Prefered browser, Chrome or Firefox. And why?

IE11 if it's available (and I use it all the time at home).

Chrome if it's not.

Safari if i'm on a Mac.
 
Was Firefox until it started crashing my machine every time i dragged a window to my second monitor and full screened it. amount of times i forgot it done that and had to restart my pc... UUGGHH!!
i use chrome now, seems fine.
 
I've always been a Netscape kid, so Mozilla/Firefox from 2002 onwards was the natural progression for me. Pop-up blocker was a must, as with tabbed browsing (although I think Opera were first to offer that). Internet Exploder kinda missed the boat with those features as they didn't appear until IE7 in 2006.

Firefox nowadays, I still like it because of its large range of add-ons. Some are accessibility related such as inverting text to white-on-black, and being able to use the middle mouse button to go back 1 page. I like the Firefox sync as well, otherwise it's a pain to set it up again from scratch. Then there's Greasemonkey add-on which can mod or automate existing pages better via scripts. Then more trivial stuff like the spellchecker. Got Firefox on my phone too.

I thought that Firefox's main drawback was its large memory footprint of ~350MB with 5 tabs open, but then IE7 (!) on our work machines also clock up 350MB with 5 tabs. Not fun when you're working with a prehistoric Pentium 4 spec, but hey, that's the NHS for you lol.
 
Firefox with the following plugins: Adblock Edge, BetterPrivacy, Disconnect, DoNotTrackMe, DownThemAll!, HTTPS-Everywhere, NoScript, RES, Tab Scope.

Haven't tried Chrome in a while, but last time I came back to firefox because I preferred the layout and plugin selection.
 
Firefox, because even the same add ons work slightly better on FF. Also syncing bookmarks and passwords etc, plus the mouse gesture add on is much better on FF.
 
Essexraptor said:
basically if I bookmark something on my laptop during the day.. I can chase it up in the evening or weekend on any of my other devices/workstations
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You can do all of that on Chrome and from my experience of using both Firefox and Chrome to do the same thing Chrome is much more reliable.
 
Chrome at home, chrome at work. The whole google account integration is nice, bookmarks syncing across etc.

No real need to jump ship to another browser.

IE users should be lynched ;)
 
I use all of them, but I like chrome because it already has most of the plugins like flash bur i may go back to Firefox
 
Cromulent said:
You can do all of that on Chrome and from my experience of using both Firefox and Chrome to do the same thing Chrome is much more reliable.
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It's familiarity with a product at the end of the day. No one gets any prizes in this thread. If it works for you. . use it :D
 
Firefox, for the sole reason that it seems to be the only one which still has a dedicated search bar separate from the address bar by default, instead of the address bar itself being the search box. I prefer to type something in that search box and leave the text there for if I want to search for something slightly different later. "Omnibars" don't appear to let you do that in the same way. I suppose there may be ways of restoring this functionality to Chrome or IE, but I can't be bothered tbh, I'll just stick with FF.
 
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