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NIWA Community => The Lounge => Topic started by: Seritinajii on June 16, 2010, 01:57:28 AM
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So guys, what browser do you use? I'm thinking the majority will be Firefox. Here's a topic to generally discuss browsers and stuff.
I use Google Chrome and don't remember who recommended it to me. It's very simplistic but does have add-ons like Firefox. Its compatibility and usefulness is at about the same level as Firefox, but for me it's faster. Also, I like the design. Here (http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/landing_chrome.html?hl=en&brand=CHMB&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-sk&utm_medium=ha)'s the site, go try it!
I also use Firefox when I need to, and IE when I'm forced to. Although I really don't like IE. What do you guys think?
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Safari, it came with my computer and it works for what I need
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Mainly, Chrome and Firefox. I also use other browsers, but that is to test if a website i am working on is working and is coming out the same in that browser.
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FF. During some time I used Chrome because I had problems with FF, and I hated it. Not at the grade of IE, but IMO, theres nothing link FF
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Opera all the way. :] I used to use FF all the time, but when Opera 10 came out, I just couldn't NOT use it and now it's become my main browser. It's fast, compact, and the viewing window is HUGE! Chrome is fast too but at random times it will decide to not load a page, which is really annoying. And FF is now too bulky and slow for me to care about.
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I have always used Internet Explorer. It's what I grew up using and it's what I'm used to. About last week though, I downloaded Firefox and I realized how much more tools it has. I am in a transition period right now I guess; I try to use Firefox when I remember, but I often open Internet Explore by habit which is why I'm using it right now.
I use Opera on the extremely rare occurences that I use the Wii's Internet Channel (probably once or twice in the last 18 months). I use it a lot on my DSi though.
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I use FireFox 99.99% of the time.
The other .01% is me using Internet explorer.
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Mainly Opera, or others if testing websites (which isn't often any more :(). If I for some reason would have to choose another browser, I'd probably go with Chromium/Chrome.
I've also stripped down the UI of Opera, so this is what it looks like for me:
(http://rapidfiles.net/images/20195tmp.png)
(Though usually with a whole lot more tabs; I like only seeing the favicons.)
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I used to use Internet Explorer when I was a total computer noob. Then someone introduced me to the magic of Firefox and I used that until version 3.6 came out and started using all of my computer's memory and CPU. Now, I use Chrome because it's a nice, light-weight browser that's fast and has some add-ons so you can customize it. I use Firefox very rarely on occasions when I'm testing something though.
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Mainly Opera, or others if testing websites (which isn't often any more :(). If I for some reason would have to choose another browser, I'd probably go with Chromium/Chrome.
I've also stripped down the UI of Opera, so this is what it looks like for me:
(http://rapidfiles.net/images/20195tmp.png)
(Though usually with a whole lot more tabs; I like only seeing the favicons.)
Opera users unite! 8) I can't resist the Z1-Glass theme. Looks great using Aero. ;D
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I used to use Firefox, but it just got to the point where its memory leak was so bad that I couldn't use it. So I went to Chrome. It's pretty good. I could do without its glitches in randomly not wanting to load a page. But it's the only browser that is good with extensions that I can use. Really I can't use the internet without the Web of Trust extension.
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I use Firefox and Google Chrome.
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Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Oprea
I used IE before it froze my computer (and it keeps on freezing my computer every time I use IE)
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Firefox.
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Firefox usually, Opera if I need the IRC software, and sometimes Chrome. Ironically, Chrome refuses to load Gmail nine times out of ten.
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Firefox usually, Opera if I need the IRC software, and sometimes Chrome. Ironically, Chrome refuses to load Gmail nine times out of ten.
Whoa, I thought it was only me that would have that problem... D: But it's not only gmail that it does it to, Chrome will not want to load random pages. Ah well.
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Actually, the new updates to Firefox 3.6.9 or whatever it is now, are not bad. It's decently fast. I've been using it more since it doesn't seem to hog my CPU all the time now. Chrome is still nice, though.
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Firefox, with 19 addons (plus LittleFox) at last count (...that is, just now), stuff I can't see being able to replace easily with anything else any time soon. I use Midori or Chromium to test stuff I'm working on, or when other people want me to look something up (so that I'm not logged in at various places), or just to see how they're getting along every now and then.
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I use Opera. Its fast, reliable, and my friend would kill me if I didn't.. :eekdance:
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Opera on Wii, Safari on iPhone, Chrome on computer.
Chrome > all.
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There's definite majorities for the Firefox and Chrome users. They take 2/3 of the vote. I myself use Chrome regularly, and use Opera when I have to use my Wii. On minor occasions, I use IE.
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I use IE and Firefox, depending on the computer.
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Anything that uses webKit is fine with me.
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Have you tried Midori?
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Have you tried Midori?
What's Midori?
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Well, I don't think it's a huge stretch of logic to infer from the post above mine that it's a browser using WebKit.
https://duckduckgo.com/Midori_%28web_browser%29
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Well, I don't think it's a huge stretch of logic to infer from the post above mine that it's a browser using WebKit.
https://duckduckgo.com/Midori_%28web_browser%29
This is true. But i am looking for a more detailed explanation. How is it different from firefox? or chrome? do you think it handles rendering of websites better than either two? etc.
