What browser you like the most?

I use IE because its the most popular. And my theory is that because its popular, sites will be designed for it making sites best viewed in Internet expolorer.

Same here! :) Hard to change old habits, I guess; and probably because all my bookmarks are here in IE. :P

But I do switch my browsers sometimes, between IE, Opera and Firefox.

I prefer Firefox. Is more secure and faster than IE, plus it is open source

I will agree with Nikolas

Me too :)

Firefox rules!

Firefox too!

By the way firefox reached 80 million downloads! ( http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ )

This is more than 10% of the internet users. This is a good start :)

I would think that more than 800 million people use the internet.. Thats only like 1 in like 6 or 7. China has like a billion poeople and half them use the internet.. possibly. I don't know I'm just thinking that more then 800 million people would use the internet. I think I may look that up! :P

EDIT: Whoa, sorry for doubting you. I did the rresearch about 650 M is what alot of sites say.

I like opera much, but recently I use firefox a lot

Okay this is what you MUST do, take your right hand off of your mouse, and SLAP YOURSELF SILLY. Always use FIREFOX! haha.

Propably NumBa1Stunna516 mentioned that with the less appropriate way, but if you want to say that you are a designer - developer or whatever, you must test your creations in any way that the users will do. And actually it is not so difficult.

A bit of experience will learn you how to design your sites in order to show fine in any browser.

About Firefox I forgot to mention that it has a great developer plugin (I think it is embedded) which allows you to check a lot of stuff about your html coding (css, validate, etc)

It seems that all the developers are using Firefox.  :)

I use Firefox too, but I have installed IE and Opera too for checking the sites that I make

firefox is by far the best in my opinion. Plus now that FF 1.5 is out, it's incredible . The "go back" and forward speed is great, not any load time.  I also like the re arrange feature in the tabs and favorites.

Firefox all the way.  When I use IE I get random toolbars and stuff downloaded all the time.  If you use it because everyone else does you're part of the problem, not part of the solution :P

As I see here, everyone is using Firefox, so I will give it a try, because 'till now I am using internet explorer

:-[

I use mainly Firefox and Opera, but I also use IE to check the "look" of my websites, since around 90% of regular surfers use IE.  It's rare that my websites look 100% exactly identical in all browsers.  I guess it's true for most websites.

Mozilla Firefox without a doubt.

I prefer Firefox, too!

I have to agree with most of you, firefox is the bomb  ;D

I use IE, but as seen here I should propably change that :)

It is totally up to you which browser you prefer but if you haven't given firefox a try you should. It has a ton of great plugins/extensions which are very useful, especially if you are into webmaster kind of stuff.

I've just download it and will give it a try.

It seems that the webmasters are funs of Firefox.

Here are some statistics from this site:

Firefox : 68.2 %
MS Internet Explorer : 30.7 %
Opera : 0.6 %

68.2% is a lot! I have never used firefox before, from what I'm reading it sounds good. I have always used Internet Explorer.

Propably you should follow the rest webmasters here that prefer Firefox

Yes well I have just downloaded it today and I'm trying it out. Do you know any good extensions?

Try the web developer extension. It has many great tools for web design - development

Yes it is nice, there are so many different things you can do and they're so much easier to access than if you were to do it another way. Thanks!

I like firefox. You can customize it, and all! Its alot faster IMO.

Recently I realized that Opera has the fastest display engine, but Firefox is still better as it has better support to CSS

Does anyone have a link to this web developer extention?

Here you are :

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=60

Enjoy :)

I use a combo of Firefox and Opera.  I do still use IE sometimes for the google and Alexa toolbras though.

You mean you use both of Opera and Firefox or something else?

I used Opera for a while when Norton had FF disabled.  I was very impressed with Opera but Firefox still wins.

I like Internet Explorer the best. I have had some problems with FireFox on some websites.

I agree with SoulWatcher

I also agree.  I would like firefox more if it didn't distort the way websites look a lot of times.  I know some people argue that it's because the webmasters don't code their pages according to standards, but i don't really care about that either way.  I just want the websites to look right :P

I use Firefox.

Version 1.5 just released....

http://www.getfirefox.com/

Firefox offers an extension called 'View in IE' that allows you to set certain pages to open in IE if the page isn't designed to work properly in FF.  I have it and it is a handy tool. I'll have to find the link for anyone who is interested.

My opinion, anyone who does not make a site work in IE and FF (at least) should not call themselves a webmaster, web designer, web developer, or anything of the sort.

Rooted that's very good as you can actually test your sites without having open all the broswer programs.

Can you provide a link to this extension?

