IE, FF, Opera, Google Chrome- which browser is best?

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Trio

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So I keep reading about these browsers that are supposedly quicker than the other. At one time, I tried running Fireforx on my old PC and it was significantly slower than IE, but when I used it on my school computer (IE really lags on them) it was really speedy. So whats your opinion?
 
I personaly use IE7 for the majority of my browsing. I have tried all your browsers you have listed and do keep a copy of firefox installed on my system for a little bit of browsing and testing differnt websites. I personally don't have a use for plug ins so Firefox doesn't really appeal to me. I know some of you are going to say IE7 is unsafe and Firefox is so much better and so on. Fact is Firefox is just as dangerous as IE7 in the wrong hands and frankly no faster. The one negative about Firefox is it still has a hug memory leak in it and the amount of memory it takes up keeps getting bigger and bigger. As far as Opera and Chrome go again IE7 does everything I want it to so I don't see any reason to use them.
 
lawson_jl said:
I personaly use IE7 for the majority of my browsing. I have tried all your browsers you have listed and do keep a copy of firefox installed on my system for a little bit of browsing and testing differnt websites. I personally don't have a use for plug ins so Firefox doesn't really appeal to me. I know some of you are going to say IE7 is unsafe and Firefox is so much better and so on. Fact is Firefox is just as dangerous as IE7 in the wrong hands and frankly no faster. The one negative about Firefox is it still has a hug memory leak in it and the amount of memory it takes up keeps getting bigger and bigger. As far as Opera and Chrome go again IE7 does everything I want it to so I don't see any reason to use them.
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No, they are not the same. Whenever I use IE (and I feel dirty afterwards) it runs like a pig.
 
I personally use Chrome. I used FF for a long time and never really used any addons, and I find Chrome to be faster and more stable, and be more standard compliant.
 
I have over a dozen addons on firefox so of course I take advantage of the features of firefox. It is plenty fast for me and I can customize it any way I want through about:config.
 
I use Firefox because its so safe. I have adblock plus so I never get any adds. I've got 2 gigs of ram so it using 66mb of it isn't a problem :D
 
I tried out Chrome a while ago and it seems a bit slow compared to IE for me. The pictures loaded slow, and scroll-like; IE would stay blank and have the pictures pop up in secs. I'm going to try out Opera next, than FF.
 
Trio said:
I tried out Chrome a while ago and it seems a bit slow compared to IE for me. The pictures loaded slow, and scroll-like; IE would stay blank and have the pictures pop up in secs. I'm going to try out Opera next, than FF.
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Opera is an excellent browser, I actually used it for about 6 months before FF3 came out but FF3 was better for me.
 
gamerman4 said:
Opera is an excellent browser, I actually used it for about 6 months before FF3 came out but FF3 was better for me.
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Yea it is. I just downloaded it and the interface looks awesome, and I LOVE the scrolling action (when you scroll down pages with the scrolling button on the mouse). The scrolling is so lazy, not agitated like IE or Chrome. It makes it fun to use.

What I dislike about Opera is the java script code that pops up in the URL history. Is there a way to disable it? Another issue is page loading. Although it does load the layout of a page quicker, the individual items like pictures and such take a while to load and actually show how much of it is loaded in the URL bar. Well, this beats staring at a black page in IE.

So far I like Opera best. I just wished they hadn't named it Opera, it sounds too much like Oprah :|. Next, FF.
 
I used Opera for a while, and really liked it. It just wasn't right for some reason though. FF3 is nice, I can't tell you whether or not FF3 or Opera is better though, I haven't used them in so long.
 
I use FF 3.0 for default browser. And sometimes use opera if FF have some problem. But i never use IE..
Have you ever trying google chrome?
 
ovuon said:
I use FF 3.0 for default browser. And sometimes use opera if FF have some problem. But i never use IE..
Have you ever trying google chrome?
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Google chrome was too glitchey for my liking and i didn't care for the interface
 
i have IE7, thats quite fast. a better result than IE8 , Google Chrome - some parts are missing. e.g. i cannot read my windows live emails due to missing plug in's which aint compatible with G-Chrome. Mozilla Firefox is quite fast aswell.
 
I'm sticking with Opera 9.6. The interface looks really nice and I love the smooth scrolling. It seems quicker than IE, except when it comes to myspace pages. It's a bit glitchy when I watch youtube videos, too. The width of the page won't be set properly and you can scroll WAY to the right, and youtube pages don't load properly sometimes. It's still a good browser though.

On my plain computer I use IE8 I think. It's nice because if IE crashes for some reason, all the webpages that were lost will be recovered if you reopen IE. The different colored tabs are also cool. What's really annoying though is when I get pop-ups from IE asking for my opninion on it.
 
Use FF as default, but occasionally use IE because there are certain websites that require IE to work properly.
 
lawson_jl said:
I personaly use IE7 for the majority of my browsing. I have tried all your browsers you have listed and do keep a copy of firefox installed on my system for a little bit of browsing and testing differnt websites. I personally don't have a use for plug ins so Firefox doesn't really appeal to me. I know some of you are going to say IE7 is unsafe and Firefox is so much better and so on. Fact is Firefox is just as dangerous as IE7 in the wrong hands and frankly no faster. The one negative about Firefox is it still has a hug memory leak in it and the amount of memory it takes up keeps getting bigger and bigger. As far as Opera and Chrome go again IE7 does everything I want it to so I don't see any reason to use them.
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Actually IE is a larger security risk. It uses things like Active X, which allows kernel hooks to directly access the Windows kernel. That means basically an Active X control can run as root to the OS kernel. Meaning that if a site fools you into downloading an Active X control or update it can root your whole machine and load all kinds of nasty things on it.

Active X is also slow, clunky, and a steaming pile of monkey crap.
 
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