What internet browser do you prefer?

Discussion in 'Technology' started by YankBastard, Sep 13, 2010.

  1. Alan S

    Alan S Member

    Jun 1, 2001
    Palo Alto, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Even though Safari and Chrome are the best browsers by many measures, I still use FireFox mostly do to inertia.

    FireFox has one fantastic feature for web developers. It is the FireBug plug-in.
     
  2. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    I've been trying chrome for the past week or so, (largely as a result of this thread, tbh:)), but there's something I'm still struggling with.

    Does anyone know how to set a minimum font size?
     
  3. YankBastard

    YankBastard Na Na Na Na NANANANAAA!

    Jun 18, 2005
    Estados Unidos
    Club:
    AS Roma
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  4. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Well, default fonts? Who'd have thought have looking there?!?!?! :D

    Thanks mate :)
     
  5. YankBastard

    YankBastard Na Na Na Na NANANANAAA!

    Jun 18, 2005
    Estados Unidos
    Club:
    AS Roma
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    No problem. :cool:
     
  6. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Actually, I thought I'd checked that out. Clearly the old Alzheimer's is kicking in again :D
     
  7. Moises

    Moises Member

    Feb 8, 2007
    miami
    Club:
    AC Milan
    Nat'l Team:
    Honduras
  8. That Phat Hat

    That Phat Hat Member+

    Nov 14, 2002
    Just Barely Outside the Beltway
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Japan
    I just installed Chrome. It's superfast, but a little wonky. I like it overall though.

    That said, I use Mobile Safari for about 90% of my browsing these days.
     
  9. 96Squig

    96Squig Member

    Feb 4, 2004
    Hanover
    Club:
    Hannover 96
    Nat'l Team:
    Netherlands
    Switched to Opera both on my Mac and my new phone (N900, Maemo), and am very happy with it. I had speed problems with firefox on MacOS, and Opera alwawys had an excellent reputation... frankly, I don't understand why there are so few people using it.
     
  10. striker

    striker Member+

    Aug 4, 1999
    OT.

    How can one zoom in and out with Firefox on a Mac? I don't see any obvious icons on the tool bar.
     
  11. benztown

    benztown Member+

    Jun 24, 2005
    Club:
    VfB Stuttgart
    Opera 11 is pretty neat as it finally has extensions. I still prefer Safari though and I use Firefox 4 Beta as secondary browser. Firefox 3.x really was too slow, but now it's up there with the rest.
    I'd still pick Firefox over Opera because it's still the most customizable browser out there.

    Either via a pinch motion on the touchpad, or with [cmd]+[+] / [cmd]+[-]
     
  12. Moises

    Moises Member

    Feb 8, 2007
    miami
    Club:
    AC Milan
    Nat'l Team:
    Honduras
    I asked myself the same question and you got to understand that everyones condition from early on Windows to use explore so people don't think that there's better browsers..... Conditioning happens through school and business places.
     
  13. striker

    striker Member+

    Aug 4, 1999
    Thanks. However, if I zoom in too much, the right hand side of the image no longer shows up on the screen and there is no scroll bar for me to scroll left or right to center the image. Is there a way around it?
     
  14. laasan

    laasan Member

    Apr 12, 2010
    right, that must be it. :rolleyes:
     
  15. Moises

    Moises Member

    Feb 8, 2007
    miami
    Club:
    AC Milan
    Nat'l Team:
    Honduras
    not everyone is computer wiz.......Windows is basically what everyone knows and is brought up on there for thinking thats theres actually better browsers then explorer might not come to mind.
     
  16. laasan

    laasan Member

    Apr 12, 2010
    it does if you buy your windows pc in the EU.
    also, care to explain why explorer has been loosing so much ground the last couple of years?
     
  17. benztown

    benztown Member+

    Jun 24, 2005
    Club:
    VfB Stuttgart
    The explorer is mostly used in a business surrounding where the admins tend to stick with what is easy to administrate on a large scale, plus they wouldn't want to encourage browsing the internet anyway.
    I know that in Germany the IE loses market share massively on weekends.

    The other group using IE is those who simply don't care, the occasional surfer who don't know and don't care too much about the browser. For them it works well enough, so why bother?
     
  18. benztown

    benztown Member+

    Jun 24, 2005
    Club:
    VfB Stuttgart
    I'm sorry, I don't know what the problem is. When I zoom in on an image, the scroll bar automatically shows up. I can't even find an entry in the property panel where one could turn this off.

    I did run into similar problems with .svg files on my Safari browser in the past, but that seems to have been fixed. Plus it was never really a problem because I only ran into .svg images on Wikipedia where you can also choose to watch a .png file instead.

    Which Firefox version are you using? I'm using the Firefox 4.0 Beta 8, so there might be a problem with older Firefox 3.x versions.

    Here's what Mozilla has to say on their help page:
    http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Missing vertical scroll bar

    It doesn't sound too helpful, but you might try to clear your cache, maybe that helps...
     
  19. Moises

    Moises Member

    Feb 8, 2007
    miami
    Club:
    AC Milan
    Nat'l Team:
    Honduras
    The explorer is mostly used in a business surrounding where the admins tend to stick with what is easy to administrate on a large scale, plus they wouldn't want to encourage browsing the internet anyway.
    I know that in Germany the IE loses market share massively on weekends.

    The other group using IE is those who simply don't care, the occasional surfer who don't know and don't care too much about the browser. For them it works well enough, so why bother?
     
  20. laasan

    laasan Member

    Apr 12, 2010
    you really are quite a confused individual.
     
  21. striker

    striker Member+

    Aug 4, 1999
    Thanks. The problem seems to have gone away.
     
  22. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Er.... :confused:
     
  23. Moises

    Moises Member

    Feb 8, 2007
    miami
    Club:
    AC Milan
    Nat'l Team:
    Honduras
    ..........
     
  24. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    I'm sorry, you've lost me. Are you saying that benztown's post answers that specific point and you are, in the vernacular, quoting it 'for truth' (QFT)?
     

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