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[heavensounds]

There are battles between different browsers for a long time now and it all began when netscape and microsoft started the war;) First is now almost forgotten and the second one survived and is today fighting mostly with Mozilla, Firefox and Opera.
Each of those has many fans which will say that his browser is the best! But WHICH IS REALLY THE BEST???

On the page HowToCreate they tried to answer that question as they were comparing the most popular browsers for Linux (Firefox, Mozilla, Konqeror, Opera, Epiphany), Mac OS X (Safari, Opera, OmniWeb, IE, iCab, Firefox, Camino) and Windows (Avant, Escape, Clue, Firefox, IE, Mozilla, Opera, Netscape). They were comparing "coldstart", "warmstart" and the speed of CSS rendering, pictures, scripts and history...

Results are here: Not a single browser is as good as OPERA which is THE FASTEST BROWSER at the moment and is the most apropriate for every platform.

YOU DONT BELIEVE?

Its hard to believe ....feel free to comment

[harad]

huh, you didn't know that?*

*myself i think that IE is somewhat faster than others (but not better anyways)

[RGPHNX]

Hi heavensounds,
True, Opera IS the fastest browser due to smallest "footprint" (ie. compactness of code) & stripped down "features".
Just 2 cents worth.

[Brunnen-G]

I agree with harad...

[kummy]

RGPHNX, on Mar 23 2005, 01:12 AM, said:

Hi heavensounds,
True, Opera IS the fastest browser due to smallest "footprint" (ie. compactness of code) & stripped down "features".
Just 2 cents worth.

i like opera too, but anybody explain me why if i check my email to gmail, the website says that my browser is not compatible with the site?? after i sign in, the structure of the site is sometimes mess up...

[Inspiron]

For kummy,

gmail is currently suitable for IE 5.5+, Netscape 7.1+, Mozilla 1.4+, Firefox 0.8+, Safari 1.2.1+

For unsupported browsers like IE 4.0+, Netscape 4.07+, Opera 6.03+, you'll be automatically directed to the basic HTML view of Gmail.
So you will still be able to log in to your Gmail account from these browsers but with limitations.
You will find features missing in unsupported browsers.

To name a few :
Filter creation
Settings
Spell checker
Keyboard shortcuts
Address auto-complete

For access to all of Gmail’s features, sign in to your account from a fully supported browser, and make sure you have cookies and JavaScript enabled.

With Reference from Gmail.com

[solankyno1]

I already know that Opera is the fastest brower. But I will stick to firefox because speed is not the only crietiria for selecting a brwoser. Many websites are not viewed correctly in opera. Gmail and Yahoo Mail are examples of such websites. And the most liked thing is the Extensions feature in Firefox.

[Odyssey]

I currently use Firefox, because of its design. I used to use netscape, then went back to IE, still didnt like it. Then Firebird (beta of Firefox) came out, and I really liked it.

[desdenova]

harad, on Mar 22 2005, 06:48 PM, said:

huh, you didn't know that?*

*myself i think that IE is somewhat faster than others (but not better anyways)

I think same. Internet Explorer is fastest because is loaded with Windows. When you start Internet Explorer (click on blue E), only IE window will load.

[NeXDesigns]

I did use IE for as long as i can remember, but now im hooked on firefox for a few reasons, the featurees, the tabbed browsing, and the way it also seems to help block the spyware that always seems to infect IE. (god i hate those IE takeover pages that would replace ur homepage with theirs, and ur search engine and error pages too!) spyware needs to die...

[FiReStOrM]

i think opera and firefox are fairly the same .. but obviouslt both are way better and faster than ie .. i personally use firefox and i like it .. i tried opera but i dont see much difference between them

[mahesh2k]

i used ie6. as i seen ie5 it doesn't support gmail .and i forced to switch to ie6.i on another hand also use upadted mozilla kid firefox.it is very good browser i think.

[kummy]

Inspiron, on Mar 27 2005, 01:13 AM, said:

gmail is currently suitable for IE 5.5+, Netscape 7.1+, Mozilla 1.4+, Firefox 0.8+, Safari 1.2.1+

For unsupported browsers like IE 4.0+, Netscape 4.07+, Opera 6.03+, you'll be automatically directed to the basic HTML view of Gmail.
So you will still be able to log in to your Gmail account from these browsers but with limitations.

mmm... even when i use Opera 8 beta 2, the lastest software of Opera...

