Comments on best browser to replace IE and Firefox?

[Sysyphus' Sister]

Opera is very good IMO. See www.opera.com Note that the freeware
version has a static banner 1/2" x 2" in the upper right hand corner.

Not anymore. Version 8.50 is now adfree and registration-free. Thanks
Opera!!!

 

[Aaron]

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I keep hearing about these supposed IE security holes, but in
years of using IE and IE+Maxthon, I have never been hit. I take
all the usual precautions and keep Windows updated regularly.

It seems to me the people doing the most whining about IE security
are non-users. What do they know about it anyway other than what's
parroted by other non-users?

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Well given that almost all windows non-users of IE on actually started
off with IE (at least for the newer people), their experience with IE
isn't exactly zero.

Some in fact have switched from IE, because of their horrible
experiences.

And even those of us who use other browsers as their primary browser,
have to use IE at times or at work, so no, not everyone is speaking out
of inexperience.

And a even smaller minority of us, help out by clearing and reading HJT
logs at forums, and you can't help but notice they are 99.99% IE users.
Even given IE's large share this is bad.

I agree with you, but frankly, I think that's the case with both sides
of this long-running tale. There's way too much "my browser/your
browser" stuff that goes on. (They're browsers, not fecking
religions...)

Okay, I declare the "you are a bigger fanboy than me" debate open!

 

[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 20 Sep 2005, Aaron wrote

Okay, I declare the "you are a bigger fanboy than me" debate open!

OK, lemme see:

OPERA SUX 'CUZ MADAME BUTTERFLY WAS A LEZZIE.

(How am I doing so far?)

 

[fitwell]

Would you tell use your limitations in Firefox? Other than that I'd
reccommend Opera (http://www.opera.com/), the last of the Great triad
of browswers.

It won't read text files properly without a bookmarklet. I was just
over at the forum for a few days and that's the bottom line (50% of
the job that my browser will do is allow me to access research files
on text files, along with many other file formats, indexed with an
html indexer). Then there are the constant issues of desktop
shortcuts and email shortcuts that constantly have troubles opening.
I keep fixing them but each new update and this problem comes back.
I'm just fed up with FF. But the main thing is that all my offline
work is useless because text files don't word wrap.

In IE, I used IETextArchiver, so I have years of research that I'm
going to start to be using. Then in FF, the sendtonotepad extension
allowed me to collect tons of research over last few months. When I
started to use FF this weekend to do work, I was constantly stopped by
the word wrap problem as I couldn't read all the info properly without
each time clicking on a javascript bookmarklet to fix each page's word
wrap.

That was the last straw.

Plus the security issues lately have made me weary of the constant
upgrades in last month.

 

[fitwell]

lunedì 19 settembre 2005 Vic Dura ha scritto:


Except for the 8.02 and the anniversary gift

I loved Firefox, but now Opera is my default browser, because has so many
features with a very low memory footprint (e.g. now is 8 MB with 9 tabs
open). Firefox never was below 20 MB.

A very important question as my browser must handle html-indexed
research:

1) is there a way to easily capture snippets of information from any
webpage and that the resulting text file shows date/time of capture
and webpage captured from?

2) Will Opera read all those files properly after that, i.e., with
word wrap?

Thanks!

 

[Kuko]

A very important question as my browser must handle html-indexed
research:

1) is there a way to easily capture snippets of information from any
webpage and that the resulting text file shows date/time of capture
and webpage captured from?

2) Will Opera read all those files properly after that, i.e., with
word wrap?

Opera features a note capture thing which allow that. They can be
outlined and can be placed in nested folder, and they are completely
searchable. You'll visit the page from where the text was captured by
double clicking the note, but as far as I know it doesn't store
automatically the time and date when the note was created. However, I
beleive that it should be easy to create a button, menu item or
keyboard shortcut to insert them in one click or keystroke. The big
flaw of Opera's notes is that they can only store textby the moment.
In the official forums is requested very often the ability to capture
whole webpages, which is something likely to be added in the future.
Otherwise, they are extremely useful and work flawlessly.

Kind regards

 

[Jeff Needle]

Opera's my default for everything -- browsing, mail, news, etc. There's
only one site I can't manipulate with Opera, and I use IE to get to it.
The specs say it's definitely IE specific. I hate that crap.

 

[MLC]

mercoledì 21 settembre 2005 fitwell ha scritto:

A very important question as my browser must handle html-indexed
research:

1) is there a way to easily capture snippets of information from any
webpage and that the resulting text file shows date/time of capture
and webpage captured from?

I'm pretty new to Opera and I'm looking for that feature me too.
Meanwhile I'm using the Opera's "Notes", quite basic though, the Scrapbook
extension in Firefox is far more powerful.