Web Browsers at war!

Published on November 3, 2005 By Vailene In Living in Cyberspace

Hey All,

I've seen this been done, but in scattered format throughout the forums. And, not really highlighting the favorites per say?.. Unless I missed something. I am feeling a bit odd lately (sinus infection).

Which browser on the internet is your choice of browser.. Then name 5 likes and 5 dis-likes to it, if you can think of that many. I personally use Opera so I will start it off.

Opera
Likes:
-Speed of Browsing - Seems to be quicker than other browsers.. Whether this is my system in general or whatever else I have installed I don't know. Seems speedy!
-Customization - Yes, some browsers have more but I like the way personally this one customizes.
-Magic Wand - (Woohoo I'm a Wizard).. Gotta love the save password for "entire server" function. I find this very useful.
-"Integrated Email" - Need I say more? Awesome..
-Download Manager - Very nice. Especially with the "Quick Download" function. Comes in very good use when I need to download several files at the same time on a link per link basis.
-Tabbed Browsing - Had to add a sixth!

Dislikes
-Skinning - Doesn't stretch as vast as what FireFox does

-Download "File Associations" - Seems like if I set a "particular" file to download to a "particular" directory it causes conflict in the browser and doesn't work anyways!
-Identify - This function is still not working to my liking. Says it can Identify as Opera, Internet Explorer and Mozilla. Yet, if I go to a site that's Strictly IE 6, Sometimes it doesn't load because I'm not using IE. Isn't that the purpose of this "Identify"..
-Extensions and Add-ins - Whereas the ones I have are useful the overall list is not as vast as FireFox

-RSS Functionality - Just don't like the way it handles RSS Feeds. Maybe just my opinion.. But it needs work.

Well that should be a ground level start. Hopefully, in this thread I'll get a good bit of replys. Don't be afraid to also list Email Clients. No point in making a new thread for those!

Comments

scorpio-logic

on Nov 03, 2005

Opera would be great, 'cept I can't seem to get it to keep me logged in past the logging in page. I mean I hit WWW.WC.COM site and type in my username and password, hit enter, and it just clears the two tabs I entered. Even using the magic wand thingy. Anyway, to rate as you have it formatted:
-Speed: no difference.
-Customization: more than Maxthon and Avant, doesn't beat Firefox.
-Magic Wand: sure would be great if it cooperated with XP hardening and security software.
_Integrated Email: they all have it in one form or another.
-Download Manager: By the time I get it set up, I forget what I was downloading.

-Skinning: I agree with you, Chris.
-File extensions: like I said, the download manager takes too long to set up to work. I really don't see the need for a "download Manager" anyway, I wanna right-click save target and be done.
-Add-ons and Plugins: As I see it the more of these you have the more browser crashes you have. But that's just me.
-RSS: I am not sure about this function as I don't use it.

gfcentral002

on Nov 03, 2005

AOL Explorer (Browser)

Likes:
- Soft colors used & very simple and organized
- tab browsing, best i've seen, with thumbnails when mouse-over on tabs
- sidepane allows to automatically check for AOL mail and list what is in inbox
- mosaic - cool function that will show previews of all open sites/tabs on one page, with thumbnail preview of history of whatever page is mouse-over in that view
- RSS reader in sidepane

dislikes:
- most new features are in Beta, not GM release
- beta releases keep switching between how the thumbnails appear for tabs - sometimes fading nicely, some builds go back to quick-show
- AOL antispyware sometimes installed automatically; varies with builds
- topspeed sometimes not included with builds
- no download manager for download history

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