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What's the Best Internet Browser to Surf the Web?

 

Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Internet Explorer, Safari... We rate the Big 5 of the Internet browser brigade to help you decide which should be your window to the cyber-world.

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Anonymous Tue, 2009-03-10 18:55

google chrome is better and safari is THE best

Anonymous Tue, 2009-03-17 08:27

In my opinion, Spacetime is the coolest browser ever, even if it lacks in speed. I am using it right now. For me, safari comes out just above google chrome, which is followed by opera, then IE, then firefox. Firefox seems to hard to used, with a very boring default appearance, as well as quite a bit of image distortion as well as the inability to play videos from youtube and other sites, because it refused to use any sort of media player. Spacetime, like I said, is the best hands down for look and feel. It's very futuristic. The link to the site is http://www.spacetime.com/home.php

Anonymous Sun, 2009-04-12 00:12

I hate firefox.

I am fed up with it.

At least twice a day it freezes and tells me it isn't responding, even when i'm on a regular website, not downloading much.

It's getting on my nerves.

Anonymous Sun, 2009-04-12 16:28

I agree with this last comment ^^
I've never had a problem with Firefox, my family's been using it for years. But for the past few weeks it's been acting up and freezing. It's frozen three times already today! And it's only half past 2 in the afternoon.
That's why I'm here, to find out what other browsers are good. And after seeing that Firefox is second to Opera, I'm downloading Opera right now.

Radhika Wed, 2009-04-15 16:17

I've only tried Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer. My family has used Internet Explorer for years due to laziness and not looking for others. My cousin used Firefox, and soon, I got fed up with Internet Explorer. There's nothing wrong with it, it's just too slow. I tried Firefox,but soon after I hated it. At that time, I found Chrome, the newest and coolest thing. The best part about it is the simplicity involved.You should try it, it's fast. It's simple, and it's good for fast-based browsing.

Anonymous Sat, 2009-05-02 08:13

Firefox is great. lots of features and more 3rd party add-ons and skins to customize it with. you can make it look exactly like other browsers chrome, opera, iexplorer, safari, etc.

when chrome came out I was using that alot because I really liked its striped down "less browser, more web page" interface.

I took chrome's "less browser more webpage" aesthetic and applied it to my firefox interface. I downloaded one add-on that consolidated file,edit,view,and all the other buttons into one Menu button on the main bar. then I moved all the important navigation buttons and address/search bars onto the main bar next to the menu button. I then removed the bar that the navigation elements used to be on. I also removed the bookmarks bar. so all thats left is a stripped down everything bar and the tabs bar . It gave the browser that stripped down chrome interface while maintaining all those advanced features under the hood. I could have also got a skin that makes firefox look like chrome, but I just decided to keep the default skin.

firefox is great to begin with and better if you take the time to set it up to better suit your needs/style.

If for whatever reason firefox isn't for you then use w/e works try out different browsers

Opera is defiantely a good choice. like firefox you can download skins to change the look, but unlike firefox its interface layout is not as customizable, so if you like the opera's layout then this is a good option that is just as fast and featured as firefox.

Chrome is nice, its more of a fun toy than anything, google has been implementing some neat different features in the current beta that you wont find in other browsers and its javascript experiments are alot of fun. its fast and suits basic needs for surfing. I recommend picking this up because its fun to play with and google is doing some cool stuff with it.

Safari for windows, haha I remember downloading it without realizing it in a itunes update. I gave it a try, safari is great in a mac but from my experience mac software for windows just doesn't run that great. itunes is sluggish to start up and so was safari once it actually started up it was fast at loading web pages. when It came to it I found myself opening up firefox cause it started up faster. and if it matters to you at all safari aesthetically just doesn't work with windows and there is no custom skins option as far as I know.

iexplorer I just plain don't like. its an ok browser though.

there are lots of other browsers out there that are not as well known like seamonkey and sapcetime just to name a couple, its a matter of finding something you like.

Firefox for me just combined the best of all my favrotie browsers. so I use firefox.

thanks for reading I pretty much wrote my own article. I hope its helped at all even just a little.

Fady Tue, 2009-05-05 19:49

what are you all talking about,, firefox is the best browser ever,, it is soo much faster

jaxkrishton Thu, 2009-05-28 14:22

i think fire fox is slow it freeeeeeeezes way to much so i bounce around and try them all chrome, opera,ext.but for safty i keep AVG it comes with a browser you do want to keep your pc safe right.

Really? Mon, 2009-06-01 18:27

then uninstall it. I use firefox and love it. only bad part is adding tabs

Anonymous Sat, 2009-06-27 20:02

Mozilla is easilly the best. Chrome is pretty stale with the only gimmick being you can search for somthing in the MAIN address bar. Big shit. you can set up a google quick search bar easily. T____T safari? LOL. That mac developed shitware is pathetic.

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