Has FireFox. Doesn't see why it's great.
I've been long overdue to get FireFox, but it became very apparent that the entire internet is against default browsers. There was even a study posted recently that claims if you use IE9, you're not as intelligent as those who use FireFox or Chrome. Surprisingly Safari users scored just above IE users in that study, too.
But you know what? I don't see why this browser is so great. I have the NoScript add-on for security reasons (recent hijacking... ON MY MAC!! :eek: ), and so far, I don't see what the big deal is.
After hearing about how great the browser is and I should have it and use nothing but it, I'm not seeing the benefits right now, let alone any improvements.
Mind telling me what you guys LIKE about the browser? Seriously, I'm posting this thread while on FireFox and I still don't see what's so great about it other than a yellow bar on the bottom that tells me it's blocking tracking ads from Google right now.
But you know what? I don't see why this browser is so great. I have the NoScript add-on for security reasons (recent hijacking... ON MY MAC!! :eek: ), and so far, I don't see what the big deal is.
After hearing about how great the browser is and I should have it and use nothing but it, I'm not seeing the benefits right now, let alone any improvements.
Mind telling me what you guys LIKE about the browser? Seriously, I'm posting this thread while on FireFox and I still don't see what's so great about it other than a yellow bar on the bottom that tells me it's blocking tracking ads from Google right now.
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Someone mentions a study, that means I have to chime in. During the months of summer, newspapers and online news sites are desperate to fill space and they are, internationally, willing to publish the most unbelievable shit just to get something on their pages. The study you mention has made its rounds in German newspapers as well, and only the BBC seemed to be able to take a closer look:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14370878
To put the whole thing in a nutshell: All fake.
Much like Alcoremortis, I mostly stick with Firefox these days due to habit and because I like the icon. Also, judging people's intelligent via which browser they use is in of itself moronic and elitest.
Firefox is, by my count, the fourth worst of the Big browsers. In my opinion:
1.Opera
2.Chrome
3.Safari
4.Firefox
5.Internet Explorer
Darn, I forgot about Opera and you're correct; it's a really nice browser.
Seriously, I can't access their games on Safari or IE, yet I can access the rest of the internet's flash content just fine?:rolleyes:
OH well, I know Newgrounds purposely codes for browsers outside of IE, or at least they used to until IE9 caught up. Now you just have the hold outs over there that don't like IE because it is associated with Microsoft.
Anyway....
So I take it that I'm actually in the norm right now? Firefox is no better and no worse than Safari or IE? It's just a matter of preference now rather than performance?
The new IE is a lot better than the old one and took a lot of its design ideas from Chrome/Firefox.
This. This is the reason Firefox exists.
I've never been comfortable with IE, because it's too interlocked with the operating system. I can have multiple versions of other browsers installed if I really want to, but not IE.
I'm also typing this on a Linux system, so IE isn't much of an option anyway.
By the way, you can move the buttons around in Firefox if you don't like their positions, but it isn't as user-friendly as it should be.
But everyone else caught up.
Wait? What? I've never had that happen with IE and I've been using it since XP days. I tried switching to Firefox but it just wasn't upto par, at least to me and was slower. I switched to Opera for a while but it was a massive resource hog due to a lot of bells and whistles they added. Plus I avoided Firefox like the plague after they had announced that early on some of their data leaks and dumps were "Features" not bugs. I heard they fixed some of them, but that was enough to put me off. Also, when making a website, making it for FireFox compatiable is the worst. I have to purposefully ruin how it looks in IE, Chrome, and Opera to make it work in Firefox. So now I just make it work good in Opera, which if it works good in Opera it works good in Chrome and IE aswell.
Also, I hate how most Firefox users are elitist dicks.
Say what!? I'm not a web developer, but I've been making websites for years as front ends for some of the systems I'm developing, and in my experience IE is by far the worst browser to develop for, since they've deliberately chosen not to follow w3c standards, but instead make their own. Firefox mostly follows standards, but are very lax about them, so pretty much everything goes. When it comes to figuring out what's wrong if something doesn't look like it's supposed to, that's very easy with Firebug for Firefox. Opera has its own debugger which is very similar. IE has an extension you can download, but it's pretty much good for nothing. Whenever I run into a problem with IE, I use Opera's debugger to figure out what's wrong, since Opera is pretty strict, like IE, but unlike IE isn't a developer's nightmare.
I have Chrome and IE installed too and I'm not a fan of Chrome, and I hate IE, for the above mentioned development reasons, and because whatever you do you need to add extra shenanigans to make it work in IE (although with IE9 it's become a lot better, good job MS).
At this point, just use your browser of choice, they're all good.
Really? I've always ran into the exact opposite. That's one of my main hatreds for Firefox was making it harder on me. IE's retardedly laxed nature I knew how to get aroudn easily without disrupting Opera's strict nature. But for some reason with Firefox tables could be collapsed, misaligned, or not even show at all.
Oh IE9 made me switch back to IE, despite my hatred of it's URL bar/search bar. But I just grabbed the google tool bar to fix that. But what I hate most with IE 9 is it's compat. mode. When you make a website you can force IE9 into compat mode, so that way you're guranteed to have your site work. However a lot of websites have been making it so when viewed in compat. mode IE 9 is broken, then forces the users to use IE 9 compat. mode. So, I have to hit F12 switch it manually to IE 9 regular, or IE8,7,or 6 for the website to work properly. It's very annoying how many websites do that.
I know for some weird reason Gmail does it, then it tells you to never use compat mode.
I kind of fear upgrading seeing how much I liked about FF got lost in the 3-4 update