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What's the "best", spam-free, fastest browser?
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| What's the "best", spam-free, fastest browser?
That's a big question, and everyone has their personal opinions. Why not try them yourself? The basic options boil down to three: 1) Internet Explorer and hybrid browsers that use an IE window. 2) Mozilla "gecko" browsers such as Firefox, Pale Moon, K-Meleon 3) Browsers based on Apple's WebKit, such a Chrome and Safari. IE has very limited support. The last 3 versions won't even run on Microsoft's own XP. It was always designed primarily for corporate use. It's also got both pros and cons due to being closely tied to Windows. That, alone, is a giant topic. Pros are generally flexibility in doing things like writing HTAs. Cons are that IE security is poor due to the tie-ins and the security settings are virtually unusable. The other browser "engines" are open source, but the browsers that embody them vary. For instance, Firefox is Mozilla Corporation's main offering. Pale Moon is a leaner version of exactly the same thing. K-Meleon is a very similar offshoot. Likewise, Chrome and Safari both use WebKit but I don't think either is open source. I've never heard a good review of Safari from Windows users. Chrome is popular and Google is known for high quality work, if you don't mind using the browser of the sleaziest spy operation online...which is a big if. I think there's an open source version called Chromium, but I haven't tried it. Another aspect of this is customizability, which varies a great deal. But customizing is only a factor if you know how to do it and are willing to take the time. Firefox customized can be a very different browser from Firefox "off the shelf". One other point that seems worth stressing to me: The media and the browser makers are constantly obsessing over exactly how fast each browser is, which is pretty much irrelevant. Most lag these days will be due to the speed of servers, not the speed of loading the page. Likewise, quality of rendering isn't likely to vary much between any of the non-IE browsers. (IE has always been incompatible, even with other versions of itself. So some pages are better in IE and some are worse, depending on the knowledge and intentions of the web designer.) If you find you're using a browser that seems too slow you probably have other problems, like a slow Internet connection or a fondness for websites that don't function very well. If you find that it's intolerable to wait 1/4 second to 1 second for a page to load then you definitely have other problems. |
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Jeff,
What's the "best", spam-free, fastest browser? Que up the "mine is best" wars. :-\ And why the heck do you need a *fast* browser ? Most of the time the dumb thing is waiting for you to click the next link ... Also, for internet connected software the connection speed is the deciding factor, not the program.. Suggestion: do a google search (for "free browser" perhaps ?), download and try a few and than select the one you like best. And a remark: although the current version of some browsers might not match your above specs, its quite possible that a bit older version still might (all three of them). Regards, Rudy Wieser -- Origional message: Jeff T schreef in berichtnieuws ... What's the "best", spam-free, fastest browser? |
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Jeff T wrote:
What's the "best", spam-free, fastest browser? Hmmm, "best", hmmm, oh, I know ... Lynx. ;- - Doesn't waste time interpreting Javascript. - Can't waste time retrieving Java applets so no Java security issues. - Doesn't spend time downloading images. It's a text-only web browser. - No time loading add-ons since it doesn't support extensibility. - No add-ons means no Flash content, either. No .sol Flash cookies. - Very light on resources (memory and disk). - No .txt cookie files, no DOM (local) storage. - Multi-OS support. Spam-free. What does that mean? Any site, even in plain text, can put any content on their site, including what you might deem as spam. If you're instead saying the web browser has its own spam content, where in whatever web browser that you've used did you see it has spam? You need to spend a hell of a lot more time listing your criteria that defines your concept of "best" to convey to others just what "best" means to you. Unless you were attempting to initiate a flame war where users qualify their choice to assuage their ego for that choice, even you know your post was inane. |
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On 09 Nov 2014, Jeff T wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: What's the "best", spam-free, fastest browser? What do you mean by "spam-free"? That's not a concept that applies to web browsers. |
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Nil wrote:
