Hey NamePros- what browser do you use?

andriegel · 05-30-2005, 03:12 PM

Hi all,

I tried Firefox but never made the switch, primarily because my Norton password manager doesn't work with it.
I see in the press that Internet Explorer 7 is soon to be released with the Tabs function.

Developers- do you test using all the major browsers?

best regards,

Andrew

food_consult · 05-30-2005, 03:15 PM

IE for me

Rasbelin · 05-30-2005, 03:19 PM

Wrong forum. Not related to domains.

As for the question, I use Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 (en-GB) as my primary everyday browser, while using MSIE 6.0 SP1 for "MSIE only" sites, Windows Update and Office Update. I also have Mozilla 1.7.8 and Opera 8 for testing my sites for browser compatibility and troubleshooting users. I do not look forward for MSIE 7, because clearly it will remain insufficient in comparison to Gecko rendering browsers. Sure, tabs, but not web standard compliance and the same ol' ActiveX vomits. Sorry, but no deal with me.

slaughterbeck · 05-30-2005, 03:21 PM

Quote:

andriegel

Hey NamePros- what browser do you use?

SlimBroswer, it's a lot like Firefox and uses the IE engine.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/94209-hey-namepros-what-browser-do-you.html

Quote:

Developers- do you test using all the major browsers?

Yes IE, Firefox and Opera but I don't know if you can call me a developer; If someone paints a house are they a painter?

Rasbelin · 05-30-2005, 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by slaughterbeck

SlimBroswer, it's a lot like Firefox and uses the IE engine.

Why bother with MSIE as the rendering engine, if you could have Gecko and you already use a shell for it, which is a Firefox deviation?

Chris · 05-30-2005, 03:24 PM

I have both Internet Explorer and Firefox, however I use IE much more often. Especially on NamePros so I can see the glowing names.

The tabs feature in Firefox is nice, but I still prefer IE.

Stephen · 05-30-2005, 03:24 PM

I use internet explorer.

Rasbelin · 05-30-2005, 03:46 PM

I just can't see what's so special anymore about MSIE as clearly it's pretty stuck on the MSIE 4 level of development. And to recap abit, that was 6-7 years ago. Now during that time other competing products have come from sctratch and exceeded that, but yet many NameProers incist on using MSIE. Most likely it's because of being accustomed, not seeing a need for change, not perhaps having a choice or then using some "MSIE only" ActiveX Intranet solution. Out of these reasons ActiveX is the only one I can grasp and agree on, but the others aren't really worth making a change to modern browsing.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=94209

I was working on some CSS code last week and seriously decided to forget about MSIE browsers and how they render some font specifications, because can't really arse myself to work against good web standards and instead have to find some halfass solution that might work for MSIE. I'm annoyed by having to develop for users that use a browser that can't follow proper web design, but for which you have to dig up some obscure documentation. Rather than having endless "Sorry, you can't access with Netscape" messages, I have been pondering on putting up a sign "Sorry you can't access with a standards non compliant browser."

Here's a thought: be a serious domainer and use what's the bleeding edge of web browser development. Choose Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox or Opera. See if there's something you can't do with it on standard compliant websites. Notice the ease of being able to stick to clear W3C documents and not having to dig for hours for a ductape solution.

.X. · 05-30-2005, 03:47 PM

Both IE6 and Mozilla..Mostly mozilla though.

kjmz · 05-30-2005, 03:53 PM

I use Internet Explorer. I tried firefox but I didn't like it. I hate being a Microsoft Support but other then IE does it for me yet.

Rasbelin · 05-30-2005, 04:00 PM

There seems to be a lot of these people that try Firefox, but don't like it. Out of curiosity, what is it that you don't like in it?

jeter4982 · 05-30-2005, 04:02 PM

I am an IE convert to FireFox, and now I love FireFox. IE is just a security nightmare, whereas FireFox has been airtight for me. Plus, the tab system is great.

Tom

kjmz · 05-30-2005, 04:04 PM

Well for me it actually was slower the Internet Explorer? I don't know why because a lot of people say it's faster. Also it just didn't have the same feel as I liked. I know some features didn't work like how they did in IE. Some websites didn't even show up that great either. I guess what I'm trying to say is if all the sites were made for firefox then I guess I would go with it, but as of now their not.

