Poll: What browser do people use?

What browser do you use the majority of the time?

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Im back to Firefox after 5 months away and i much prefer it over any browser ive used, used chrome the last 5 months, it was good but somethings just annoyed me. Mainly not supporting Virgin Anytime TV etc due to the flash player it uses.
 
Firefox and have been since it was known as firebird - simply for the plugin support!
I dont mind IE10, it actually feels faster but its got a few bug bears that really annoy me.

guess i'm stuck in my ways a little!
 
Firefox on either Windows or OS X.

Tried Chrome, and just can't get on with it, or get it how I want. Also found Safari isn't as good either. :p
 
Speed wise, I feel there is no different between the main 3 browsers.

Chrome and Firefox have IE beat due to the add-ons. If IE get's addons i imagine it'll be very much a preference thing.

I currently use firefox. with no script and adblock.

But I do feel internet explorer is a more seamless\smooth web browsing experience with regards to displaying content. But it needs the addons to be feasible to use.
 
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ie grinds my gears

tried chrome briefly on phone and did not like it

firefox is what i use due to sheer options on addons/themes.

to the poster who posted lazerus..good find
 
theheyes said:
I think it's great that we have the choice to be honest. Credit where it's due - Firefox, Chrome et al really forced IE to start pulling its weight and we all benefit.
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Very true, competition always makes things better for the consumer.
 
Glaucus said:
They're developing it for ie and you cant test it out.

Ie11

Used to use Firefox, but it seem too get bloated and rubbish.
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Bloated with what? I've been a Chrome and FF user with the occasional try of Opera every new major release and FF hasn't increased in bloat at all. It's gained new features and revamped UI but it doesn't come with lots of extra bundled crap that is defined as "Bloatware".

FWIW, FF loads and runs the same as Chrome, both are on SSD and the only difference I find is that Chrome's bookmark manager is the weakest point (lack of separator lines) followed closely by lack of UI customisation to the level of FF. 3rd would be lack of major extensions like FireFTP and BBCode Extra but extensions are user preference.
 
mrk said:
Bloated with what? I've been a Chrome and FF user with the occasional try of Opera every new major release and FF hasn't increased in bloat at all. It's gained new features and revamped UI but it doesn't come with lots of extra bundled crap that is defined as "Bloatware".

FWIW, FF loads and runs the same as Chrome, both are on SSD and the only difference I find is that Chrome's bookmark manager is the weakest point (lack of separator lines) followed closely by lack of UI customisation to the level of FF. 3rd would be lack of major extensions like FireFTP and BBCode Extra but extensions are user preference.
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Memory management. A feature that is virtually non-existent in Chrome.

Try opening Chrome with a few hundred tabs and not crashing or at least causing a major system slowdown.

Chrome is a babby's first browser, because the babby saw the viral marketing in various services back in the days and now it keeps repeating the same cack about Chrome being faster than other browsers, which was partially true a couple of years ago, for maybe a few releases.

And let's not forget Google fully engaging in a large scale web surveillance programme due to the sheer number of Chrome users. Even disabling all browser "enhancing" features doesn't fully disable tracking of your web activities.
 
A few hundred tabs? I do a lot of browsing, part of my work is to browse media, photos and tech so have a lot of tabs in groups open but I have never opened a couple of hundred tabs at once nor do I know of a single soul who has.

Unless you're on about testing for the sake of testing, in which case that's pretty meaningless!

The last part sounds like you're overly paranoid about Google and I don't think that kind of paranoia merits any solid ground without justifiable evidence to back it up. Google are an advertising company, of course they're going to monitor their services to see what's trending. How else are they going to continue to make money from ad revenue in those services.
 
Haven't experienced that myself I have to say. Sometimes Facebook would stop updating but that's just Facebook being Facebook.
 
mrk said:
A few hundred tabs? I do a lot of browsing, part of my work is to browse media, photos and tech so have a lot of tabs in groups open but I have never opened a couple of hundred tabs at once nor do I know of a single soul who has.

Unless you're on about testing for the sake of testing, in which case that's pretty meaningless!
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I realise that I'm in the minority here, but there is a number of users who carries on browsing web like this. Things like tab groups don't exist in Chrome, and it's one of the most used features by me in Firefox.

I'd rather not explain my browsing patterns to you, but let's just say I have a lot of interests and read a lot when browsing web, so having an open session with up to 200 tabs open is not uncommon to me. I know you browse Reddit, so just take a look at some of the Firefox threads there, since Firefox users tend to use the Suspend feature quite a lot to help with memory management. In fact, the browser almost never uses more than 1.5 GB of RAM, whereas in Chrome, it would probably crash in the same environment (I've never tested it that extensively, since the session and bookmarks manager is so bad there).

The last part sounds like you're overly paranoid about Google and I don't think that kind of paranoia merits any solid ground without justifiable evidence to back it up. Google are an advertising company, of course they're going to monitor their services to see what's trending. How else are they going to continue to make money from ad revenue in those services.
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I'm sorry, but I fail to see how acknowledging that Google collects its data through a myriad of web services is being paranoid. It doesn't stop me from testing Chrome dev from time to time, but I'd always be concerned about privacy when using it (to some extent anyway).

Are you disagreeing that they would ever use the information gathered against you? There have been a few cases of prosecutions after Google has given the data to the authorities. Whilst I'm not against, but it worries me that they might be able to manipulate that data for some future agenda, other than targeted advertising.

As an example, the open source Chromium still redirects to Google servers, even with all the extra features disabled, meaning that your web activity might well be monitored.

Glaucus said:
Kept adding new stuff, got slower and less stable.

I just can't get on with chrome, just like I don't get on with dolphin on ipad. Despite people raving about it.
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Firefox has never been faster, though. In fact, it's faster than all the major browsers now.
 
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