothering you. And 4 has some really neat changes like being able to drag a tab from window to window like Chrome.
     
  8. brantonli24

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    As an adult who's only recently left kidhood, there's almost nothing you can do as a parent to block kids from parental controls. Even if your home internet is completely secure, there are too many other places with internet access that kids can use.
     
  9. Scionxa

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    Firefox for now. It runs pretty good in Ubuntu and Citrix Online plug for hosted web applications doesn't work for **** in Chrome although I do prefer Chrome.
     

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