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What browser are you using to view OTS.Net?
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Posted by: Canis Lupus
Wow, more than five weeks without a new poll ... the management is slacking, they deserve to be chewed out, send them a rude email please!!
yeah right
Anyway, I just discovered that this poll has not been asked yet (or if it had been, I cannot remember when) ... but anyway, the poll question is self explanatory - what browser are you using when you visit this site? The choices present the most common ones, but if you have an unorthodox browser, feel free to tell us what it is.
Posted by: taco_fox
Optimized Firebird 0.7 
Posted by: SKYHN
Internet Exploiter
Posted by: Gunslinger
gogo Opera
Posted by: Outlaw
Internet Explorer.
But I used Firebird once or twice too. 
Posted by: Bobaroo
IE. Firebird has to many problems.
Posted by: Maverick
Opera
Posted by: Tecil
Generally I use IE, with the MyIE2 add-on for tabbed browsing. Though I do have Firebird installed to for testing.
Posted by: Hacking_Lord
I use IE
Posted by: d!g!talhardcore
Firebird 0.6
it's teh nummy with some of it's sweet extensions
Posted by: Ocean
im using ie right now, but this is a fresh install of windows, and i plan to return to using opera soon as i find my serial. so i checked opera. i love mouse gestures, and no popups, and the attractive skins.
Posted by: Null Actor
Skins are the worst thing to happen in the history of computing.
That being said, I use firebird.
Posted by: Phate
Mozilla.
But only because Firebird isn't for MacOS 9
Posted by: uh...ok
Internet Explorer
*runs and hides*
Posted by: AltronHGX
lol...
GO NETSCAPE, GO!!!
Posted by: nocode
IE, but I have used Netscape some in the past.
Posted by: JimmyJoeBob
I use Mozilla v1.4 as my primary browser(will go to v1.5 when the Official Release comes out). My "Pioneering" days are over. A few years back, I was one of about 10,000 IBM OS2 Beta Testers. That 6-month ordeal cured me of wanting to participate in a "Beta" test ever again. Barring Mozilla, I will use Netscape v7.1. Occasionally, I use Internet Explorer v6.0. I have dabbled with Opera, SlimBrowser & FireBird.
Posted by: madman55
Internet Explorer is my Top choice. I use msn explorer as a secondary just in case internet explorer fails.
Posted by: Elephantom
Mozilla 1.4 all the way, its funny how Netscape is run now. Just slap some logos onto Mozilla and package it up.
Posted by: Ghetto Blasta
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Originally posted by Null Actor
Skins are the worst thing to happen in the history of computing.
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Winamp Skins++
I use IE. Microsoft totally rocks!!!!
Posted by: Null Actor
I have found one winamp skin besides the default that wasn't either completely fugly or nearly impossible to use because of poor art or font choices.
Posted by: Outlaw
This one?
Posted by: Ocean
alot of winamp skins are too ornate, so thats why you make your own
http://www.skinbase.org/rate.php?id=11289
and the matching desktop if anyone likes blue
http://www.skinbase.org/rate.php?id=11288
edit:
oh neato, i was looking at the site and its the top winamp 2 skin on the site. http://www.skinbase.org/section.php?sections=winamp1
Posted by: NyGulkuk
Mozilla and Firebird, except for Windows Update, then I let IE6SP1 creak open.
Posted by: arturo238
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Originally posted by Bobaroo330
IE.
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And you say that firebird has too many problmes? I used to use IE when I first joined but when I looked deeper into Mozilla i realized that it ownes. Now I am using Mozilla 1.4 with the skypilot skin.
Posted by: Outlaw
Why does Mozilla own? Can you name some advantages it has compared to IE? I might just start using it if it sounds good enough. 
Posted by: p3ngu!n
Quote:
Originally posted by Ghetto Blasta
Microsoft totally rocks!!!!
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You did NOT just say that... someone here care to stab him?
Posted by: taco_fox
Quote:
Originally posted by p3ngu!n
You did NOT just say that... someone here care to stab him?
