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What browser do you personally use for your every day web surfing?
(e.g. not the browser(s) you use for development work, but the one you regularly use to check the news, read the funnies, buy stuff and do your banking etc etc)
I've been happily paying for Opera since version 3.
Internet Explorer -- 13
Netscape/Mozilla -- 18
Opera -- 20
Safari -- 2
Konqueror -- 0
Lynx -- 1
I missed off the Amaya note since although they said "Opera and Amaya", I can't really believe that they use Amaya for very much of their personal web browsing.
[edited by: tedster at 5:44 am (utc) on Jan. 18, 2004]
Not registered, and the banner really bothers me very little. May actually sometimes be an advantage as it may cause Google to visit a new page a bit earlier.
Apart from that I have a very relaxed attitude to the browser question. I still take daily surfs with both Opera, Mozilla and IE on an almost equal basis. But the trend seems to be that IE is more and more fading back as a definite #3 and Opera 7.23 slowly getting advantage over Mozilla 1.5.
The last two versions of Opera pushed me away (the beta version now....>bleh!< ) I was only ever barely able to tolerate the interface.
IE only gets use whenever I have to hit one of microsoft's sites where the whole page is broken to any other browser.
Netscape 7.02 on my Mac.
I like the tabbed browsing; I love the built-in popup killers (which for some reason, on the Mac, DON'T stop popunders from the NY Times web site).
I use IE though to make sure I understand how "everyone else" in the world will see stuff I develop.
Related:
1) The fastest browser (Oct 12, 2003) [webmasterworld.com]
2) How IE promotes BAD design (Oct 5, 2003) [webmasterworld.com]
3) One of the cool things about my browser is.... (Aug 15, 2003) [webmasterworld.com]
4) Last chance to get IE 6 (June 30, 2003) [webmasterworld.com]
[edited by: claus at 4:41 pm (utc) on Jan. 17, 2004]
Your little pet browsers won't even break 1% in the business community.Without question that's the case today; however, in another 2-3 years that may change. It's my feeling that as atlernate browsers start gaining market share in the comunity at large, and as the percentage of the work force who are tech savvy rises, the landscape will slowly change.
Since we are the best informed as to what the potential is for a browser which is even nearly standards compliant (as far as I know, no browser is 100% compliant yet), we are also most likely the vangaurds for what things will look like in the future when the population at large is tech savvy. As I recall, Jakob Neilson predicted that in sevral years time being able to program will be like being able to read and write today from the standpoint of employability.
...concentrate on posts designed to be useful to webmasters.These are usefull posts. The more we realize that there is hope for "standards" being standard, the more likely we'll code to take advantage of standards, and the more likely eveyone else will get the message.
If we don't start educating people about the truth, and educating businesses why standards are better, then who will? It's been said that even the jorney of 1000 miles begins with but a single step. It's time we start walking.
Why do people in this thread keep talking about tabbed browsing likes it's a Firebird-only feature? Mozilla's got it, too.
