7/11/04 Web Browser Poll

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What is your main web browser

Firefox
36
46%
Internet Explorer (and wrappers such as MyIE2, etc)
9
11%
Opera
14
18%
Mozilla
12
15%
Konqueror
0
No votes
Safari
4
5%
Other Mozilla Based
4
5%
Other
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 79

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7/11/04 Web Browser Poll

Post by Pu-239 »

What Web browser do you use? Post user agent string preferably- type about: in URL bar in Firefox, and help->about in IE.

Mine:

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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040704 Galeon/1.3.16 (Debian package 1.3.16-1)
Galeon/Linux, based on Mozilla (using Moz 1.7).
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IE at work and school, AOHell at home. (And I have never, not once, run into all these supposed hellacious problems with IE...)
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Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1
EDIT: IE when on the uni network, unless they've paid attention to all those reports and upgraded by the time i get back there.
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Post by Pu-239 »

Rogue, there are other benefits aside from security to use Firefox (most importantly tabbed browsing, unless you are a wimpy user who only keeps < 3 windows open at a time (then again, you are an AOL user. :P )

Post user agent so I don't have to bother making an OS poll too.

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Right, right. OS depends entirely on where I am; work uses Win98 for the patron computers, NT for the office/circulation desk computers, and I've got WinXP at home and at school in the dorm. In the school computer labs I'm sometimes stuck browsing from a Mac; the rest of the time its all WinXP.

And the AOHell is not my fault. My parents did that, and there's nothing I can do about it. :(
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That agent code thingy:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
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Post by Pu-239 »

Rogue 9 wrote:Right, right. OS depends entirely on where I am; work uses Win98 for the patron computers, NT for the office/circulation desk computers, and I've got WinXP at home and at school in the dorm. In the school computer labs I'm sometimes stuck browsing from a Mac; the rest of the time its all WinXP.

And the AOHell is not my fault. My parents did that, and there's nothing I can do about it. :(
You can use AOL to dial then minimize and use another browser for one :P .

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I swear, AOL is a virus. My brother tried it once. He swears that AOL hijacked the other browser somehow.
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This is my User Agent thing:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.8

I use Firefox 0.9.2
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HEIL FIREFOX .9.2!!!
Rogue 9 wrote:I swear, AOL is a virus. My brother tried it once. He swears that AOL hijacked the other browser somehow.
Your brother hit it on the nose.

AOL autoinstalls Viewpoint Media Player, and anything remotely associated with AOL adds 'Free.aol.com' to IE's Trusted Zone without asking. This allows AOL to pile on the unwanted malware (like Viewpoint) by the ton without your noticing, much less asking! Then when you uninstall the little spyware shit, AOL helpfully puts it right back every time you run AOL. FUCK AOL!

Five years ago, I've also seen AOL physically damage a dialup modem from remote by forcibly installing a 'Security Update' two weeks into a free trial. To this day that computer cannot connect faster than 14400bps no matter what ISP is used (before it was a healthy 56000bps). It may have been quite a while back, but who's to say AOHell has stopped that practice? Shit, even M$N is better than AOL!
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Yummy Firefox.
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Soontir C'boath wrote:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Yummy Firefox.
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040422 Epiphany/1.2.2
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Opera 7.51 on OSX
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Bounce back and forth between IE 6.0 and the latest build of Opera for me.
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316

Mozilla 1.7b.

:? What are the differences between plain Mozilla and Firefox?
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Firefox is only a web browser, while Mozilla is a webrowser, mail client, IRC client, web page creation program, and about a billion and a half other things that the Mozilla people decided to cram in. Also, Mozilla's interface is essentially a clone of Netscape 4.x's, while Firefox has its own re-designed interface (which bears some similarities to IE's.) Firefox also has a metric buttload of extensions available for it, adding such features as mouse-gestures and ad-blocking.
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Yeah yeah, so I'm running an older build...
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Opera/7.50 (Windows NT 5.0; U) [en]

I sometimes spoof my useragent string to "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)" get into IE-only sites, though (the sites in question even reject the "Opera [en]" tacked on the end of Opera's own IE agent spoofing, so I have to use Proxomitron to intercept and change it to a "real" IE identifier as it goes out).
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Drooling Iguana wrote:Firefox is only a web browser, while Mozilla is a webrowser, mail client, IRC client, web page creation program, and about a billion and a half other things that the Mozilla people decided to cram in. Also, Mozilla's interface is essentially a clone of Netscape 4.x's, while Firefox has its own re-designed interface (which bears some similarities to IE's.) Firefox also has a metric buttload of extensions available for it, adding such features as mouse-gestures and ad-blocking.
Hm. Well, I like the mail client... the rest of the stuff I don't need. I might try it out.
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; ; Linux i686; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040617 MultiZilla/1.6.4.0b

I tried MultiZilla and got hooked. Hey, it works...
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

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