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What OS are you using?
Posted by: Bobaroo
Quote:
Originally posted by arturo238
And you say that firebird has too many problmes? I used to use IE when I first joined but when I looked deeper into Mozilla i realized that it ownes. Now I am using Mozilla 1.4 with the skypilot skin.
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I have my own opinion, thats why there are so many browsers to chose from 
I stopped using Firebird it messed up the layout of a few sides I visited.
Posted by: p3ngu!n
Quote:
Originally posted by taco_fox
What OS are you using?
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Windows 2000. Why? That doesn't mean Microsoft rocks or I worship it in any way. It means I have no other choice and the moment. There's only one computer in the home and my parents are too ****ing computer illiterate for me to even attempt a dual-boot with Mandrake. It's good to a degree yes... but Microsoft doesn't "ROCK!"
Posted by: Null Actor
Microsoft does indeed rock, especially from a developer's perspective.
Posted by: p3ngu!n
Linux rocks.
Posted by: Null Actor
Sure, as long as you don't like being productive, or playing games, or having any kind of proper tools.
Posted by: p3ngu!n
Its in the process... its in the process...
Posted by: Null Actor
Process of playing catch up, sure. I'd have a better opinion of linux if they tried to make new inroads instead of just trying to copy windows and windows programs.
Posted by: fibbi
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Originally posted by Outlaw
Why does Mozilla own? Can you name some advantages it has compared to IE? I might just start using it if it sounds good enough.
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Sorry for this being late, but I didn't realize this post went unanswered:
REASONS WHY MOZILLA OWNS:
1-tabbed browsing-instead of having all those other damn windows open like you do in IE, you can either chose to open up a new window(ctrl n) or a new tab (ctrl t). Tabs are basically different pages within the same window, and you switch between them by the tabs on the top.
2-Built in PopUp blocking-No need for those god damn programs that don't work right. Mozilla has built in options for popup blocking so you can set it to only show popups that you request. In other words, they found some way to make it so every popup you dont want is blocked and every one you want comes through.
3-Ultimate customizability-Unlike IE, you can customized anything in Mozilla. You can skin it, change anything in the look and feel, but most of all you can change some settings that are quite helpful. For example, have you ever been to a site that you want to link an image from but has that damn javascript popup that says something to the effect of "no cheating"? Never fear. Unlike IE, disabling javascript popups does not require you to restart your browser or computer, but only to make a few simple clicks.
4-built in password manager-you can set it to remember all the values you fill in, and, unlike IE, mozilla encrypts all the stored passwords in uber-uncrackable encryption.
5-Intergrated mail, adress book, WYSIWYG editor, and IRC client-They're all awsome and I use them all (especially the mail client).
Want more reasons, feel free to ask.
Posted by: Outlaw
Bye bye IE. 
for now...
Edit: Hmm... The typing cursor I have here is horrible, it's bold and doesn't blink. I sure hope I'll be able to change that somewhere.
Posted by: mjames
Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 ... nothing beats it, hands down!
Posted by: Ocean
well i tried mozilla again. and i didnt like it better than opera. i never use irc chat rooms, but i do use the mozilla mail client anyway, but its not gonna get any points from me for making mozilla a better browser. everything else that was listed, opera has. mozilla is better than internet explorer, no aguments from me there.
i absolutely love mouse gestures (moving mouse to go forward - etc), and didnt find anything similar in mozilla.
i love how opera starts downloading the link while you are still in the dialog box picking a name and picking a folder if so.
the skins to me are better, and come with about 10 hues each as well as a hue to match your windows settings.
magic wand button which fills out entire forms, and an option to just use default field entry by clicking the right mouse button.
entire page zooms, not just text (i figure mozilla has it, but i didnt figure it out).
searching from any search engine just by typing the first letter of the engine ("g toys" would do a google search for toys).
to me opera has the best usability. (and just cause its free doesnt make it better )
what are the things that mozilla has that opera doesnt?
Posted by: taco_fox
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Originally posted by Ocean
i absolutely love mouse gestures (moving mouse to go forward - etc), and didnt find anything similar in mozilla.
