What is your favorite web browser? List three reasons why. (Mac / Win / Linux)
Thanks in advance!
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The top three reasons...
1) Great features right out of the box, and extras are very easy to add on.
Choosing sites and pages you want to visit is easy with the "awesome bar", the bookmarks bar, the most-visited drop down and other handy features.
Features like Adblock Plus are easy to install, and easy to customise. And everything keep itself up to date with minimum hassle for the user.
2) High level of compatibility - pretty much all sites work!
There are still sites that work better in IE, but Firefox is pretty close now. It works on nearly all sites, and all those important features like toolbars etc come in Firefox versions as well. They're often not available for other browsers.
3) Fast browsing
It takes a little while to load up, but I only do that once or twice a day. After that browsing is fast. In my experience it beats Safari, Opera and IE by a fair margin. I haven't tried Chrome, but Chrome does not fit my other reasons for choosing Firefox.
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Reasons why?
1. It is by far the speediest browser you can use in Windows right now. Lightning fast.
2. It also has other design advantages such as no mandatory first page when you enter the browser. It just shows you the latest pages visited, and the ones you visit often.
3. As Google Chrome also includes the "awesome bar" concept from Firefox (when you type an address it suggests what you are looking for) it has become my favorite browser!
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1. Ability to add extensions. I used to load heaps of extensions and realize more does not mean better. Nowadays, I stick with three basic extensions:
- Autocopy: select text and it's automatically copied to the clipboard. Like Linux or mIRC.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/383
- NoScript: only allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protection against XSS and Clickjacking attacks.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722
- ForecastFox: weather forecast at status bar
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/398
2. Tab Browsing.
Yes, newer version of IE and other small player browsers have it but Firefox makes the tab browsing even more popular. Combined with TabMixPlus, it's a tab browsing on steroid !!!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1122
3. Ctrl + Shift + Del
Using Firefox on computer that is not yours, pressing Ctrl + Shift + Del would easily clear traces of your personal information. It also works well with personal computer should there are corrupted cookies, caches, etc issues.
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Wish it was not as bloated.
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firefox is probably my most overall favorite browser because of its extendability. good firefox plugins are like micro killer apps, and we could all use a few more of those in our lives. the developer plugin for firefox is so helpful it made earth generally more habitable for me, and that ain't nothing.
long time browser enthusiast and web developer
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Right now, I like it for the easy tabs, less problems than IE, and especially for ReminderFox, which I am not sure I could live without.
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1. Shared bookmarks; I have the same bookmarks on my work laptop, home laptop, mac mini and iPhone.
2. It doesn't need to be shutdown and upgraded after being started every couple of days like Firefox has been doing for a while now (when you have 6 machine you use on a regular basis that is very painful).
3. It's getting faster and more stable where Firefox is getting slower and more painful.
I'd compare against IE as well but that would be silly.
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Cross platform, no need to learn a separate browser's keystrokes for each opetating system.
Ease of use. While there are browsers on each platform that will render some web sites faster, Firefox's awesome bar is to me the quickest way of getting to the site you want, usually only one or two keystrokes are needed.
And the big one, the plug in architecture. A couple that haven't been mentioned,
Speed Dial gives you a thumbnail view like that of Chrome, Safari, and Opera, but better implemented and more flexible than any of them.
Ubiquity allows you to do many different things, like language translation, with simple natural language commands - "translate moron to spanish", for example.
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I like to visit a LOT of sites, and I don't have room for all of my regular sites as bookmarks along my toolbar. And I'm too lazy to go into my favorites every time I want to go to a different one.
I've got Firefox, SeaMonkey, Safari and IE all set up with unique homepages, so whenever I open each browser, I already have many tabs of my favorites waiting to be visited, with some additional bookmarks listed above.
Example: I use Safari for mostly business-related things. Online banking, online classes, news and all the un-fun stuff.
Firefox is for fun! Facebook, email, games, comics and the like.
I use SeaMonkey for shopping and IE for junk.
I like Firefox and SeaMonkey the best just because I like the idea that they are open-source and more customizable, but the difference in functionality is not that big in my opinion.
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M$1. It's not IE, I am a web developer and have had my share of headache with IE 6 and since then I have grown to dislike IE, but I do have to admit IE 7 and 8 are much better...kudos to MS.
2. Extensions, there are so many way you can customize your browser with features, it's really up to to the user on what to have.
3. The "organic" feel, on Win XP it looks like an XP program (unlike Safari on Win XP which looks out of place), on Uubntu no matter what icon theme or windowing them I have it will meld and look like that (which I love), makes it feel more part of the system. Oh and on Mac Firefox will look an native app, as well as on KDE desktop, etc.
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