IE8, Firefox or Google Chrome?

swanseajack · 29 Apr 2009 at 15:10

FF.

Ad Block

Flash block

IE Tab - for viewing pages like your in IE but using the FF shell.

TruBlu · 29 Apr 2009 at 16:26

eXor said:
I used IE before FF ; no tabs for IE, back then. IIRC.

Opera had them before FF and I'm sure someone else had them before Opera.

eXor · 29 Apr 2009 at 16:29

Happy said:
^^ There are other browsers other than IE

Lost in translation.

Let me rephrase :

Tabs were one of the benefits, but not the sole benefit, that originally pulled me from IE and pushed me to FF. Those were the only two contenders for me, at the time.

Other wares, some of which had tabbing capability, had been sampled.. and rejected.

ThriceNightly · 29 Apr 2009 at 17:42

DreXeL said:
Personally I'm a total Chrome convert. I like it because of it's clean and minimal interface, and above all it's speed.

another total convert here too

gillywibble · 29 Apr 2009 at 17:59

Firefox.

I have tried all the others and Firefox is the best. The add ons are brilliant.

Greenlizard0 · 29 Apr 2009 at 18:09

Lysander said:
Iron.

That's very quick! How do you save sessions in Iron? Are there any more skins for it?

james.miller · 29 Apr 2009 at 18:15

iron or FF for me.

iron or chrome are seriously quick in certain situations, but not 100% compatible. i always have Ff there to drop back to, or IE if i reaaaaly need to.

GReenlizard0, apparently most chrom skins work for iron also. dont think you can save session currently

Matteysan · 29 Apr 2009 at 18:18

james.miller said:
iron or FF for me.

iron or chrome are seriously quick in certain situations, but not 100% compatible. i always have Ff there to drop back to, or IE if i reaaaaly need to.

GReenlizard0, apparently most chrom skins work for iron also. dont think you can save session currently

I love the start up speed of Chrome, No other browser on my computer opens as quick, All default as well no addons on the other browsers.

Ross1234 · 29 Apr 2009 at 18:19

Iron or IE8 for windows, or firefox for linux.

Lightnix · 29 Apr 2009 at 18:29

Chrome, I love the interface mostly, it's very clean and simple. It's also very fast at rendering pages heavy with JavaScript which is a nice bonus, but not really needed as most web designers code have to make sure everything runs well in IE anyway.

james.miller · 29 Apr 2009 at 18:41

Lightnix said:
Chrome, I love the interface mostly, it's very clean and simple. It's also very fast at rendering pages heavy with JavaScript which is a nice bonus, but not really needed as most web designers code have to make sure everything runs well in IE anyway.

indeed it is.

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/2829/76406297.png

firefox vs iron javascript render times.

Richiev4 · 29 Apr 2009 at 18:52

Firefox portable here, from a memory stick - works like a charm and i can take it anywhere

su1c1de · 29 Apr 2009 at 20:25

Forever Firefox

TruBlu · 29 Apr 2009 at 20:43

james.miller said:
indeed it is.

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/2829/76406297.png

firefox vs iron javascript render times.

The only problem with all the JS speed tests I see in Chrome is they don't take into account DOM manipulation which is what JS mostly does and it is the hardest to optimism. I wonder if there is a link?

Don't get me wrong the JS is quicker but it's not the quantum leap it appears on computational intensive tasks.

adbp1 · 29 Apr 2009 at 23:29

Craig321 said:
Firefox - mainly because of all the available add-ons, and with the tweaks I've applied it's faster than Chrome, Opera and IE.

mixture FF and I.E but mostly use FF.

dont suppose you would care to share the tweaks?

Craig321 · 30 Apr 2009 at 00:07

adbp1 said:
mixture FF and I.E but mostly use FF.

dont suppose you would care to share the tweaks?

Mostly the tweaks from: http://codebetter.com/blogs/darrell.norton/archive/2005/01/28/48720.aspx as well as Squid proxy for caching

Craig.

braveheart · 30 Apr 2009 at 18:18

Firefox that my No 1 all way -- Mozilla will release new Fx 3.5 due by June that would be good one - Ive tried the FX 3.5b4 at work that really good as much speed and look nice in features.

Firefox let you choose any theme (Opera as well) but not in IE or Chrome... Red Fox run faster with 4 legs.... I never use IE or Chrome or Opera.

HangTime · 30 Apr 2009 at 19:54

I'm on the fence:

-I like the speed of Safari; it's very, very quick (slightly quicker than Chrome) but some apps don't work.
-Firefox is my normal default browser due to adblock and a good balance of speed and features, I guess I could probably set something similar up for others though.
-IE8 I'm very impressed with, it's got some long overdue features like crash recovery, and compatibility is very good. If it had come out a couple of years ago I probably never would have started using FF.
-Chrome I've basically ditched for now, it's got some really annoying updater that runs in the background (even after I uninstalled it? GTFO!), and like Safari I've hit some compatibility issues. I can't really find any reason to recommend it over Safari.

So at the moment I'm sticking with FF and hoping that it can gain some ground on the speed of Safari.

dekez · 30 Apr 2009 at 20:42

Just downloaded Chrome after reading this, was using IE and FF. Very fast and clean, I can't stand loads of add ons and tool bars, I like it!

Skeeter · 30 Apr 2009 at 20:45

Chrome > FireFox > anything else I can find > IE

On XP I use Chrome.

On 7 I use FF as Chrome doesnt work properly

At work im stuck with IE as I cannot install anything else