What is better, Firefox or Netscape?

Question

I was wondering if Firefox or Netscape is better. I heard that they were better than Microsoft Internet Explorer. Or should I just not bother with them?

Answer 1

Firefox is better. I've had it for a long time and I've had no problems.

Answer 2

not sure

Answer 3

Firefox is most certainly better than Explorer! Go to the Firefox website and download the latest version to try it out.

Don't use Netscape - it was very good in its day, but it is now old software (obsolete) and is no longer supported (as of March this year). Netscape actually now recommends that people move over to Firefox.

Answer 4

Firefox. It's got almost endless customization of themes and colors, renders (loads) web pages faster, generally runs smoother, is open-source, and a huge batch of 'add-ons' that you can use to customize your browsing experience, such as Sxipper, which saves all your form information and logins for easy one-click logins.  

Answer 5

It really depends on what you are looking for in a browser. Internet Explorer has been around for ages, and has the full support of Microsoft behind it. It is sleek and powerful, but on old(ish) computers that may slow you down a bit. Still, as the standard browser, you won't find many other negatives with it.

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/product...

Mozilla FireFox is a highly customizable browser. New themes and gadgets are realeased every week, and this gives a personal feel to it when viewing websites. Although it slows the comuter down, it isn't as bad as IE, though ona  fast computer, you won't notice much of a difference between the two.

FireFox 3.0.1: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all...

Other options available are Opera Browser. This browser offers very limited customization features (only a colour change in fact), but because of this gives very fast browsing. it doesn't reequire as many resources as IE or FF, but it isn't very fun to browse in somehting that looks as out-of-date as it does.

Opera 9.51: http://www.opera.com/download/

The final major browser is Apple Safari. In my opinion it it the fastest of the 4 browser and my personal favourite. It's style is bsed on the iTunes layout and it doesn't offer any customizability, but if you liek iTunes, you'll love this browser. It's major downfall is the fact that it doesn't render (load) webpages very well. This can become very irritating while browsing so most people don't give it a second thought. It does run very fast (even on slow computers) and has the fatsest startup time of all browsers. If you find that the pages you usually visit work fine on Safari, you won't have anything bad to say about it.

Safari 3.1.2: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/s...

So it really depends on what kind of person you are and what type of computer you have. You can't go wrong with IE or FF, but under stress, they perform slowly, Opera is a boring looking browser but can run where the other two can't, and Safari has problems with many webpages, but is much the fastest of them all. If Apple ever get the rendering process sorted, it would be my number 1 choice.

Hope that helps.

Answer 6

Firefox = Better features, faster browsing, excellent add ons.

Answer 7

FIREFOX FIREFOX FIREFOX THATS RIGHT...

Answer 8

firefox.

Answer 9

Get Firefox 3.0.1 its the best!

Answer 10

I like Firefox But Netscape is a little quicker on my computer!