Browser Wars

Well... you could try this extension.

Honestly, if you simply search for "Firefox Chrome theme" you'll find quite a bit.

 

I use opera as default, but if an opinion on order of preference..

Opera
Firefox
IE

Not bothered with Chrome because of Opera =p and as someone above posted saying it collects data...so yeah.

 

i use firefox with adblock plus extension and ietab extension. the only browser i'd need

 

Firefox numero uno!
ie back up

 

I've gotten real big on Opera in Linux now. Once you get acclimated to it, it's pretty great!

 

My fav is Minefield, it's a 64-bit version of firefox, so my vote is for firefox, but try Minefield, it's great

 

Minefield isn't only x64. There is a x86 version as well. How can you like it when there is no Flash Support for x64...

 

Minefield is not a 64-bit version of Firefox. Minefield represents the latest build of the next version of Firefox currently in development. Right now, Minefield is Firefox 3.6pre. A week ago, Minefield was Firefox 3.2pre. (Thanks to the version change, we jumped quite a bit. ) It's just the code name for the current build of Firefox.

 

I use Firefox.

I can't stand IE7 (I actually prefer IE6)

I have tried Opera and although I like the loading speed, I loathe everything else. Especially the fact that they seem to concentrate only on adding features that are useless to me. (Built in Torrent client? Built in Mail client? Built in Widgets? How about using the time and talent that you spent on those three useless features and do something great with it instead?)

I would use Chrome if they would release an adblock plugin for it.

I am really curious about IE8 and I am looking forward to the future development of Chrome.

 

I've been switching between Chrome and Firefox but can't decide which to go to full time. Chrome is faster, and Firefox seems to be getting more sluggish by comparison. I also don't really use add ons or plug-ins in Firefox. But still Firefox seems a smidge more stable then Chrome.

Also gave Safari 4 beta a whirl and didn't see that much special. Nice graphical touches which didn't run very smoothly or well (coverflow of bookmarks, etc)

 

try the plugins, you'll love them..

 

Well i've browsed em and the thing is i don't think i'd ever use any of them lol.

I mean i go to my websites daily n catch up on my news, and post in forums, but i dunno what benefit most of them would give me. Most seem like "make your tabs different colors" or "here's a new skin that doesn't probably look as good as the real firefox skin". Plus picture, photo, and movie add-ons don't do much for me really as i rarely browse pics online.

But if there are any good functional ones that would get a good consistent usage from the average user please recommend some and I'd gladly give em a whirl

 

Did you switch of features in Chrome to stop Google collecting user data? You may want to...

(One example is search box suggestions)

 

adblock
i don't need to state how great that is, except that it prolongs your batteries life?

foxmarks
synching all your favourites + logins and passwords with your pcs and notebooks over a possibly chosen server

personal menu
reduce the height of all the menu and stuff to one line, giving you the most screen real estate possible

textlink
any link like [non-html-ed]http://www.google.com[/non-html-ed], and we know people post them like that in forii, can be opened with a simple doubleclick, as if it would be a real link

customizegoogle
make all your personal google pages https by default, remove google ads from all it's pages like gmail and such

locationbar2
makes your url in the locationbar look like in windows explorer, with > arrows between domain and folders, making the domain fat, so you know if someone phishes you. that should be default in all browsers and i think ie8 has it, sort of


others are just for styling but still great. aging tabs is great f.e. as you see which tabs you've actually looked at yet (if you're one of those opening tons of tabs and then read one after the other). glasser makes it fit vista. all buttons and adressbars and all are movable so you can arange them how you like them, not how some drunk programmer liked to have them (i'm a programmer myself, drunk is best ).

these are more or less mines. maybe it gives a bit of an idea.

 

some of those i don't quite understand what they do from your description but i'll check em out n give em a whirl when i get home this evening. Are all of them available at the official firefox plug-in area? That's the only area i've browsed b4

 

yes. which one don't you understand? i'm terrible at explanations today

 

Oh I'm just ignorant you're prolly explaining it just fine lol. I guess the personal menu, and adblock cuz doesn't firefox already block pop-ups? I think i understand customize google but i don't use gmail so not sure if that'd affect me (dont know the difference between https and http). Foxlinks i think i understand, but i only have 1 computer so i wouldn't need it right cuz i don't need to beam username n password info to another computer on my home network

 

adblock blocks any ad on the page. like, uhm, _ANY_. if you read f.e. anandtech, you have in the text those flashy animated ads. i don't have them. i have just the text. not even an empty space there.

https is secured http, which you use for ebanking or what ever. i use it for gmail and such, too. so no one except me and google can see that data. not that important, but still, should be default. e-mails can be important or at least very private.

i use foxmarks for pc, laptop, and workpc.

personal menu removes the menubar on top, instead replaces it with a drop-down menubutton (as well as a dropdown button for favorites, and one for history, as you wish. the result: controls, menus, adressbar, searchbar is all in one line => i gain screen space, espencially height, for less need to scroll on webpages.

looks like this:

 

Good stuff. Think the personal menu would be nice cuz 1 of the things i like about chrome is the minimalist space used at the top of the browser. I like how the tabs are combined with the "program" bar at the top or whatever you'd call it (the bar where the X to close the program is located). How do you have firefox transparent there? Is that a skin?

