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Old 08/10/2009, 11:25 am   #1
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Title says it all really:
What does your browser look like and why?


The browser is a nightly Firefox trunk build ("Minefield")
The layout is simply done by Showing only the menu bar with small icons.
Elements from left to right: Navigation, Reload, Stop, Menu, Location, Search, Bookmarks, Fullscreen.
The design is the default theme with the "Elegance" persona applied.
The Persona icon in the bottom left corner is the only icon added by extension.
Window design is Windows7 Aero with black and about 50% opacity.
Close button on tabs is moved via browser.tabs.closeButtons:3

P.S. The window is usually quite a bit wider so that the location bar expands.
Installed addons: Adblock+, APNG Edit, Base64 Encoder, Chatzilla, DOM Inspector, Firebug (only enabled when I need it, as it's prone to create conflicts), FlashGot, Full Screen Video, Greasemonkey, LiveHttpHeaders, PasswordExporter, Personas

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Old 08/10/2009, 12:22 pm   #2
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Title says it all really:
What does your browser look like and why?
Looks nice, but I would not like the small location bar. Since i limit the width of my browser it would still be too small then.

Mine looks quite different. It's basically form follows function.
I love to see the full URL and GET Parameters in the location bar since i care a lot about how web applications work. I don't mind spending some vertical space for that since I'm on 1920x1200.

I use the English version of Firefox, because i hate applications translated to German. Just makes menu entries longer and feels awkward to me.

I put the Bookmarks toolbar to the Right of the Menu and limited it to show only icons. That way i have 1 Click access to my most visited websites.

There's a lot going on in the status bar.
DownloadHelper - I don't really remember using it. It's for downloading flash movies
TextArea Cache - A lifesaving add-on, because it saves backups of what i type, so i can restore them if the browser crashed or i accidently navigated away.
AdBlock - Does just that
Spelling correction, changing automatically between English and German depending on what site i am on
FoxyProxy - Easy Access to Proxy configurations, which comes in handy when analyzing web applications with WebScarab
Greasemonkey - Enables me to write custom scripts to adapt web applications to my liking
JsView - Gives my quicker access to a web sites JavaScript and CSS files
Stylish - Lets me modify websites CSS
Torbutton - For Enabling/Disabling Tor


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Old 08/10/2009, 12:24 pm   #3
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Mines Just plain ol' safari 4.0: Faster than Firefox, but Boring.
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Old 08/10/2009, 12:28 pm   #4
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Looks nice, but I would not like the small location bar. Since i limit the width of my browser it would still be too small then.

Mine looks quite different. It's basically form follows function.
I love to see the full URL and GET Parameters in the location bar since i care a lot about how web applications work. I don't mind spending some vertical space for that since I'm on 1920x1200.
The location bar is the thing that resized when I make the window wider. I made it a lot more narrow for the screenshot, it's usually set to around 80% of my 1680px (external) / 1440px(internal) resolution, so I can see most parameters. And if I really want to see what's happening, I open LiveHttpHeaders in the sidebar.

I should probably add what addons I am using (even if I disable the icons):
Adblock+, APNG Edit, Base64 Encoder, Chatzilla, DOM Inspector, Firebug (only enabled when I need it, as it's prone to create conflicts), FlashGot, Full Screen Video, Greasemonkey, LiveHttpHeaders, PasswordExporter, Personas

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Old 08/10/2009, 01:31 pm   #5
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Mines Just plain ol' safari 4.0: Faster than Firefox, but Boring.
Well, that depends on who you ask. Complex CSS selectors for example are very slow in Safari, but simple selectors are relatively slow in Firefox, because the overhead per function call is longer

Safari is generally more hacking and more benchmark oriented. For example when the system is very busy (as is usually the case during benchmarks) Safari will drastically reduce the number of events passed to the page.

Try it: Run some benchmark and try to select some text while it is running... notice anything?

But concerning raw Javascript speed, Safari4 currently really is faster. Firefox on the other hand is much more memory efficient.

