which browser to change to?

[Lewis.]

I'm getting fed up of the epic crapness of IE, so its time to change. I know a lot of people like FF but is it the best? anything else worth considering?

[Derick-Sport]

google chrome is excellent

[db_1.2]

I voted Firefox. Ive been using it as long as its existed now, and swear by it. But ive not seen any of the others, neither do i have any desire to lol

[Tanya.]

FF or Chrome :)

[Mattman]

I voted Firefox. Ive been using it as long as its existed now, and swear by it. But ive not seen any of the others, neither do i have any desire to lol

:thumb: FF here too

[Lewis.]

do i need to uninstall IE before installing a different browser?

[Tanya.]

do i need to uninstall IE before installing a different browser?

I don't think so...I have IE and FF installed on mine...I just never use IE lol

[Southie]

I use Firefox, Safari and Opera. Mac ftw :d

[Lewis.]

cheers Tanya, and what are safari and opera southie? are they for Mac only

[MattBrown]

I use Firefox, Safari and Opera. Mac ftw :d

All of the above are good, opera uses the least memory, and is the fastsest opening pages:thumb:

[MattBrown]

cheers Tanya, and what are safari and opera southie? are they for Mac only

No.

google is your friend.

Or go over from windows to linux:thumb:

[Hoochie]

http://www.browserchoice.eu/BrowserChoice/browserchoice_en.htm

Try them all.....:)

[Lewis.]

cheers to everyone, I'm going to try firefox and see how I get on. I'll rep where I can :thumb:

and Matt, whats Linux? The name seems familiar... :confused:



edit, just downloaded FF and it is pure win :d
http://www.quantrimang.com.vn/photos/image/012009/03/fierfox.jpg

[wwmnw]

Opera is ok but its weird at first it does (or did) have one advantage over firefox which I cant remember now for some reason, but apart from that its not as good as firefox in my opinion.

[MattBrown]

Opera is ok but its weird at first it does (or did) have one advantage over firefox which I cant remember now for some reason, but apart from that its not as good as firefox in my opinion.

Built in torrent client?

And lewis, its a differant os (operating system)

Say windows xp, seven, etc

Well I did run ubuntu, and kubuntu.

Google it, you will see:thumb:

[mowgli]

whats Linux? The name seems familiar... :confused:


its the kid from charlie brown who sucks his thumb

[Jack]

Thats Linus lol

Firefox would be my choice, mainly as I like the plethora of addons. I do recall there being a glaring security hole in Opera, not sure if they've fixed it yet.

No need to uninstall IE if you want Firefox. I use both.

[Danny mul]

Google chrome is the best one Ive tried

[Lewis.]

Built in torrent client?

And lewis, its a differant os (operating system)

Say windows xp, seven, etc

Well I did run ubuntu, and kubuntu.

Google it, you will see:thumb:

ah right. I'm quite happy with shonky old vista at the moment, but I'll have a google and see what I can learn :thumb:



Thats Linus lol

Firefox would be my choice, mainly as I like the plethora of addons. I do recall there being a glaring security hole in Opera, not sure if they've fixed it yet.

No need to uninstall IE if you want Firefox. I use both.

I downloaded Firefox earlier, and so far I'm very happy, what add odds are available?

[Jack]

Quite a lot really, have a look on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

The ones I find most useful are:

Download Statusbar (gives you a small progress bar in the main firefox status bar, avoiding using the downloads popup each time)
Download Videohelper (can download embedded videos and music)
DownloadThemAll (a download queue client)
FireTorrent (torrent client for firefox)
Image Zoom (can zoom in and out of images on pages)
Tamper Data (edit and modify form and HTTP headers)

And a few others.

[Pistol Pete]

Google chrome user here.

[Lewis.]

ooh the download status bar and image zoom sound usefull :) i'll get downloading then