Question:
What is the best internet browser?
Mr.Shaikhy
2007-03-29 12:30:54 UTC
Plz tell me between Opera and Firefox and if there is better tell me too.
Ten answers:
John Y
2007-03-29 15:38:37 UTC
A lot of people say they like Firefox because of "Firefox’s easy to use interface". The truth is, Opera is just as easy to use and there are more ways to do things with more keyboard shortcuts (which you can edit), mouse gestures (you can edit those too), and even voice control. With all of those you can browse the internet a lot faster.



Opera also has some other nice features including page zoom (can zoom in on text, images, java, flash, and some other things), 'fit to window' (Makes websites fit into a smaller screen without needing horizontal scrolling), sessions (the session includes the history of each tab, the settings for each tab, and the web page of each tab. sessions include as many windows/tabs as you want and it is easy to save/manage them), tabs, pop-up blocking, easy searching, (has a search box that includes Google, Ebay, Amazon.com and some other search engines.) themes, and a download manager (lets you list, pause, resume, or restart the downloading of different files. You are able to open the download right from the download manager and it can keep a history of recent downloads. ), widgets and BitTorrent downloading.



Opera is also one of the best browsers (if not the best) at meeting internet standards. If you're a Firefox user you should just give Opera a chance, use it for about a week to get use to it and see what you think, when you go back to Firefox you will most likely be annoyed at how slow it is and how you can't do mouse gestures. I’ve gotten to the point where I took off the back and forward buttons because I never use them. Why go all the way up to the back button when you can just do a mouse gesture anywhere in the browser window to go back/forwards?"
Smleh
2007-03-29 19:38:18 UTC
Firefox
kevin m
2007-03-29 19:52:49 UTC
Opera is known by less people and used by less people. People argue that it is the best internet browser because it has the best security and pop-up blockers. However, just like in the case of windows and apple, the software that the majority of people use is going to attract the majority of people who try to exploit that kind of software. This is why Apple suggests that it has better security features than windows. The truth is they simply don't have to deal with the same number of people trying to exploit them as windows must. In this sense I would venture to tell you that Opera may be more safe to use than Firefox at the moment. However, if more and more people start to use Opera instead of Firefox Opera may not be able to handle the change in level of exploiters. Plus with Google backing Firefox, I would have the same worry of Firefox not being able to handle an increase of users from I.E. (probably a google bias of mine XD )
anonymous
2007-03-29 19:36:48 UTC
Between the two i would use Mozilla firefox. Firefox hardly ever crashes on me and doesn't give me as many problems as does internet explorer. In additon, firefox is a lot more secure then Internet explorer or Opera. Opera for me tends to take long times to load files and programs, as well as webpages.
anonymous
2007-03-29 19:38:35 UTC
Easy, Firefox.
anonymous
2007-03-29 19:33:25 UTC
FireFox...The importance of the Netscape legacy should not be understated. Firefox's ancestor is Netscape (which derived from Mosaic), at one time the only real web browser, and for years, the most popular one. For many years, many thought of Netscape as being synonymous with the internet. From Mosaic to Netscape to Mozilla to Firefox, it never left the geeks' eyes. As it developed, so did it's popularity.
Tor
2007-03-29 19:35:30 UTC
Definately firefox.
Linds
2007-03-29 19:35:47 UTC
I really don't think there is a 'best' one they all pretty much do the same thing, the only difference each one has, is the appearance and different plug-in's. It's up to ones own personal preference. I'm happy using the IE6 browser and the At's yahoo browsers.
chug_lagerette
2007-03-29 19:35:05 UTC
definately firefox
shadow_gx
2007-03-29 19:39:23 UTC
Well



FireFox

Google

Yahoo

MSN



are the main ones...and also greatest ones


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