Mozilla, Firefox or Opera.
 

Anybody here use these alt web browsers ?

If so how are they ?

do they really blow IE out of the water as they claim?

Very happy with my switch to Firefox. Check out these links

I've never been able to open streaming media with these. The windows media player plugin doesn't work. other than that they're pretty good.

I like the Avant Browser for surfing porsche stuff.

Switched to Firefox a couple of weeks ago. So far it's the best browser I've ever had. Easy to use, and much faster than Explorer and Netscape. Plus it doesn't have any of the "extras" that 99% of us don't use, but hackers do.

I highly recommend it.


-MAS

Aother vote for Avant :)

Hmmm.... all of this works fine with my Firefox. Anyway, you can still keep Netscape or Explorer for back up if you might need it.


-MAS

I am using Firefox, and am very happy with it so far. It seems faster than IE, and a lot less problematic....

Mozilla on my desktop (I use the mail client too) and firefox on my laptop. Don't use windows on either of 'em either - Debian/GNU Linux.

I use Mozilla. I love the tabs, pop-up blocker, cookie manager, and the fact that I don't have to load another security patch every couple weeks. Plus it's faster then IE. I have no problems with streaming media. I love watching all the video people post here of driving events. You probably need to reinstall real, quicktime, etc. after you load the new browser so they know to install the navigator plugin.

I also use mozilla. pop-ups are non-existant and its easy to use

Firefox is the shiznit. Seriously. Get it. You'll bang your head against the wall and cry out "ALL THE WASTED YEARS!!!"

It's that good.

Foxfire is great and I use it as my primary browser. But I still need IE for a few web sites. Also I think IE "might" do better job of handling cookies.

I haven't tried Mozilla or Opera, but I do like Firefox. I definitely will not be going back to IE.

Another Firefox user here. Can't beat it! Check out some of the extensions that you can install/customize too.

I've been using FireFox for awhile now and recommend that all my family and friends do too, so they won't call me when their browser gets hijacked to porno sites. IE has so many flaws and bugs it's unsafe!

Falling to the hype I have been using Mozilla Firefox for a few weeks now. Nice browser but I don't see any speed improvements over IE6. No popups are great - but I had a 3rd party blocker installed so that's a push too.

Disclaimer: I am not a Microsoft bashing zealot by any means. In fact, I like most of their products and make a good living using their development tools and software.

That said, I just switched to FireFox this week after a fellow developer recommended it to me, and I love it. The tabbed browsing easily blows IE away, as does not having to deal with those annoying ActiveX popups. I still use IE for some sites that don't render right in FireFox (mostly because web developers only test with IE), but have begun to use FireFox 90% of the time.

Try it out - its free.

FWIW, C|Net rates Mozilla as the best free browser out there. Check this out: link

I went to Mo a few weeks ago and will NEVER go back to IE.

JP

If you can, switch to a Mac.

Then the only thing that will bother you is all the bandwidth wasted talking about Microsoft viruses, worms, trojans, etc.

The OSX browser, Safari, has tabbed browsing, built-in anti pop-up. The email client has an excellent built-in spam filter, and the operating system has a built in firewall.

I love Firefox and use it exclusively at home, and almost exclusively at work.

My only complaint is that all of our internal corporate sites require IE. Need to check out my stock? IE. Need to see my pay distribution? IE. Of course, our IT jokers pay for their lack of vision (<--SW:ROTJ reference) by fighting the monumental task of keeping 120k Windows boxes patched etc. Think of all the money we could've saved....

I have to use IE at work for several sites on our Intranet, but I use FireFox for everything else and I also recommend FireFox (in the strongest way possible) to everyone I know who has a PC at home. I'm getting tired of being everyone's "24hr help desk" and have told them I no longer support IE. so, if they use IE and their browser gets hijacked or they acquire spyware/scumware, they can't depend upon me to fix it for them, I'm too busy enjoying the Michigan summer (driving the Porsche and being with my family).

I called my IT guy at work about an hour ago after reading another thread & asked him about Mozilla. He told me he didn't like the way the security stuff worked & told me as long as I'm using my router with a hardware firewall & keep up on all my updates I won't have any problems with IE. He's a busy guy so I didn't dig for particulars on the security issues, but he's my go to guy whenever I'm considering something new or something bad happens to my PC.

Paul -
He may be right; my experience has been, even through an external firewall, running Norton AV, ZoneAlarm and Spybot S&D on a daily basis, shyt still gets through.

And what actually pi$$es me off is not the fact that some innocuous trojan gets in, but that F*CKING Norton can't fix it and KEEPS TELLING ME ABOUT IT every 60 seconds with -- literally -- dozens of identical pop-ups. So I went to Mo to escape Norton's staggeringly user-unfriendly serial interruption "system."

JP

I have a laptop at home that has IE installed. It has been crippled with domain redirects, malware and god knows what else. It would take about 5 minutes of frustration to get to a page I selected...then churn for another 5 minutes. The machine is destined for a re-gen soon.

As a result of this thread I installed Firefox to see how it would perform.
I started it up and it works perfectly.

Firefox will be what goes on all my home PCs.