Thread: War of the web browsers

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Originally Posted by Eddy

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Awesome ! It's just like Piclens.:14:Thanks for sharing. :thumbup1:

You need to sign up to enable features like ...mail pic to friend ......so possibly its also present along with it

Do you think our desktop will be like this one day ? It would be so cool to have a 3d Desktop.

Yeah it be super cool ...But i guess for now 3d screen savers is the closest we can get to it

Somehow I am not comfortable with firefox It is safe but I cannot visit many websites for research
padma

Originally Posted by padnar

Somehow I am not comfortable with firefox It is safe but I cannot visit many websites for research
padma

Firefox supports all websites I have ever tried. Even better than IE 7. Maybe you don't have the needed plugin or any of the addons you installed is messing with the page. If you have trouble with some page you can try IE Tab addon to change the rendering engine to IE( your other addons may stop working when using this). IE Tab download link.

Her s a You tube video Survey about Firefox vs Internet Explorer ..

check it out

Its very interesting


Firefox VS IE

and look what i have ended up with

http://i450.photobucket.com/albums/q...Knight/chr.png


Just love it now!!

Originally Posted by StarryKnight

and look what i have ended up with
http://i450.photobucket.com/albums/q...Knight/chr.png
Just love it now!!

You installed Chromifox Right ? Nice firefox addon.

Originally Posted by Archer

You installed Chromifox Right ? Nice firefox addon.

Thats right Archer ! It does not have the deep blue title bar (which i hated in chrome), has the soothing blue ui like chrome which i loved a lot;

does not give me the googleupdate.exe process (since there is no chrome ); and gives me the customization of ff...

In all a total win win situation! :clap:

Yes! I was looking for an addon Iike this. But it was not available when I searched Firefox addon page. Thanks to you I installed it now. This is awesome. You have my Repo. :clap:

n thx to u too

I installed Chromifox 2 (experimental version) in Ubuntu 8.10. :thumbup1:

Wow Nice Add-on !.......... FF is the best ..........

And Snight your desktop looks much like mine , so much so that for a moment i was confused ........ Zune theme and all

Originally Posted by ShAdOwCoN

Wow Nice Add-on !.......... FF is the best ..........

And Snight your desktop looks much like mine , so much so that for a moment i was confused ........ Zune theme and all

Then it makes us desktop buddies ... :thumbup:

Man i love ff so much i feel like marrying it!

@archer Why the chrome 2? is there any difference from the other one?

Originally Posted by StarryKnight

@archer Why the chrome 2? is there any difference from the other one?

I couldn't find any difference. I installed it because it's the latest. It's an experimental version(like beta).

but it looks good

Firefox and Chrome are good browsers, they start very fast.

Originally Posted by fdserty

Firefox and Chrome are good browsers, they start very fast.

chrome starts fast, yes, but definitely not so with ff, the first start at least after switchin on the comp. it takes about 10 secs just to startup, the subsequent starts are very fast tho.!
maybe its my comp (1.2gig ram, p4 2.8, xp pro) causing the delay.

but i use firefox preloader for the problem, but it causes some more problems but i can live with them.

You are right. Firefox will take at least 10 secs to start first. After that it will only take 2 sec or less.

Originally Posted by Archer

You are right. Firefox will take at least 10 secs to start first. After that it will only take 2 sec or less.

Even i get this issue....

Its called Cold Start and Warm Start.
Cold Start: First start after booting OS.
Warm Start: Starting browser after closing.

When it come to that Chrome is the fastest. If you are using Adblock, removing unnecessary filter subscriptions will speed it up a little. Also like StarryKnight mentioned, you can use Firefox Preloader (840kb application). After installing, it will only take you less than 3 secs to load Firefox.

At the same time it will cause problems when updating Firefox. If you are not planing on updating Firefox then it's fine. I won't recommend using it.

i just unload the preloader after starting up. so no probs after that.

I am a great fan of Opera, having used it from version 6.

When it comes to features nothing can beat firefox today, mainly owing to its open source nature and active development.

But still i find a couple of reasons why i like opera the most,

-> Very innovative - Always the one to think of new features which are then copied to others (no offense, jus my personal opinion).

-> Closed source, yet freeware

-> feature rich but not bloated ( classic opera vs 5mb+ setup for other major non-IE based browsers).

-> Uses less memory when compared to firefox 3 with necessary add ons to provide opera like features.(except FF 2+firefox optimizer).

-> handles disk cache memory very well, even wid 30,000 items (!) in cache its indexes and loads websites faster.(I jus get the embedded videos from cache, no need for a saperate downloader).

-> In built ad-blocker,fraud sites adviser,bookmarks,notes sync,mail client, rss feeds, grab search.

-> I've to be honest here, the 2-10 ms delay by which opera may process scripts is not much of importance TO ME, considering whole a 50s wait for my os to load.

-> when it comes to startup times opera is leader of the pack.

That said, sadly it does have certain disadvantages,

-> many sites do not support opera.
-> not having as many add ons as FF

ALL in all , I feel opera is a dark horse, only discovered by those with real adventure in them.