Yup you’re right.

Hmm… It doesn’t quite look like a Mac though.

oh cool! look like firefox?

Note that the window title is centered, which is usual for apple’s safari, but less so for windows apps.

I doubt it’s Safari. Look at the tabs – they’re too white and not rectangular enough. Those tabs look a lot more like isosceles trapezoids.

From the window decoration, I would actually guess that it’s closest to Linux

It is a mac and it is Safari, just simpsonized. The keyboard scream old school mac because of it’s power key in the upper right hand corner.

Hehe, Homer should know what’s best, after all he’s the former owner and ceo of Compu-Global-Hyper-Meganet ;-)

Safari only for OS X 10.2.8 or higher;
ans Safari’s tab doesnlt look like this one,
so, its most probably firefox

Downloaded and watched? Kind of disappointing.

What are you using to download the shows? They are starting to bust people on Bit Torrent, so be careful!

Best fit is Netscape 7.0 on Mac OS Classic. Note the four buttons at the left (Back, Forward, Reload, Stop) match the default Netscape 7.0 setup. Also, the style of the Location bar is very much like Netscape 7.0 Modern (the whole area is outlined) with an Internet Keywords dropdown to the left (Netscape 7.0 was the last version to feature such a dropdown) and a Search button to the right. The browser tab is also very Modern style (though the icon on the left looks more like a Safari close tab button than a site icon).

Compare to http://help.powerup.com.au/help/win9598/netscape7/ img/ns7_main.gif.

Didn’t this surface a while back? It’s probably not even supposed to be a specific browser anyway.

“it sure ain’t Internet Explorer.”
It could be any of the myriad tabbed IE-based browsers, tho: Maxthon, Slimbrowser, AvantBrowser, and CrazyBrowser all pop to mind.

There are dozens of em on Windows marketplace.

They’re usually extremely customizable too (to make it look that simplistic).

The Simpsons..
Welchen Browser benutzt Homer?…

This looks a lot like Mozilla’s Venerable Modern Theme which is similar to the theme used in early versions of Mozilla and Netscape 6.

I don’t think there is anything wrong with downloading the newest episodes to your computer. What’s the difference with that and recording them onto a tape? As long as you do not sell the recording you, by law, are not doing anything wrong. Fox has released only up to season 4 and there are 11 more to go, it took them almost 7 yrs. to get those out, it will take them a lot longer to get the others out.

You got it all wrong !

We all know that Homer is a litle bit … lets just say he’s not Albert Einstein so clearly it cannot be any kind of *nix.

We also know that his salary doesnt make him a multimillionaire, so we can be sure that he cant afford a Mac system !

So all that is left are Window’s based browsers, since were talking about tabbed browsing we can exclude IE, since MyIE is rather new, we can say thats its Mozilla or Opera !

Finally .. Since we all know that Homer isn’t all that into Operas, although Marge is, we can safely say thats he’s using *hint*MOE*hint*zilla/Netscape

Cheers,
Daniel

It’s clearly a Mozilla browser, and it even looks like it may be running on Linux….

…no, I must be imagining things.

I don’t really approve of the practice, that’s all. Where the difference is, from what Stephan said, is distribution. If you record it for your own private viewing, that is one thing… making copies available for mass distribution is another. That is what is wrong. While I sympathize with you not being able to watch new episodes… that isn’t an excuse and it doesn’t give you the right. Neither does “Fox takes too long for the DVDs, I don’t want to wait!” It just doesn’t. That is why I am disappointed. But, it seems you may not have known it was wrong, so its not that big a deal. I don’t think you’d knowingly do it.

The sad thing is that it’ll stay up, most likely. This is a trend… a lot of people just don’t care about the property of others. I guess you’d have to have someone steal, copy, distribute and mess with your stuff to fully appreciate it. People like to try to take advantage of the communities I run – my property and sweat and tears – all the time, so I am very hardened to this type of thing.

Great catch! Doesn’t look like a Mac or a PC (too old skool, 5″ drives anyone?), but The Simpsons have used Macs in the past … does it really matter. Tabbed browsing to the people!

