What browser do you use?

[aimeeandbeatles]

Discuss.

I use FireFox. A friend of mine uses different browsers for different purposes (for example, one for flash videos, another for high-speed browsing, another for pictures).

 

[Phlegmak]

I use Mozilla (now called Seamonkey). It's basically just Firefox, but it looks slightly different. I don't know why the Mozilla people made Seamonkey's browser look different from Firefox. Also, the name "Seamonkey" sucks compared to "Mozilla".

 

[Atlas14]

I use Firefox since IE has an error every time I use it, every single flipping time, no lie.

 

[Asher]

Firefox 3.0a6.

 

[GenMarshall]

Firefox 2.0.0.4 here.
Older Firefox on my Windows 95 virtual machine.

 

[Aramazd]

Firefox 2.0.0.4

 

[Chairman Meow]

I use Mozilla (now called Seamonkey). It's basically just Firefox, but it looks slightly different. I don't know why the Mozilla people made Seamonkey's browser look different from Firefox. Also, the name "Seamonkey" sucks compared to "Mozilla".

The difference between Seamonkey and Firefox is that Seamonkey includes an email client, an IRC client, and an HTML editor, while Firefox is just a browser. If you don't use any of those components, then there is no advantage to using Seamonkey.

The name change was because Mozilla no longer wanted to work on what became Seamonkey, so the community took over working on the code. Since it was no longer controlled by Mozilla (who owned the trademark for the name), it was renamed as Seamonkey.

 

[Phlegmak]

The difference between Seamonkey and Firefox is that Seamonkey includes an email client, an IRC client, and an HTML editor, while Firefox is just a browser. If you don't use any of those components, then there is no advantage to using Seamonkey.

The name change was because Mozilla no longer wanted to work on what became Seamonkey, so the community took over working on the code. Since it was no longer controlled by Mozilla (who owned the trademark for the name), it was renamed as Seamonkey.

It looks different too.

 

[civverguy]

I use firefox.

 

[Chairman Meow]

It looks different too.

There are themes to make Firefox look like Seamonkey and I'm sure there's one to make Seamonkey look like Firefox, but I didn't find it in a few seconds of searching.

 

[GVBN]

Firefox 2

 

[cthom]

Firefox 3.0a6.

what!? i didn't know version 3 was out! i can't wait to get home.

 

[GVBN]

what!? i didn't know version 3 was out! i can't wait to get home.

It's not out, it's a development version of Firefox

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/3.0a6/releasenotes/

 

[Macha]

what!? i didn't know version 3 was out! i can't wait to get home.

The a stands for alpha (i.e. pre-beta), I use 3.0a5 sometimes but mostly I use Opera, there isn't much differences between 2 and 3 in features yet.

 

[Zelig]

Opera as my browser of choice, though I have to keep IE and Firefox around for web development testing.

 

[Macha]

Opera as my browser of choice, though I have to keep IE and Firefox around for web development testing.

Yes, it's annoying, why can't everything be as standards compliant as opera.

 

[Jamesds]

Go Internet Explorer 7 , that's my choice, and probably always will be - I didn't quite like Firefox when I tried it, not for me. Also you don't have Safari here? Guess it's not so popular, I think I read that only about 3% of Mac OSX users use Safari .

 

[GVBN]

How to transform IE into a standard-compliant browser while maintaining its backward compatibility with current non-standard websites made for IE?

 

[Asher]

Yes, it's annoying, why can't everything be as standards compliant as opera.

A common fallacy, but Opera isn't nearly as standards compliant as you think...nor is it the "most" standards compliant.

Hell, until recently IE had a more complete JS implementation.

 

[Asher]

For example...

Opera doesn't support MathML at all.
It doesn't support APNG files (animated PNG).
It doesn't support color correction in PNG files.
It's missing lots of CSS2 feature support (eg, E:root, E:last-child), and even more CSS3 features (E:repeat-item, E:indeterminate, etc). CSS is actually the worst part of Opera these days. It's also missing overflow-x and overflow-y support (which every other browser has, including IE6). Opera doesn't support CSS3 backgrounds either. Or CSS2 direction (useful for right-to-left languages). Another biggy is CSS2 multicolumn layout (eg, newspaper-like text display), which exists in Firefox but not in Opera.