• What is your favorite web browser?

    From Nightfox to All on Sat Feb 25 14:30:30 2017
    POLL
    • What is your favorite web browser?
    • What is your favorite web browser? Aside from the popular ones
    • there are also others, some which are based on one of the
    • main popular web browsers.
    • 1) Google Chrome
      27
    • 2) Mozilla Firefox
      23
    • 3) Internet Explorer
      2
    • 4) Microsoft Edge
      5
    • 5) Safari
      2
    • 6) Opera
      2
    • 7) Pale Moon
      1
    • 8) SeaMonkey
      3
    • 9) Konqueror
      0
    • 10) Google mobile web browser for Android
      0
    • 11) Apple mobile web browser for iPhone/iOS
      0
    • 12) Lynx
      2
    • 13) Waterfox
      0
    • 14) Other
      4
    •  
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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Sat Feb 25 18:58:06 2017
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    Re: What is your favorite web browser?
    By: Nightfox to on Sat Feb 25 2017 02:30 pm

    What is your favorite web browser? Aside from the popular ones
    there are also others, some which are based on one of the
    main popular web browsers.


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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to Mro on Fri Mar 3 16:09:59 2017
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    still using mosiac

    though you where still on lynx !

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Ennev on Fri Mar 3 21:05:10 2017
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    Re: Re: What is your favorite web browser?
    By: Ennev to Mro on Fri Mar 03 2017 04:09 pm



    still using mosiac

    though you where still on lynx !


    i use lynx on occasion.
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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to Mro on Sat Mar 4 11:09:01 2017
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    i use lynx on occasion.

    I put it on all my linux install :-)

    But I haven't seen mosaic since 1996.

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  • From Nightfox to Ennev on Mon Mar 6 10:29:14 2017
    Re: Re: What is your favorite web browser?
    By: Ennev to Mro on Sat Mar 04 2017 11:09 am

    But I haven't seen mosaic since 1996.

    I haven't seen Moasic in a long time either. I tried searching for a Mosaic installer, but it was unclear to me if I was seeing a recent installer or an old one. I was wondering if Mro was joking about still using Moasic. A browser from the mid-90s most likely would have problems rendering some modern web pages.

    Nightfox
  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to Nightfox on Mon Mar 6 18:11:45 2017
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    I haven't seen Moasic in a long time either. I tried searching for a
    Mosaic installer, but it was unclear to me if I was seeing a recent installer or an old one. I was wondering if Mro was joking about still using Moasic. A browser from the mid-90s most likely would have problems rendering some modern web pages.

    We might have to try that : https://archive.org/details/mosaic-ncsa-evolt_browsers

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  • From Jagossel@VERT/MTLGEEK to Ennev on Mon Mar 6 20:02:58 2017
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    Re: Re: What is your favorite web browser?
    By: Ennev to Nightfox on Mon Mar 06 2017 18:11:45

    We might have to try that : https://archive.org/details/mosaic-ncsa-evolt_browsers

    While we are at it, I wonder if we can find Internet Explorer 3 or Trident. :D

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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to Jagossel on Mon Mar 13 09:59:12 2017
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    While we are at it, I wonder if we can find Internet Explorer 3 or
    Trident.

    Explorer3 I have it on my win95 install disk, but trident :-D

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  • From Bigbangnet@VERT/MTLGEEK to Jagossel on Sun Mar 19 11:02:17 2017
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    Re: Re: What is your favorite web browser?
    By: Jagossel to Ennev on Mon Mar 06 2017 20:02:58

    Re: Re: What is your favorite web browser?
    By: Ennev to Nightfox on Mon Mar 06 2017 18:11:45

    We might have to try that : https://archive.org/details/mosaic-ncsa-evolt_browsers

    While we are at it, I wonder if we can find Internet Explorer 3 or Trident.



    you can always go to http://www.oldapps.com and find IE3 and other old application. Thats what I do when I need something old to work on my doxbox or my winxp installed on my hyper-v

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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to Bigbangnet on Sun Mar 19 15:00:30 2017
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    you can always go to http://www.oldapps.com and find IE3 and other old application. Thats what I do when I need something old to work on my doxbox or my winxp installed on my hyper-v

    The latest version of Firefox still work great on XP. And with an old os it's maybe safer, old browser must be full of vulnerabilities.