Homer Simpsons has switched from IE
Homer Simpsons has switched from IE…

Also, witness what happens when you right hand strays left of the home row of Dan’s keyboard.

The main Mozilla search is in the URL bar and not in the sidebar… (enter search term in the URL Bar, press arrow UP+Enter)

Stephen,

Plenty of people would agree with you. There is no harm, no one is profiting. To me, that doesn’t matter. Just because someone is not profiting off of something, that doesn’t make it less wrong. If someone copies my logo and throws it on their non-profit website, is that cool? No, its not. More than not cool, it is unethical and despicable. Besides, this does affect Fox long term. If you can download every episode, why wait for the DVD at all? Forget DVDs, we don’t need to buy them, we can just download every episode we want! In fact, Fox doesn’t need our money – they’re just an evil corporation! I’m the average working man who is scraping together a living – I DESERVE IT!!! (I know that’s exagerating and that’s not you, but there are people out there like that…) You say you will buy the DVDs and I believe you, but there is more to it then that, for me. Copies of a program are not to be distributed without permission from the property owner of the program. That is what I respect above all else.

Yes, what your friends did was wrong. For example, if you buy a CD, you now own one license of each song on that CD for you any of your personal listening pleasure. Burn the songs and listen to them on your PC and your iPod. Don’t distribute them. If you rent, you are doing just that – renting, a temporary situation. You can view it for as long as your rental period is current. If you rent a movie for 5 days, you can view it for 5 days, for example. Making copies to view beyond that 5 days is what makes it wrong. If you want to view the movie beyond that, rent it again or buy (a single household license, in essence) of that movie. If people make a copy or two of that and give it to their mother and brother, that’s not a big deal. But, when someone is making copies and sending to more than a couple of people (bunches of family, friends, even people they don’t know that well), that is pretty bad, in my opinion.

It’s a cartoon. Get a life and take off that Star-Trek costume.

I expected comments like that (that was on the rude/disrespectful side, though). I know I am in the minority when it comes to this issue. Online, at least. But, like I said, I’ve been hardened to this by having people take advantage of me and the media (“cartoons”) that I have created, so that’s my perspective, for what it is worth.

Did you forget about Avant? It uses tabbed browsing and runs the IE engine. It is much better than crappy Mozilla. Of course if a dimwit like Homer is running Mozilla, what does that say for that crap?

How could I resist this opportunity to plug my Firefox extension that makes killer use of the tabbed browsing feature called “LookAhead”? You can find it under the “Search Tools” on update.mozilla.org

Homer might say “Mmmm… LoooookAhead”…

Internet Explorer it surely ain’t: Homer Simpson uses tabbed browsing. And we’ve got pictures to prove it! (via airbag)…

Homer Simpson browser debate
These people, armed with a shot of Homer, using the Internet are debating what browser and operating system he uses. Apparently he uses some form of Gecko browser – if not Netscape, then Firefox or Safari, maybe. Not IE though….

Has to be Firefox, cuz the computer doesnt look like a Mac.

And Chu uses Windows Media Player

Since it seems MacOS 9.x, I bet for Netscape 6.x :)

Gee, looks like iCab back on OS 9 to me. Yes, I’m an old school OS geek.

Homer surfs the internet…
…and we can safely conclude he uses tabbed browsing. Maybe the page Homer is surfing is actually his, you know, Home(r) page.

Did you guys ever think that since this is a cartoon, that matt just created a drawing of a browser and it’s not a replica of ANY browsers on the market today? It has several features of all the browsers on the market also…
I use MyIE2, now maxthon, because it uses the Internet Explorer engine, and has features of Firefox, but webpages are rendered better on the IE engine, so it’s really nice and has a bad ass pop up blocker built in and a kick ass search bar that links to google or other search engines. http://www.maxthon.com

But seriously that browser is just a imaginary browser made up!

Homer Simpson nutzt tabbed browsing
redemption in a blog veröffentlichte einen Screenshot aus der aktuellsten Simpsons-Folge, die Homer beim Surfen mit Tabs zeigt. Via MacOrama….

