web browsers

CLAREGO · June 22, 2007, 12:45:02 PM

what web browsers do most of you fellow smokers use ?

Oldman · June 22, 2007, 03:05:43 PM

IE 6 on two systems. IE 7 on one system.

CLAREGO · June 22, 2007, 03:41:52 PM

im not a fan of ie 7 bill gates did his stuff once again and its the same interface as firefox

begolf25 · June 22, 2007, 04:36:32 PM

Big fan of FireFox. Only run into a few things that won't function in Firefox. I do a lot of FTP and I like their free FTP add on.

Kummok · June 22, 2007, 05:48:00 PM

Safari 2.0.4 for day-to-day "utility" stuff, but Firefox 2.0.0.3 for anything that doesn't work right w/ Safari

edited to add this observation...... I notice that you have seperate category for Mozilla and for Firefox, CLAREGO, but my FireFox browser info says 'Mozilla Firefox"....are they one and the same or two different browsers????

CLAREGO · June 22, 2007, 06:38:25 PM

sure http://www.mozilla.org/releases it is a sun project i think its buggy on windows

jfalls55 · June 23, 2007, 04:48:03 AM

To give an answer to Kummok's question, there was something of a 'turf war' within the mozilla.org orginazation as to the size to which the Mozilla browser suite was growing. Also there were legal ties to Netscape. They split out the browser in 2003 and made it standalone (FireFox). They also split out the email client and made it standalone (Thunderbird). They still produce the Mozilla suite, though I don't know for how much longer.

CLAREGO · June 23, 2007, 11:11:13 AM

hey you learn something new everyday

West Coast Kansan · June 23, 2007, 11:42:23 AM

IE 7 from bill's upgrade download page ;D works ok for us ;)

CLAREGO · June 24, 2007, 09:09:22 AM

no problem with Mr. gates just he is a mastermind but as soon as an open source project takes control on something he seems to copy it.

Oldman · June 24, 2007, 09:37:11 AM

Quotebut as soon as an open source project takes control on something he seems to copy it.

I thought that was the idea behind open source... to take it, improve on it / add-on to it and to utilize it.

CLAREGO · June 24, 2007, 01:58:42 PM

yeah that is true olds. gott me on that. if his os's were so special why does he make the consumer pay so much for his product.

Oldman · June 24, 2007, 03:01:12 PM

Quoteif his os's were so special why does he make the consumer pay so much for his product.

Well that is something you will have to ask him. For that matter Mac's OS is not cheap either.

CLAREGO · June 24, 2007, 04:04:22 PM

ageee on that

jfalls55 · July 20, 2007, 12:09:59 PM

Don't forget, there's always Linux. Nowadays, it's definitely worth a look!