Which Browser do YOU use the MOST?






Historically important browsers

In order of release:

WorldWideWeb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb), February 26 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_26), 1991 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991)
Erwise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwise), April 1992
ViolaWWW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViolaWWW), May 1992, see Erwise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwise)
WWW - The Libwww Line-Mode Browser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-mode_browser), before February 11 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_11), 1991 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991)
Mosaic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_%28web_browser%29), April 22 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_22), 1993 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993)
Netscape Navigator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator) and Netscape Communicator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Communicator), October 13 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_13), 1994 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994)
Internet Explorer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer) (August 1995)
Opera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_%28web_browser%29), 1996, see History of the Opera Internet suite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Opera_Internet_suite)
Internet Explorer 6 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_6), August 27 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_27), 2001 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001)
Safari (web browser) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_%28web_browser%29), January 7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_7), 2003 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003)
Mozilla Firefox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox), November 9 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_9), 2004 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004)
Internet Explorer 7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_7), October 18 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_18), 2006 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006)
Early browsers


AMosaic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMosaic)
Arena (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena_%28web_browser%29)
Cello (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cello_%28web_browser%29)
CyberDog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberDog)
Grail (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grail_%28web_browser%29)
IBM Web Explorer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Web_Explorer)
Lynx (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28web_browser%29)
MacWeb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacWeb)
MidasWWW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MidasWWW_%28web_browser%29)
Oracle PowerBrowser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_PowerBrowser) June 18, 1996 (version 1.5)
SlipKnot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SlipKnot_%28web_browser%29)
WebRouser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRouser) September 18, 1995
Graphical


Layout Engines

The Trident (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_%28layout_engine%29) layout engine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layout_engine) was developed by Microsoft (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft) for use in the Windows (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows) version of their web browser, Internet Explorer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer).
The Gecko (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_%28layout_engine%29) layout engine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layout_engine) is developed by the Mozilla Foundation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation).
The KHTML (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML) layout engine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layout_engine) is developed by the KDE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE) project. WebKit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit) is an open-source fork of that engine by Apple Inc. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.).
The Presto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presto_%28layout_engine%29) layout engine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layout_engine) is developed by Opera Software (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Software).
Browsers that use both Trident (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_%28layout_engine%29) engine and Gecko (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_%28layout_engine%29) engine include:

Maxthon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxthon) (formerly known as MyIE2)
Netscape Browser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Browser) 8
Mozilla Firefox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox) with the IE Tab (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IE_Tab) extension
Trident-based browsers

Other software publishers have extended the functionality of Microsoft's Trident engine. The following browsers are all based on the Trident rendering engine:

AOL Explorer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_Explorer)
Altimit OS Web Browser
Avant Browser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant_Browser)
Bento Browser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winamp) (Built into Winamp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winamp))
Enigma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_Browser)
Maxthon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxthon)
Slim Browser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim_Browser)
NeoPlanet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeoPlanet)
NetCaptor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetCaptor)
Yahoo! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo%21) Browser (or partnership browsers eg. "AT&T (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T) Yahoo! Browser"; "Verizon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon) Yahoo! Browser"; "BT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_Group) Yahoo! Browser" etc.)
iRider (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRider)
Smart Bro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Bro)
UltraBrowser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraBrowser)
Runecats Explorer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runecats_Explorer)
Gecko-based browsers


Alefox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alefox)
Beonex Communicator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beonex_Communicator)
Camino (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino) for Mac OS X (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X) (formerly Chimera)
CompuServe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe)
DocZilla (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocZilla), a SGML (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Generalized_Markup_Language) browser
Epiphany (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_%28web_browser%29), GNOME's current default browser
Flock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_%28web_browser%29) (based on Firefox)
Fusion WebPilot browser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_WebPilot_browser) (Embedded Web Browser)
Galeon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeon), GNOME (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME)'s former default browser
IceWeasel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceWeasel), Debian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian)'s free (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software) fork (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28software_development%29) of Firefox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox)
K-Meleon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-Meleon) for Windows (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows)
K-MeleonCCF (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-MeleonCCF) for Windows (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows) (based on K-Meleon)
K-Ninja (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-Ninja) for Windows (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows) (based on K-Meleon)
Kazehakase (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazehakase), a very light GTK2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK%2B) web browser for GNU/Linux
Madfox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madfox) (based on Firefox)
ManyOne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ManyOne)
Mozilla Firefox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox) (formerly Firebird and Phoenix)
Netscape (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_%28web_browser%29) (version 6 and newer)
SeaMonkey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMonkey) (internal name for Mozilla Application Suite, now the public name)
Skipstone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skipstone)
XeroBank Browser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XeroBank_Browser) (formerly Torpark), portable browser for anonymous browsing
KHTML and WebKit-based browsers