Oblivion. · 05-30-2005, 04:12 PM

FireFox 1.0.4, I'm used to it (and it's plugins) now... I can't stand anything without tabbed browsing, I look at one page whilst another is loading :/.

kjmz · 05-30-2005, 04:16 PM

One more thing, with Internet Explorer when you have Windows XP you just click Internet Explorer at the bottom on the taskbar and it's sort of like tabbed browsing because all the windows of it come up.

AdoptableDomains · 05-30-2005, 04:16 PM

I now use Firefox about 80%, and IE about 20%. Some sites just don't look right in firefox yet and I've run across some bugs. Otherwise I prefer it over IE at this point,mainly due to tabbed browsing. Also, I have a couple tool bars that only work with IE at this point.

Also, I use a super little accessory called slickrun that I have many links pre-created to use IE that I haven't gotten around to changing yet. BTW, slick run can be set up to use a keyword like "domains" that launches each of my registrar pages in a new browser window in just seconds. I have another keyword "drops" that launches pool, namewinner, snapnames, enom, godaddy, etc. I recommend it highly.

slaughterbeck · 05-30-2005, 04:59 PM

Rasbelin, it's clear that you are vastly more knowledgeable than most of us NameProers when it comes to the technical aspects but in regards to your comment “NameProers incist on using MSIE”; It might be a good practice seeing as it’s still so dominate in the market, especially if you need to view from a developmental standpoint.

Originally Posted by Rasbelin

I just can't see what's so special anymore about MSIE as clearly it's pretty stuck on the MSIE 4 level of development. And to recap abit, that was 6-7 years ago. Now during that time other competing products have come from sctratch and exceeded that, but yet many NameProers incist on using MSIE. Most likely it's because of being accustomed, not seeing a need for change, not perhaps having a choice or then using some "MSIE only" ActiveX Intranet solution. Out of these reasons ActiveX is the only one I can grasp and agree on, but the others aren't really worth making a change to modern browsing.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=94209

I was working on some CSS code last week and seriously decided to forget about MSIE browsers and how they render some font specifications, because can't really arse myself to work against good web standards and instead have to find some halfass solution that might work for MSIE. I'm annoyed by having to develop for users that use a browser that can't follow proper web design, but for which you have to dig up some obscure documentation. Rather than having endless "Sorry, you can't access with Netscape" messages, I have been pondering on putting up a sign "Sorry you can't access with a standards non compliant browser."

Here's a thought: be a serious domainer and use what's the bleeding edge of web browser development. Choose Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox or Opera. See if there's something you can't do with it on standard compliant websites. Notice the ease of being able to stick to clear W3C documents and not having to dig for hours for a ductape solution.

StudioWorks · 05-30-2005, 05:19 PM

Been using Firefox for 6 months now. Going to keep use it in the future.

IAmAllanShore · 05-30-2005, 10:04 PM

Try to use Firefox as much as possible, but some sites are fully optimized for it yet (Like NP chat missing "rooms" when using firefox).
I think I'm probably on IE more, although it's close.
-Allan

nicedomain4sale · 05-31-2005, 12:01 AM

70% Firefox, 30% IE.

Killmur · 05-31-2005, 01:07 AM

Crapigator 7.2 ==> Fire Fox ==> Crapigator 7.2 ==> Crapigator 8.0 Beta

I did switch to Fire Fox but after a while it stopped working right so I switched back to Crap\Navigator 7.2 but when I used ccleaner it mucked up Crap\Navigator 7.2 which forced me to install Crap\Navigator 8.0 Beta. I have had nothing but problems with Crap\Navigator 8.0 Beta ever since I installed it.

dgaussin · 05-31-2005, 01:07 AM

I'm using IE yet, I try to adopt Firefox but I can't...

rawandy · 05-31-2005, 02:46 AM

I.E as usual ;s, cant say i liked firefox/opera, their just too slow IMO, and as mentioned before, 90% is optimised for I.E, so really dont have a choice ;o.
Andy

Sabre · 05-31-2005, 02:51 AM

I selected 'Other' as i use both =)

NameRegistration · 05-31-2005, 02:52 AM

IE I’m just to lazy to use anything else…

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05-30-2005, 03:19 PM	#3 (permalink)
Rasbelin NamePros Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Tampere, Finland Posts: 164	Wrong forum. Not related to domains. As for the question, I use Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 (en-GB) as my primary everyday browser, while using MSIE 6.0 SP1 for "MSIE only" sites, Windows Update and Office Update. I also have Mozilla 1.7.8 and Opera 8 for testing my sites for browser compatibility and troubleshooting users. I do not look forward for MSIE 7, because clearly it will remain insufficient in comparison to Gecko rendering browsers. Sure, tabs, but not web standard compliance and the same ol' ActiveX vomits. Sorry, but no deal with me.