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  • From Deavmi@VERT/KK4QBN to Mro on Thu Mar 23 02:04:15 2017
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  • From Deavmi@VERT/KK4QBN to Ennev on Thu Mar 23 02:05:02 2017
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    I like FireFox for GUI and Lynx for text based browsing.

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  • From Nightfox to Bigbangnet on Thu Mar 23 09:13:32 2017
    you can always go to http://www.oldapps.com and find IE3 and other old application. Thats what I do when I need something old to work on my doxbox or my winxp installed on my hyper-v

    I sometimes use www.oldversion.com or filehippo.com to find older versions of software.

    Nightfox
  • From Electrosys@VERT to Nightfox on Tue Mar 5 07:37:03 2019
    Re: What is your favorite web browser?
    By: Nightfox to on Sat Feb 25 2017 02:30 pm

    There is a new Firefox called Firefox Developer Edition. Its pretty nice, it came out along with Firefox Quantum.

    Electrosys

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  • From Nightfox to Electrosys on Tue Mar 5 09:48:08 2019
    Re: What is your favorite web browser?
    By: Electrosys to Nightfox on Tue Mar 05 2019 07:37 am

    There is a new Firefox called Firefox Developer Edition. Its pretty nice, it came out along with Firefox Quantum.

    I stopped using Firefox a long time ago because they started making it look like Google Chrome.. I liked the old look of Firefox, and a while ago I found a browser called Pale Moon, which is a fork of Firefox from one of their earlier versions. They kept the old look of Firefox with Pale Moon but have kept it up to date.

    Nightfox
  • From Jagossel@VERT/DISCREAL to Electrosys on Tue Mar 5 21:01:49 2019
    Re: What is your favorite web browser?
    By: Electrosys to Nightfox on Tue Mar 05 2019 07:37 am

    There is a new Firefox called Firefox Developer Edition. Its pretty nice, it came out along with Firefox Quantum.

    What's the difference between the two editions? Developer Edition sounds like it would be loaded up with more useful web developer tools tham Quantum.

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  • From Nightfox to Jagossel on Tue Mar 5 20:46:23 2019
    Re: What is your favorite web browser?
    By: Jagossel to Electrosys on Tue Mar 05 2019 09:01 pm

    There is a new Firefox called Firefox Developer Edition. Its pretty
    nice, it came out along with Firefox Quantum.

    What's the difference between the two editions? Developer Edition sounds like it would be loaded up with more useful web developer tools tham Quantum.

    When Firefox 17.0.1 was released, we joked at work that it was the Enterprise Edition.. :P

    Nightfox
  • From Ed Vance@VERT/CAPCITY2 to Nightfox on Tue Mar 5 22:14:00 2019
    03-05-19 09:48 Nightfox wrote to Electrosys about What is your favorite web Howdy! Nightfox,

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    Re: What is your favorite web browser?
    By: Electrosys to Nightfox on Tue Mar 05 2019 07:37 am

    There is a new Firefox called Firefox Developer Edition. Its pretty nice, it came out along with Firefox Quantum.

    I stopped using Firefox a long time ago because they started making it look like Google Chrome.. I liked the old look of Firefox, and a while ago I found a browser called Pale Moon, which is a fork of Firefox from one of their earlier versions. They kept the old look of Firefox with Pale Moon but have kept it up to date.

    I've heard of Pale Moon a long time ago.

    Mozilla isn't updating Firefox for XP or Vista any more.

    Without me checking for myself, does Pale Moon still issue update for
    the older OS's? Thanks!

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  • From Nightfox to Ed Vance on Wed Mar 6 08:58:38 2019
    Re: What is your favorite web
    By: Ed Vance to Nightfox on Tue Mar 05 2019 10:14 pm

    I've heard of Pale Moon a long time ago.

    Mozilla isn't updating Firefox for XP or Vista any more.

    Without me checking for myself, does Pale Moon still issue update for
    the older OS's? Thanks!

    I'm not sure, as the oldest Windows system I have is Windows 7, and I think Pale Moon works on that.

    Nightfox
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Ed Vance on Wed Mar 6 06:24:00 2019
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    Mozilla isn't updating Firefox for XP or Vista any more.

    Without me checking for myself, does Pale Moon still issue update for
    the older OS's? Thanks!

    I'm using K-Meleon on my older boxes - faster, but development and updates haven't happened in a while.