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Firebird has an extension for that:
http://texturizer.net/firebird/exte...ouse%20Gestures
I don't see myself using any of the other things you listed.
Posted by: Tecil
Opera has something else that Mozilla doesn't...
SPAM Banner!
More power to them for trying to earn some $$$ off their work, but if I can get Mozilla or IE for free, why would I pay?
Posted by: Whifflebat
Opera here, mouse gestures ROCK, along with tabbed browsing. I also made my own local start page with links to places I like to go often, kinda like my own portal.
And who says skinning sucks?
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~avaselaa...ed-1%20copy.jpg
(not dial up friendly)
Xoblite - Blackbox - ampis style
Opera 7
Ampis winamp skin
ShellWM Simplicity Skin
some choice wallpapers
some color matching
BTW...thanks for the lightning wallpaper! fits perfectly!
Posted by: Ocean
hah, at first i thought i had a graphical glitch when i viewed that pic.
when i paid for my opera, i got a one year free subscription to computer games magazine. and one of my suggestions got put into their newest release.
i never tried firebird, i only tried regular mozilla, ill try that. what is the philosophy behind having two browsers? or how do they differ?
Posted by: PhantomGamer
Internet Explorer is what i use
Posted by: taco_fox
o rily
Posted by: Bullfrog264
God help those of you who are using Netscape!!!
Posted by: jimbo
i had netscape a while back now and i had a lotof problems.
good thing i switched to internet explorer. best thing i ever did.
Posted by: BooRadley
I use Mozilla under Linux and Opera under Windows. Someday, a real rain is going to come and wash all the scum off the browser market . . .
Posted by: BooRadley
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Originally posted by Null Actor
(Regarding linux)Sure, as long as you don't like being productive, or playing games, or having any kind of proper tools.
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As far as games, I agree, but the other two, being productive and having proper tools, I would say the exact opposite. I work in a Unix environment, though, so having a *nix desktop works for me. At work I have a Sun workstation and a PC, and the only thing I use the PC for is to telnet into the Sun and work from there (and to run the AOL client, for a lot of reasons I don't care to get in to. Windows is synonomus with AOl to me).
The same applies to windows. To me, not having a good compiler, a choice of good shells, full functionality outside of the GUI (since what I do is almost completely over a network, I don't want to have to transfer all that GUI shit back and forth all the time, though I can just xhost when I do want to), and all the important servers on all the machines I work on -- telnet, ftp, httpd, etc, and Perl, wish and stuff like that built into the OS, not to mention all the important tools like grep, sed, awk, man, cat and such, is extremely important.
When I sit down at a Windows box, I wonder where the **** the OS is. It's like it's a big picture that you look at and do nothing with, because it doesn't have the proper tools for being functional. Then I remember that the OS is really a telnet window. Just telnet into a machine that isn't running Windows, and *poof* like magic, you find the OS.
That's for my personal computing situation, though. What's right for me won't be right for you. It's like they used to say in alt.tech-support.recovery, "All hardware sucks. All software sucks." It's just a question of which stuff sucks least for what you're trying to do, and how you're trying to do it.
Posted by: psd#1
Netscape...
At first I needed a change of scene, but then I got used to the tabs ontop and ease of use....
-pSd#1
Posted by: Andrew7689
Hello
But i do use another one, but i don't know what it is called, it does not have any name on it on the screen, everything is hidden, and you start with a blank screen, and use the keyboard to access all the funtions, i think it is great, i bet you are going to laugh at me not remembering the name of it.
Posted by: HongKongKid
Mozilla Firefox
Even I sometimes uses IE
Posted by: pdnielsen
That depends on whether a browser crashes. I have 6 different browsers on my computer between the two OS's and which one I'm using generally depends on what I need at the particular moment. Right NOW I'm using a Linspire Internet Suite that is based on Mozilla....