On 09 Nov 2014, Jeff T wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: What's the "best", spam-free, fastest browser? What do you mean by "spam-free"? That's not a concept that applies to web browsers. Nor does "best", since that depends on what the user wants. So the question is a bit ambiguous. (When in doubt, perhaps just stick with Firefox). |
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"Jeff T" wrote in message
... What's the "best", spam-free, fastest browser? For Fastest A TEXT Browser is Number One No Browser is spam-free For Who is One Spamer |
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Hot-Text wrote:
"Jeff T" wrote in message ... What's the "best", spam-free, fastest browser? For Fastest A TEXT Browser is Number One No Browser is spam-free For Who is One Spamer Good point. That makes "Lynx" the best browser :-) Fast, and image free. Also, totally unusable. Modern web pages look terrible in there. Only the early web rendered in a usable way. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...-wikipedia.png I had to use Lynx, as my only available browser at work for several years. On a Unix box. They would not provide us with a real browser. Paul |
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On 09 Nov 2014, Paul wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: I had to use Lynx, as my only available browser at work for several years. On a Unix box. They would not provide us with a real browser. I still use Lynx or links or elinks when I want to check out a potentially dangerous site, or when I use my shell account via telnet or ssh. I also like to test-view my own web pages with one of those text-mode browsers to make sure it makes sense in that context. |
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On Sun, 09 Nov 2014 13:56:45 -0500, Nil wrote:
On 09 Nov 2014, Jeff T wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: What's the "best", spam-free, fastest browser? What do you mean by "spam-free"? That's not a concept that applies to web browsers. Perhaps he meant those crapwares that are included in software installers. AFAIK, none as it. Only unworthy ones, might. |
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On 11/09/2014 12:21 PM, Mayayana wrote:
| What's the "best", spam-free, fastest browser? To add to what has already been said , Maxthon is well liked by many Windows users, it's a "new and improved" shell for Internet Explorer. Interestingly enough, there is also a Linux version . |
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On Sun, 09 Nov 2014 11:55:50 -0600, Jeff T wrote:
What's the "best", spam-free, fastest browser? Here's a list ordered by web engine's performance. Blink engine (better version of WebKit): - Chromium. The older versions. Newer versions seem to always include built-in apps. Version 35 and probably all newer ones don't work properly in Windows XP. WebKit engine: - K-Meleon. - Otter Browser. (work in progress) Gecko engine: - Palemoon. The last version that still support Windows XP. - Firefox. Trident engine: - SlimBoat. Presto engine: - Opera v12. Note: - Nothing is perfect. - Some browsers claim to use WebKit, but infact they use the whole Chromium framework. i.e.: either a fork, or built on top of it. Those that are built on top of Chromium will never be faster than Chromium. |
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 06:18:43 -0600, philo* wrote:
To add to what has already been said , Maxthon is well liked by many Windows users, it's a "new and improved" shell for Internet Explorer. Interestingly enough, there is also a Linux version . I liked Maxthon until I found out how intrusive it was. Much worse than Chrome. But I've no doubt of its performance. |
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philo wrote:
On 11/09/2014 12:21 PM, Mayayana wrote: What's the "best", spam-free, fastest browser? To add to what has already been said , Maxthon is well liked by many Windows users, it's a "new and improved" shell for Internet Explorer. So for WinXP users, does that means its only a shell for IE8 (since that's the highest you can go in IE with XP)? |
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"Paul" wrote in message
... Hot-Text wrote: "Jeff T" wrote in message ... What's the "best", spam-free, fastest browser? For Fastest A TEXT Browser is Number One No Browser is spam-free For Who is One Spamer Good point. That makes "Lynx" the best browser :-) Fast, and image free. Also, totally unusable. Modern web pages look terrible in there. Only the early web rendered in a usable way. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...-wikipedia.png I had to use Lynx, as my only available browser at work for several years. On a Unix box. They would not provide us with a real browser. Paul I set up Browser Opera/9.80 As my Text Only Browser But I do use Lynx for DOS |
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