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  • From Lmorchard@VERT/DECAFBAD to Jagossel on Wed Mar 6 11:09:29 2019
    Re: What is your favorite web browser?
    By: Jagossel to Electrosys on Tue Mar 05 2019 09:01 pm

    What's the difference between the two editions? Developer Edition sounds like it would be loaded up with more useful web developer tools tham Quantum.

    The main difference between main release Firefox and Developer Edition is a theme and some developer-oriented features enabled by default. Dev edition is also one version ahead and considered in beta, so that developers can check out changes 6 weeks or so ahead of main release.

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  • From Ed Vance@VERT/CAPCITY2 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Jul 2 14:21:00 2019
    03-06-19 06:24 poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Ed Vance about Re: What is your favorite
    Howdy! Poindexter,

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    Ed Vance wrote to Nightfox <=-

    Mozilla isn't updating Firefox for XP or Vista any more.

    Without me checking for myself, does Pale Moon still issue update for
    the older OS's? Thanks!

    I'm using K-Meleon on my older boxes - faster, but development and
    updates haven't happened in a while.

    I downloaded K-Meleon in March after reading Your message, Thanks!

    I still am using Firefox ESR most of the time on this XP box, but do use K-Meleon quite often.

    I also use Opera sometimes but recently some websites tell Me they don't
    like Opera.

    In 1996 I begin using a Dial Up ISP with Win 3.1 and MS-DOS 5.0 on a 486.

    I used Internet Explorer (IE) first, but soon downloaded Netscape Navigator
    (or was it Communicator?) when I saw IE using 16KB's for each Favorite I made.

    I learned Netscape added each Bookmark to "A" Bookmark File, I liked that
    much better since I had a 330MB HDD in the 486.

    I didn't like IE eating up Disk Space for each Favorite I wanted to make.

    I started using Firefox when Mozilla brought it out.

    Firefox's Bookmark File works the same as the Netscape Browser did, One File adding Bookmarks to it in One Space on the HDD until the Space fills up and then adding some more Space from the HDD.

    I think Sector is the word I should have used instead of Space but couldn't remember it the word to use was Sector or Cluster. Whatever? DUH!!!!!!!!

    Thanks for recommending K-Meleon!

    Also back in March, Nightfox wrote about Pale Moon looking like the older Firefox Browser.

    I suppose I will add Pale Moon to my ROUNDTUIT List and see if I can use it with this XP box.

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  • From Nightfox to Ed Vance on Tue Jul 2 12:52:12 2019
    Re: Re: What is your favorite
    By: Ed Vance to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Jul 02 2019 02:21 pm

    In 1996 I begin using a Dial Up ISP with Win 3.1 and MS-DOS 5.0 on a 486.

    I used Internet Explorer (IE) first, but soon downloaded Netscape Navigator (or was it Communicator?) when I saw IE using 16KB's for each Favorite I made.

    I started using the internet around the same time (December 1995) and was using Windows 3.1 and (I think) MS-DOS 6.22 on a 386. I didn't think Internet Explorer existed at the time though.. I was using Netscape Navigator as my
    web browser. It seemed Netscape was the browser everyone was talking about at the time, and IE didn't seem to have much momentum until a couple years later.

    I learned Netscape added each Bookmark to "A" Bookmark File, I liked that much better since I had a 330MB HDD in the 486.

    I didn't like IE eating up Disk Space for each Favorite I wanted to make.

    Yeah, I only used IE for a while in the early 2000s because it seemed that a lot of web sites around that time were being made to work best with IE. I think Microsoft made IE behave slightly different from the web standards in order to take advantage of their market dominance, so that web developers would make web sites that work best in IE.

    Also back in March, Nightfox wrote about Pale Moon looking like the older Firefox Browser.

    I've been using Pale Moon for a while, but one thing that bugs me about it is that it seems slow.. Maybe I've gotten used to Google Chrome being fast (with each tab in its own process). I've started to like Vivaldi - Vivaldi has a lot of options that let you customize it, and it's also fairly fast (once it loads), probably because it uses the same web engine that Google Chrome uses.

    Nightfox
  • From Zombie Mambo@VERT/ZZONE to Ed Vance on Wed Jul 3 11:36:32 2019
    Re: Re: What is your favorite
    By: Ed Vance to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Jul 02 2019 02:21 pm

    Thanks for recommending K-Meleon!

    I've had luck using SeaMonkey with XP.
    Its a mozilla fork and some of the original mozilla guys work on it.
    It allows you to make exceptions for those ssl failures due to the symantec cert issue that the other browsers won't let you get around easily.


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