Well, this extension might not work real well for what you are talking about.  With this, if you are on a page that doesn't view properly in FF you can set FF to always switch you over to the actual IE browser anytime you return to that particular page.  What you are talking about doing might work better with the extension found here... https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1419&application=firefox  (I haven't tried this one, just found out about it as I was looking for the other link to post here)

The extension that I was originally talking about (View in IE) can be found here... https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=35&application=firefox

I may have to give the 'IE tab' one a try and see if it doesn't serve my purposes even better.

Ok. Thanks for the link :)

I used to swear by I.E then I tried Firefox and fell in love. I also test with the others and on occasion I forget to test and think sod it if it works OK in firefox then more fool the internet in general! Then reality kicks in and I do my job properly!

I.E 5.5 on a mac is a currious beast I must say!

I mainly use FireFox and keep IE for the not-compliant sites...

You guys are nicer than I am.  If it doesnt look right in firefox or work for that matter I'll just move on.  There are plenty of sites with the same topic I'm sure.

That's a very good argument PixelGoat.

Sites are not like software. You can't have requirements for the visitor (except than a browser)

i use IE because microsoft will eventually monopolize the other browsers, and everything works with IE where osme other things dont work on FireFox and Netscape, etc. the rest suck. in my opinion

Thats not entirely true, sites that are perfectly programmed according to the standarts can cause problems displaying in IE and apart from that IE lets in a lot of spyware/adware I get none of that crap in FireFox.

p.s. I can do without the IE crap that doesn't work in FireFox (like that amazing text effect in Nikolas' signature ;D )

I like firefox all the way. Some pages that cant be displayed in IE will work perfect in FF

Im taking from experience :P

FF is leet

Firefox too :)

IE and Firefox are the only browsers that i have tried to use.
And I love Firefox a lot more than IE.

I use Firefox for 99% of my surfing. I love the tabs and the fact pop-up blocking is on by default. (IE does this too with XP SP2 but I am still on Windows 2000).

For sites that appear to be written specifically for IE, I use Maxthon. It uses the IE engine, so you still have to run the Windows updates regularly, but it has provided tabbed browsing and pop-up blocking for years, without having to wait for IE7. Plus it has way more options than I know what to do with.

For testing websites, I also keep Opera up to date, but rarely use it. The last time I used it regularly, it crashed too much.


-- Duncan

My number one is mozilla 1.7 but they stopped the development, so I have to wait for a mature version of seamonkey...in the meantime Firefox is the only replacement (together with thunderbird)

Firefox for me is much better than IE, for the reasons you have posted.
(safety and speed)

I use mozilla firefox because of all the neat features like tabbed browsing where all your windows open up all within the browser rather than on your toolbar, freeing it up for other programs. 

i use FF a lot personally... when designing sites I do check in this order, FF, IE, Opera...

Although nifty stuff of built-in plugins for Opera are cool, and a lot of skins too... I like the web developer toolbar for IE for marking div wrappers etc...

Overall I prefer FF...

me too Mozilla rules!
If you develope in this order, maybe you know this problem:
http://www.webdigity.com/index.php/topic,2991.0.trouble+with+CSS+layout+in+IE.html

I definitely do,

Ill solve one of your problems, namely the row thumbnails spacing to be equal in IE and FF, you can do the rest with this tip... Its a box model problem within IE...

Also notice you border for your footer floating on top, producing double lines in FF in the area just above "Meer informatie"

Lets solve that first...
On your CSS add the bold one

===========================================================
.footnote {
    clear:both;
margin:5px 0 0;
border-top:1px solid #DDDDDD;
font-size:11px;
line-height:20px;
padding:10px 0 0;
text-align:left;
}
===========================================================

While on the problem on the row of images spacings, add this to your html just above your <body> tag:
===========================================================
<!--[if IE 6]>
<style type="text/css">
#thumbrows img {
border:1px solid #DDDDDD;
margin-bottom:20px;
margin-top:0px;
float:left;
padding:5px;
}
</style>
<![endif]-->
===========================================================

basically you can include all properties of css that is having problems in IE inside it... then everything will look the same...

Thank you designer, for your help...

I the meantime I solved the problem a little bit different by using another box arround the thumbs to use margins in place of padding. And the footer was only about the background image direction (switch bottom to top)

Since I'm on a Mac, I use Safari. Best Browser I've ever used!

However, when I was on a Windows, I used Firefox. Really liked that too!

Tie between Opera and Firefox, IE is annoying.

Firefos is the best one for webmaster ,of course ,i use ie too, it just is  your habit

A mozilla based browser is good for everyone ;)

I use Opera, I think new users on inernet use IE Then in due course pass on what that another

Firefox, its more stable than IE is. Seems every time my PC gets near IE I end up with virus stuff all over the place :(


MP