 

that's glasser. yep, that's a skin.

edit: and while i like the idea of the tabs above, i don't really like it. personally, i think nothing should affect that region. it's the window border, and nothing should affect it, no app should ver do that. not even office 2007 as well as no app like winamp or itunes that does skinning. imho, this part should be reserved for the os and the os only. but that's just me. (i have reasons for this, though).

edit2:

i also use downthemall, a download manager that can download up to 10 slices of a file in parallel. espencially nice if you download drivers from slow ftp server (why are they always on slow servers.. grrr).

 

Can't live without Session Manager and my beloved Tab Kit--it tames the 500+ tabs I have open at any given point, and with Tabs Open Relative it's just right for my browsing needs; and NoSquint to save my eyesight.

And of course Adblock Plus, BBCode, Foxmarks, Better Gmail 2, ChatZilla, Foxclocks, Greasemonkey, History Submenus, IE View Lite, Tab URL Copier, Sage, and User Agent Switcher for recalcitrant sites that are high-and-mighty IE only.

My latest discovery: Personas for Firefox. Real awesome program. Lets you change Firefox's looks with a single click, and no need to restart. I'm rahter fond of the California Sunset theme. Looks pretty. See picture:
http://s290.photobucket.com/albums/...per/?action=view&current=CaliforniaSunset.jpg

 

500+ tabs open at the same time? Why? and what kind of resource usage are you getting that?

 

Firefox to be a victim of its own success?

 

simply a joke and poor analysis.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=168731&page=86

post #858 - and I agree with it.

cheers ...

 

That looks pretty nice. Good choice of background, too, for Aero glass - my backgrounds never look that good with Aero glass.

If I could only have x browsers, I would have in order of what x is:

1. Opera 9.64
2. IE6 (for compatibility)
3. Probably Minefield 3.2 Alpha, possibly Safari 4 Beta. But the only reason I'd need more than 1 is compatibility, and if I wanted just 2 browsers, IE would have to win for the compatibility choice.

And once x is greater than 1, change Opera 9.64 to Opera 10 Alpha. Opera 10 is better, but has somewhat worse compatibility.

Last of the ones I've tried that actually work would be IE7. Wasn't a big fan of Chrome, either, due to lack of features.

Haven't tried IE8 yet except on Windows 7, but it actually looks pretty good on innovation. I'd put it, out of the box, second behind Opera. Sure Firefox coud win with extensions, but I'd rather just run what it comes with. And if IE's Accelerators are technically extensions, they're easy enough to set up (and it asks you to right away!) that they are a step up in my book.

 

1. Internet Explorer 8
2. Firefox 3

IE 8 is actually much faster than Firefox 3 on my netbook. Also, i prefer the visual design of IE, looks a hell lot better than unmodded firefox 3 which looks like it's from windows 95 age. I use Vista Aero plugin for firefox to make FF look like IE 8. IE 8 is the main browser and FF is the backup browser.

The one on the right is IE 8 and the one on the left is FF

 

well,
have been using chrome since the day of its release.. a little annoying at times but works wonder for me.. only problem till now i ve been having is no add ons for chrome.. i had been very much regular on STUMBLE UPON on FF.

wonder when they gonna release add ons fr chrome..

never experimented much with FF layout n all..liked the way it was/is. tried opera after FF was hijacked by antivirus2009, fast n all..but had problems with some sites.. n same problem of not having add ons. (or may be i was/am totally ignorant about their existing for these browsers..)

my preference would be
1. Chrome
2. FF
3. Opera
4. IE (never liked..havent seen IE8 ever,even after it came bundled with my xps)

oh..n adding add ons made my FF crash too often..

 

chrome (speeeeeeeeed)
opera it is quick
ff (development uses)
IE just slow.

 

you !!! that poor firefox

 

LOL.. It's not my fault that FF is so ugly before any plugin is installed. Blame FF for allowing me to installed a IE theme.

 

still, why the ie theme???? just use glasser and personal menu and remove all stuff (with small icons). then it's clean, all buttons in one place, and pretty.

i agree that the default look is quite ugly. well, at least not really vista-fitting. it looks quite okay on xp, though.

check my post for a stylish configuration that is not as ugly as the ie gui (which, imho, is about the worst ui structure i've seen since long. except for the win7 taskbar )

 

Ie Ftw!!!!

 

In order of preference:

1. Internet Explorer 7/8 (Both are great, version 8 being better)
2. Firefox (I'm ok with the look of it in Vista)
3. Google Chrome (works pretty well, but haven't spent too much time with it yet)
4. Safari (I can't seem to get it to open up tabs in the same window without having to use a key-combo... so I stopped using this browser because of this)

 

The look on firefox is so customizable... I have had no problems with any real memory leaks so I am all good when it comes to that. I use about 8 add ons regularly which is not available with any other browser. I think it is the add on stylish and userstyles.com allows you to fully customize the browser/

 

1. Chrome
2. Minefield
3. None

I really like Minefield, but Chrome takes it for me. The searching in Chrome is very intuitive, plus the bookmark management is excellent.
Minefield starts in about 1-2 seconds, Chrome, just click and it starts. The default speed dial in Chrome is great. The Firefox addon is too buggy.

Basically Chrome wins because of great searching features. My top search pages have a button on my homepage. Rest, say I wanna seach imdb.com, I just type I in my address bar, press tab and search imdb....a really great feature.

 

IE8 good against maleware

 

^Good news for IE 8 users.

 

This is indeed interesting.

Good thing I switched back to IE then with the release of IE8

 

I went back to IE8 just for compatibility and keeping everything in one place....Linux, though is FF3

 

I guess it got poitns because of the included locationbar2 addon of firefox that i install on each firefox i see. with this, it would have gotten more points against social hacking. hope to see it default in one of the next versions..