What internet programs are you using?

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 4:44 am

I have just started to use Mozilla Firefox web browser and their email program Thunderbird. I think both seems to be really good. No more disturbing popup windows while browsing, and I have heard they are more resistant to viruses as well compared to microsoft...

http://www.mozilla.org/

/Anders

tlr · Post by **tlr** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 5:30 am

surfing: Firefox (win32) + adblock extension. (adblock lets you selectively remove ads. Both images and flash-content.)
email: Mostly pine (linux). Sometimes Thunderbird (win32).
ftp: ncftp (linux).
downloading large files in the background: wget (linux).

Schema · Post by **Schema** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:38 am

Firefox for surfing, Thunderbird (Home Email) or Novell Groupwise (Work Email), WS_FTP, Outlook Express for Usenet, mIRC, Trillian Free for ICQ/MSN etc.

tlr, thanks for the pointer to adblock. Embedded flash ads were starting to drive me nuts!

Post by **Jeff-20** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:45 am

According to this weeks stats:

MS Internet Explorer 77.3 %
Firefox 7.7 %
Mozilla 5.3 %
Netscape 3.6 %
Links 1.9 %
Unknown 1.5 %
Opera 1.3 %
Safari 0.6 %
iBrowse 0.2 %
Galeon 0.1 %
Others 0 %

Lozza · Post by **Lozza** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 3:30 pm

i've been on firefox before and changed back but that flash ad blocker does sound useful

http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/finalbuilds.htm - this is a good site for stuff I use like Media Player Classic, Real Alternative and Quick Time Alternative

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 3:43 pm

Just installed AdBlock. Thanks for the tip!

iBrowse 0.2 % .... I wonder if that was me surfing through WinUAE?

/Anders

Bacon · Post by **Bacon** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 3:59 pm

Firefox and Thunderbird, both on Linux. Sometimes pine for email. The few times I boot into Windows (mostly to play games) and feel the need to surf, I use Firefox there too.