[rakkertje22]

heavensounds, on Mar 22 2005, 03:57 PM, said:

Results are here: Not a single browser is as good as OPERA which is THE FASTEST BROWSER at the moment and is the most apropriate for every platform.

But is Opera the safest brower.... I'm gona try it myself I think. I'm using Microsoft's IE and Mozilla's Firefox now. Firefox is sloooowww, and IE isn't safe enough (I'm using IE 6 with SP 2)

I hope that it works for me

[ohmgointer]

i think mozilla firefox is the fastest web-browser right now and i hadn't used internet explorer for a long time due to its security affairs . i feel a lot free from spyware when i use mozilla firefox . anyway i haven't try other web browsers like nescape

[rambo406]

i am using firefox.... i think this browser got many function that other browser dont have

[LLIyT]

FiReStOrM, on Mar 29 2005, 02:23 PM, said:

i think opera and firefox are fairly the same .. but obviouslt both are way better and faster than ie .. i personally use firefox and i like it .. i tried opera but i dont see much difference between them

I use Opera, i think its the best!

[BBen]

Opera has gone free and ad-free!
I'm using it now.
www.opera.com

[Regain]

i use ie i fink its much better
firefox has jst got better spam blockers

[michaelper22]

I've used IE, Netscape 7.2, Mozilla Firefox and Opera, and I say that hands-down Opera not just transfers pages the fastest, but also renders them the fastest. that means from the time a web site's HTL gets to Opera, the browser gets to work displating the page ASAP, and does it faster than anyone else.

The runners up are as follows, in order from fastest to slowest:
1. Firefox - any version
2. Netscape 7.2
3. Internet Explorer 6 (I don't have IE 7 so I can't judge it)

[Mystixs]

Wrong. Opera is faster, but doesn't display things right all the time. Firefox does.
By speed Firefox is second, firefox displays websites the best though.

[rsf]

I use firefox because it is secure, I like the look, and most importantly it has loads of extensions.

I have opera on my computer solely for testing how it renders my sites, but I will not use it because I do not like the look and it does not have all my extensions.

[detportal]

A few things to note:

Firefox uses the Gecko engine. It is supposed to render pages more accurately than any other browser engine, but it still can't pass the ACID2 test. the ACID2 test is a test set by the web standards project to test the accuracy of the rendering of pages by browsers. you can find it at http://www.webstanda...g/action/acid2/ . The Gecko engine in my experience, is faster than IE's engine (called Titan i think, or Trident, or at least something beginning with T) and about as fast as the Presto engine (used by Opera). But its API allows for extensions, plugins etc like no other browser on Earth. It is also easier to release patches for. due to the way it's programmed. And because it's open source with a wide community, if you find a bug, it will be fixed extremely quickly, and you can expect to find support easily. You can also modify and distribute it, and claim it as your own. It also has many loyal fans, and many sites have been specifically designed to be best viewed in this browser. Some sites have been specifically designed to work best in Firefox (that's why some people may say it renders pages more accurately than Opera, although it probably doesn't.)

Opera, as mentioned above, uses the Presto engine (presto is italian for "fast"). It passes the ACID2 test, the second one after the KHTML engine (used by Safari and Konqueror). It's quite fast, but suffers from IE syndrome, where it waits until the majority of the web page has been loaded before displaying it. It's API does not allow for extensions as easily as Firefox does, and it's community is more narrow. And you don't get the freedom to copy, modify and distribute the browser like you do with Firefox, Konqueror and other GPL-licenced browsers. And you will have noticed it isn't as well supported either. And it doesn't have as many loyal fans as Firefox.

IE uses some engine starting with "T". It has an atrocious API, and several sites have to be specially designed for viewers to see them using IE. Because of its tight integration with Windoze, it takes a long time to release a patch, and they are usually of a much larger size than Firefox's or Opera's. Because you don't have the freedom to see its source code, you can't do anything about it either. It has a VERY small community and virtually no loyal supporters. Oh, and it fails the ACID2 test. (what a surprise).

My preference? Firefox. I just like it. Full stop.

[street]

we know opera is the fastest browser but there are so many ways to make Mozilla fast it is catching up to opera for me pages took a few seconds then after i followed a tutorial on how to make Firefox faster all my pages load in a blink. That is fast enough for me. LOL

[richierich1m]

though i feel opera is fast ,but i sometime feel thst internet explorer is fastest thsn sny other browser ,though internet explorer has a lot of security holes ,yet its comparatively faster than any other ,but yes not safer