Best Browser for T61p (THINKPADS)

I just installed Firefox and WOW! I can navigate the internet so much faster.
Huge noticeable speed increases when opening other tabs.


Is this the best?



What is the best browser for Thinkpads?


IE seems slow but I trust it. Seems secure.

IMO security is the most important atribute.

Speed is 2nd.

 

Unless you did a clean install, IE may be slow because of an add-on.

IMO, Firefox is the best browser for any system. And once Firefox 3 is released, there won't even be a point in having any other browser.

I'm actually waiting for the release of Fx3 before installing Firefox on my ThinkPad. Using IE until then.

 

FF has something that other browsers can't beat, the Add-ons !. There are some add-ons very cool and you can't find it anywhere else.

 

I can't wait for FF3

 

I use Firefox and Opera. Firefox is my main browser, but when it starts acting up, Opera is pretty good.

 

If security is #1, Firefox all the way. Never went back to IE since i got it. I read an article review of this free anti-spyware that blocked like 10 out of 50 malicious sites, whereas Firefox alone blocked 49/50, .

 

Does anyone know when FF3 will be released?

 

They're going to release a fifth beta and then the final in June-ish I think.

 

Awesome. Thanks, Arkit.

 

I haven't used FF since IE7 came out.
It took care of the tabs and text is much smoother on it. I didn't find a FF add-on for text smoothing at the time and I was too lazy to keep checking. FF not even installed now.

 

I am just going to wait until FF3 comes out see if its any good befor I switch over

 

Arkit and Joe why not just switch now, it is more than 100% better already. 3 will just be that much better! The only reason I use anything other than FF is to get specific windows update where you have to use IE or to test web pages I've created on Safari Opera and IE. Browsing and all other internet usage is all FF.

 

What determines the best browser doesn't really have anything to do with hardware (very old/slow systems notwithstanding). The OS does play some factor, mainly with regard to the availability of choices.

I believe Firefox to be the best browser. It has so many amazing Add-ons, Adblock Plus, BugMeNot, Greasemonkey, etc, etc. Memory leaks used to be an issue, but I think that's been mostly resolved.

Opera is also a good browser, and in a few ways is better than Firefox. However, I find its tab behavior annoying. You can customize the tab behavior to some extent, but you cannot fully emulate how Firefox handles tabs.

I see no reason to use IE7. It does not offer as many good add-ons, the interface is ugly, and I have no desire to support Microsoft's browser. MS garnered well-deserved hatred for deliberately not following web standards for so long. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish Hopefully they'll finally start being less dickish with IE8.

 

What are you waiting for? Firefox 3 beta 4 is rock solid. Sites like PC Magazine and others are confirming this... so there's no reason to wait. I've been running it since beta 3 and find it faster and more reliable than IE or Opera.

Pick your language and start using it now:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

 

IE is copying a lot of the features that FF pioneered, but FF is still better. Noscript, adblock and ForecastFox make it my go-to browser. And after going to a 15.4 WSXGA, Nosquint is my new friend.

Having said that, if you want the fastest browser, I think Safari wins hands down. It's not a secure as IE or FF, though.

 

I like Maxthon and opera, don't really like firefox.

 

I use FF most of the time, but there are still sometimes when you have to use IE. Examples include sites that use ActiveX controls, Windows update and when you are a web developer and the company mandates that its' site to be used with IE

And "best browser for thinkpad" is irrelevant. This is not a hardware dependant question.

 

Firefox.. hands down..

 

Today my Firefox has been slowing down. I notice it is stalling reporting info to Google. Maby I can get rid of this leak.


Maby IE is the best.

 

Firefox maybe better generally but for Vista i use IE7. It has that "protection mode" that FireFox3 will eventually have too. Also Firefox does not print correctly some sites, especially MSDN ones. So every now and then i have to switch to IE for printing stuff, i hope that FF3 has done a much better job on this.

 

I just hope they take Minefield out of beta someday....

 

Firefox or Opera

 

I'm currently working with Firefox 3 beta 4. I was going to wait for RC1, but had some issues with FF2 on my system, and figured I'd give it a shot.

It's good enough that I plan to stick with it. Half the memory footprint of FF2, equally stable, faster with lots of tabs open, and only one of my plugins was incompatible (Google Send-To-Phone, which hasn't been updated in eons). I wouldn't know it's a beta if the icons and title bar didn't say so.

 

Firefox, but its really unstable for me. I do like the "recovery" option that lets you go back to the pages you were on before FF crashed. With the release of IE8 coming in the future, I guess I'm probably going to go back to IE.

 

Wow, NO ONE in their right mind even considers IE even slightly as good as Firefox. Even without tweaking Firefox (type in about:config in your address bar and you'll see) it's years ahead of IE. The only problem is the occasional memory leak, but this has been addressed in Firefox 3.

I suggest you type in "Mozilla Speed Tweak" into Google if you don't know how to tweak it yourself.

 

I believe there is someone who posted earlier in this thread that he or she prefers IE7 over FF. I don't understand why, but to each his or her own. I did read an article that kind of worries me just a bit. It talked about how FF is seeking to become more integrated with the OS, and I don't like that whole idea. FF having little to no integration with the OS is one of the biggest reasons why I switched to them from IE. What do you all think about the issue?

 

Well I personally find that for me, the websites I use are more compatible with IE7 than FF. So I like to use IE7 when I want to surf the internet properly and I use FF whenever I'm browsing through these forums since it's much faster and has features like restore tab.

 

I am using Maxthon

 

I had been using FF (from 1.5 to 2.0) as my main broswer. I only use IE7 for websites that specifically require it. However, FF has some annoying memory leak problem. I tend to leave my computer on for days and I have to restart FF every couple days or I would run out of memory. I don't notice the problem in FF 3.0 betas anymore but they are not as stable as I would like. Then I tried Safari 3.1. It is fast and neat but I couldn't get used to it after couple days of use. Then I decided to give Opera a try. I am very satisfy with its interface, speed, and the way it handle tabs. I am sticking with Opera for now until FF 3.0 goes final.

 

What version of Firefox are you using? Do you have any plugins installed?

I've found that people who have stability problems with FF are usually experiencing a problem with a browser plugin rather than the browser itself, or they don't have much RAM (less than 1GB) and are running a lot of tabs and perhaps several other apps alongside the browser, since FireFox 2's biggest weakness is how much RAM it uses.

To CoreDump: I liked Opera's speed, but not being able to rearrange toolbars the way I wanted really killed the experience for me. I'd really like to see them make their toolbar structure better, like IE, which lets you drag your toolbars up and down to make them the way you like. Approximately once a year I've downloaded the latest version to see if they've changed this; the last time was with one of the 9.x versions (it's been too long for me to remember the exact one), and they hadn't "fixed" it yet, so I went back to FireFox. What with the memory footprint issues being resolved in FF3 though, plus a faster renderer, I may not be trying Opera again soon.

 

Unfortunately this hasn't changed yet. I've been playing with Opera 9.5 beta (Kestrel) and the toolbars are as unmovable as ever. Though I do like the way it's security and anti-phishing features display better than FF.