The best internet browser??

[Dumbo#1]

Which is the best browser to use? What does anyone think of Firefox as opposed to IE7?? Thank you.

[rojash]

Well, as IE7 was only created as a copy of Firefox, the question is: Do you prefer the original, or the cheap copy?

[fo3nix]

Been asked many times before. Firefox, by a mile.

[Ethel]

Much prefer Firefox.

:)

[bubbles83]

i like avant it is simple but fast!

[rojash]

As a has also been pointed out before, Avant is essentially just a skin for IE6

[Buenchico]

I'd estimate that around 80% of the 'regulars', here in AB's technology section, use Firefox. (I'm one of them).

There are plenty of reasons why Firefox is better but it really comes down to a matter of personal choice. If you're considering trying Firefox, why not do so? You've nothing to lose; Firefox and IE7 can work side by side on your PC. (You can even have some pages open in IE7 and others open in Firefox simultaneously):
http://www.mozilla.com/

Chris

[cherrybomb]

Opera, I love that you can just highlight any text you wish to keep while browsing web pages and then right click and copy to note. Much better than copy and paste as you dont need a word doc or note pad open at the same time to paste the text to.
It has got lot's of other features as well.

[skyboy4788]

firefox for life...entirely personalized, always something new, great features, u cant go wrong

[mikeyp]

IE7. I'm too lazy to change!

[camioneur]

rojash, as usual, the Firefox brigade are shouting the loudest which is fine if you're going to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but....

I've been using Avant for some 4 years or so and it's been a tabbed browser for all of that time. hardly a skin for IE then when their tabbed browser has only just appeared.

What you really mean is that avant doesn't match up to the same standards as firefox in that it will display ALL web pages unlike firefox which only displays the ones that some geek decided weren't written in the right code?? Who cares? 99.9% of us don't and I dare bet that Dumbo#1 is one of us

[fo3nix]

camioneur: When rojash said that avast (and the others too) are just skins for IE, what he meant was that they use the same engine that IE uses to render and interface with websites. For this reason, Avast is no more secure than IE, and that means that it isn't that secure at all.

And yes of course, you're right. End users shouldn't have to care at all about what code has been used to create the website. However, it just bugs us that they're too lazy to write code that works everywhere, and no just in IE.

Note that this isn't an IE vs. firefox thing. It's a IE vs. everything else thing. Suppose a site only works properly in IE. You seem to think this doesn't matter and people should just stop complaining and use IE. However, not everyone uses IE. Hell, many people don't use Windows at all. IE wasn't the first browser, and for a good few years of the web Microsoft had no interest in it. It was only when they reaslised there was a lot of money in it that they did a 180 and made IE and msn etc.

[Ethel]

cherrybomb - you can do that copy to note with any browser.

I use google notebook.

[Dumbo#1]

Thanks to everyone who took the time to advise me! I'm certainly going to take a look at all the sites you all mentioned to finally decide :-)

[qandaseeker]

ive tried the following:

opera
firefox
internet explorer
avant
safari

and SAFARI from apple.com is the best!!!!