ABrowse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABrowse)
Web Browser for Android (mobile device platform) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28mobile_device_platform%29)
iCab (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICab) (version 4 uses WebKit; earlier versions used its own rendering engine)
Epiphany (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_%28browser%29), GNOME's current default browser
Konqueror (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konqueror)
OmniWeb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OmniWeb)
Safari (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_%28web_browser%29)
Skipstone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skipstone)
Web Browser for S60 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Browser_for_S60) (for mobile)
Shiira (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiira)
Swift (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_%28web_browser%29)
Presto based browsers


Opera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_%28web_browser%29)
Nintendo DS Browser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS_Browser) (Opera Powered)
Internet Channel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Channel) (Web browser for the Wii console) (Opera powered)
Browsers for the Java platform


HotJava (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotJava) (discontinued)
Lobo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobo_%28Browser%29)
Opera Mini (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini)
X-Smiles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Smiles) (experimental)
Specialty browsers (current)

Browsers created for enhancements of specific browsing activities.

Flock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_%28web_browser%29) (To enhance social networking, blogging (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogging), photosharing, and RSS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29) newsreading)
Ghostzilla (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostzilla) (Blends into the GUI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUI) to hide activity)
Songbird (software) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbird_%28software%29) (browser with advanced audio streaming features and built in media player with library.)
SpaceTime (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceTime%E2%84%A2) (Search the web in 3D)
Wyzo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyzo) (A media browser that integrates BitTorrent like Opera's integrated BitTorrent)
Specialty browsers (discontinued)


AOL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL) (For use with their proprietary intranet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intranet))
Other browsers


3B (3D browser) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3B_%283D_web_browser%29)
Abaco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaco_%28web_browser%29) (for Plan 9 from Bell Labs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs))
Amaya (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaya_%28web_browser%29)
Arachne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachne_%28web_browser%29) (DOS)
AWeb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWeb_%28web_browser%29)
Charon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_%28web_browser%29) (for Inferno (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_%28operating_system%29))
Dillo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillo) (Small, fast, free, minimalistic, and multi-platform)
Emacs/W3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs/W3)
Gollum browser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gollum_browser)
IBrowse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBrowse_%28web_browser%29)
Krozilo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krozilo)
Mothra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothra_%28web_browser%29) (for Plan 9 from Bell Labs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs))
NetPositive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetPositive)
NetSurf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetSurf) (An open source web browser for RISC OS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC_OS) and GTK+ written in C)
Oregano (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregano_%28web_browser%29)
Planetweb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetweb) browser (discont. for Dreamcast (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast))
Sleipnir (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir_%28browser%29)
Tkhtml (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tkhtml)
VMS Mosaic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMS_Mosaic)
Voyager (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_%28web_browser%29)
HighWire Browser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HighWire_Browser) (Atari 68k Computers)
Mobile browsers

See Microbrowser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbrowser)

Text-based


Abaco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaco_%28web_browser%29)
Alynx (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alynx)
cURL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL) (Line-mode browser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-mode_browser))
DosLynx (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DosLynx)
ELinks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELinks) (active version of Links (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_%28web_browser%29))
Links (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_%28web_browser%29) (not currently active)
Lynx (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28web_browser%29)
Net-Tamer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net-Tamer)
w3m (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3m)
WebbIE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebbIE)
wget (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget) (Line-mode browser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-mode_browser))

IE7 for me. personally never was too crazy about the other browsers. wont say i wouldnt try them but i like the look and feel of IE7 the most.

Work: IE6 (corporate standard)

Home: FF3

I hate Safari, have to use IE for work, and have played with Opera (also test with it), but, in the end, I always find myself going back to FireFox.

Still forced to use IE7 for several things, but FF3 generally for everything.

Tried a load of other browsers after first trying Firefox and can't find anything as useful that isn't just a reskinned IE

Since I added the IE Tab extension I haven't used IE. I just switch rendering agent and continue on in Firefox.

I even have the IE favorites extension

Internet Explorer 7 most of the time, but I've found myself using Firefox for visiting more places on the Internets(including CoolSciFi) because it doesn't hangup like IE7 seems to do every so often......... :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :mad: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Some one dropped my pc when I was moving house. Taped together old coal-fired circa 95 running windows 98 'til I buy a replacement. IE 6 & 7 won't support on my relic but when I loaded Firefox (prefered for last 3 years) it will use IE no problem. Still avoid using IE where ever I am far fewer problems -as mlittle says: fewer hangups forr starters.

