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Hydralisk5201
Wraith
Posted: 28 Jun 2006
21:17 GMT
Total Posts: 576 | there ya go
continue
in a frendly manner of course
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ryantmer
Wraith
Posted: 28 Jun 2006
22:29 GMT
Total Posts: 692 | <british accent>
I would like to say then (politely, of course), that you all suck.
</british accent>
Was that friendly enough? And also, for anybody that cares, I'm back down to my original three browsers (FF, IE and Opera). To give you a heads up, although Maxthon comes with some nice features, its all too similar to IE, and it has a huge amount of toolbars that take up screen space (and for me with a 13" screen, it really gets annoying). You can get rid of them, but meh. Minefield is quite good, but its essentially the same as FF 1.5, so probably not worth upgrading if you're strapped for time/bandwidth. The only noticable difference is the aforementioned automatic spellchecker (although some people here could really use it...). Aside from that, like I said, not worth the time fo the upgrade.
EDIT: I figured as I did mention some Minefield features, I should mention the "nice features" I was referring to with Maxthon. The first is Weatherbug, which is actually a separate program that tells you the weather (similar the the TouchTheSky widget). It comes in the whole package when you download and install it. Really, to know the weather, you could just look out the window. The second thing worth mentioning is the "Utilities" button, which enables access to My Computer and My Document right from the browser.
I swear, this is not an advertisement, it is a personal review. My advice: stick with Opera.
[Edited by ryantmer on 29-Jun-06 07:33] |
darksideprogramming
Guardian
Posted: 29 Jun 2006
06:49 GMT
Total Posts: 1005 | I prefer IE myself, but the only other browser I have used is Netscape. I despise Netscape. But I haven't taken the time to try any others, so the jury is still out. |
threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 30 Jun 2006
00:11 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | You should give Opera a try. The new version has widgets, and while I haven't gotten around to checking, I think there would be a weatherbug one. I had the weatherbug widget for my dashboard on Mac OSX. It is useful, it started beeping and flashing one day. I clicked it and it said a tornado was coming. I turned off the computer and lo and behold one appeared. It wasn't very close, but the hail damaged the powerlines. Thanks, weatherbug!
Edit: Opera has the Touchthesky widget.
[Edited by threefingeredguy on 30-Jun-06 09:14]
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zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 30 Jun 2006
11:33 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | IE and FF here...mostly IE since I'm kinda used to it but for some slower website FF does a better job. Compatibility is fine by me and I can really care less about the small extra features here and there (tabs, rss and all that). As long as its fast and it works I'm ok with that and being an fps gamer I don't have any trouble moving my mouse around, in fact it actually sometimes even keeps me awake :). My 2 cents...
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Lunchbox
Carrier
Posted: 30 Jun 2006
17:10 GMT
Total Posts: 2007 | My FF runs faster than most because i bought a book on how to tweak it and followed it's instructions and now it loads pages much faster.
edit:hydra-"moost"?? =P
[Edited by Hydralisk5201 on 01-Jul-06 17:57] |
Hydralisk5201
Wraith
Posted: 1 Jul 2006
08:57 GMT
Total Posts: 576 | really now
can you teach meh to do that
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Lunchbox
Carrier
Posted: 1 Jul 2006
13:03 GMT
Total Posts: 2007 | I could. I pmed someone else a long time ago on how to do it, but i forgot who it was. But if your pm box saves outgoing pm's i can forward the instructions to you. If not, i'll re-type it.
Edit: Upon further inspection of my sent mail box, I realized that I sent the pm to someone on Calchaven, not CG. And CH 2.0, which is now effectively cyberdust, so i'll have to re-peruse my book-o-firefox-hacks and then pm you.
[Edited by Lunchbox on 01-Jul-06 22:08] |
Hydralisk5201
Wraith
Posted: 3 Jul 2006
08:36 GMT
Total Posts: 576 | alrighty then
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threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 15 Aug 2006
00:36 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | More proof that Opera is the best browser.
