Superior Alternative to IE

Anti-Trend

Anti-Trend

Nonconformist Geek
If you haven't had the opportunity to try it already, I'd like to encourage you to test drive Mozilla Firebird, a free, open source browser based on Mozilla. It's stable, secure, fast, flexible, skinnable, easy to use, and takes a fraction of the memory footprint of IE. And at 6mb, it's even a quick download for the bandwidth-poor among us. On my Win platforms, this baby is always the default browser. Get used to NOT EVER seeing popups again. :D
 
hmmm, I will try it but having tried many other browsers I find IE 6 to, still be the best :)
 
I use Netscape, except when putting in reviews. I like the tabbed browsing on NS7 over Mozilla Firebird.
 
Yeah, Netscape isn't bad (Mozilla-based). To me the big draw for Firebird is the lightweight design with plugins. It doesn't come fat and bloated, you add functionality as desired (including alternate tab behaviour, etc).
 
I tried MyIE, but I like how the tabs can be controlled by clicking on a link with the middle mouse button under Netscape.
 
Big B said:
I tried MyIE, but I like how the tabs can be controlled by clicking on a link with the middle mouse button under Netscape.
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Personally, I'm tired of IE's security holes, lack of flexibility (pop-ups galore!), and bad MIME handling. Netscape (and Mozilla) aren't bad, but a little heavy for my taste. Mozilla Firebird is a little like a Lamborgini; no frills, just fast. The concept is simple -- it includes only the functionality you need, and you can easily snap in modules for extended features as you desire them. It's also got a skinable and very flexible UI. :) </end_shameless_plug>

P.S. - The same middle-click tab behavior applies to Firebird as well (unless you change it) :)
 
so which one is probably the best as far as speed on a 56k modem goes? im on ie6.0 but its been slow lately and its ticking me off, any suggestions are welcome
 
Firefox. :) The best way to get more speed out of Windows is to adjust your MTU. W2k Does this automatically, as does Linux / Unix.
 
Mozilla 1.7B is very fast here and it's the only one I use.
I don't use Firefox because I don't like the preference menu.
 
I haven't used Moz1.7b yet, I' think I'll wait 'till the final build. But I loved 1.4 and 1.6, especially for quick web design. If Moz1.7 is as nice as you say, I can't wait for the next version of Firefox, built on Moz-core 1.7 :D Sweeeeeet!
 
Moz 1.7 to be Milestone Release

From what I've just learned, Mozilla 1.7 will be the milestone build for quite some time, as Moz 1.4 was before it. As a result, Firefox 1.0 will be built from Moz 1.7's core. With the 1.0 release of Firefox, hopefully we'll see a lot more distros and a lot more companies (not to mentions home users) standardize on this browser.
 
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