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You're prefered browser

Discussion in 'Computers & Modding' started by monter, Oct 11, 2008.

  1. monter

    monter Guest

    Mine has to be firefox as it's easy to use alot of websites wont let you look at them unless you have firefox.
     
  2. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    mine is firefox because it's fast, secure, standards compliant, established and innovative.
     
  3. iamlegend

    iamlegend Well-Known Member

    Why is this in Games, Jokes and Random??

    And don't say it's because such and such a browser is a joke... ;D

    I don't have a preference...
    Firefox or IE, whichever I spot first...

    I haven't noticed a difference of speed, and I've never
    had any security breaches using IE...
     
  4. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    I'd imagine because the question isn't being asked seriously, i.e monter is curious rather than wanting the information for a specific reason.
     
  5. sesa

    sesa Well-Known Member

    Firefox because I am a add-ons whore.
     
  6. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    Don't we have a thread about this already?
     
  7. Born2killx

    Born2killx Well-Known Member

    Google Chrome. Faster, more secure more standards compliant (well, it gets a 79 on the Acid3 test, compared to Firefox 3's 71), not as established, but more innovative. Just read their comic! They pretty much redesigned how a browser works. The only problem, however, is that I have to switch back to Firefox if I want to run Java applets. Chrome can't do that yet.
     
  8. anandjones

    anandjones Well-Known Member

    Firefox.
     
  9. seiryu666

    seiryu666 Member

    Firefox for the add-ons and themes ;D
     
  10. blacksun23

    blacksun23 Guest

    tortilla firefox
     
  11. airsoft1117

    airsoft1117 Well-Known Member

    Ive never heard of that before
     
  12. anandjones

    anandjones Well-Known Member

    Firefox copy?!!!! hahaha.
     
  13. CloudBoii12

    CloudBoii12 Well-Known Member

    Mozzila Firefox FTW
    I like Google Chrome, but it needs more time to establish (N)
     
  14. dark.faerie

    dark.faerie Well-Known Member

    ditto.
     
  15. CloudBoii12

    CloudBoii12 Well-Known Member

    Like the pokemon ?
    How mad would it be - a Pokemon Browser!
    Like in the shape of a Pokedex or something ?
     
  16. dark.faerie

    dark.faerie Well-Known Member

    *facepalm*

    ditto = same (this term was around WAY before pokemon)

    therefore i use firefox

    lol
     
  17. cjdogger

    cjdogger Guest

    Cerberus (AKA Firedog, is it a rip off?, am I being stupid?, tune in next time on... #ERROR- INTERNET CONNECTION LOST)
     
  18. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    Lame joke is lame.

    I personally love how people fell over each others feet to praise the wonder of Google Chrome when it came out, now everyone is back to using Firefox. I don't think they redefined how a browser works, all they really did was remove the native windows border, define their own close buttons and put the tabs up top, yay for reworking the browser!

    The idea of containing tabs to their own processes so if something crashes then it's only that one tab is really nice; if it worked all the time, which it doesn't. And really, if firefox crashes (which is extremely rarely) then I just start my browser again and it loads al the tabs.

    Honest Google is doing the web a disservice by releasing Chrome, we don't need more browsers to compete for market value, what we need is one central rendering engine so a webpage looks the damn same on the same code; and the rendering engine used by Mozilla Firefox just happens to be open source, so they'd have helped the web so much more by contributing to that instead of rolling their own fork. So the whole "we want to improve the web" bullshit is just that; bullshit.
     
  19. Born2killx

    Born2killx Well-Known Member

    It always works for me. :-\
    Besides, their JavaScript engine is faster.
     
  20. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    Yeah, because the javascript engines we currently have really requires loads of processing power. Not.

    Most javascript is poorly written, hell, even most code from whatever language is poorly written. Let me give an example. A friend of mine wrote a piece of PHP code, it used a O(n^2) operation, I had a look at it and decreased it to a O(n*2) operation, that's a damn many operations saved, especially because we had a n of > 1000, so 1 million operations versus 2,000. Much javascript code is the same, written to be slow, so they can optimize their javascript engines as much as they want, nature will just invent bigger idiots.