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mustang1
03-28-08, 10:41 AM
Which web browser are you using right now and on which OS?

I'll start:
Home: Mix of Safari and Firefox on Vista Home Premium.
2nd computer: Firefox on XP
3rd computer: Firefox on Ubuntu Linux (changed OS couple days ago)
Work: Firefox on XP
2nd computer: Firefox on XP


Psydotek
03-28-08, 10:42 AM
I'm at work.

Windows XP with Firefox.

Spreggy
03-28-08, 10:48 AM
XP and Firefox at home and work. I installed Safari yesterday to give it a try. I hope I can skin that gray interface.


Taerom
03-28-08, 10:48 AM
Computer lab on campus: XP Pro using IE (7.x)

Home: XP Pro using IE (6.x)

Maelstrom
03-28-08, 10:48 AM
xp with ie 7 everywhere

once in a blue moon firefox but simply because I love the speed dial. I do a lot of testing in ie6, ie7 and firefox.

trsidn
03-28-08, 10:48 AM
XP Pro. IE for most stuff, Firefox for more entertaining things.

cnickgo
03-28-08, 10:52 AM
OS X and Firefox.

Tude
03-28-08, 11:24 AM
Win 2007 and Firefox - work

Win 2000 and Firefox - home

G. Ike
03-28-08, 11:29 AM
OS X 10.5.2 and Safari

mustang1
03-28-08, 11:32 AM
OS X and Firefox.

How's that working out for you.. i heard this combo had problems with FF not running too good under OSX? Ps: why not use Safari?

nick burns
03-28-08, 12:19 PM
At work - XP + Firefox
At home - Suse 10.3 + Firefox

mlts22
03-28-08, 12:33 PM
At work on the PCs: XP Pro, Firefox, Adblock, NoScript.
At work on the Macs: Firefox, Adblock, NoScript, or if bored, Parallels Desktop in coherence mode, XP Pro, Firefox, Adblock, NoScript.

At home, Windows Server 2008, Firefox, Adblock, NoScript.

zoltani
03-28-08, 12:36 PM
How's that working out for you.. i heard this combo had problems with FF not running too good under OSX? Ps: why not use Safari?

At work: XP with Firefox

Home: OS X with either safari or firefox

The firefox works better than safari for streaming video. Sometimes with safari i can have sound but no video. This usually happens with quicktime, and i have installed all of the updates and uch. With firefox i do not get the same problem with quicktime which leads me to believe it might be the browser, not quicktime.
Anyone have similar experience?

Zinn-X
03-28-08, 12:43 PM
At work: XP with Firefox
At home: Vista Ultimate with Opera

yohannrjm
03-28-08, 12:48 PM
At work - Fedora Linux with Firefox
At home - Slackware Linux with Firefox

I like all the add-ons in Firefox.

The Figment
03-28-08, 01:43 PM
Comp 1.Ubuntu Linux + Firefox,
Comp 2. Dreamlinux + Firefox
Laptop-Ubuntu Linux+Windows xp sp2 running on Virtual Machine+Firefox (Only way to get Friggin ITunes to work)

The Figment
03-28-08, 01:47 PM
At work: XP with Firefox

Home: OS X with either safari or firefox

The firefox works better than safari for streaming video. Sometimes with safari i can have sound but no video. This usually happens with quicktime, and i have installed all of the updates and uch. With firefox i do not get the same problem with quicktime which leads me to believe it might be the browser, not quicktime.
Anyone have similar experience?

Try the VLC Movie Player...I use it on all my comps....works grate!!

jsharr
03-28-08, 01:54 PM
ie7.0 on XP Pro 5.1

Bostic
03-28-08, 02:26 PM
Windows 3.1, Trumpet Winsock, Mosaic.

Psydotek
03-28-08, 02:31 PM
At home it's Vista Ultimate + Firefox.

jhota
03-28-08, 02:33 PM
i use Firefox on XP Pro or OSX, depending on which computer i'm using or which partition i've booted from.

msincredible
03-28-08, 03:10 PM
I'm at work.

Windows XP with Firefox.

+1

(I only use IE if the website doesn't work or doesn't work well on Firefox.)

RonH
03-28-08, 03:13 PM
Safari on my Mac.

Black Shuck
03-28-08, 03:25 PM
Firefox on Windows XP or Ubuntu, depending on what else i'm doing at the moment.

osmium
03-28-08, 03:30 PM
Firefox on OS 10.3.9 or Safari depending on what I opened.

half_bent
03-28-08, 03:37 PM
At home XP with (in order of preference) Opera, Firefox, IE
At work (ok my cell phone, I am local truck driver) Opera mini

v1k1ng1001
03-28-08, 04:45 PM
My laptop:

Ubuntu 8.04 + Firefox 3 (Beta 4)

and

XP pro + Firefox 2


Work:

XP Pro + Firefox 2

PCLOS 2008 + Konqueror (Although I'm going to delete this partition next week and install another distro)

BenLi
03-28-08, 04:54 PM
Firefox on Ubuntu
Opera on XP (Uber speed!)
Safari on Ipod Touch.

deraltekluge
03-28-08, 05:21 PM
I'm using Firefox and Windows XP.