Posted by: demon_horse
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Originally Posted by fibbi
Sorry for this being late, but I didn't realize this post went unanswered:
REASONS WHY MOZILLA OWNS:
1-tabbed browsing-instead of having all those other damn windows open like you do in IE, you can either chose to open up a new window(ctrl n) or a new tab (ctrl t). Tabs are basically different pages within the same window, and you switch between them by the tabs on the top.
2-Built in PopUp blocking-No need for those god damn programs that don't work right. Mozilla has built in options for popup blocking so you can set it to only show popups that you request. In other words, they found some way to make it so every popup you dont want is blocked and every one you want comes through.
3-Ultimate customizability-Unlike IE, you can customized anything in Mozilla. You can skin it, change anything in the look and feel, but most of all you can change some settings that are quite helpful. For example, have you ever been to a site that you want to link an image from but has that damn javascript popup that says something to the effect of "no cheating"? Never fear. Unlike IE, disabling javascript popups does not require you to restart your browser or computer, but only to make a few simple clicks.
4-built in password manager-you can set it to remember all the values you fill in, and, unlike IE, mozilla encrypts all the stored passwords in uber-uncrackable encryption.
5-Intergrated mail, adress book, WYSIWYG editor, and IRC client-They're all awsome and I use them all (especially the mail client).
Want more reasons, feel free to ask.
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I'm using Mozilla Firefox v1.0.4 from windows XP Home with SP2 and it seems to run faster than IE for me. Also the version of IE that came with Windows XP seems to have crappy Packard Bell branding all over it that I can't be bothered to even try to get rid of.
I've never heard of Firebird, I've heard of Thunderbird but that's an email client isn't it?
Is Firefox similar to Firebird?
Posted by: Bishop
This thread was made back in '03, that is probably what firefox was called, back then.
Posted by: FadedMaster
It is what Firefox was called.
Posted by: deshana
I have to say, not a month would go by, where I was not removing spyware and virus from my friends and families computers. But once I moved them all over to Firefox/Thunderbird and got them all copies of SpySweeper. I have not had one in like 3 months. Did a random check with Panda and Hijackthis on my parents comp. Was clean. I was shocked.
So, props to Mozilla!
Posted by: mlbz420
i have heard lots of raves about fire fox so i tried it and was seriously disapointed.
most of the sites i visited gave me mesages that it wasnt supported, and i also had display problems. it was if it read the page differently. images would be in slightly different locations.
i also noticed when viewing pages like myspace or xanga..etc. it wouldnt display a lot of the custom settings, i.e colors, scroll bars..
i did however open pages faster though.
i think for my purposes ill stick to ie
Posted by: KrispyKreemD
Netcaptor till the end baby! I have grown to love this thing, actually, I loved it from the start. Easiest to enable or disable scripting or ActiveX, popup blocks anything I want. And still IE compatible to boot. I use Firefox for it's great extensions, but Netcaptor has is down for useability. It's just fast and straight forward. Privacy reports are cool; can let you see which cookies are being saved and when. The tabbed browsing options cannot be beat! I am sticking with this for a while, Down with IE, but UP with Netcaptor.... followed by Firefox.
Posted by: 1stKnight
Mostly I use IE but dabble with Firefox & Opera/Mozilla.
Waxing nostalgic about Netscape and downloaded v8.0. If Netscape wants to increase it's
consumer base I would reccommend they remove automatic install of AIM and the AOL
Media Player. That turned me right off and it hit the scrap heap.
Posted by: FadedMaster
I find it hard to see them scrapping the AOL stuff. Doesn't AOL own Netscape?
Posted by: Brkrmode5290
Using AOL Browser.
I'd use IE at the college I'm going to, but there seem to be server issues that keep the computers from accessing this site.
Posted by: matt.modica
IE 6.0 has pop-up blocker and cookie manager. The new IE 7.0 (comming out soon) will have tabbed browsing also.
Posted by: jimbo
used to use IE but too much pop-ups and such so i switched to mozilla.
works like a charm and compared to IE its like a brick wall notin gets past firefox
Posted by: Werston
if u know opera you'll never use other browser
www.opera.com
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