Technology Opera 8.0 vs. Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2

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What is the best browser?

  • Opera 8.0

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2

    Votes: 9 75.0%

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer

    Votes: 3 25.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    12
Pox in a box

Pox in a box

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Which one should I get? I'm tired of IE crashing and wasting so much space. Plus I have an interest in RSS and other new technologies. Opinions?
 
Pox in a box said:
Which one should I get? I'm tired of IE crashing and wasting so much space. Plus I have an interest in RSS and other new technologies. Opinions?
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I can say that I downloaded Firefox last night and I'm already impressed. I'm not going back to Internet Explorer although it says you need to be in IE to do Windows updates. I also checked out Opera 8.0 and even downloaded it but I didn't like the interface after about 1 minute and decided to trash it. Anyone used Opera 8.0 yet?
 
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just downloaded firefox after reading this thread...freakin awesome so far 👍

Goose
 
Goose...Fraba said:
just downloaded firefox after reading this thread...freakin awesome so far 👍

Goose
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I really like Firefox in my one day test run of it. I like the speed more than anything but I feel like it has a much more sleek design than Internet Explorer. The tabbing is neat but difficult to remember how they work. Can you make the tabs appear at the bottom as if they were windows? What I didn't like about Opera and made me trash it after 3 minutes of use is that there were the advertisements that you had to have to use the product.
 
Pox in a box said:
The tabbing is neat but difficult to remember how they work.
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You'll get used to it in a short while.
Can you make the tabs appear at the bottom as if they were windows?
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Other than opening them in completely new windows, I don't think so.
 
ItsGavinC said:
Firefox has been great to me. I like the feel of Safari much better when I'm on my Mac (Firefox for Mac looks has a cheezy GUI), but on my Windoze machine I won't touch IE with a 10-foot pole.

Firefox it is for me.
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Don't like the way Firefox clashes with the rest of your Aqua desktop? Try these themes, which I use on my Firefox. I sometimes mistake which browser I'm using now.

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I should note that these themes only work on Mac OS X machines. If you install these on your Windows Firefox, you'll crash the browser and have to delete it and reinstall it from scratch.
 
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