Best web browser?

[fastdruid]

Originally Posted by Spiderman

Opera all the way, especially the new version i upgraded to today. so smooth and so fast!

+1 Although the chrome lack of a top bar had me confused for a bit.

Plus *so* easy to upgrade now!

Druid

Originally Posted by ophic

Have you downloaded the spell check dictionary though? One thing that puts people off FF is that it comes fairly stripped down ie featureless by default. This equates to less bloat for the people who know what plug-ins to install.

How do you get that?

[Spiderman]

Originally Posted by fastdruid

+1 Although the chrome lack of a top bar had me confused for a bit.

Plus *so* easy to upgrade now!

Druid

A man with taste and wisdom. You lot could leana lot from this man

And yeh it freaked me for a second or 2 but now i think "even better!!" And if you download the Opera Turbo skin, man its just perfect for the forum colur scheme.
And you can now mess about with the speed dial page to have more or less speed dials. Opera kicks ass!!

I'm gonna derail my own thread! Spiderman where have u been, has the PS3 totally sucked you in?

[jamesterror]

Use Chrome on the laptop, IE8/FF on the PC

[fastdruid]

Originally Posted by Spiderman

A man with taste and wisdom. You lot could leana lot from this man

Did I ever tell you you're my fav mod.

And if you download the Opera Turbo skin, man its just perfect for the forum colur scheme.

Ooh no, it looks nice but the menu stuff is white on grey, unreadable!

And you can now mess about with the speed dial page to have more or less speed dials. Opera kicks ass!!

Plus a background image.
I keep trying Chrome/ff/ie but keep coming back to Opera, nothing is so fast, so stable and allows so many tabs. Plus if heaven forbid it does crash everything is restored just as it was. Or if you accidentally close a tab, bing, there is the 'trash can' to restore it along with all your history, yes FF does it now but who do you think they stole it from! Plus Opera does the page *exactly* as it was when you closed it rather than reloads it.

Druid

[Spiderman]

dude you and i need to get shares in Opera or something, youre as evangelical about it as i am! lol.

Im with FireFox, I used to use Internet Exploiter but found it kept crashing when running JS (on more than one system).

Im seriously tempted to try the new Opera, people keep extolling the virtues of the new version to me.

ps, I will only ever swap to another web browser if I can get an addblocker as good as adblock plus for firefox.

[timwilky]

Firefox for me, despite our company still insisting on IE6. I had to get a dispensation for its install and prove to them why I want the add ons (firebug is great).

However, I even still occasionally use lynx. And pray tell what is wrong with using a wget and actually looking at the html instead of the rendering.

Same as flymo here, I tend to use all of them depending on what I'm doing (won't use Chrome for internet banking etc) but I have really been impressed with the new version of Opera.

IE has some good tools for developers too, IE Developer Toolbar spings to mind.