Poll: *** Which Web Browser Do You Mainly Use On Desktop ***

What browser do you use mainly

  • Brave

    Votes: 16 7.4%

  • Firefox

    Votes: 79 36.7%

  • Google Chrome

    Votes: 64 29.8%

  • Opera

    Votes: 2 0.9%

  • Safari

    Votes: 5 2.3%

  • Vivaldi

    Votes: 6 2.8%

  • Microsoft Edge

    Votes: 35 16.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 8 3.7%
  • Total voters
    215
Edge at work, to cope with different personalities/organisations and keep separate sets of tabs associated with a piece of work. Absolutely fantastic for that

Firefox at home (and work) for personal stuff - again Containers used for differing personalities

Vivaldi for anything random on mobile that I might want to see on a desktop/tablet

All three have excellent cross-device profiles, so can retire to the living room late on a dark afternoon and carry on my work on my laptop instead of sitting in my lonely office.
 
I tried Firefox for a while and everything was good, but I noticed that Youtube was actively loading slower or having stutters during playback which I just was not getting on Chrome - on the same connection, at the same time with both browsers open side by side. I'm presuming this is some BS throttling that YT are doing.
 
Firefox has never thrilled me.

Was a Chrome user but switched to Brave a while back.

Got it set up the same as Chrome was, but it has a couple of extra capabilities out of the box that Chrome didn't have.
 
Google has said it would harm consumers and businesses if it is forced to sell Chrome, the world's most popular web browser.

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) will propose the measure to a judge on Wednesday, Bloomberg has reported, external.

Judge Amit Mehta ruled Google operates an online search monopoly in August, and has been considering what remedies or penalties to impose.

The DOJ has not commented on the report - but Google has made clear it is a proposal it opposes.
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Google reacts angrily to report it will have to sell Chrome - BBC News

If Google is forced to sell Chrome, I wonder what it will be called? As Chrome is so integral to Android devices, it wouldn't be a good move.
 
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has demanded Google sells off Chrome, the world's most popular web browser.

It is one of a series of remedies proposed by the DOJ in a court filing late on Wednesday aimed at stopping the tech giant from maintaining its monopoly in online search.

Government lawyers also recommended that District Judge Amit Mehta force the firm to stop entering into contracts with companies - including Apple and Samsung - that make its search engine the default on many smartphones and browsers.

The proposed remedies stem from a landmark anti-competition ruling in August, in which Judge Mehta found Google illegally crushed its competition in online search.
The Department of Justice was joined in the filing by a group of US states that argued the changes will help to open up a monopolised market.
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Sell Chrome to end search monopoly, Google told - BBC News

It's looking more and more likely Google are going to have sell off Chrome, whether they like it or not. I'm more bothered about when people go looking for a browser for their phone and end up installing junk.
 
Nelly said:
I've been using Chrome regularly for years but just feels too bloaty as months and years went by, before that I was regularly using Internet Explorer, and before that Netscape until it disappeared.
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darael said:
I seem to remember Netscape Navigator before using Firefox, as Netscape was the only viable competitor to Internet Exploder Explorer at the time.
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Netscape became Mozilla in 2002 then Firefox in 2004. I remember using Netscape starting summer 1998 and Mozilla in summer 2002 then followed it through to Firefox, so I have been using the same browser effectively for over 25 years :-)

I had to use IE at work though unfortunately, and being the IT dinosaurs that we are in the NHS, we didn't drop IE until 2022. We now use Edge at work.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
Netscape became Mozilla in 2002 then Firefox in 2004. I remember using Netscape starting summer 1998 and Mozilla in summer 2002 then followed it through to Firefox, so I have been using the same browser effectively for over 25 years :-)

I had to use IE at work though unfortunately, and being the IT dinosaurs that we are in the NHS, we didn't drop IE until 2022. We now use Edge at work.
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Netscape was such a good browser, but then that's probably me looking at web 1.0 through rose tinted glasses. I think firefox 2.0 was probably my favourite iteration of the browser too. Snappy, unbloated. Got right to the point.
 
I'm not saying it's happening here, but when I hear people debate browsers I can't help but think of the LTT WAN show episode where they did a poll of 'what browser do you use' then they brought up their metrics and it showed half the people who said they didn't use chrome actually did
 
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tiberuk said:
I'm not saying it's happening here, but when I hear people debate browsers I can't help but think of the LTT WAN show episode where they did a poll of 'what browser do you use' then they brought up their metrics and it showed half the people who said they didn't use chrome actually did
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I guess most businesses in the UK use Microsoft Edge, would be funny to be able to detect what browser people used to do these votes. :cry:
 
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