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 - Chrome seems to be heading towards blocking the ad-blockers, Edge seems to be fine with uBlock, etc. so I use that. I use a ton of MS websites day to day and it does seem to just work.



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I use Chrome for browsing and YouTube. I set up edge for cashback shopping, so I don't need to keep turning on allow all cookies, turning off tracking prevention, and allowing redirects and popups on Chrome.
 
I’m just trying Edge at the moment after using Chrome for many years. The migration process is pretty much seamless. It seems pretty similar to Chrome (as one would expect). I’m wondering in what ways it actually more secure though?
 
OverDrive said:
I’m just trying Edge at the moment after using Chrome for many years. The migration process is pretty much seamless. It seems pretty similar to Chrome (as one would expect). I’m wondering in what ways it actually more secure though?
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I use Edge and have done for ages (mostly because the offices I've worked at have used it), and also because I did a company wide discovery piece on which browser we should be using as a company.
Most of that came down to customisation withing the GPO / Entra / Intune space, however there was significant weight in the security space.
Edge allows you to use the built in Defender SmartScreen features, and has some other alerting features around passwords and other bits (not that I use these, since I use an actually password manager).
 
GravyMonster said:
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.
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I always thought that it was the VPN that I was using responsible for what you describe.
I'll have to check, as you did, to confirm or not that it is Firefox that I have recently started using.
It can be annoying.
 
I just tried going back to Firefox again and it's just issue after issue after issue. Check this screenshot out: https://i.imgur.com/qNKlw7P.png

The left side is FF, right is Chrome. Firefox cannot access Reddit, a 'network policy' is blocking access which is clearly BS as Chrome can access it fine. Similarly, watching a stream on YT the FF instance shows that the chat cannot be accessed because I'm using 'an older version of the browser'. Again this is BS as FF is the latest available: https://i.imgur.com/blHSp4y.png

I've already cleared cache and re-installed. Same nonsense every time.
 
GravyMonster said:
I just tried going back to Firefox again and it's just issue after issue after issue. Check this screenshot out: https://i.imgur.com/qNKlw7P.png

The left side is FF, right is Chrome. Firefox cannot access Reddit, a 'network policy' is blocking access which is clearly BS as Chrome can access it fine. Similarly, watching a stream on YT the FF instance shows that the chat cannot be accessed because I'm using 'an older version of the browser'. Again this is BS as FF is the latest available: https://i.imgur.com/blHSp4y.png

I've already cleared cache and re-installed. Same nonsense every time.
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Not going to help you much with your issues, but since I installed enhanced-h264ify addon it has helped a lot with the issues of stuttering and pausing that I was having with YT.
 
GravyMonster said:
I just tried going back to Firefox again and it's just issue after issue after issue. Check this screenshot out: https://i.imgur.com/qNKlw7P.png

The left side is FF, right is Chrome. Firefox cannot access Reddit, a 'network policy' is blocking access which is clearly BS as Chrome can access it fine. Similarly, watching a stream on YT the FF instance shows that the chat cannot be accessed because I'm using 'an older version of the browser'. Again this is BS as FF is the latest available: https://i.imgur.com/blHSp4y.png

I've already cleared cache and re-installed. Same nonsense every time.
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Can't help with your issue, but that Reddit page loads perfectly well on Firefox here so I'd have to guess it's something specific to your network setup.
 
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I'm using Edge but thinking of trying another browser as i keep getting random pauses on Youtube.

It's not buffering, it is as if i have pressed the pause button.

Have the H264ify extension, but does not help.
 
I use both Edge and Chrome at work due to needing to log in to a site and have them side by side but separate. At home Im currently still using Chrome, but I am getting tempted by Edge.
 
I've been using Edge for a long time; partly because I've been running Windows on ARM for a while (Surface Pro X onwards) and it was the only Native ARM browser for a long time but it works great.

Prefer Chrome for Media streaming as it seems to perform a little better with YouTube for some reason.
 
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