Shoutbox

Browser: Firefox
Website: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox
License: Free
Why I use it (specal features): Tabbed browsing, extensions, themes, W3C =)

IE sux because he don't respect W3C =)

Browser: Firefox
Website: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox
License: Free
Why I use it (specal features):
Extensions:
Tweaking (for speed)
Image Zoom
Ad blocking (i dont see any ads anymore )
Banning cookies from certain sites
BugMeNot (auto inputs username and password into those hassle places you have to sign up for free to view content)

Those are some of my extensions i find very handy.. Theres also a few others i use, such as "Launchy", where i can right click a movie link, and it auto download and play in windows media player (so i can stream)

Only thing i use IE for is windows update, cause once you have a bunch of extensions installed on firefox, theres no point in going back. I use to run IE with a tone of other programs installed. Now its all in one with firefox

i completly agree with megamuff, IE is good.
obviously (if you know me then it is obvious. if you dont look at the avatar you will get the jist of my opinion) I use IE because I think it is the best browser because it is simple to use and I find it loads faster than firefox. when I starting using firefox it took me quite a while to even work out how to use tabbed browsing i couldn't actually get tabs to appear. now in my opinion that is not easy to use.

Firefox all the way

I used IE all my computer-life (almost 6 years) and can only say it really is a pain in the butt.

I used antivirus, antispyware and other security tools along with IE and always found stuff that went through the browser.

When I tried out Firefox (in its 0.9 version) I was surprised to find that it had many security features. It will tell me if a site wants to install software, open a pop-up, etc. I haven't had any security problems since then.

And the possibility to add extensions is great, now I can have a color picker, calendar, and many other things in the browser. Useful indeed.

The only downside is that Firefox and Thunderbird are awfully slow and tend to freeze, but I can live with it.

I still sometimes use IE for testing my site's design (to see how most people will see it), but the lastest design I made is 100% Firefox compatible. Dotted borders and all, you just have to know how to use HTML and CSS.

This is what happens when MS sleeps in their glory. They had made another bad move (IMO) a year ago or more (I'm not exactly an up-to-date person ) about not letting people download IE6 and above.

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Name: Opera
Website: http://www.opera.com
Liscence: $39 (for all your home PCs)
Special Features: Tabbed Browsing, pop-up blocker, skins, intergrated e-mail (if you like gmail's way of sorting mail, Opera M2 is just the same, but came first), download manager, very customisable.

P.S. If you use Opera for a week or two, then you will love it, all it's little extras that make browsing really easy. But im sure that the same applies for Firefox, IE is just well, IE.

pps. another thing i like about opera is that is has way more features than firefox does on its own. And isnt as much of a resource hog.

I use IE because A. my computer sucks and IE loads up the fastest (and it's still too slow!), and B. most of the Web is only made to look right on IE, which practically makes IE's rendering the Web's standard. I've never seen any rendering problems in IE such as the ones Firefox users report here sometimes.

I would definitely try out Firefox again when I get a better PC, though. I'm not crazy about IE at all.

Name: Netscape
Website: Netscape
Licence: Free
Special Features: it has a pop up blocker and can have a couple websitre in 1 window
my computer is slow switching windows so i like just to change the tab in 1 window

I use Opera, because:

- it is a Web browser
- it is an E-mail client
- it is an FTP client
- it is an IRC client
- works like a download manager
- it is less vulnerable (no script execution and no picture downloading in e-mails)
- I don't need 5-6 windows, because Opera has its windows inside the program
- a built-in pop-up blocker
- and ---well, not so important--- I can disguise it
- .....

And I like IE, too, because some *special* scripts only work with IE (MSAgent for example)

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1) Firefox
2) www.getfirefox.com
3) Free
4) Probs the best for sercurity and it's the fastest browser IMO.