Sad puppy that I am, I have followed many a DVD commentary made by Matt whatshisface and his crew, they are big MAC fans. It is quite clearly a G3 with Firefox! ;)

I think it’s iCab, it’s just like that, and is available for Mac OS Classic.

possibly he is running KDE and using konqueror with the search field on.

its the simpsons he is not even really using a computer its a cartoon

Get Ready To Call ITunes Mozilla Firefox two-page ad in today’s New York Times paid for entirely by donations, unprecedented…

Get Ready To Call ITunes Mozilla Firefox two-page ad in today’s New York Times paid for entirely by donations, unprecedented…

From the appearance of the title bar across the top of the window its clearly MacOS 9 (Classic) as well.

It’s pretty obvious to me, that it’s MacOS pre X (9.2.2 or older) – look at the pinstripe grey topbar with close button on the left.

The browser itself.. well, it isn’t Safari.. that wouldn’t work under classic and it doesn’t have a blue top-area. My guess would be a mixup of several browsers and environments. The computer doesn’t exacly go for a powermac, anyway.

Jin: Of course I didn’t mention Maxthon. Maxthon is NOT IE. C’mon I’m sick of posts like this trying to make me sound like a self-righteous Microsoft-bashing zealot. The point I am trying to make is that Homer uses TABBED BROWSING. Does Internet Explorer have tabbed browsing? The answer is a resounding NO. Can Internet Explorer be modified via a 3rd-party program so that there is tabbed browsing? Sure. For that you should take a look at Maxthon, CrazyBrowser, MyIE2, Slim Browser, and many other similar products.

Oh, and “Netscape based on IE”? All I can say is, “really?”. Of course my face will be looking real scrunched up trying to give you the most incredulous look I can make.

Firefox campaign exp. : Atypical Persuasion messages
Not only is it a great browser, but it will make your teeth whiter and secure you a date with Carmen Electra. I just watched the latest episode of The Simpsons and guess what? Homer uses a web browser…

When I saw the picture at the top of this page I instantly recognized it as the browser I am forced to use at my internship, which is Netscape 7 running on Mac OS 9. Netscape 7 on Mac OS9 has all the elements that are in the picture. The OS9 look of the window, the four circle buttons on the top left part of the browser, and tabbed browsing with the tabs displayed on the top.

That’s not a tab…it’s just a blob of white-out to erase something I typed earlier.

Mmmmmmm…Lynx….

all that really matters is that homer simpson uses tabbed browsing…
Case Closed

Se Homer Simpson sa usare un browser a schede, lo puoi fare anche tu!!!

Tabbed Browser
It seems that after the Mozilla Firefox browser release, tabbed browsing issue becomes more popular. Even they were arguing about the tabbed browser Homer Simpson uses.

It has to be mozilla. Theres only 5 buttons to the left of the address bar just like in mozilla. And the little search bar to the right of the address bar. Plus tabbed browsing. I’m 99.9% sure that it might be it.

Netscape 7 on Mac OS 9.

Initially I thought SeaMonkey but after comparing screenshots I’m pretty sure it is Camino–if you look really carefully all the buttons are right too–the first arrow is more shadowy than the second one but they are arrows and the other buttons look right. Not sure how it being Camino works with it being an MacOS 9 look.

I think its MAC OS. It is very similar, at least.

Firefox campaign exp. : Atypical Persuasion messages
Not only is it a great browser, but it will make your teeth whiter and secure you a date with Carmen Electra. I just watched the latest episode of The Simpsons and guess what? Homer uses a web browser…

Not Mozilla, because there is one tab.
And if you have one tab in Mozilla, it’s without tabs.

Links for 2005-01-10
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“If you have a lot to say, you can enlarge the comments textarea (only works in IE and Mozilla, sorry).”

It works in Opera too :]

Nice info!

Homer Simpson uses tabbed browsing
redemption in a blog – Homer Simpson uses tabbed browsing
Witness what happens when

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No, this isn’t the same foul mouthed “Skaught” who posted previous. However I do share his views, but I can present them with less vulgarity.

You are all pathetic morons. Who cares what ‘browser’ homer is using? Get a life, a job, anything to take your pathetic lives anywhere else but arguing over what web browser a fictional cartoon character is using.

This is just sad… sad, sad, sad.

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