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post #21 of 51
6/12/04 at 1:54am
Firefox .8 with Naoko's "The Proxomitron" for banner/ad blocking and to suppress other annoyances.
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post #22 of 51
6/12/04 at 2:00am
I use IE with the google tool bar, and going from regular IE without the google thingy to using the google thingy is an amazing change, u just dont get popups and everything is much much cleaner, plus u get the best search engine right there on every window you open.
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post #23 of 51
6/12/04 at 4:33am
kmarshal, Firefox goes one better- Google is built right into the browser. No need to DL anything extra in the first place Plus, you get tabbed browsing, w/ no extra DLs... etc., etc.
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post #24 of 51
6/12/04 at 10:26am
I use FireFox... have been using it for about a week after my IE got messed up.... I will never go back, as FireFox is such an upgrade.

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post #25 of 51
6/12/04 at 10:29am
Opera. MyIe2 if something doesn't work right in Opera.
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post #26 of 51
6/12/04 at 10:57am
Only Firefox here.
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post #27 of 51
6/12/04 at 11:08am
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Originally Posted by Air
Naoko's "The Proxomitron" for banner/ad blocking and to suppress other annoyances.
Truly excellent application, despite the fact the original developer (Lemon) stopped development and support of the application several years ago (believe around 1998?). Others began supporting the original work in Lemon's stead, offering patches and expansions.

Began using Proximitron in 1999, and still use it to this day. The power to the end user through the use of filters and configuration files makes it extremely powerful. Did not think to mention it, as it is a standalone application and will function with any browser. Still bodes well to bring up in a thread of this nature, however.

Nicely done, Air.
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post #28 of 51
6/12/04 at 11:55am
I use Firefox for general browsing and IE for development. Unfortunately, Visual Basic, my current project language, doesn't have a Gecko activex control or I'd be using it instead of VB's built-in WebBrowser control (which is basically IE).
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post #29 of 51
6/12/04 at 4:17pm
i've got mozilla on
is firefox better ??

plus did anyone find the tabbed plugin for IE ??

thx
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post #30 of 51
6/12/04 at 4:44pm
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Originally Posted by sid21177
i've got mozilla on
is firefox better ??

plus did anyone find the tabbed plugin for IE ??

thx
I did some searching on that and downloaded Avant (what the original poster said he was using), which is a shell/skin/IE upgrade/browser that uses the IE engine. It has tabbed browsing, and it blocks pop-ups and ads and such. It seems to be working pretty well since I downloaded it yesterday, but I don't use the built-in ad and pop-up blocking. I stuck with using the Google toolbar with Avant.

http://www.avantbrowser.com
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post #31 of 51
6/12/04 at 10:58pm
I'm using Mozilla (1.6/Solaris at work, 1.7 RC2/3-WinXP at home). Starting to investigate the AdBlock plugin as AdSubtract is IE only now (also looking at Muffin as it would run on Solaris hosts too ).

Mozilla was needed for Solaris at work as it was talking to one of our MS portal servers better (they're using SharePoint and it uses NTLM Auth). Of course a newer version of SharePoint is now needing an ActiveX plugin which is NOT ready for Solaris yet.

For those curious why I'm going through such trouble, we have a number of people using diskless X terminals by NCD. They boot off a Solaris host (in our case) and connect via XDM to a CDE host session that was specified in config. No PC involved anywhere.
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post #32 of 51
6/13/04 at 5:21am
Use Konqueror when I am in Linux, although I use FireFox when a page doesn't display right in that.

Windows, Firefox all the way. Mozilla is too much for me, don't need the frills. IE, I keep it around and make the default home page the Windows Update page, seeing as Microsoft thinks it's bad to access it's update page with anything else.

Overall, I must say that I don't like FireFox in Linux. It just happens to crash alot for me. Might be my system, but I prefer Konqueror. It's pretty similar in interface, and integrated, which is nice, although my JRE doesn't like it too much.
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post #33 of 51
6/13/04 at 6:01am
I usually use Firefox, but I'm trying out Mozilla just for kicks right now.

I like it a lot so far.
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post #34 of 51
6/13/04 at 7:41am
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Originally Posted by samurai182
IE, I keep it around and make the default home page the Windows Update page, seeing as Microsoft thinks it's bad to access it's update page with anything else.
I do the same thing
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post #35 of 51
6/13/04 at 3:27pm
I mostly use opera because it allows you to return to saved webpages after closing the browser. I also use mozilla because it is good al around. I have had Firefox crash on me a few times and have some page format issues which don't come up in Mozilla (but sometimes do in opera).
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post #36 of 51
6/13/04 at 8:32pm
I used to always use IE for everything, but now I use FireFox 0.8 as my default browser. It's awesome. Gets a 10 Headbang rating from me!
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post #37 of 51
6/14/04 at 4:04am
I'm sorta strange, I use two browsers, each for different things.

When reading forums and ordering items online I use IE

When browsing the internet I use opera, since its easier to just close the entire browser when you hit one of those sites with all the pop-up adds.
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post #38 of 51
6/14/04 at 6:28am
Bowlich, if you used Firefox, you wouldn't get pop-up ads Can't remember the last time I even saw one o' them. Totally a thing of the past for us mozilla.org folk
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post #39 of 51
6/14/04 at 8:07am
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Originally Posted by Bowlich
When browsing the internet I use opera, since its easier to just close the entire browser when you hit one of those sites with all the pop-up adds.
Actually, you might try adjusting the preferences in Opera, as it has routines that cover pop-ups as well (and has, since v5.x, I believe). Personally leave the setting on "Open requested pop-up windows only", as occassionally a few sites I frequent make use of such for non-advertisement purposes.

In fact, it is available from the "Quick Preferences" subgroup, as well:

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post #40 of 51
6/14/04 at 4:14pm
Opera 85%
Mozilla 10%
IE 5%
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