[-_-'] Firefox or Opera

[Mr.Lucifer]

Five years ago you'd all say Internet Explorer for sure :/ Ignorance.

 

[Kenny.]

The only awesome thing opera has is the scrolling. it looks so clear, o.0

 

[GohanSSJ]

Opera isn't safer in the sense that it's better programmed, but it works like this, a company looks up exploits to get you, they mostly do this with IE users seeing they have the largest amount of users, after that it's Firefox. Opera has very few users, and the intelligence of the average user is quite a lot higher (it's usually not used by the average computer user, they normally use IE or sometimes FF), so they won't bother to target it, hence it is safer.

 

[Ron]

Opera isn't safer in the sense that it's better programmed, but it works like this, a company looks up exploits to get you, they mostly do this with IE users seeing they have the largest amount of users, after that it's Firefox. Opera has very few users, and the intelligence of the average user is quite a lot higher (it's usually not used by the average computer user, they normally use IE or sometimes FF), so they won't bother to target it, hence it is safer.

Finally someone else who thinks logically.

 

[Cask]

Can you all please stop saying that Firefox is the safest?

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2304
http://www.techdreams.org/browsers/...ble-windows-applications-of-2008/627-20081218
http://www.itexaminer.com/firefox-most-vulnerable-software-of-2008.aspx
http://4sysops.com/archives/tweets-...dows-7-news-google-browser-security-handbook/

 

[Mr.Lucifer]

Finally someone else who thinks logically.

Who didn't?

It's a common known fact that things that are used less is safer. Mac, Linux... It's one of the reasons I switched from Firefox to Opera a year ago.

But there are of course many other reasons. Mouse gestures, the flow and so on. That's why I didn't choose a smaller, completely unknown browser.

 

[NoPeace]

Opera makes me laugh. I could never stand using that thing as it's reminds me so much of McFee. Does the same job that others do but at the cost of much higher resources. So what's the point?

I personally use FF and Safari. Both I feel are very nice.

NoPeace - out

 

[Gwei]

Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer; abbreviated MSIE, commonly abbreviated to IE), is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems starting in 1995.

Since you are using OS developed by Microsoft, you should had preferred Microsoft stuff.. Sadly they had little care on browser stuff compare to their OS as browser is a mere program that comes with the OS. But IMO other browser are still far behind IE's popularity to me still as IE comes with the OS and many people don't get to know about Firefox or Opera.

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has used Firefox, but has commented that "so much software gets downloaded all the time, but do people actually use it?"

From wiki, its said that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Web_browser_usage_share.svg
nternet Explorer (67.51%) Mozilla Firefox (21.73%) Safari (8.00%) Google Chrome (1.15%) Opera (0.71%) Other (0.90%)

I know everyone on forums who used firefox and stuffs are spreading as hardcore as they could about firefox and others browsers stuff, which explain why firefox seems so popular. But the majority who knows nothing about other browsers other than IE just aren't voicing themselves out, thats why people think firefox are really popular, it isn't actually and only 20+ percentage of the users are using it.
But well I still like firefox cause it has much more feature than IE D:


Edit: And I know not much about opera =|

 

[yjlasher22]

well, most of us know that firefox is not taking the lion's share, thats exactly why we are spreading it. AND IE has a huge advantage as it is bundled with the os. so people who get computers just to do basic stuff (edit documents, watch porn etc) would not know much about firefox. i myself personally switched to firefox only a few years back. thats when i noticed the huge gap between firefox and ie... yeah, you'll never know until you tried.

 

[Kars]

Firefox, big time, Opera laggs and it's more of a deal to browse with.

 

[CioNide]

I prefer Firefox.

But Internet Explorer 9 is coming out, and it's awesome...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forg...-Internet-Explorer-9-in-Windows-7-74575.shtml

 

[jcgo16]

Opera Wins
gotta use opera

 

[Creamiie]

Opera =3, I'm Using Naw.
xD, Actually, Fastest Is Depends On Your Country.
See Weather Your Country's Internet Speed Fast Or Not. x3

 

[yjlasher22]

I prefer Firefox.

But Internet Explorer 9 is coming out, and it's awesome...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forg...-Internet-Explorer-9-in-Windows-7-74575.shtml

read it properly lols, its just a rumor, and ie 8 isn't even out of beta...

But nonetheless, in an interview done with Hachamovitch and Wilson for Channel 9,

​

there is a mention of Internet Explorer 9 and an apparent codename Triton. I will have to disappoint all you readers that actually think Triton is the codename dot IE9. As I have said, IE8 is still dogfooded at Microsoft in early development stages, even though it has been cooking for almost a year now. It would be nothing short of absurd to think that Microsoft has already started building IE9. Trition is nothing more than a small error.

 

[Wizzdom]

Firefox FTW!

 

[Fleetaks]

FireFox, ofc...
Good browser.

 

[TheAJ]

I prefer Google Chrome.

But here's a decent spot check of each browser (newest ones): http://www.pcworld.com/article/150828/browser_battle_firefox_31_vs_chrome_vs_ie_8.html

 

[*Mario*]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9BON5nd8Fg

That will answer all of your questions. tt:

 

[watzmename]

I'd stick with FireFox. The add-ons are great. Doesn't slow down that much

 

[TomSpit]

Opera for stability.