Browser War

[Revan]

Am i the only one who doesn't use third party software, but instead uses lovely ol' IE7?

It suits my needs excellently.

Your phail rating has increased to 2^(2^(2^4)) go calculate that and come back when you are done.

btw. I am a Safari user, and iPod Touch which is Safari to.

[Her3tic]

2^(2^(2^4))

(2,0035299304068464649790723515603 x 10^19728)

Lols it's bigger than everything in the world!!

[gareth]

firefox is pretty easy to crash with malicous javascript, i do it all the time without even trying.

[NiTRoX]

And Firefox 3 beta 5 sux nuts and is slow

[sSopris]

firefox is pretty easy to crash with malicous javascript, i do it all the time without even trying.

Wait, so you crash your own firefox all the time without even trying?

[snb]

our goverment internet browser is better than all of those we get 30 mg un like all of you who get at max 5 mg but that really has little to do with our free goverment browsers (plasomoft-surf browser 10.2.9). They NEVER mess up. Have no known problems exept for issues with downloading illeagal porn or somthing like that at least thats what they said in the knews about the porn. but if i had to say the best one that is foriegn to us its firefox but its ALOT buggier and slower bthough i guess that just cuase' im used to plasomoft virtuly the best browser but not availible out side the country or else the goverment might get hacked or somthing in The Districts (slang for were i live)

[Her3tic]

I dont get what you're trying to say about goverment thing...

And about your illegal downloading... Wtf?

[snb]

omfg how simplified do you want me to give it to you.... Our government free browser is better than all the others with know known problems exept the one i stated above

[Paradox]

mmm, looks like a ban expired.

[Her3tic]

Could you explain what is a goverment internet browser to me?

[Rocinante]

Yes, out of curiosity since you've mentioned "SNB" before, for those who don't know maybe you could explain where that is and what government (last I checked, most of the good browsers are free, so a free one from a government doesn't sound special to me :> ).  My Google-Fu only tells me about the Swiss National Bank, and since you live there I figure you'd have a better time describing it than I would.

[St. Anger]

New Opera 9.5 beta out.

Lovin it.

[Bomb]

I find Firefox (3.0) vastly superior to Safari for the following reasons:
1) It's free and nonproprietary.
2) It gives me the option to automatically restore my tabs from last time.
3) Simple, intuitive interface that can be learned by anyone who has used a computer before.
4) It includes more than one engine in the search bar.
5) It lets me reorder the aforementioned search engines. Petty, I know, but I'm a neat freak.
6) Cross-platform. I use Ubuntu Hardy sometimes and I really like having a familiar browser.
7) It doesn't automatically unzip PK3s into folders. This was a real pain when I tried to download maps.

I'd use Opera as well but it doesn't feel as friendly as Firefox. There is also no way to reorder search engines, at least not from my precursory examination.

I used to be a rabid Safari fan, but the address bar/progress indicator really threw me off. I like being able to type URLs and see progress at the same time.

[snb]

ok i dont know about the stuff you said bomb all i know is that safari sucks and firefox is better so i agree with you

[mooseberry]

Safari for windows is about the worst possible thing in the world. Also I use firefox 3. It works fine for everything I need it to do.

[Bomb]

Safari for windows in general is about the worst possible thing in the world. Also I use firefox 3. It works fine for everything I need it to do.

Fixed.

It's too featureless. This is one of the few areas where I think Apple totally screwed up.

[Kaleo]

Safari for windows in general is about the worst possible thing in the world. Also I use firefox 3. It works fine for everything I need it to do.

Fixed.

It's too featureless. This is one of the few areas where I think Apple totally screwed up.

What are you smoaking (and where can I get some)? Safari for Mac is the best browser there is, for any OS. IE is shit, FireFox (imo) is fairly boring to use, and Opra comes a close second to Safari.


As for Safari for Windows, honestly, what were they thinking?

