Browser Wars (Trees And Things)

eduardo: Opera...

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:49:59 EST

I first encountered Opera on a 300 year old PC in my undergrad library. It was the worst browser ever, it made no sense to me and looked like shit. I literally hated it.

A few years later, I heard a lot of noise about Opera making their browser free. I

eduardo: Re: Browsers I've known

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:25:24 EST

I suspect it uses RIM servers as a proxy, and haven't gotten around to seeing if this is truly the case.

Something like that is probably going on. I recently got a replacement blackberry and noticed that the browser history carried over from my o

zyxwvutsr: Re: peed / compatabillygoat

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:13:28 EST

What do you consider "serious"?

port1080: Re: Speed / compatibility

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:06:56 EST

And yet, forums like this one are littered with complaints about Firefox 2 being slow or bloated.

Then maybe there's something to it? Something not quantifiable? I don't know what it is, but it's just my impression and it's been my i

jwb: Re: peed / compatabillygoat

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:14:59 EST

I'm saying that Firefox has much less severe memory leaks than its competitors, and that every version of Firefox has had fewer leaks than its predecessor. If you have a workload that leaks, please post it on Bugzilla where I'm sure people will be ex

Lou: Re: peed / compatabillygoat

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:51:03 EST

I really don't have a goat in this fight...but it looks like a lot of links in your google search are from 2005 - 2006. Not that it really matters...just sayin'.

zyxwvutsr: Re: Browser Wars

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:40:17 EST

What am I missing?

You're missing ActiveX applications. Not a big deal unless you work for a company that uses one.

zyxwvutsr: Re: peed / compatabillygoat

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:38:51 EST

Do you think that Firefox does not have a memory leak problem?

jwb: Re: Browser Wars

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:26:54 EST

What am I missing?

jwb: Re: peed / compatabillygoat

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:26:19 EST

Half a million opinions of the know-nothings doesn't amount to truth.

http://www.google.com/search?q=elvis+ufo

zyxwvutsr: Re: Browser Wars

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:58:41 EST

On Windows: Firefox 3...is there a reason to use anything else?

ActiveX.

zyxwvutsr: Re: peed / compatabillygoat

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:56:48 EST

...weird anecdotes about Firefox performance that are utterly contradicted by all available scientific evidence

"Scientific evidence"? How many Firebug. Lik

jwb: Re: Speed / compatibility

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:04:42 EST

This is a really interesting and also frustrating comment for me, because you are one of those people who throw out weird anecdotes about Firefox performance that are utterly contradicted by all available scientific evidence. Every major release of F

delete me: Re: Browsers I've known

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:26:45 EST

Never used emacs for web browsing. Heck, I didn't use emacs very much at all; I used vi.

PenitenziAgite: Re: Browsers I've known

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:07:54 EST

What about emacs?

Lou: Wars?

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:49:46 EST

Do we even have browser wars anymore? I know that term was bandied about quite a bit when Netscape and IE were at each other's throats. Now browser use seems to fall into two categories...those folks who are tech savvy or have a tech savvy frie

postillion: Re: Speed / compatibility

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:16:08 EST

I gotta agree on the tabs thing. It's made work so much easier, particularly when I am using multiple databases that are running off various websites.

I haven't tried Opera. I've been using Firefox for a few years now.

thefadd: Re: Bit of Trivia

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:51:40 EST

It's obviously been outclassed by all the portable stuff since but the browser on psp was pretty sweet for when it came out.

delete me: Re: Bit of Trivia

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:09:08 EST

Aww, crap. I forgot to list the browsers I've used on the Dreamcast, Wii, PSP, and PS3. Ah, well.

zyxwvutsr: Re: No one cares what browsers I use

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:42:17 EST

On Windows: Firefox, IE, Opera, Safari.

On Linux: Firefox, Opera*, and Konqueror.

But never mind that. I have a product recommendation: The PicLens browser plugin must be seen to b

zyxwvutsr: Re: Browsers I've known

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:04:19 EST

Hardly a clone - they removed all the suckiness of Konqueror's UI.

thefadd: Bit of Trivia

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:24:06 EST

The Wii internet browser is opera powered.

port1080: TnT Browser Stats

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:17:23 EST

By the way, here's a link to the website stats page which has browser info:

http://www.treesandthings.com/stats/usage_200802.html#TOPAGENTS

According

port1080: Speed / compatibility

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:12:59 EST

To me it's always been about two things - speed and compatibility. Back when I first got online I used Netscape (ver. 3, I think) because it was, at the time, the best of both worlds. IE 3 just didn't cut it in many areas, although it was somewhat fa

port1080: Re: Browsers I've known

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:57:03 EST

Actually, Safari is a Konqueror clone.

delete me: Browsers I've known

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:34:58 EST

IBM Web Explorer (OS/2 Warp) - Probably the worst, and most primitive graphical browser I have ever used. Slightly better than downloading every webpage and using a text editor to browse them with.

Mosaic (Windows) - Used this for a short bit, and decid