I am excited: browser war on the horizon

Wraak · **8th June 2008, 11:31 AM**

During the last few weeks I have been testing all of the latest web browser alpha's and beta's.

Here's a little overview of my findings:

Firefox 3: claiming to be the fastest in the market? They probably never used Opera. Not much new under the sun though.

Opera 2.5: Still the most responsive but not much new stuff either.

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1: Hohoho. Love it or hate it. But fast it is. Looks good as well.
As a well known Winslow basher I was pleasantly surprised.

Maxthon: If we have IE8, why would you use this? The same engine as IE7.

And here is something new:

Space Time: a new browser with some Linux eye candy for Windows. Still in a very early stage of development and very slooowwww.

http://www.spacetime.com/

simbot82 · **8th June 2008, 11:47 AM**

i like firefox 3, some really nifty little tricks up its sleeve. Havn't tried ourt IE8 though

Astrotoy7 · **8th June 2008, 09:51 PM**

I am far too used to firefox nowdays to be bothered with anything else. I do wish its opera aping 'speed dial' extension gets done properly, it currently is quite buggy Ive found. I love that speed dial

I'll end up having IE at work as we used a browser based diary and stats system. Other than that, I rarely use IE at all. Even the one-click which you use in a freeEPG setup, can now be achieved on FF

space time is a nice concept, but extremel;y slow. Would be great on a multi-touch pc

You didnt mention safari >> im sure there are some cool funky types that like to pretend theyre on a Mac

astro

simbot82 · **9th June 2008, 12:40 AM**

ah I love the rendering of safari and thats about it

Wraak · **9th June 2008, 12:42 AM**

"You didnt mention safari"

Anything to do with Mac is blocked by me in Peerguardian. Thank you.

Wraak · **3rd July 2008, 10:16 PM**

Opera 2.51 definetely the fastest browser out there. In linux it's even faster than in Win. Comes with anti malware.

vlad · **3rd July 2008, 10:22 PM**

I usually use Firefox, 3.0 now, but can use IE, no problems, and like the rendering of Safari - non-English pages.
Don't see any war coming. Competition is good, they all will improve.

zer0L0gic · **4th July 2008, 12:33 PM**

I've been a Firefox convert since it was called Phoenix!

Tried Opera, not a fan of it. Too many reasons why I don't like it.

IE8 - Preview for end users is coming in August. I'm going to reserve my judgment until then. But if IE 7 is an indication, I think I won't be using IE 8 as my default browser.

Awesome_Aleks · **4th July 2008, 09:16 PM**

I have been using Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 since it's release (albeit in "Emulate IE 7" mode, for max compatibility) and the extra features is great, there is a handy shortcut to Windows Live Translate in there which I use surprisingly often

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is supposed to come out pretty soon as well

Wraak · **5th July 2008, 10:37 AM**

Zero: what are your reasons not to like Opera? Speed wise it beats the hell out of FF, you have the build-in torrent downloader, a working speed dial etc...
Actually I do not gave a damn about any of those browsers, I just want faster pageloading.

Awesome:

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I have been using Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 since it's release (albeit in "Emulate IE 7" mode, for max compatibility) and the extra features is great, there is a handy shortcut to Windows Live Translate in there which I use surprisingly often

It´s fast and looks good too

colin_090 · **5th July 2008, 10:36 PM**

firefox has been with me ever since the mozilla days..you know those days when you had that picture display when you opened mozilla..

ie7 isnt bad though, i just find it loading sites to be a bit slow
and opera has to be a close 2nd for my fave browser. and safari..well i tried the tihng when it came out and it displayed alot of my sites incorrectly so i never touched it again (and quite frankly im sick of apple programs!)

just my 2 cents