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Liebe ist Krieg
Wraith
Posted: 15 Aug 2006
10:15 GMT
Total Posts: 542 | i gave opera a try. yes, it is the fastest ive had, ever. but it wouldnt load certain pages, or download files i need, and i couldnt watch vids. it was tire some when i try and start it up, and it wont start. i hit ctrl-alt-delet and i see the processes, but its not in the applications. so the only way i could use opera is by clicking the 'no' box in the "do you want to make this your default browser" dialog box. so then i deleted it and got firefox. an now i dl'd some sweet extensions for FF that expand the capabillities. its great. so opera is fast, just not user friendly.
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TheOnlyJon
Dragoon
Posted: 15 Aug 2006
11:32 GMT
Total Posts: 96 | I go for IE. It starts up fast, the newer version will support tabbed browsing, and it just already supports most things by default.
I tried Firefox, and it's a great browser, and the download manager is really nifty, but it has to be repeatedly and painstakingly upgraded to bring it to IE's level, and for me, its support for Flash and Java is poor, and has a tendency to take up over 80,000k of memory when running, and when one window has an error, Firefox takes out all the windows and downloads with it.
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Liebe ist Krieg
Wraith
Posted: 15 Aug 2006
12:17 GMT
Total Posts: 542 | wow... i have nvr had those problems... like.. none. seriously.
it never takes more than 13k to run, and that only takes 1-2% of my comps power. its nice. and i have never had to dl upgrades... my flash is super good, and java runs perfectly fast and accurate. so, maybe its your comps ability to support FF.
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threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 15 Aug 2006
13:29 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | Neither Opera nor Firefox will play vids when you first download them, they have no plugins. It downloads all files. All browsers download all files. You must be a complete idiot if you couldn't figure out how to make it download files. Opera opens faster than FF and never crashes for me. I guess what's happening is PEBKAC. The extensions in FF are not backwards compatible and introduce bugs, huge ram usage, and instability to FF. Opera's extensions do not.
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Liebe ist Krieg
Wraith
Posted: 15 Aug 2006
18:24 GMT
Total Posts: 542 | hmmm, my extensions dont use alot of RAM... actually, almost none at all, and i have alot of them. you must have got a real old versoin of FF, which is most likely y you dont like FF. and i did dl all needed extensions and plug-ins for opera. it still didnt load certain web pages and didnt play certain vids. but FF played alot of stuff with out one single dl... so im happy.
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threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 15 Aug 2006
18:49 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | Show me the pages that didn't load and the videos that didn't play.
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Liebe ist Krieg
Wraith
Posted: 16 Aug 2006
14:08 GMT
Total Posts: 542 | this was b4 i got my new comp.
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threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 16 Aug 2006
14:18 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | So now Opera is perfect, ya?
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Hydralisk5201
Wraith
Posted: 16 Aug 2006
22:04 GMT
Total Posts: 576 | ehhhhhhh i dont care
im using FF for life
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allynfolksjr
Administrator
Posted: 16 Aug 2006
22:06 GMT
Total Posts: 1892 | Opera owns Firefox. |
Lunchbox
Carrier
Posted: 16 Aug 2006
22:21 GMT
Total Posts: 2007 | If you consider firefox being better owning, then yeah, let's go with that. Discalimer: By better, I mean I like it better, I really don't care what the rest of you think, I'm sticking with ff forever. |
Liebe ist Krieg
Wraith
Posted: 16 Aug 2006
22:37 GMT
Total Posts: 542 | i got a new computer, and opera still wont start, so if by the "best" browser you mean "unable to use", then yes, opera is the "best".
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threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 16 Aug 2006
23:00 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | What is wrong with your computer? Did you install Opera? Then it will work perfectly. This sounds like PEBKAC all the way.
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Hydralisk5201
Wraith
Posted: 17 Aug 2006
09:34 GMT
Total Posts: 576 | i am the same with L
tis all i hav to say
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