Which Web Browser?

Very interesting :

I had a look at about://gpu and noticed

Problems Detected
Accelerated 2d canvas is disabled on Windows systems with low perf stats.: 116350

Re-ran WEI as I've not done that for ages and my gpu has been upgraded since.
 
puma luke said:
Well in fairness to IE that comes on the start screen of W8 it seems pretty smooth, I'm growing to like it a lot!
Can't work out how to open a new tab on it though :confused:
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The Metro version?

Right click and it brings up the nav bar on the bottom and open tabs at the top - then hit the + button at the top right and you get a new tab. It will give you your favs / common sites along the bottom. I really like it.
 
AT WORK:

IE9 - for legacy stuff and intranets

Coolnovo - based on chrome, allows a fixed bookmarks side bar unlike chrome, and has all the other benefits of chrome (mainly that it's fast)

Chrome - Sometimes will just use chrome for googling

Firefox - Cannot use it on my work laptop. Some sort of combination of my hardware/software in my corporate environment makes it hang intermittantly and lag. I have tried literally everything to fix it for months and even rebuilt it on win 64 bit.



AT HOME:

Firefox. Mainly because I love how favourites/bookmarks can just be dragged onto the sidebar and also quickly accessed there from a fixed sidebar. Plus the plugins are good. Everything works. Not quite as fast as chrome, but it's minimal.


ON MY MOBILE:

Dolphin browser.
 
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Firefox. Ad Block Plus is a must and has improved my browsing experience vastly. I actually get confused when I get on a different PC and find myself confronted by shed loads of ads and garbage all over the page. Never looked to change since converting from IE a good few years ago.
 
I have virtually tried them all ie Firefox,Waterfox,Chrome,IE,Netscape etc..still keep going back to Opera which is fast,rock stable and lots of useful features,rest are just imitations ;) .

I should say Opera has official 64 bit browser version as well.
 
Porceliamone said:
Firefox. Ad Block Plus is a must and has improved my browsing experience vastly. I actually get confused when I get on a different PC and find myself confronted by shed loads of ads and garbage all over the page. Never looked to change since converting from IE a good few years ago.
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Chrome also has this, though i still prefer Firefox as im having a few issues with Chrome.
 
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Recently moved from Firefox to Chrome but also use IE now I'm on Windows 8 a bit too. There's a few sites which don't work well in Chrome, mostly down to shoddy design (tesco CC site for example) and it's simply easier to use IE than muck about with Chrome settings.

Love Chrome though, it's by far my favourite browser.
 
In Chrome, they need to make the spaces between bookmark icons that have no text on them, it's about 5 pixels too big at the moment
 
Another vote for Firefox from me (desktop and mobile). My muscle memory has got completely used to all of my tab management add-ons and custom placement of buttons.

Also I must admit that I buy into Mozilla's ethos and vision for the web.
 
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