Firefox 3

[worker201]

Extensions I use, most of which would be kinda silly to include as basic browser features:
Colorful Tabs
Copy Link Text
DOM Inspector
Download Statusbar
Duplicate Tab
Faviconize Tab
Palette Grabber
Tab Scope
Web Developer Toolbar

[Aloone_Jonez]

Similarly, I don't want those crappy features in my browser, which is why I'd rather have an infinitely extendable browser rather than relying on a shitload of useless overhead.

With Opera I don't need any extensions and the browser alone is still smaller.

However, generally I'd a agree that extensions are a good thing, it's just the way they've been implemented in Firefox is pretty poor in my opinion.

[Kintaro]

I tried IE8 beta 2 today, nothing seems that interesting about it or new.

[Refalm]

Well, the developers of IE wanted this:


But as always, the upper management doesn't like Microsoft employees doing innovation.

[Kintaro]

I know a lot of people who got scared of the IE7 interface and moved to Firefox so I can see why. People just don't like change.

[Aloone_Jonez]

It looks pretty childish and cluttered too.

The security features look promising though.

[Kintaro]

IE8 that is out has coloured tabs and stuff to protect you from phisherman.

[SiMuLaCrUm]

I think FireFox 3 isn't too bad. Only thing I don't like is the amount of resources it tends to use.

[Aloone_Jonez]

I've gone back to Opera.

Firefox 3 is far too slow. I don't know whether it's the extensions I installed but it takes muck longer to open pages than Opera.

[Lead Head]

Interesting. Looks like microsoft is trying to move things over the the Office 2007 layout. I took a survey for Microsoft and got a sent a free copy of Office 2007 Ultimate ($300+ retail!). The completely different layout kinda surprised me at first, and I couldn't find anything. It is not to bad that I'm using it more often (for school now), but I think it should be better once they transfer most of their other apps over to that look.

[Kintaro]

I hate Office 2007. I can't see anything I'll ever need that Office 2003 doesn't have, so I'll use that for the rest of my life for all I care.

[piratePenguin]

I hate that zoom does images and shit now, I just want to get text so I can read a long article sitting back in my chair - I didn't want it pushed into a horizontal scrollbar. There should be an option for just text or both and there isn't. It's kinda pathetic.

Errrrrrrrr Zoom Text Only in the view > zoom menu.

[Kintaro]

I hate that zoom does images and shit now, I just want to get text so I can read a long article sitting back in my chair - I didn't want it pushed into a horizontal scrollbar. There should be an option for just text or both and there isn't. It's kinda pathetic.

Errrrrrrrr Zoom Text Only in the view > zoom menu.

thx <3

[Calum]

phoenix 0.5 was the best version of firefox so far. small, fast, functional.

If that version was compatible with these plugins and extensions (yes, even i use a couple) then i might still be using 0.5 today.

[Refalm]

So use Epiphany. It's a browser with the Gecko engine that is using the same plug-ins as Firefox, and has similar extensions, without the bloat.