Ah.

Remind me never to get into any of the cars you end up designing.

What addons do you recommend for Firefox then?

Download statusbar - Puts little download progress meters in a bar at the bottom.

Faviconize tabs - Lets you double-click your tabs to make them just the favicon (that little icon on the left.) Useful when you use this;

Permatabs* - Lets you create tabs that never close, useful for sites you visit often. Using the faviconize addon they're unobtrusive.

Gmail manager* - If you have a few gmail accounts (like I do), then this lets you keep tabs on them and go between them quickly and easily.

* Doesn't work in Firefox 3 yet.

Then there's the middle click scroll (which you might not know about but I find very useful.) Click in the middle mouse button and you can scroll slowly or quickly down the page without having to keep moving the scroll wheel, which is very useful when reading long articles or wanting to get from the top to the bottom or visa versa quickly.

Take a gander for yourself, there's an addon for pretty much everything; https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

Thanks RV, I really appreciate that.

Safari. :P

Matter o fact, there is a Safari skin for Firefox.

Yeah, but there's not a "make Firefox fast and awesome like Safari" addon.

That's called Firefox 3.

No, that's called -Firefox 3.

Safari would be more at home on my Laptop when I take it back to Uni. But I have downloaded it for here too and I am really really impressed with what I have seen from it so far. I have kept Firefox around to try out a few addons as well.

Wrongz. Still uses Gecko instead of WebKit.

No your mom uses Gecko instead of webkit.

wtf is webkit.

Netside represent in dis hud.

Gecko is the rendering engine that Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, etc. all use. WebKit is the engine that Safari (as well as Konqueror and a few other Linux-based browsers) uses. WebKit is substantially faster and moderately more standards-compliant than Gecko.

But not quite as secure, it would seem.

Yeah, I saw that. Not really an indication of comparative security, though, because Firefox wasn't allowed to be tested there. Only stock software installed on each machine. Also, it's really down to the browser to deal with security, not the engine. Don't blame WebKit for Apple's problems. :P

Uh oh a paradox. You can't admit Apple did anything wrong Danny, better retcon it before too many people see it.

I'm not worried about it. Apple will fix it in the next couple of days.

THE PARADOX, DANNY. THE PARADOX.

Well, Safari and Firefox are fighting an epic battle for my 'main' browser now. I love how fast Safari renders, but Firefox just.. does so much and is catching up.

New Beta came out for Firefox today, by the way.. looking through the release notes and testing it now.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox.../releasenotes/

I agree that Firefox is catching up... but there's just something about the WebKit rendering engine that I like better than the Gecko engine that Firefox uses. Bizarrely, Firefox feels clunky now after using Safari (and I'm not referring to speed -- speed is actually fairly comparable). I don't know how to describe it... I'm just more at home in Safari these days.

Downloaded it this afternoon. It's shaping up quite nicely.

Currently am Using Safari on my Desktop and it's proving to be a superb browser :) I intend to get it for my Laptop to use at Uni, and possiblly use Firefox at home.

Excellent, Chris. Glad you're enjoying Safari.

Safari for the Mac, tis the only browser for a gentleman. However, I have to use Camino when I'm checking my Virgin email, because for some reason, safari doesn't let the drop down menu to get to my sentbox work. And that's only with Safari. Any idea why?

And I use Firefox for the PC, but only because I know that they came up with Tabbed browsing first, and not IE.

Would be handy if one could choose more than one option in the poll box.

I can just add one to whatever Browser you did not vote for Ronn. Which one did you vote for? I need to change mine anyway.

Oh I didn't vote because I couldn't make the choice as I use 2.

No point in changing then.

Virgin needs to get their act together and make their web sites more standards-compliant.

You know Safari is now out for PC, right?

Vote for the browser you prefer to use -- that's the way the poll is intended.

Hmm? Virgin's fault you say? I have one helluva lot of apologies to make to Safari then.

Yes Safari is now on my PC desktop. I probably won't use it because all my web history is on Firefox. So I voted Firefox, but only because of the Virgin problem.

Actually now, come to think of it, I do actually hate IE, but I don't know where my hatred for it comes from. It could just be that you have to start it about 3 times so that it runs without instantly failing on the school computers, or just the way that it looks. I dunno. Just one of those things where I see something and I just want to punch it.

I use IE, but I really dislike it, I'd rather use something else, but when I get a computer of my own, I will make sure that I get something else.

Yeah, your hatred is completely unfounded. Go say sorry to Gatesy. Now.

Jeez Ben, download firefox on the sly! Your mum would never know.

Gatsey should say sorry to me for making bum word processing programs that have cost me about 3 school essays.

Unfortunately, she would:(

Well what does she have against you downloading it?

Maybe she's Evil.

She must be evil. Who the **** stops you from using a piece of free software that's safer, faster, and better than the **** that Microsoft gives you?

Chuzzelark T Goldviser?

Some parents are extremely paranoid about software downloaded from the internet.