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[EdgabtheGreat]

1. Is Opera the fastest Browser around.
2. What do you think of googles new browser Chrome, does it beat Firefox 3?
3. Does anyone even use Internet explorer?

[kingjim007]

I prefer Firefox 2. Firefox has some really annoying features. I hate it when something works great and they add all these bells and whistles and make it a heap of junk.....maybe i'm just getting old

I use IE as some pages just load things better on it such as video i.e. watching footy replays at www.afl.com.au

I haven't looked at chrome but maybe google is becoming like MS trying to dominate everywhere.

Firefox loads many pages 10 times faster than IE. I heard chrome loads even faster.

My pet peeves are related to privacy. I don't like browsers that remember EVERYTHING you type and everywhere you go and want to have drop dows and try and guess every search for you...it's just annoying.

Probably a personal thing browsers...like mac or pc....laptop or desktop....holden or ford ) i'm an aussie hehe

Go Holden!

KJ

[EdgabtheGreat]

I have been reading that Chrome seems to outstrip Firefox on memory usage and loads far faster. But Opera still beats them all.

Is Chrome really much faster than the rest at running JavaScript? Cnet reports that Chrome tops IE and Firefox in an Acid3 test . Chrome currently clocks in at 78 out of 100 on Acid3, while Firefox gets 71 points and IE7 gets 14 points. Apparently the only release quality build to beat Chrome is Opera, which scores an 83 points.

Try this and see what you score for java script: http://code.google.c...pis/v8/run.html
Try this and see what you score on Acid 3: http://acid3.acidtests.org/

I'm using Internet Explorer and I scored 15 points on Javascript and 12 points on Acid 3.

[stranded]

I use firefox. I heard it is the best browser around and it is really customizable so you can use theme of your choice or add plugins to it for better performance

[HappyAlex]

I use IE7.0, FireFox 3.0, Opera 9.
Opera is fast, and it uses less system resource, in my opinion.
FireFox, maybe it is more secure than IE.
IE, it is the most popular one, some websites looks weird unless you use IE.
I haven't tried Chrome yet.But I will.

Edited by HappyAlex, 13 September 2008 - 02:50 AM.

[morder]

I use firefox since version 1.
And yes im very happy so far, it just could not be better. I try IE and opera but firefox is for me better.

[xpress]

Opera...Always Opera...The worlds fastest browser. I love Opera, due to its speed and functionality. And its built in features like Speed Dial, mouse gestures, inbuilt torrent client, ftp client, mail client and many more features.

My most favourite among these features are speed dial, session manager and mouse gestures. I can open my favourite websites with just a single click. And coming to mouse gestures they are very handy. You can do many things with just a single click of your mouse...For example if you want a new tab, just hold the right mouse button and draw a vertical line and a new tab will be opened...very easy.

And its inbuilt torrent client is working very well now.Now I am downloading all my torrents from my browser itself.
And a latest feature Content Blocking allowing us to block any image or ads with a single click. Opera is just an amazing browser. Most of these features are available as extensions in firefox. But they are inbuilt in Opera.

And my second favourite browser is FireFox....Nice features and security. Got some nice extensions. I mostly use
firefox for my development purposes. Extensions like HTTP Live headers, and Leet Key are very useful for development purposes.

[Linksys713]

I've never used Opera before, if it's the fastest I should give it a try.

I use both Google Chrome and Firefox 3, but I think Chrome is better than Firefox. Chrome seems to be a lot faster and doesn't have all that annoying clutter. Still both are great browsers.

I use Internet Explorer sometimes. Internet Explorer 7 was good, but IE 8 is really getting on my nerves. They have a lot of annoying bugs to work out before it's ready. Every now and then when I close IE it starts opening an infinite amount of new tabs and you have to end the process to stop it.

[Jezstarr]

I use firefox 3 and i have been using it for a while now

I also use Google Chrome and love the simple design it has and impressed by how lightweight it is.

Am surprised to hear that a lot of people use opera i might give it a try just for curiosity's sake.

But firefox it is for me and a long time before it wont be.

[klusk]

I use Firefox and now i have started to use chrome, just to check it....I think Firefox is way better IE...now maybe chrome is giving it some fight....but i still feel Firefox is better.....but its been a couple of days since i have started using chrome...so i think i will be able to review it better after a few days...as far as speed is concerned, i think chrome is a bit faster than Firefox, or may be i think so....because that is what we are all expecting from chrome.....

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I haven't looked at chrome but maybe Google is becoming like MS trying to dominate everywhere.

yes, that's true...but we must see that they are coming with good products too...I heard the same thing everywhere when they launched their messenger gtalk....in fact, even i believed that Google will fail to do something good ....but we all were wrong..gtalk is really good....

Chrome has a simple and impressive design and it is fast ....lets see what it can do...

Edited by klusk, 08 October 2008 - 04:23 PM.