Poll: What browser do people use?

What browser do you use the majority of the time?

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Mr Krugga said:
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).



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.



Firefox has never been faster, though. In fact, it's faster than all the major browsers now.
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It was the way the post was worded that just jumped out as paranoia to me is all. I think it's a bit brash to think Google will be using your details illegitimately. They have been open about various things in the past like the Wifi data collection via the streetview cars and have said how that happened (example).

If someone was doing highly illegal things then you would expect them to hand over data, I can't imagine it's in the same manner as stuff like government spying where they actively listen in on everything.

Besides, the settings for stopping tracking are made clear, not even Google services can load up historical data if you have web usage history turned off and location history tracking so it's a safe bet that your privacy is being valued in this regard as you can disable those things at front and back end.

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No need to explain browsing habbits though, whilst 200+ tabs is ludicrous by any stretch I imagine you've got your own thing going on and that's fine. I'm just saying how it's quite out of the norm to pick out something because the likelyhood of anyone else using 200tabs on a regular basis may as well be zero!

For what it's worth I've never had to modify memory settings for FF, we have lots of RAM in PCs these days to be utilised, if FF wants to use 4GB of RAM on media heavy tabs then I let it. RAM is there to be used fully, not sipped.
 
I have gone back to using IE10 from chrome, because IE10 does seem to be quicker on my system, and I don't get a build up of tracking cookies as I did using chrome.

Can a mod kindly turn this thread into a poll ?

Would be interesting to see the results as time progresses.
 
Chrome. Tried Firefox on the basis of reading this thread, can't see any 'must have' improvements over Chrome. Use IE for the odd work related web based software that won't work on any other browser
 
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