There are pros and cons for any browser really (well, except Internet Explorer)
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Old 08/10/2009, 01:35 pm   #6
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I've just got the standard current version of Firefox, with Tab Mix Plus, NoScript, IE Tab and TwitterFox extensions visible.

You can see it here - it's just almost always fully opened on my 2nd monitor letting me play games (and/or do my uni work) and browse the internet at the same time.
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Old 08/10/2009, 01:42 pm   #7
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Well here it is...



It's a custom Firefox Persona made with the cover of "Everything that Happens will Happen on this Tour" by David Byrne. Mozilla won't allow me to release it.
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Old 08/10/2009, 01:42 pm   #8
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Like google chrome.
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Old 08/10/2009, 01:46 pm   #9
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I've just got the standard current version of Firefox, with Tab Mix Plus, NoScript, IE Tab and TwitterFox extensions visible.
Tab Mix Plus is one of the most important extensions for me. Second Place is All-in-One Gestures. I am just confused when i use a Firefox without it.

I have configured a lot of actions to it in a way that seems intuitive to me and use it all the time for switching between tabs, closing tabs, undo closing tabs, closing other tabs, going to top or bottom of the page, history back-/forward and following previous-/next link. All with just some short mouse movements.
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Old 08/10/2009, 01:50 pm   #10
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Oh, sorry, I think I missed a "r"
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Old 08/10/2009, 01:54 pm   #11
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Now let's see that Certificate of Ownership...
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Old 08/10/2009, 03:52 pm   #12
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Ever see Google Chrome? There's what mine looks like.
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Old 08/10/2009, 04:02 pm   #13
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Mine looks like Firefox 3.5.2
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Old 08/10/2009, 05:20 pm   #14
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There are pros and cons for any browser really (well, except Internet Explorer)
How true. I can't believe that 60% of the computer users use that crap.
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Old 08/10/2009, 05:54 pm   #15
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Speak for yourself. Actually, Internet Explorer works fine for my needs. It does what I want. It browses the internet, which is what I want to do if I download an internet browser. I have other programs on my PC which accounts for everything that you can get in terms of Firefox addons, which means I don't need the addon feature. Firefox is no better for the rare popups that you do get, IE and FF both have the same amount of popups. IE is just as fast as Firefox, not to mention you don't get those annoying red x boxes when you load the page up. Chances are Firefox will get hacked just as much as IE would, now that most people use FF now. Not a big fan of custom skins, either(No offense to those of you who do, it's all personal choice, really). Consequently, Firefox really isn't that much better than Internet Explorer, for me, anyway. I do apologise if I seem a tad mean there. Ofcourse it's all personal preference I guess.

ANYWAY, consequently, my browser just looks like the plain old Internet Explorer 8. Nothing fancy, but I like it, it's clean and does what I want it to.
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IE is and always has been ridiculously slow.
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Old 08/10/2009, 06:24 pm   #17
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Then thats to do with your computer, not the browser. I've tried both Firefox 3.5 and Internet Explorer 8 and I've found no difference in speed. I would prove it now, but unfortunately I was forced to wipe Vista the other day, so I've no longer got Firefox installed. But I don't want to start a stupid which Internet Browser is better war, because it's a waste of time, and neither side wins.
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32-bit Chrome and IE8. I'd rather use 64-bit browsers but without flash support ... :|
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Standard Firefox 3 scheme. I used to have the Bookmark Toolbar enabled and categorized as I have way too many bookmarks but that was in Ubuntu and I find myself using Windows more lately for games and music production. Haven't touched Ubuntu in ages. Gotta get all my settings back from there.
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Old 08/10/2009, 07:37 pm   #20
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Rawr, I hate to break it to you, but MSIE really IS terribly slow. No matter how you look at it. From any point of view. And that's already taking into account that people like myself spend weeks optimizing their code so that it runs as fast as possible in MSIE, sacrificing speed on all other browsers.
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