[snb]

ive never used safari for windows only for mac so unless its magicly the best thing ever for windows then it still sucks on either os heres how i see it

mac
1 fire fox
2 IE7 ( only slightly better than safari here)
3 safari

windows
1 firefox
2 IE7 (alot better than safari here but still aways to go for firefox)
3 safari

[TinMan]

Other:
1. Charon
2. Epiphany-webkit
3. Lynx

[Bomb]

Safari for windows in general is about the worst possible thing in the world. Also I use firefox 3. It works fine for everything I need it to do.

Fixed.

It's too featureless. This is one of the few areas where I think Apple totally screwed up.

What are you smoaking (and where can I get some)? Safari for Mac is the best browser there is, for any OS. IE is shit, FireFox (imo) is fairly boring to use, and Opra comes a close second to Safari.


As for Safari for Windows, honestly, what were they thinking?

Hey, did you know you can get high if you bake banana peels, scrape the gunk off, and "smoak" it? Yeah, right.

Well, it's a matter of preference. Safari is more polished, but Firefox is more widely-supported. Some web apps won't even work on Safari.

@snb: There's IE7 for Mac? I thought Microsoft stopped Mac IE development when Apple made their own browser.

[dan003400]

what do you mean mac programmers do not appear to be quake players? everyone i know who had a mac when quake iii came out laughed in my face because it ran beautiful on their fruity colored tard-boxes and everyone on pc's like me and the guys at penny arcade struggled with voodoo 3dfx crap

[Bomb]

as a matter of fact yes ive seen some US schools use it on there maby not 7 but internet explorer never the less but they telll you not to use it for some reason theres a bunch of green stickie notes sayng "use safari not internet explorer" though they all have firefox too but ive never seen any one use it in those schools (not to mention they have a bunch of old junk that we have never had in our schools such a chalk board all our schools are computerized) (i did some summer program that brings you to differant countries we visited a few schools in the midwestern states)

I think it was the version Apple stopped distributing at Mac OS X 10.4.0. That one pretty much sucked.

[Kaleo]

Hey isn't that P1's job?

[Paradox]

Ok, please dont flame snb any more. If you want to do that, go here

[player1]

what do you mean mac programmers do not appear to be quake players? everyone i know who had a mac when quake iii came out laughed in my face because it ran beautiful on their fruity colored tard-boxes and everyone on pc's like me and the guys at penny arcade struggled with voodoo 3dfx crap

How to make Quake 3 run on a PC w/ a Voodoo card?

Click INSTALL.

Yeah. Wow, aren't you the l33t one?

[TinMan]

I had a voodoo card, it didn't work that well, kinda like current-day ATI card drivers but way worse. The card was already outdated because it was friggin 2000, so it was old hardware, but even if Quake 3 would install, you'd get OpenGL errors galore. Windows 98 HATED those cards.

[Kaleo]

what do you mean mac programmers do not appear to be quake players? everyone i know who had a mac when quake iii came out laughed in my face because it ran beautiful on their fruity colored tard-boxes and everyone on pc's like me and the guys at penny arcade struggled with voodoo 3dfx crap

How to make Quake 3 run on a PC w/ a Voodoo card?

Click INSTALL.

Yeah. Wow, aren't you the l33t one?

Installing and running are different.

For example, I installed EE3  on my computer, but still runs like shit.

[player1]

[snb]

what do you mean mac programmers do not appear to be quake players? everyone i know who had a mac when quake iii came out laughed in my face because it ran beautiful on their fruity colored tard-boxes and everyone on pc's like me and the guys at penny arcade struggled with voodoo 3dfx crap

How to make Quake 3 run on a PC w/ a Voodoo card?

Click INSTALL.

Yeah. Wow, aren't you the l33t one?

Installing and running are different.

For example, I installed EE3  on my computer, but still runs like shit.

he's right 

[player1]

3dfx crap

Click INSTALL.

runs like shit.

right

oh, fork it!

[ps]win98+pos comp+dialup/me non-l33t/voodoo2-3000/quake3/clicky-clicky-search-clicky-duh/howhardisthat?

dan003400

TinMan

Kaleo

player1

snb

they could all be inserted after this post

also, i believe this goes right after this

Cheers!