What browser do you use?

.walls · 27 Jul 2009 at 15:51

Alright ladies and gents (ok - probably just gents...).

I've been using GNU/Linux as my main OS for about five years now and over the years I've used quite a few browsers - the most recent of which is Arora, with Opera and Firefox as "backup browsers" for when incompatibilities occur with the webkit layout engine.

Although I've not been using it long, there are a few annoying bugs that I've found, but as the project is only at version 0.8, you have to expect these things.

Anyway... what's your favourite browser and why?

manic111 · 27 Jul 2009 at 16:07

Opera's my favourite for its customisability, style sheets, speed etc. That said I tend to use Firefox more, simply because more things are compatible with it.

theheyes · 27 Jul 2009 at 18:05

I use Firefox because it is quite good, familiar and comes as standard on the distros that I tend to use so I don't ever feel the need to change it.

.walls · 27 Jul 2009 at 18:27

Both good points - I love Opera for its customisability and speed, but I find that it's getting heavier and heavier these days which is a shame. It's still way faster than the competition though

Firefox is useful, but I'm really not a fan of GTK+, which to be honest, is a bit of a big, fat toolkit.

I think my days with Arora are limited though... as it can't seem to stay logged into any vBulletin forums :-/

Will try it again once it gets to 1.0, I think.

Tr Insanity · 27 Jul 2009 at 19:06

Firefox it's fast secure and almost all sites display perfectly.

Zerolimitz · 27 Jul 2009 at 19:10

well i find Firefox to be the best out there tbh and thats what im using now.

Kobrakai · 27 Jul 2009 at 19:11

I started using Firefox when Internet Explorer removed the main menu system in v7.

I would use Chrome as it seems like a really good browser, unfortunately it doesn't have a proper main menu system though :rolleyes:

benjo · 27 Jul 2009 at 19:19

I've used Opera for a year or so now, still prefer it to anything else

MrWhippy · 27 Jul 2009 at 21:27

firefox with opera as backup

trackrat · 27 Jul 2009 at 21:58

Opera, have been using it for some years and prefer it to the rest.

kkelly · 27 Jul 2009 at 22:01

IE8 on my desktop (Windows) and FireFox on the lappy (linux)

sorn21 · 27 Jul 2009 at 22:03

Chrome
I really like Opera, but I used to use a really slow pc and chrome preformed better. Plus I never used a lot of the functionality Opera provided.

zinc · 27 Jul 2009 at 22:14

On my main linux machine I use firefox but on my laptop I have been using stable builds of chrome for linux simply because it's very quick to start up. I couldn't switch to chrome full time on my main desktop because I rely on a few plug-ins for firefox for web development.

BigglesPiP · 27 Jul 2009 at 22:30

Firefox 3.0 at the moment, which is dog slow on the EEE. When I see google-chrome-testing appear in the repo I'll start using that.

`google-chrome-unstable --enable-plugins` is nice and fast, and runs iPlayer and youtube a lot better.

.walls · 28 Jul 2009 at 09:18

So does everyone pretty much stick with the big two, or does anyone use others like kazehakase/midori/etc?

eXor · 28 Jul 2009 at 13:49

Firefox.

chrisxuk · 28 Jul 2009 at 21:26

Firefox.

purexxevil · 28 Jul 2009 at 21:40

Google Chrome

.walls · 28 Jul 2009 at 23:02

ok - the guys using chrome - what distros are you using?

I gave it a mighty ~10 minutes of "testing" before I gave up on it (mostly as I don't run a debian based distro and partially because I'm generally a lazy ****) - anyway... short story short - it didn't run on sabayon... and that 10 minutes includes the time it took to download it and also download + install lzma to extract it... Couldn't really be bothered linking the libs (which would have probably only taken two more minutes, tops... but hey).

Not looking for pointers, but generally interested.

BigglesPiP · 29 Jul 2009 at 01:15

eXor said:
Firefox.

How dare you sport the Debian logo in your sig, start using Iceweasel!