Shoutbox

There must be hundreds of browsers.

There are loads of browsers, but there aren't many rendering engines.
The rendering engine is the core bit that turns HTML coding into things you can see, and a load of browsers use the same ones.

The main ones are...

Trident - which is used in IE, and therefore all IE based browsers, such as Avant Browser
Gecko - An open source engine, which is used in all Mozilla based browsers, such as Firefox and Flock
Presto - used in Opera, and also used in Adobe Dreamweaver (on OSX) and CS2
Those are all Windows Engines, there are many others.

On Linux, the main one is KHTML for Konqueror, and there is also Presto, since Opera is linux compatiable.

and on Macs, there is iCab (for iCab), WebCore (used in Safari) and Presto.

on Mobiles there is HTMLayout and Presto.

Note that Presto is the only engine that is compatiable on pretty much all platforms, including mobile platforms.

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Originally posted by saralk
I think that Opera is the best browser. I have been a paying user since version 6.

I think it is awesome, because right out of the box, it has so many features that would take hours of customisation to get in firefox.
Also, everything, and I mean everything is customisable. At a basic level, you can customize how the toolbars look, by moving stuff around, but you can also customise everything, and even create your own buttons. I have created my own customised version of Opera with a load of developer tools. For example, I can quickly check any page that I am on with one of five different validators, which is great for debugging. You can also code your own buttons, and mouse guestures if you want.

Also, Opera is very very innovative, it was the first browser to have tabs, first (and only) Windows browser to pass Acid2, Gmail is an exact copy of Opera's built in e-mail client (M2), first browser to have mouse guestures, only browser to have built in bittorrent support.
If you want to see what browsers of the future will look like, Opera is the way to go.

I have in the past tried to use Firefox, but I was too used to Opera's way of doing things so I switched back within a day.
I think its the small things that will make you switch back, for example, the straw that broke the camel's back for me was the fact that the tabs didn't resize depending on the length of the webpages' titles

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I totally agree about that!

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Originally posted by saralk
On Linux, the main one is KHTML for Konqueror, and there is also Presto, since Opera is linux compatiable.

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Originally posted by saralk
and on Macs, there is iCab (for iCab), WebCore (used in Safari) and Presto.

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Not forgetting Gecko, since all Mozilla products are cross-platform.

My vote goes for Firefox.

It looks so cool and much more user-friendly than IE. Opera is good too, but in my opinion a bit too professional for me: browser plus e-mail is not really my thing. Also, some sites have major glitches in Opera. And Netscape simply sucks!
I can't tell anything about the other browsers since I never tried them before... and I don't think I ever will.

and 1 vote goes to...... Internet Explorer 7 .I voted for last version of ie.tabs etc.

firefox loads slower than IE here...

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Originally posted by Exca
firefox loads slower than IE here...

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That's because so much of what IE uses is already loaded as part of the OS, and all of Firefox isn't.

What most don't know is that IE is just a fancy wrapper for the very common WebBrowser control, which is used all across Windows. It's used by any app that needs to display HTML or XML-based data, for example, online Help systems, some dialogs, adbanners, Web browsers (surprisingly ), Active Desktop, etc. Firefox doesn't use the WebBrowser control, so doesn't get the benefit of being already half-loaded with the OS.

i want to come back on my vote... Downloaded Opera because of the comments and i really think it's a great browser. 9.0 had some flaws and i had doubts about it but yesterday 9.0.1 came and everything is solved. Except: some frames on website's are displayed smaller than in IE, which results in splitted sentences. I still think in every way that IE shows every page correct, and all other browsers have problems with some pages. Also Safari does strange things. IE never does then comes Opera.

netscape is soo cool!! And the skin you can use at the start of it is mence!!! okay so you can't really use the proper mail beta when using it, but who cares!? use desktop beta!!

why have only 2 people voted for netscape?? the swines!!