What browser do you use?

[Typeaux]

I've used Netscape since it first came out and looked at going to
Firefox but didn't like not having the Netscape-like suite with
Messenger, Composer, etc.

Used Netscape for years, but the newest version (well I see they now have released Version 9, and I'm still on 8 on the Windows laptop and 7.5 on the Mac) has neither Messenger nor Composer. But Mozilla Thunderbird is a dead ringer for Netscape Messenger (no surprise... same kernel) and I stopped using Composer several years ago when I got Dreamweaver. (I tried Adobe GoLive and found it to be a complete mess...)

I found Seamonkey which is from the Mozilla group and is very similar to the Netscape suite.

I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the tip.

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[longtimeolyfan]

I forgot to post the link for Seamonkey in my previous post in case anybody wanted to check it out -

seamonkey-project.org

john

 

[Steve Fink]

René,

You don't need to know much about Linux. Once you get used to it, you'll think you're on a Windows (without security risk) or Mac OS. There are many flavors of Linux to choose from. I have Fedora 7 on my dual boot laptop and Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) on my two PCs at home. I just ordered a Freespire Linux OS from Sears online that will cost $215 (shipping and tax) after $100 mail-in rebate, see:

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_00373907000P?vName=Computers+%26+Electronics&keyword=freespire

Back to the subject. I have used 10's of web browsers. At work it's IE 7. At home I use Firefox and Opera. If I can get it to work I may try Safari as I do hear good things about it. On my Windows side of my laptop at home I use Slimbrowser by Flashpeak (very fast):

http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/

Steve

In general I think Microsoft/Redmond only as much as necessary, but
not more. Wish I knew more about computers, would use Linux at home
like my computer guru brother does!

René

 

[ProAc_Fan]

WHOA !!!! Lighten up Francis.

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[Typeaux]

WHOA !!!! Lighten up Francis.

But it begs the question... is that lighter in sRGB or in Adobe RGB? ;o)

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[Akemi]

Safari, Firefox, Camino and the classic Lynx,

 

[Mustafa K]

I am interested to know which browser supports both sRGB and aRGB. Should I adjust any browser settings for sRGB and aRGB?

I use IE and Opera, but both do not show sRGB generated by Adobe PS correctly. The colors of the pics in those browsers look more or less reddish.

Regards,
Mustafa

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[Ben Herrmann]

I'm using windows and when I bring it up, the fonts all look bolded - too bolded to be exact. How can I change the style of font (bolding, regular, etc.)? It makes it harder to read - at least on my system. I do love Firefox, but you have to be careful because if you download too many add-ons (of which Firefox has hundreds), you can slow it down to a crawl, and it can take 10 seconds just to bring up the browser.

But you're right in that images "appear" to look better when viewed on Safari, but that font problem (again, looks as all the letters are bolded). Can you change this bolding, etc.?
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[sherwoodpete]

I am interested to know which browser supports both sRGB and aRGB.

Currently I'm aware of two: Safari and Firefox 3.

Should I adjust any browser settings for sRGB and aRGB?

Safari has colour mangement enabled. With Firefox 3 it is Off by default, but can bet set On.

Note: Firefox 3 is still in beta test, it is very stable but not ready for final release yet.
Regards,
Peter

 

[Inigo Montoya]

I've been a big fan of Mozillas Firefox browser for a long time now
but just recently switched to Apples Safari browser. This is the
browser most Mac users have since it comes with the Apple O/S. You
really should try it if only for the fact it will display the Adobe
RGB color profile ( if you use that) as opposed to all other browsers
which use sRBG by default.

Is it that all others use sRGB by default, or is sRGB a defined web standard?

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[AJohn]

...not in my case that is. In my case, it was inexperience. I built my site with Dreamweaver using IE. I had set up a one pixel border around my main thumbnails. This looked perfect on IE. I sent the site out to a few people, and got the usual 'looks nice' response. Little did I know. LOL!

One day, I saw my site on someone's laptop, using Firefox. All the design tables were visible. WHAT??? FF and some of the other browsers took that 'one pixel' setting and decided that meant to display all the tables along with the border. It looked like hell.

Anyway, I thought it was pretty funny, because quite a few people had seen it using FF and thought I designed it that way on purpose. I fixed it by eliminating that one pixel border setting and adding the fine borders to the thumbnails in PS instead.

So, all in all, I have to say that IE did a better job displaying what I designed. Some will balk at this, but the bottom line is, the look in IE was exactly as designed in DW, as opposed to the display by other browsers.

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[Lance W]

http://www.color.org/version4html.xalter

 

[Typeaux]

Is it that all others use sRGB by default, or is sRGB a defined web
standard?

Good question. Look here:
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/Color/sRGB

Note that it is on the w3.org site. The W3 Consortium is the body governing HTML and browser standardization (best practices, that sort of thing).

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[Mustafa K]

Mustafa

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[AJohn]

...now I know this is thread hijacking (kinda sorta), but I just viewed my site (after emptying my cache) with Firefox and the mouseover before and after images loaded almost instantly, compared to IE. Anyone else notice extreme speed with FF compared to IE (I admit I haven't read every post yet)?

FF must be reading my files from a different place on my PC? No way the mouseovers could load so instantly. If that's what's happening, where do I find those files to empty them?

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[Steve Fink]

Interesting test!

I tried on Firefox, Opera, newly loaded Safari, and Konqueror (Linux KDE flavor).

The results were that only Safari worked with the desired results!

Steve

http://www.color.org/version4html.xalter

 

[AJohn]

...I found where to clear the FF files and now it isn't as fast, but still a bit faster than IE.

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[Typeaux]

...I found where to clear the FF files and now it isn't as fast, but
still a bit faster than IE.

IE is known to be WAY more of a memory glutton than other browsers. There's a graph in this test:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080317-firefox-3-goes-on-a-diet-eats-less-memory-than-ie-and-opera.html

The newest Safari seems to have become bloatware similar to IE. I note that Netscape is conspicuously absent from the test, even though it was once king when people fled Mosaic (pretty much the default browser back, you know, In the Beginning of Time)

From what I've read so far on the latest Firefox (3.0 beta), it is now the trimmest of all in the memory usage department.

I hope this competition continues. It seems to be helping.

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[Sonoran Sam]

On a PC, fire fox, IE, and Opera
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[Mustafa K]

I'm using windows and when I bring it up, the fonts all look bolded -
too bolded to be exact. How can I change the style of font (bolding,
regular, etc.)? It makes it harder to read - at least on my system.

Ben, I installed today Windows version of Safari and noticed the same what you complained. Bold is caused by font smoothing. I installed German version. You can switch off font smoothing. Click on Edit --> Settings --> 2nd menu point from left (view or similar). You will see in the middle "font smoothing". Set it to "weak" or "standard".

In general, the fonts are not displayed well in Safari, I noticed. On the other hand color spaces sRGB and aRGB are supported and the pics look in true colors.

Regards,
Mustafa

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