05-30-2005, 03:24 PM	#7 (permalink)
Stephen Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Georgia, USA Posts: 3,238	I use internet explorer.

05-30-2005, 03:46 PM	#8 (permalink)
Rasbelin NamePros Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Tampere, Finland Posts: 164	I just can't see what's so special anymore about MSIE as clearly it's pretty stuck on the MSIE 4 level of development. And to recap abit, that was 6-7 years ago. Now during that time other competing products have come from sctratch and exceeded that, but yet many NameProers incist on using MSIE. Most likely it's because of being accustomed, not seeing a need for change, not perhaps having a choice or then using some "MSIE only" ActiveX Intranet solution. Out of these reasons ActiveX is the only one I can grasp and agree on, but the others aren't really worth making a change to modern browsing. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=94209 I was working on some CSS code last week and seriously decided to forget about MSIE browsers and how they render some font specifications, because can't really arse myself to work against good web standards and instead have to find some halfass solution that might work for MSIE. I'm annoyed by having to develop for users that use a browser that can't follow proper web design, but for which you have to dig up some obscure documentation. Rather than having endless "Sorry, you can't access with Netscape" messages, I have been pondering on putting up a sign "Sorry you can't access with a standards non compliant browser." Here's a thought: be a serious domainer and use what's the bleeding edge of web browser development. Choose Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox or Opera. See if there's something you can't do with it on standard compliant websites. Notice the ease of being able to stick to clear W3C documents and not having to dig for hours for a ductape solution.

05-30-2005, 03:47 PM	#9 (permalink)
.X. Revolution Calling! Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: NamePros Avenue Posts: 5,919	Both IE6 and Mozilla..Mostly mozilla though.

05-30-2005, 03:53 PM	#10 (permalink)
kjmz Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: .ca Posts: 1,277	I use Internet Explorer. I tried firefox but I didn't like it. I hate being a Microsoft Support but other then IE does it for me yet.

05-30-2005, 04:00 PM	#11 (permalink)
Rasbelin NamePros Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Tampere, Finland Posts: 164	There seems to be a lot of these people that try Firefox, but don't like it. Out of curiosity, what is it that you don't like in it?

05-30-2005, 04:02 PM	#12 (permalink)
jeter4982 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: CT, USA Posts: 3,299	I am an IE convert to FireFox, and now I love FireFox. IE is just a security nightmare, whereas FireFox has been airtight for me. Plus, the tab system is great. Tom

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kjmz Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: .ca Posts: 1,277	Well for me it actually was slower the Internet Explorer? I don't know why because a lot of people say it's faster. Also it just didn't have the same feel as I liked. I know some features didn't work like how they did in IE. Some websites didn't even show up that great either. I guess what I'm trying to say is if all the sites were made for firefox then I guess I would go with it, but as of now their not.

05-30-2005, 04:12 PM	#14 (permalink)
Oblivion. NamePros Regular Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: UK Posts: 408	FireFox 1.0.4, I'm used to it (and it's plugins) now... I can't stand anything without tabbed browsing, I look at one page whilst another is loading :/.

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kjmz Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: .ca Posts: 1,277	One more thing, with Internet Explorer when you have Windows XP you just click Internet Explorer at the bottom on the taskbar and it's sort of like tabbed browsing because all the windows of it come up.

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Killmur Account Closed Join Date: May 2005 Location: Skynet, USA Posts: 742	Crapigator 7.2 ==> Fire Fox ==> Crapigator 7.2 ==> Crapigator 8.0 Beta I did switch to Fire Fox but after a while it stopped working right so I switched back to Crap\Navigator 7.2 but when I used ccleaner it mucked up Crap\Navigator 7.2 which forced me to install Crap\Navigator 8.0 Beta. I have had nothing but problems with Crap\Navigator 8.0 Beta ever since I installed it.

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