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Why do you prefer your browser?

Postby calande on 07 June 2009

Hello,

I'd like to know what specific characteristics of your browser you prefer to Opera. This is just to know, I'm not trying to influence anyone ;)
I'm thinking about extensions, minimum configuration, good compatibility with web sites in general. Anything else?
Please list the things you dislike about Opera and the ones you like about your browser!
Thanks,


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Re: Why do you prefer your browser?

Postby ben2talk on 08 October 2009

I like many browsers, I prefer to influence people to support many different browsers and thus support choice and innovation.

I use Opera 10.10, Firefox 3.7, Firefox 3.5.3, Chromium 4.0.221.7 (specifically the Ubuntu build 28103 which is faster than Chrome ;) ), Chrome 4.x, Midori, Epiphany, Seamonkey and konqueror.

Some browsers I only use for specific tasks - but Opera keeps my feeds, and is good for searching (easier to manage search options there) and I like the new tabs. Firefox can do pretty much the same - with tabs as thumbs in sidebar - but I prefer Opera for mail and feeds.

Opera takes some configuring, not as much as Firefox I guess - but I don't mind this.

Chromium is probably the most user friendly as long as you don't need to do much. Opera is the most user friendly if you want to do a lot. Firefox is the most user friendly if you want to do just about anything...

The main thing I dislike about Opera is that it cannot go open source - this is why Firefox is adopted on Linux desktops (sometimes just as an unbadged version, like Iceweasel in Debian)

The main thing I don't dislike - but in some ways it makes for problems - with Firefox, the amount of reliance on Add-ons does often undermine it as a browser... especially if you use Windows (to update your system with Microsoft puts everything at risk).

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Re: Why do you prefer your browser?

Postby calande on 08 October 2009

Thanks for your testimony :)


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