I normally use Internet Explorer 6, but when I installed Firefox and it imported IE's favorites list, Bike Forums ended up near the top of the list (alphabetical order, ya know) and easy to get to. Since I've been too lazy to move things around in IE, I use Firefox for these forums.

Hickeydog
03-28-08, 05:57 PM
seeing as that there are many computers at my house (all them old, slow SOB's), I'll just give you a general overview of the different combinations.
Ubuntu with Firefox
XP Pro with Firefox (x3)
XP Media Center with Firefox
2000 with Firefox (x5)

v1k1ng1001
03-28-08, 07:07 PM
Anyone else using the firefox 3 beta? It has some feature where you can drag stuff off the page as if you were cutting and pasting html elements from webpages.

cnickgo
03-28-08, 07:10 PM
Anyone else using the firefox 3 beta? It has some feature where you can drag stuff off the page as if you were cutting and pasting html elements from webpages.

That makes me want to try it... I miss that feature from Safari.

mlts22
03-28-08, 07:19 PM
I'm holding off until it goes GA, just because I try to run as little beta code as possible.

x136
03-28-08, 07:34 PM
Desktop: Ubuntu Linux 7.10, Mozilla Firefox.
Craptop: Ubuntu Linux of some prior vintage, Mozilla Firefox.

ItsJustMe
03-28-08, 07:45 PM
Windows XP and Firefox. Laptop is Windows 2000 and Firefox. At work is XP and Firefox.
For the servers where all my REAL work gets done; SuSE Linux and no browser; all my work on them is via a terminal window and they're 1200 miles away from me.

mlts22
03-28-08, 08:06 PM
Windows XP and Firefox. Laptop is Windows 2000 and Firefox. At work is XP and Firefox.
For the servers where all my REAL work gets done; SuSE Linux and no browser; all my work on them is via a terminal window and they're 1200 miles away from me.

There is always Lynx, which is what I use when ssh-ing into remote Solaris and AIX boxes.

Falkon
03-28-08, 08:33 PM
Links text browser on Debian.

Sage23
03-28-08, 09:06 PM
Home: Safari on OS X
Work: Safari 3.1 or Firefox 3 Beta on XP

phantomcow2
03-28-08, 09:10 PM
WinXP Professional x64 + Firefox

x136
03-28-08, 09:26 PM
Windows 3.1, Trumpet Winsock, Mosaic.Also, this brings back some painful memories of dial-up networking under Windows 3.1. *cringe*

Juggler2
03-28-08, 10:39 PM
XP and Firefox.

ban_hammer
03-30-08, 12:04 AM
64 bit Gentoo Linux, Firefox.

mlts22
03-30-08, 12:07 AM
Also, this brings back some painful memories of dial-up networking under Windows 3.1. *cringe*

Nothing like manually dialing, firing up a SLIP connection and hoping the other end doesn't time out. Eventually my solution to this was a laptop that had an old 3com PCMCIA card that had both a modem and network jack, so I just used the laptop at first as a dialup router, then stuffed in another network card and made it a firewall.

The only good thing about dial up networking, was that you could use a shell prompt for almost everything except graphical Web browsing, saving some time.

gbcb
03-30-08, 12:09 AM
OS X 10.4.11, OmniWeb (http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/) 5.7b2

tepr
03-30-08, 12:24 AM
Opera on Ubuntu 7.1 and Vista.

CdCf
03-30-08, 01:36 AM
OS X 10.4.11

Safari for the most part, but unfortunately, a lot of sites out there have crappy code, so I have to use the ugly, slow, non-standard and cumbersome Firefox for some of them.

Treefox
03-30-08, 04:30 AM
OS X with Safari all-around.

mustang1
03-30-08, 04:23 PM
Comp 1.Ubuntu Linux + Firefox,
Comp 2. Dreamlinux + Firefox
Laptop-Ubuntu Linux+Windows xp sp2 running on Virtual Machine+Firefox (Only way to get Friggin ITunes to work)

Which VM software are you using to run XP under Ubuntu? A couple of days ago I installed Ubuntu (what a smooth install) just to see what it's about and I observed two things:

1. I like it and may well run Ubuntu for some time yet (and not use it as a "see-what-this-Linux-thing-is".
2. I rather like the orange and brown default color.

mustang1
03-30-08, 04:24 PM
+1

(I only use IE if the website doesn't work or doesn't work well on Firefox.)

Try the "IE Tab" add-on for Firefox.

Raiyn
03-30-08, 04:26 PM
XP + latest version of Firefox