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Poll: What's your favourite Browser

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Re: Poll: What's your favourite Browser

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Post by mdemare »

ROFISH wrote: post #9

Put me down for Safari. I use WebKit nightlies which are very fast, and passes the most Acid3 tests right now. ;) The latest additions for :nth-child are a godsend and I can't wait for it to be implemented elsewhere. (No more odd/even classes!) Since I'm on an old iBook, the speed difference between Safari and Firefox is amazing. I don't know if Apple's cheating or Gecko is just unoptimized for the PowerPC. Note that…

I'm on a Powerbook, and Firefox is almost unusably slow. Safari 3 is nice and snappy, and I'm not even using the Webkit nightlies which are rumored to be 3 times faster. Still using Firefox for Firebug, which is a life-saver.

Re: Poll: What's your favourite Browser

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Post by philh »

I use opera for some things (reddit, news.yc, webcomics, games), elinks for others (mostly forums), and vary between the two for research and other things.

I like how easy it is to navigate with the keyboard in elinks (though the default setup is awful, IIRC). I've set up opera to have many of the same bindings, but navigation in particular just doesn't work as well. Partly that's because there's no grid, but I think it's also just not as well designed.

I also like how elinks knows what the 'page down' function means. It either scrolls a page down (if I'm not at/below the bottom) or it doesn't (if I am). All other browsers in my experience think the bottom of the page is more important than my knowing where to start reading from.

A plus for opera is that I've actually worked out how to script it.

Re: Poll: What's your favourite Browser

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Post by hschenker »

technoguyrob wrote: post #8

When I'm on Windows and have 40 tabs in Firefox (with Firefox closed), I often open IE6 if I only need to look at a quick piece of information (like check my e-mail). Opening Firefox would take two minutes or more (just to load the tabs). Same goes for Opera and all the other browsers. IE is built right into Windows so it already has all the necessary components loaded.

IE 6 gets my vote because of the three browsers (IE6, IE7, FF2) that are most popular on the site I work on and therefore have to have installed, it allows for the smallest amount of browser chrome.
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