I like IE7, and use it 100% of the time... but I can see the appeal of FireFox. If nothing else, they have much better plug-ins, and a better user community.

Internet Explorer 7 most of the time, but I've found myself using Firefox for visiting more places on the Internets(including CoolSciFi) because it doesn't hangup like IE7 seems to do every so often......... :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :mad: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:


Correction on the above....I've pretty well moved everything over to Mozilla Firefox...I don't think I've used IE7 in a few weeks now...... :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

I still have IE7 but I never click it. FF is my default browser. Opera is my alternate for torrents

Hey, what do we think about Google's new browser, Chrome (http://techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/09/02/google-bets-on-a-browser/)? Has anyone seen it? Does it seem like a keeper?

I am reserved - IE8 will be coming out soon too

I will stick with my FireFox for now thank you.

Hey, what do we think about Google's new browser, Chrome (http://techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/09/02/google-bets-on-a-browser/)? Has anyone seen it? Does it seem like a keeper?It appears to be another case of where the underlying technology developed by Google is a better concept than what is already available but... the actual execution of it, the user interface, kind of sucks.

I like how they have sand boxed elements of the processing to prevent the entire app' from crashing, something I suspect we might see in a future version of FF and/or IE, but really I don't see anything about it feature wise to make me even consider switching from FF.

I would think that it would be a memory hog running tabs as separate processes?

I would think that it would be a memory hog running tabs as separate processes?
Have you seen the early memory reports of IE8 Beta? :eek:

No, just found out about IE8 today

No, just found out about IE8 todayMy default browser is, of course, FF but I need to keep IE6 on my boxes since that is our corporate standard yet. (Which means no IE7 even for me yet let alone thoughts of IE8).

From InfoWorld (http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/09/02/Microsofts_IE8_Beta_2_hogs_memory_says_researcher_ 1.html):
Microsoft's latest version of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) requires more than double the system memory of its main rival, Mozilla's Firefox, and spawns nearly six times the number of processor threads, a performance researcher said today.

Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Beta 2 also consumes 52 percent more memory than its predecessor, IE7, and uses almost three times as many threads, said Craig Barth, chief technology officer at Devil Mountain Software, a Florida-based maker of PC performance testing software.

...

Barth tested IE8 Beta 2, IE7, and Firefox 3.0.1 in a 10-site scenario that involved media-rich domains such as boston.com, channel9.com, cnet.com, infoworld.com, nytimes.com, and others. Each site was opened by each browser in a separate tab, then links on those sites were opened in new tabs. Both Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight were installed as plug-ins for each browser.

By test end, IE8 Beta 2 had grabbed 380MB of memory on the 2GB-equipped system running Windows Vista, while IE7 accounted for 250GB and Firefox 3.0.1, the most-recent version of the open source browser, had taken 159MB. When the same tests were run under Windows XP, each browser consumed slightly less memory than in Vista; IE8 Beta 2, however, continued to lead the competition by wide margins.

"When Windows XP starts, the entire OS takes 130 to 150MB," said Barth. "Suddenly you're looking at a memory footprint for IE that's bigger than Microsoft's earlier operating system. IE8 is fatter than XP."

When Barth tallied up the separate processor threads each browser spawned during the tests, he also found that IE8 Beta 2's count was dramatically higher than either IE7's or Firefox's. The latter, for instance, never used more than 29 concurrent processor threads during the 10-site test, while IE7 spawned a maximum of 65. IE8 Beta 2, however, used a whopping 171 threads.

...:eek: :eek: :eek:

FF3 is my buddy

Kevin, that is scary scary. :eek:

FF3 is my buddyx2 - I've tried IE, FF, Safari, Opera, and some of the plethora of IE & Mozilla based clones but I keep going back to FF.

Kevin, that is scary scary. :eek:On one hand I can see the reasoning in developing software that takes advantage of multi-core machines but I just don't think the world is ready yet for a mass jump to it. Maybe I'm just outdated but my single core machine will still be serving my needs for a few years to come barring any unexpected upgrades (eg: hardware failure forcing me to build a new rig).

IMPORTANT...

The first beta of Chrome that has been released to the public is NOT recognized yet by the vBulletin editor so while it might be fun to play with to see what it can do, you will be very unhappy it using it at your favorite vBulletin based sites.

I'm sure the Jelsoft guys will come up with a solution soon but in the mean time... stick with FireFox.

Sound Advice, Kevin, Sound Advice!

Pull back the covers of Chrome and revealed to you will be... WebKit, the same foundation as Apple's Safari browser.

Which means that Safari's old security issues (gasp! An Apple product with security issues?! Say it ain't so!) are also present in the current Chome Beta (http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1843).