What is the BEST?

[Iresh]

Hii,
1) What is best web browser in the world? Mozilla Firefox,
Internet Explorer, Opera, Netscape or Safari?

2) Is Mozilla firefox 100% spam & virus free?

3) What is the fast web browser?

Please tell me

Iresh

[adamnichols45]

I dont think any 1 person could turn round and say that 1 is the best but for me ie. others would disagree for security reasons no doubt but i have never had any problems.

[kris1234]

I have no reason for saying this , IE is best for me.

kris

[etechsupport]

Nothing secured 100% but I prefer Mozilla firefox.

[Gibble]

Nothing will be 100% virus free. Nothing will be the best for everyone.

Personally, I prefer Firefox as it has tabbed browsing, and I have fewer issues with spyware when I use FF.

[bcolflesh]

Lynx meets all your requirements.

[jetboy]

Heh heh :)

[encyclo]

"Best" is very subjective as is depends on your personal preferences, your operating system and your level of experience. My personal preference is currently for Firefox and Linux, but for you it may be Opera and Windows XP or Safari and Mac OSX.

As for the fastest, nothing I know currently beats Dillo [dillo.org] (Linux or Unix only) which is significantly faster even that the text-mode browser Lynx on my system.

[physics]

I like Firefox since I can use it on my Mac and Win and *nix machines, it has neat free extensions, and most sites actually work using it.

[jezra]

When I read documentation, I use "links" as it has better rendering of tables than "lynx". When I need to see pictures, I use Firefox.

[txbakers]

What's a web browser?

[Mall23]

I'm an IE guy, but when I go to MSDN, I ALWAYS use FireFox because it's about 10x faster on MSDN than IE.

lol

Try it if you don't believe me :)

[Tidal2]

Best -

1. Fastest - I can't tell any difference on a modern PC's, maybe if you multi task you can.

2. Most Users - IE by far.

3. Least secure - IE. To some extent it goes with 2, windows update improves this if you run it.

4. Features: Opera/Firefox over IE 6.

[bonedome]

I use Opera as my browser of choice and have done ever since ver4.

When I'm building websites I use Opera followed by Firefox and then make sure it will work in IE.

[BertieB]

What's the best? Run all of the ones mentioned here, and use whichever one you find most useful. They are all free (the no-paying variety ;)) so experiment away.

IE is fine, and secure enough if you are somewhat careful. Lack of tabbed browsing can be tricky to live without if you are used to it.

Firefox is fast, [probably] more secure, and has handy extensions (eg the Web Developer Toolbar). Downsides are memory issues if left running for a long times with many windows and tabs open (I've seen memory use > 100Mb, 60-80Mb isn't uncommon... under Windows right enough). Also, some designed-for-IE sites don't render nicely, though this is a minority from what I've seen.

Opera is similar to Firefox in terms of speed (seems slightly faster in rendering), and security. Matter of preference - I use FF more because I prefer the GUI, but I do use Opera. Opera seems to be more standards compliant, so it can be handy for testing sites under development.

If you don't need a GUI, then go for lynx. Fairly straightforward to use and can be easier on the eyes. Nice(r) for reading long documents or checking URLs as a one-off.

If Linux is your thing, you may also want to check out Galeon as a (Mozilla-based) alternative. People say nice things about it :)

Or, you can use a telnet-style client (eg PuTTY) or wget and grab ths source verbatim. Who needs rendering? :D

> What's a web browser?

Made me chuckle, but Google reckons it's something that comes from either Mozilla [google.co.uk] or Netscape [google.co.uk], with Opera not far behind.