Time To Upgrade Your Browser? - Comments Page 2

Why doesn't everyone use Opera? It starts quicker even when I have half a dozen tabs open from a previous session. A few sites don't like it so I fall back to Firefox. I had a similar problem to Steve when I tried to update to IE9. At least it was a gave me the excuse (by force) to get a new motherboard!

I have Opera, SeaMonkey, K-Melon, Firfox and of course IE. Opera is my main one. I use the email program built into SeaMonkey (much like Thunderbird). Opera has had poor printing support over the years, on and off, that's where K-Melon comes into play. The "Down-them-all" extension in Firefox is sometimes a godsend. And every blue moon I still actually come across an obscure web page that will only display properly in IE, go figure.

Response to Sheri:

The detail I did not provide is that this affects all users on Vista. A little web search will show that. I actually attempted to re-post that fact but it did not get through. My machine and OS are as up to date and clean as they can be. You are using 7 so something has been changed there.

Windows mail and the IE browser apparently have a very deep relationship.

Something else I like about Opera, is that if for some reason a site will not let you access it because you aren't using a compatible browser (such as a bank website) you can always "Identify As" or "Mask As" either IE or Firefox. Just right click anywhere on the page then click Edit Site Preferences, then click the Network tab, then change the browser identification at the bottom. You will have to refresh the page and possibly dump your cookies but it should work afterwards.

In the business world though you get ham strung but what a vendor will support for their product.

We have one that works in IE7/8 and FF 3.5/3.6 and that's it. Now in IE8 there are issues with JRE 6r26+ due to new features from Oracle. And FF4+ works in most of the product but some bits don't (probably bad JS coding).

We need to use these products so need to keep browser versions back.

I have IE, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari installed and I use them all at different times. I mainly use Firefox, and rarely use IE as IE seems much slower than the others. I always like to have other options in case one is causing me grief for some reason, I can usally web browse with one of the others. I dont' think I've ever had a problem with Firefox, but I've had many problems with IE. Also, I have found that if browsing isn't working with one and/or is extremely slow to load everything, I will open a different one and browsing will work great and quick.

I mostly use Opera. I have kept Firefox 3 series because of all that I keep reading about problems with Firefox updates. When I begin to read that these problems have been largely resolved I may update Firefox. It also is a memory hog. As for Chrome, I tried it, and didn't care for it.