matt3D

Hi, I want to know what you guys use for your internet browser. I enjoy using firefox because you can block images, (Yes you can block advertisements and espically those annoying ones that flash everywhere....), it has an easy removal of temporary internet files, and all sorts of options that you can use. So lets see what Internet browser you use...

For your enjoyment here are some stats on various things relating with the internet

Top Websites April 2002
1. | MSN | msn.* | 7.81 million
2. | Yahoo! | yahoo.* | 6.15 million
3. | AOL Time Warner | aol.com | 5.26 million
4. | Google | google.com | 5.19 million
5. | Microsoft | microsoft.com | 4.93 million
6. | Wanadoo | wanadoo.com | 4.83 million
7. | British Telecom | bt.* | 4.09 million
8. | BBC | bbc,co.uk | 3.49 million
9. | Amazon | amazon.co.uk | 3.37 million
10. | Lycos Network | *.lycos.* | 3.12 million

Here are some stats on internet usage: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

TOP 20 SEARCH TERMS THIS WEEK
Listed below are the top 20 search terms used across
a variety of search engines in the last 24 hours.
It was taken from a sample of 3,250,308.
Rank | Keyword | Count
1. | hotels | 2259
2. | yahoo | 1464
3. | google | 1317
4. | ebay | 1189
5. | lyrics | 1182
6. | sex | 1057
7. | hotmail | 1029
8. | maps | 1018
9. | jokes | 963
10. | games | 962
11. | hotmail.com | 903
12. | yahoo.com | 890
13. | car | 882
14. | mapquest | 873
15. | song lyrics | 759
16. | red cardinal | 713
17. | dictionary | 684
18. | www.hotmail.com | 682
19. | fireworks | 661
20. | www.yahoo.com | 631

Even more stats: http://www.waller.co.uk/web.htm
Please vote! Only 42% of California voted for the propsitions, aka 74,75,76, etc... (I know that from the news....it's ok Arnold)
Lets have a good turnout.

Thanks for looking,

Matt

rcfury

My Feedback: (5)

I also love my firefox. And all the add ins that are available just makes it that much better. Granted there are some sites that dont support firefox well so of course thats when IE comes into play.

Sportflyr

My Feedback: (1)

Firefox Always!!!

Been 100% virus free for well over a year now.
Won't compromise the Windows shell
and the worse that can happen 75%
of the time is that you would have to re-install Firefox.

With IE, Zone Alarm and AVG anti-virus I'd pick up a hard to find
trojan just about weekly.

I decided to go Firefox full time. I'm very grateful for this browser
and just wish it were around sooner. I have tried the
regular Mozilla and it is OK but, prefered IE over it, only to my
own demise and subsequent re-formatting of the old 'puter.

Best open-source browser to date!!! Now if only we could
install that RCU toolbar (the only one I'd EVER install BTW)
it would be perfect!

ssj2

I always use Firefox when the sites I go on support it. However, rcpics.net and launch.com do require Internet Explorer but Firefox is the most versitile browser ever. AND ITS FREE!!!!!!

Gordon_Dickens

My Feedback: (1)

I love Firefox and I probably will never go back to IE unless Microshaft implements wholesale improvements. Firefox is a ton more powerful and useful especially with some of the add-on extensions. Take a look at the following FF extensions if you haven't already tried them: Session Saver, Forecastfox, Image Zoom, and undoclosetab. These are just four of my favorites, however, there are alot more where they came from. I have added a total of 32 extensions in customizing my installation.

On another note, the IE Tab extension allows you to run IE sessions within Firefox windows and tabs. So, you really don't ever need to run IE outside of Firefox even for web sites that are IE specific.

Websites that are IE specific are becomming less and less common. Most all banks and stockbrokers are now finally supporting Gecko based browsers, such as Firefox, which wasn't the case a year or so ago since they all had adopted Microshaft's proprietary internet security stuff. That was a big mistake by the way as has been well documented by the numerous interenet banking security breaches that relied on that technology. I guess they learned their lesson......

I admit that I am a bit biased since I have been a Firefox user since the FF 0.3 days and involved with the Mozilla foundation ever since it was spun off from AOL. Nevertheless, Firefox really will change the way that you browse the web and make you more productive. Its an amazing product!

FYI,

Gordon

exeter_acres

My Feedback: (2)

Maxthon or Opera for me

FlyinTiger

My Feedback: (45)

Safari works great so far. I've switched to Mac and the only drawback is I can't use my simulator on it...

Gringo Flyer

My Feedback: (18)

I like Opera, it blocks popups and I really like the fact that you can have commands for forward and back in the browser setup up on the right mouse button.

matt3D

Good opinions and reasons for your browser guys, I added in a few more web browsers as well, IE 7 is pretty cool, but I still use firefox 90% of the time.

Matt

thevinmanfxst

Firefox Forever!

wst50

IE7

I like FF and had a go with Opera (it was ok), but I have pop-up blockers and other things in my AntiVirus and my pc is only 6 months old and doesn't have much vital stuff on it. IE7 is comfortable to use and the theme changes colours depending on which theme I'm running on the rest of the system (patched uxtheme), but FF is useful for me too.

BoiseRC

FF for now but IE7 is looking pretty good. Thunderbird is my choice for email over Outlook but it does lack a calender