What is the best internet browser and why!?

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What is the best internet browser and why!

Answer 1

I've been using Avant browser since 2001.  It's free, and very stable. You can open so many tabs at a time, with no loss of speed or crashing (I've had 30 open). You can customize it any way you want, and there are even skins. If you don't like where things are, you can drag them wherever you want them (window tabs on the top, bottom, sides, same with buttons).  It has a popup blocker, ad blocker, site & ad blacklist.  You can enable or disable these. For safety or to speed up, you can disable pictures, active x, java applets, flash animations, other applets (goodbye dancing cowboys!), and more.  It has a language translator. You can check the source code of the site you're on, magnify the screen and/or text. It has RSS feed capabilities. You can customize the Bookmarks (favorites) folder easily.  It also has  password storage, where you just click on the site name, and it enters your password.  You can choose as many pages as you want to open when your browser starts, and you can chose your search engine (even have different search engines for different areas, such as images, groups, etc.  You can right-click on a page, and save it, also can save pictures.  And, if you ever have a question, problem, or suggestion, there is a forum with real people. You can even have the browser notify you when a new version is available.  There is more.  I'm very happy with Avant browser and wouldn't think of going back to Internet Explorer

Answer 2

I use internet explorer 7 mainly but I'm using safari more and more. Safari is definitely the fastest and the least cluttered. It is what i'm using right now and it loaded your question before I could even blink. Plus they now have safari fro windows if needed. So get safari but also have fire fox or internet explorer for sites that haven't made them selves safari friendly yet but that should change soon because of safari for windows. But that isn't only a problem for safari I mean their are still sites that are only internet explorer friendly. Good luck. If you have a mac then you should already have safari. If you have windows then here is the link to safari for windows. www.apple.com/safari/

Answer 3

Firefox!!!

It's very fast and has a great ad blocker and you can customize it with a lot of cool themes and add ons

Answer 4

Try opera 9.52 and you won't ask anymore

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 released every week, and this gives a personal feel to it when viewing websites. Although it slows the computer down, it isn't as bad as IE, though on a 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 require as many resources as IE or FF, but it isn't very fun to browse in something that looks as out-of-date as it does.

Opera 9.52: http://www.opera.com/download/

The final major browser is Apple Safari. In my opinion it is the fastest of the 4 browser and my personal favourite. Its style is based on the iTunes layout and it doesn't offer any customizability, but if you like iTunes, you'll love this browser. Its 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 fastest 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.