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What's your favorite browser for personal surfing and bookmark management -- and why?
I've had problems with IE 5.5 thinking new bookmarks from forums were duplicates when they were not, thus asking if I wanted to overwrite some previous bookmark -- no thanks, IE! So now I'm considering other browsers for a Win 98SE box.
Need a new browser that works well, won't degrade system stability and offers good bookmark management.
Was wondering what folks here liked and why. I know there are old threads on browsers, but figured folk's opinions might have changed with time due to using new browser versions for awhile.
Thanks for sharing,
Louis
In my defence, I also have N4, N6, N7, and Opera5 on both PCs for testing, and I have access to other PCs at work for testing IE4 and IE5.0, and access to a couple of Macs as well.
note it's easy to add another bookmark that supposedly has the same name (it's takes it name from the title tag so if a site has the same name/title on each page this will happen) - when you add to favourites just change the description in the name box to whatever you want to be able to find it under
I also use Netscape 6 & Opera 6.05 for testing, but always seem to go back to IE as it's what I know best, shortcuts etc..
Suzy
If Opera had a decent password manager, it is the only one I would use.
IE is only used for checking web design compatibility.
Why:
I do have others on my laptop for checking compatibility.. ns, opera and amaya. but with IE delivering more than 90% of our readers, and sometimes opera and NS doing crazy things to my css my big confession is sometimes im afraid to look! I usually wait for someone to complain - which has happened once in 18 months.
If Opera had a decent password manager, it is the only one I would use
Absolutely! I run Linux and my choices are almost identical to 4eyes.
Opera for everything except sites where I need to log on every time such as cj etc.
Opera is by far the most superior browser I've ever used.
PS: I sometimes use Lynx aswell for manuals and long text pages as it's easy on the old eyes ;)
Nick
Opera just has great features. Have several others installed for testing, but everyday is Opera.
Mozilla for Linux. Top browser. It's as huge as IE but on fast PCs that's no issue. The only slight issue I'm having is the shortcuts for changing between tabs are for the right hand, which is less practical if you use the mouse with your right hand.
Galeon is also very good. Would prefer it to Moz on a slower machine.
Once in awhile I use IE for placing orders, because Opera sometimes has trouble with forms.
On the Mac I use Chimera (based on Mozilla) again because of it's speed. Mozilla as a backup. Mozilla is slow but has very nice login managment. I'll probably switch to Opera once it is a little further developed.
I prefer the way Opera handles bookmarks the best. I like being able to swap out whole different sets of bookmarks with ease.
... since Opera can't operate well with Java and sometimes with javascript.One correction: Opera (as well as any other non-IE browser) can't operate well scripts written exclusively for IE.
BTW, I downloaded and installed Opera 6.05.
I also downlaoded and installed Netscape 4.8 and 7.0.
I previously downloaded Mozilla ( version 1.1. I think), but had a system crash that caused me to reinstall Win98SE after I shut down several ISO downloads "ungracefully", so I think I'll hold off on trying Mozilla again for awhile.
Thanks everyone,
Louis
[edited by: stlouislouis at 7:41 pm (utc) on Oct. 20, 2002]
Galeon is by far my favorite browser. It's GPLed, has tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, speed, and Gecko. What more could a guy want?
My second favorite is Mozilla. Opera is faster and has a nicer UI, but it doesn't render things quite as nicely in my purely subjective and personal oppinion, it's DOM support isn't quite as complete, and Free software licensing is important to me.
Links/eLinks comes in third, as a nice text-only browser that supports frames and tables. (I may not like frames, but sometimes there are sites you can't walk away from, like my alma mater's course registration system.)
Konqueror gets fired up if you can convince me that I actually want to see your Java applet. Used to be my favorite, but it didn't improve as fast as Mozilla did.
Stuck on Windows at work:
Can't decide if I like Mozilla or Phoenix better. Probably Phoenix onces it matures a little more.
Then Opera, IE 5.5/6, NN4
There are many things it can't do yet, no SSL, no frames accept in the way lynx handles them, no js, no plugins -- not yet any way.
But what it does have going for it is incomparable speed, the browser is under 300 kb binary, and it is entirely written in C, not C++.
Dillo makes Galeon and Opera feel like oil tankers -- it literally loads up in less than a half a second on my 500 MHz P3. Of course it has much less functionality, but I don't need any of the features of a heavyweight browser for cruising WebmasterWorld.
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For text only, I like Links2.x and w3m both a lot.
IE only and exclusively for Intranet-sites, for security reasons and because of its other flaws, but testing all sites I'm doing because, you know, market share :o
Opera if something doesn't work in Moz - but then most likely it won't work in Opera as well.
Switched from Opera to Moz as soon as the latter was "finished". Can't wait for Opera 7, though. No Netscape 4.x anymore on my new PC, it will stay there on my office PC as long as it takes me yet to convince my bosses to forget about the idea every site should look the same in every browser on every system. The last time I fired up N4 is so long ago that Windows tells me it's being used "rarely" LOL :)
