Internet explorer

PyroboyUK · 31 Jul 2006 at 21:44

I am gettin kinda bored with Internet explorer now. can anyone recomend a good "internet explorer" program ie Firefox etc. There are a few and i dont know which one to get. Are all the non microsoft explorers all secure for stuff like Online purchases etc?

Scythe · 31 Jul 2006 at 21:44

Yep, Online pursashes are fine. I recommend Firefox and Opera

Priapus · 31 Jul 2006 at 22:09

FireFox is the best at the moment. Why you still using IE is behond me? :confused:

kurtoski06 · 31 Jul 2006 at 22:46

Its gotta be Firefox go to Firefox download then just click download it takes like 2 mins and its free!

P_A_N_I_C · 31 Jul 2006 at 23:18

bit the bullet a long time ago and moved off IE to Firefox. the constant spyware issue was just driving me nuts.

i love tabbed browsing :cool:

"View new posts" -> hold ctrl and click all the threads i want to read

Fanatic · 31 Jul 2006 at 23:37

I like the new IE7 Beta 3.

Looks nice, and i think the text is different. Definetly a better font.

Also only recently discovered how cool the fullscreen mode is (F11), really starting to like it.

Havent had any issues so far.

Energize · 31 Jul 2006 at 23:44

Firefox

Puppetmaster · 31 Jul 2006 at 23:48

Firefox is the way to go, basically no pop ups its great

Celestial Caravan · 1 Aug 2006 at 00:30

Firefox is terrible. It has a cheap clunky feel to it. Give it another five years and it may have caught up.

If you don't like pop-ups then don't visit those sites

Besides. Popups can be stopped in other browsers now anyway.

I prefer Safari on mac and IE7B3 on XP.

KizZ · 1 Aug 2006 at 00:32

Energize said:
Firefox

TrUz · 1 Aug 2006 at 00:43

Internet Explorer 7 is the way to go. Never really been a fan of Firefox myself, it alaways gets uninstalled within hours.

TrUz

tolien · 1 Aug 2006 at 00:48

TrUz said:
Internet Explorer 7 is the way to go. Never really been a fan of Firefox myself, it alaways gets uninstalled within hours.

The inverse for me.

Try Firefox, Opera, the IE7 beta for a while, and see which you prefer, since that's what it mostly comes down to. Personal preference.

kurtoski06 · 1 Aug 2006 at 00:59

Firefox is by far better then IE plus your can get some really funky themes for it too.

Smithy · 1 Aug 2006 at 01:06

Played around with a few different browsers over the years, but Opera is deffinately the best one out there atm

kurtoski06 · 1 Aug 2006 at 01:14

What makes Opera any different from firefox ive not really tried Oprea befrore?

Greenlizard0 · 1 Aug 2006 at 03:34

I moved onto Firefox due to IE being homogay. Then every morning my computer would have died due to FF's memory leaking problem. I still don't know if these problems have gone away yet. I moved onto Opera as a final alternative and found it much better and stable. I have yet to have a crash while using it. 18 Tabs open at once for about a week now, and it's using about 216mb of memory.

AJUK · 1 Aug 2006 at 11:04

Opera > *

To get all the functionality that Opera has with Firefox you have to install loads of memory hungry extensions. Opera is faster, more secure and lighter on resources.

Smithy · 1 Aug 2006 at 13:11

kurtoski06 said:
What makes Opera any different from firefox ive not really tried Oprea befrore?

Lots of little things that you'll notice are extremely handy in web browsing, you'll see for yourself if you try it.
To this day im still finding out things that i never knew it could do.