Search Engines and Browsers people use

What search engines do people use on here?

What broswers do people use?

I use the Mozilla Broswer and IE and primarily use Google....

I also use yahoo, Scirus, Stumbleupon, IMDB, Wikipedia, and Pubmed for searches.

Anyone ever use the browser Opera? If so, how is it?

I just use IE and Google. I tend to favor the familiar.

Firefox/Google . .. at least when I am in windows.

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Originally Posted by Mendel's Balls

What search engines do people use on here?

google usually

What broswers do people use?

Netscape and IE, use to use Mozilla though

I use the Mozilla Broswer and IE and primarily use Google....

I also use yahoo, Scirus, Stumbleupon, IMDB, Wikipedia, and Pubmed for searches.

Anyone ever use the browser Opera? If so, how is it?

I have used it, I did not like it, kept crashing on me.

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google and I use Opera.. I love it. I hate IE.

i use safari on mac, firefox when using windows. search with google and sometimes yahoo.

IE and Dogpile (I wrote components of it's backend so I know how to make it purrr).

(For YP search, I use switchboard.com ... I wrote it's entire backend and it's bad ace!!) :D :rockon:

-adam

Mozilla Firefox, Google

I can't believe how much better the mozilla browser runs on my computer than IE did. IE was SLOW, threw errors and randomly shut down all the time.

Mozilla/Google Wikipedia can tell you anything

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Originally Posted by elevatethis

Mozilla Firefox, Google

I can't believe how much better the mozilla browser runs on my computer than IE did. IE was SLOW, threw errors and randomly shut down all the time.

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Amen. Not to mention, even with a pop-up blocker, you still got hammered in IE.

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

IE and Dogpile (I wrote components of it's backend so I know how to make it purrr).

(For YP search, I use switchboard.com ... I wrote it's entire backend and it's bad ace!!) :D :rockon:

-adam

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Dogpile looks interesting...for your Mozilla Firefoxers....you can add it to your search bar...http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=Dogpile&sherlock=yes&opensearch=&submitform=Search.

Browser: Avant
Search: Google, Dogpile, Mamma

Firefox here, and Google or Ask.com these days. I used to use dogpile and I forget why I stopped. I may need to pick that up again.

Firefox/Google

Firefox in both windows and linux search engine is either google or blingo

Firefox/Google/Dogpile

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Originally Posted by TekWarren

Firefox in both windows and linux search engine is either google or blingo

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Ever win anything with blingo?

Firefox forever! Except when I have to do online doc editing for work (works poopy in Firefox) and online pay for my car insurance, cell phone and prescription refill - none of them work in Firefox, so have to use IE. Oh and for Windows update...for some reason, it just never works from Firefox?! =D

And searching? Goooooooooooooooogle.

I don't consider IMDb, Wiki, etc. to be "search engines" since those are websites for specific things. They have search engines, but only for themselves.

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Originally Posted by cassandra

Except when I have to do online doc editing for work (works poopy in Firefox) and online pay for my car insurance, cell phone and prescription refill - none of them work in Firefox,

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That's why I stopped using Firefox, Opera, etc. I got tired of hitting sites that had problems loading and then having to open IE. Avant is an IE shell that seems to have all the features of Firefox, but without the incompatibility. :nerd:

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Originally Posted by Mendel's Balls

Ever win anything with blingo?

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No I haven't yet, but one of the ladies here work along with my supervisor both have. I think they won itunes certificates. It uses the google engine so its usually just as good as the real google.

To those who can't handle the firefox "issues" I would agree that at first FF had issues loading some things. Recently though I can't think of any site that has given me issues or not worked properly. The plugins are easy to install if there is something that won't load the first time. So you have to actually go download the plug in you need. I don't mind that at all, I'd rather not have crap automatically install or download for me like IE does....but that's just my person oppinion.

firefox/yahoo/google

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To those who can't handle the firefox "issues" I would agree that at first FF had issues loading some things. Recently though I can't think of any site that has given me issues or not worked properly.

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Some educational and webware just won't work in FF - Smynx teaches for an online school whose grading/submission interface fails in anything shy of IE - blame the dotNET back end if you like but it's not an issue of anything other than the platform and not a user error. There are a few online accreditation/certification courses you cant test on outside of IE as well. Which I think is a monopolized shame and certainly not a credit to those who developed and coded it (in their deflicted noncompliant way). Certainly I don't fault Mozilla/FF for that - but you can't blame the user for the lack of compliance in those cases.

Tabbed browsing though is something you just cant go back from!

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Originally Posted by Smulkin

Tabbed browsing though is something you just cant go back from!

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The new IE will carry that feature ;) I still think its a pos though. :D

I agree there are still some things mozilla doesn't work with and MS wouldn't have it any other way. I to work in education, almost 10 years now and FF works with alot more things today then it did intially. I think that was my main point...not to make end users out to be lazy..sorry.

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Originally Posted by TekWarren

I agree there are still some things mozilla doesn't work with and MS wouldn't have it any other way. I to work in education, almost 10 years now and FF works with alot more things today then it did intially. I think that was my main point...not to make end users out to be lazy..sorry.

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The IE View Extension allows u to right click on a page not loading correctly in FireFox and quickly open it in IE.....

yep I've used that for a bit its quite handy. Even will open up as a tab "within" FF.

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Originally Posted by Smulkin

Some educational and webware just won't work in FF - Smynx teaches for an online school whose grading/submission interface fails in anything shy of IE - blame the dotNET back end if you like but it's not an issue of anything other than the platform and not a user error. There are a few online accreditation/certification courses you cant test on outside of IE as well. Which I think is a monopolized shame and certainly not a credit to those who developed and coded it (in their deflicted noncompliant way). Certainly I don't fault Mozilla/FF for that - but you can't blame the user for the lack of compliance in those cases.

Tabbed browsing though is something you just cant go back from!

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In most cases it's because webware programs use ActiveX for client side work instead of using that little scripting language no ones ever heard of... oh what's it called. Oh yes, Javascript :P. Personally, I refuse to go to any site which doesn't support either Firefox or Opera, especially commercial sites. Could you imagine if a brick and mortar business decided to ignore 20% of the market share out of pure lazyness?

On that note, I use Firefox, Opera and occasionally use Safari when I'm testing (the life of a web developer :D).

Firefox and Google.

Occasionally I have to resort to IE to get a website to work correctly.

I get stuck with IE at work (ick)

I used to use opera a while back. I used it because I had a slow dial-up and was saturated with web images, and opera allowed me to use it without loading all the images that took forever. it was ok I guess.

I use linus as an OS, and I'm not sure what the other things are. I think I use Konquerer and firefox as browsers, and I use google and wikipedia for search engines.

I just went to Mozilla Firefox today as a result of this thread. A big thank you to the members here that mentioned it as a nice browser...what a huge difference from how IE runs on our POS computer! Still learning how it is different from IE but it seems to be much more efficient and just plain old faster. Thanks everyone! :)