Which web browser

[wolverineI]

Well i just installed firefox and went to some bandwidth tests and its about 50% slower than IE so thats all i needed not to use it. besides it wont be long before this gets targetted by the script kiddies. Router and software firewall is a must for IE though but it still gets my vote.

 

i just used firefox and ie in side by side tests and they were the same or faster for firefox.in fact if you hit the back button with cnet i would hit 25000,up from the normal 1400

[cronocrash]

I use Firefox for all my surfing and browsing and whatnot. But because I design webpages I also use Internet Explorer, Opera, Netscape, and I even tend to use the Mac browser Safari to test my webpages. Just because I prefer one browser doesn't give me the right to make pages for *just* that browser.

 

Firefox is prosauce.

[old_geekster]

I use Firefox 1.5 and have had no problems.

 

I have used Firefox since its beginning and won't change.

 

I tried Opera for awhile, but I didn't find it as intuitive as Firefox.

[Starkey]

Firefox most of the time ~ some crappy programs (ie msn messenger) still want you to use IE even when you have got rid of most of it.

 

Dam the vole

[the_PC_Chef]

Firefox 'cause I love plugins and tabs. Haven't tried Opera. IE is a spyware magnet!

[Clay]

I use the full "Mozilla" for all surfing. I only use firefox for torrent searches. I don't use Internet Explorer for anything except "Pcpitstop" On 1 rigg I used IEerradicator and got rid of it.

[SquattingDog]

Firefox, its clean, tabbed, no ads (unlike free-version of opera). Used to use explorer all the time, but having 3-4 taskbar-rows full of open windows when viewing pics etc just doesn't do it for me...

[lec666]

new to using firefox and i like it better than IE,but it seems to not work correctly on some sites

as things appear in code instead of regular text,so i still use IE for those sites

[momoceio]

Windows updates through firefox can be done...use this site

 

http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/

[n1ce_hat]

the Nintendo Wii uses opera, curious to use that

[red930]

Does any one think Firefox uses more memory resources than say explorer?

[_xhp_]

Does any one think Firefox uses more memory resources than say explorer?

 

I would say yes. But this is not always a bad thing. Morstly, increased mem usage is the resolt of firefox keeping old web pages in memory and greater use of cache (FastBack feature and stuff like that).

 

Currently my FF is using 65MB -> mostly becouse I have it set up to use 65536B (64MB) of in memory page cache and last 30 visited pages.

 

In FF you can always customize the settings I mentioned, if you don't like the mem usage you can always decrease it....