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Does Firefox render anything wrong? And pretty much all WebKit browsers display websites the same, if they're using the same version, so it's like Chrome/Chromium there.
First, there's maybe only one other browser that uses GTK - unlike pretty much everything else, Midori looks native on my desktop. It's also light (download size, memory), clean, fast, but still with a decent featureset. Private browsing, add an extra frame with its own set of tabs, toolbar customisation. Customise every keyboard shortcut. Built-in ad-blocking, RSS reader, mouse guestures, auto-filling forms, user styles, user scripts, element inspector and development tools.
Little things you don't really see anywhere else, or at least where they're easy to find. Things like copying URLs of all open tabs to the clipboard, switching between tabs like you would programs in most modern desktops with alt-tab (goes by recency instead of position), duplicate tab, hide text from a tab so it's only got an icon, import/export bookmarks, useragent switcher (and with some defaults to choose). Easily assign external applications as text editor, download manager and feed reader. Easily add custom search engines - like with Firefox, only for anything: it doesn't have to have an addon for it already.
And it's only at version 0.2.9.
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Sweet! Nothing wrong with FF or Chrome, but it looked like you were trying to advertise the browser to us; so i was curious on what made it good and not just what they said on their site. :eekdance:
Anyway, i am downloading it now.
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I wasn't really advertising (I don't even use it), just wondered if anyone, really, had heard of/used it. I've been following it for quite a while, just checking the latest version every now and then, and in the last year it's gone from very buggy and barely usable to what it is now. I think xfce adopted it as their default browser a while back.
I've never used it on Windows, though, and it doesn't seem to be their focus, so I can't much anything about it there.
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I wasn't really advertising (I don't even use it), just wondered if anyone, really, had heard of/used it. I've been following it for quite a while, just checking the latest version every now and then, and in the last year it's gone from very buggy and barely usable to what it is now. I think xfce adopted it as their default browser a while back.
I've never used it on Windows, though, and it doesn't seem to be their focus, so I can't much anything about it there.
Yeah, i had a feeling it wasn't designed for windows when i downloaded it and i got some python scripts.....anyway, Thank you for showing it to us.
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...Are you sure you downloaded the right thing? Midori isn't written in Python. (...Is it a coincidence that Catfish, something available at the same site, is?)
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woops....my mistake.
Correct program downloaded (http://www.twotoasts.de/index.php?/pages/midori_summary.html).
And sorry to say this, but linking to a search engine (https://duckduckgo.com/Midori_(web_browser)) is not really helpful for me.
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Used to use Opera, but switched to Chrome when it came out because I'm a Google fanboy and use everything they come out with.
(~*_*~)
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been using nothing but firefox since about 2005.
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Does Firefox render anything wrong? And pretty much all WebKit browsers display websites the same, if they're using the same version, so it's like Chrome/Chromium there.
Yes, it is the cause of much frustration on Metroid Wiki. I have to satisfy myself, Chrome, and Firefox. IE, most used, I don't care about because nothing's round lol. But FF makes me mad when it doesn't do what it should to my templates...
To anyone using Internet Explorer, stop. Yes, it came with your pc, but you can download Chrome or Firefox or Opera.
Friends don't let friends use IE
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BFFs with Chrome! I didn't really start using it until like... hmm, I dunno, a year and a half ago. But I do remember trying it out when it first came out. Used FF before that though.
I used FF for a while on my laptop, but then I realized that even with some memory-saving extensions that it just lagged terribly even more. It's an okay browser otherwise, it's just not really for me. :\ I also may or may not have some spite for FF just because WHYYYYYY MUST YOU USE A DIFFERENT ROUNDYCORNER CODE FROM EVERYONE ELSE. That was a pain to code until I got around to implementing templates/classes for round table corners.
Chrome's compact GUI and quick loading times on startup is great since I use a netbook. Haha.
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Does Firefox render anything wrong? And pretty much all WebKit browsers display websites the same, if they're using the same version, so it's like Chrome/Chromium there.
Yes, it is the cause of much frustration on Metroid Wiki.
Got an example? Because, while I don't doubt many exist, I've never come across a rendering bug in Firefox.
WHYYYYYY MUST YOU USE A DIFFERENT ROUNDYCORNER CODE FROM EVERYONE ELSE.
...Well, you can't really complain when it's still only in a draft of the specification. They use the -moz- prefix because it's still experimental, and isn't meant to be used in production code. This means the way it's used may still change (as I believe it has done in the past), which would break browsers already supporting border-radius entirely - once the specification for it reaches release, they'd have versions out there seeming to support the property, but doing it wrong.
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The site has long since gone down, and firefox has recived many updates, but here is proof that firefox at one time rendered wrong.
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I use Google Chrome.
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No votes for Konqueror...Firefox FTW! Though Chrome isn't too bad either...
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I've recently downloaded FF4 Beta. It looks good.
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I use chrome now. It used to be ff, ie, and opera