What browser do you use and what resolution do you view?

**toecheese** · **05-18-06, 10:04 AM**

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Sonnie wrote:

Good idea and done! It's now officially a poll!

Thanks, Sonnie. I (bad word(s)) hate IE so much that some of my websites now block it altogether. I think even my HT blog gives a warning about IE. Being a software developer, I am horrified at what IE is like.

If you have access to your server logs, you might even be able to get a report as to what browsers hit this site...

**FlashJim** · **05-18-06, 02:06 PM**

Opera 1280 x 1024

IE is "watched" at work. I get all of my HTS reading done via Opera because I fly under the radar.

Ok, ok ... some "p'ono" too.

**highcurrent** · **05-23-06, 03:10 PM**

OLD: Home PC: IE @ 1600 x 1200 on a Mitsubishi 21" CRT

Work laptop: IE and Firefox @ 1280 x 800 on the internal 17" widescreen display

EDIT: New monitor for home is now 24" LCD at 1920x1200. Still using IE and Firefox.

**Sonnie** · **05-24-06, 03:38 AM**

A lot more use widescreen than what I was expecting. Must be becoming more an more popular. I do love my WS lappy.

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toecheese wrote:

If you have access to your server logs, you might even be able to get a report as to what browsers hit this site...

Yeah... actually I can view it right here on the forum... I didn't really need to ask or have a poll but thought it would be interesting for all to see.... and I was curious about resolution as it effects how I setup the board.

Here are a few examples:

64.91.40.25 (64-91-40-25.dyn.centurytel.net)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

81.197.227.213 (a81-197-227-213.elisa-laajakaista.fi)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; en) Opera 8.54

61.9.214.62 (CPE-61-9-214-62.qld.bigpond.net.au)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media

Just glancing at them most are using FF.

**Steve Williamson** · **05-24-06, 03:44 AM**

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61.9.214.62 (CPE-61-9-214-62.qld.bigpond.net.au)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media

Thats mine, IE6 SP2. Tried the others but always came back to IE.

**Gene** · **05-31-06, 12:02 PM**

Hi,

In Windows I use the Avant Browser http://www.avantbrowser.com/ because I usually have around a 100 tabs open and in Linux I use the KDE Browser http://kde.org/. Both are freeware. All my desktops and notebooks have screen resolution set at 1024 x 768 and color at 32 bit.

**fibreKid** · **05-31-06, 11:54 PM**

Maxthon for windows
1600x1200 21" crt.
Tab mgt is great, that's why I switched from firefox.

**Ktulu** · **06-01-06, 09:21 AM**

1280 x 1024 with IE at about 3/4 of the desktop.

**toecheese** · **06-01-06, 12:44 PM**

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FlashJim wrote:

Opera 1280 x 1024

IE is "watched" at work. I get all of my HTS reading done via Opera because I fly under the radar.

I wouldn't be so sure about that- much easier to watch a port number (80) rather than trying to monitor a specific application. Then again, I suppose they could look at browsing history, but if you can't stop that, I'm curious they'd let you install an alternate browser.

Chances are, you *are* being watched. Be thee careful.

**Darren** · **08-11-06, 12:23 PM**

IE 1280 X 1024

**Darren** · **08-11-06, 12:24 PM**

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toecheese wrote:

I wouldn't be so sure about that- much easier to watch a port number (80) rather than trying to monitor a specific application. Then again, I suppose they could look at browsing history, but if you can't stop that, I'm curious they'd let you install an alternate browser.

Chances are, you *are* being watched. Be thee careful.

True, they aren't watching IE, they are monitoring port 80 as well as possibly monitoring your temporary internet files on the local machine.

**Vader** · **08-11-06, 12:43 PM**

I use the Mozilla Suite at 1024X768. I know it is no longer being developed, but I like the asthetics as well as the integrated mail client. The only time I use Internet Exploder is when Mozilla won't display a given page for some reason (rare)

**Sonnie** · **08-11-06, 12:53 PM**

Hey Derek... you know you can get a plug-in ... either IE Tab or IE View-Lite, not sure which one does it, but it gives you a little icon at the bottom right corner of the window that you simply click for IE, click again for FF. Pretty handy and doesn't require opening another browser window.

IE Tab is it... just checked.

**Vader** · **08-11-06, 01:20 PM**

Kewl! Thanx, Sonnie...

**Chrisbee** · **08-14-06, 05:50 PM**

Firefox & Thunderbird 1280 x 1024 96 DPI on a 19" LCD.

I hate search boxes with tiny lettering! Grr!

**09-30-06, 12:17 PM**

I use Safari with an older flat panel iMac, screen resolution is 1024 x 768.

**RSH** · **10-02-06, 09:51 PM**

Internet Explorer on 24" widescreen Dell monitor with 1920 x 1200 resolution.

**JimP** · **10-07-06, 07:14 AM**

I'm using IE6 with sp2, which I was happy with until I started reading this thread. So what's so terribly wrong with this?

Dual 19" CRT monitors with screen resolution of 1024 by 768 each. One of the monitors is a graphics grade Samsung which with calibration is extremely accurate. I hate the day when it dies and I'll have to replace it.

**Sonnie** · **10-07-06, 11:38 AM**

It's not that IE is that bad, but others are better in several peoples eyes.

I find Firefox faster and more versatile than IE. Firefox offers extensions that you can add-on to create a really nice application for yourself. There are several extensions that serve me very well and actually I'd be lost without them being a webmaster. I also have a button on FF that in one click it renders the same as IE would, one more click and I'm back to FF, all within the FF browser frame. Of course, tabbed browsing is fabulous! IE7 offers tabbed browsing, but it still lacks a lot that FF offers. FF is just plain easier to work with after you use it for a while.

Then there's Thunderbird for email... miles better than Outlook or Outlook Express. Of course that's all my opinion.

**11-08-06, 10:08 PM**

Opera from version 3x onward, for news and mail too since they introduced M2 mail client. On my ancient SONY CRT 19" monitors, I view at 1152x864 which I find comfortalbe enough.

**JimP** · **11-09-06, 08:12 AM**

Just downloaded/installed IE 7.

The toolbar layout is going to take some getting use to. Hopefully, I can reconfigure it to something I'm more comfortable with. Seems that it runs faster than IE 6. Outlook express seems slower opening some but not all emails. Wonder if IE7 is doing something in the background that's causing that.

**Sonnie** · **11-09-06, 08:49 AM**

Yup, the layout is definitely different. I'm not sure on OE, I haven't used it in years. IE and OE must use more resources somehow since they run slower than non-Microsoft products, but I'm not positive.

Jim, if you ever try Firefox and Thunderbird, you may never go back to IE.

**11-09-06, 09:32 PM**

Count me in as a long time FF user. I've got IE installed for testing but like Sonnie the IE tab works well enough that I seldom have to bother opening up IE6 or 7.

**JRace** · **06-08-07, 01:41 AM**

FF - 1440 * 900 Widescreen laptop.

It took me a while to use the tabbed browsing...can't do without now!

**mechman** · **06-23-07, 12:59 PM**

Firefox - accept no substitute! 1680X1050 on my widescreen Dell laptop. At home it's 1280X1024 on 2 19" monitors.

View Poll Results: What is your favorite Internet browser?
Internet Explorer	30	30.30%
Firefox	51	51.52%
Opera	9	9.09%
Netscape	0	0%
Maxthon	2	2.02%
Safari	5	5.05%
OmniWeb	1	1.01%
Optimal Desktop	0	0%
Camino	0	0%
Other	1	1.01%
Voters: 99. You may not vote on this poll

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