which browser out there is the best? internet explorer, firefox, or opera?

Answer 1

Firefox

Answer 2

Opera beats the others hands down in speed tests and uses less CPU.
It honors the W3C standards and invented tabbed browsing. It is fully customisable and has tons of hidden features which you can easily activate or find if you need them. My favourite feature is the mouse gestures which I'm addicted to, the Notes and the cache system which gives you the option to save all pages you had open for next time you want to use it.

A good number two is Firefox which has extensions. If you have time to trawl reviews and test different ones to find the best specialised extension for you, then this could be worth checking out.

IE is not safe and is way behind the other two. I only use IE these days for some sites that require Active X, but I try to avoid these as I don't support sites that are IE friendly only. IE seems to be favoured by beginners or those who are not aware of the alternatives.

IMHO the best out of the box browser is Opera.

Good luck and happy surfing!

Answer 3

They all have their merits. I'm not sure about Opera. I havn't tried that one. To me second choice would be Firefox, third Nescape 8.0, and fourth Internet Explorer. Avant has a lot of great features that the other's don't have. For example, you can open multiple windows in the same browser and prompt them to stay open upon launching. You can also set them to open at the top or the bottom of the page. Another option is to launce a page by pressing ctr +n. It's possible to have 15 windows open at the same time. All the while running another browser in the back of it as a precaution. The address bar and function buttons are compact which leaves you a lot of screenspace.

Answer 4

Firefox is the best. It is the safest and fastest of the three. I have all the three on my PC but I always use Firefox. Today however it has encountered some problem and is closing frequently. So I am using Opera which is slower and a bit awkward. However I still recommend Firefox as the best. Go for it.
Firefox - 9/10
IE 7.0 - 8/10
Opera 9.0.2 - 8/10
IE 6.0 - 7/10

Answer 5

This is for the uneducated Jibberjab above me

You can look at Jibberjab's source and then look at this
http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic44405.html
to see how Jibberjab's source copied and pasted to make Firefox look bad.

Then you can go straight to the untouched legitimate source and compare each browsers patched and unpatched holes, make sure you also compare how "critical" these holes are to each browser. The conclusion is that no browser is perfect, but Insecure Exploder is the least secure browser you can be using.
http://secunia.com/product/4227/?task=statistics
http://secunia.com/product/11/?task=statistics

United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team:
"There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies related to the IE domain/zone security model,...ActiveX (etc)...It is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different web browser"
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/713878

PcWorld Magazine:
"...a virtual engraved invitation to hackers and other digital delinquents, Internet Explorer 6.x might be the least secure software on the planet"
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,125772-page,3/article.html

One thought for the road:
Incontinent Exploder supports web standards very poorly. This means that because of over 80% of users use IE, then web developers have to downgrade their websites to work properly in IE. So when superior browsers such as Firefox or Opera browsers view a website, it sometimes does not show up correctly because the website was "broken" to show up properly in IE. Try the test yourself using IE, Firefox and then Opera.
http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html

Answer 6

Fire Fox

Because fire fox is fast. It is fast because of the fact thaat it retrives textual data from a webpage first and then goes on to download the images for that webpage. This makes it faster.

The tab facility provided in fire fox is simply great, with it you can open numerous sites in different tabs under one browser window. With it comes the key board navigation that is really cool for users who are bound to internet 20 hours out of 24.

Answer 7

In my opinion, the best web-browser is Mozilla Firefox. it's the first program I install after i format my hard-disk :)

Answer 8

Anything BUT Firefox:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/FirefoxMyths.html

Answer 9

Mozilla is very good

Answer 10

I prefer IE