What Browser do you Use?

cherryghost

And recommend for the non believers why your one is the best.

Just out of noseyness.

Headshot

i use firefox but im beginning to fall out of love with it

just so bloody slow to start up

Cuddlesworth

Where is my "all of the above"...........

Skrynesaver

FF-3.5 for preference, much faster rendering and JS engine.
Chrome isn't bad
And I've had to use IE on occasion for webapps written by brainwashed MSCEs but otherwise avoid it like the plaque.

Mimikyu

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cance

Safari! (don't lynch me)

eightyfish

Chrome, people, chrome. Zippy little number.

cherryghost

eightyfish wrote: »

Chrome, people, chrome. Zippy little number.

oops forgot that. really should wake up...

1huge1

been using firefox for a good few years now, never had a problem

eightyfish

1huge1 wrote: »

been using firefox for a good few years now, never had a problem

I used this for years until about six months ago. It was fine in actual use, but started taking longer and longer to load. When the time it took to turn my laptop on and get a browser window up stretched to something beyond my patience threshold, I switched to Chrome which loads up almost immediately (for me).

DigiJem

I use Chrome, I find it pretty fast and easy to use.

Tinytony

Maxthon 2

Cuddlesworth

cance wrote: »

Safari! (don't lynch me)

At least its better then you spending all your time on a crappy i-phone pretending its a real browser....

PaddyTheNth

Headshot wrote: »

i use firefox but im beginning to fall out of love with it

just so bloody slow to start up

Mozilla did an incredibly dumb thing with 3.5 which is responsible for huge increases in startup times of FFX 3.5.

Full details here - http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/archive/2009/07/09/the-firefox-3-5-fiasco.aspx

How to fix it here - http://lifehacker.com/5311669/speed-up-firefox-35-start+up-on-windows

Tar.Aldarion

Firefox or chome, use firefox mostly. It's pretty perfect from what I want ot get out of a browser. Only annoying thing is when memory usage builds up and I have to restart it.

PogMoThoin

Something wrong, nobody uses Internet Explorer :eek:, I find that hard to believe.......or they're just not willing to admit it and to post in this poll.

marco_polo

Its a bad state of affairs when people won't even admit it anonymously

I use IE for Outlook Webmail that is all. I find Opera (Handy inbuild RSS UI) and Chrome to be the fastest at the moment but limited feature wise compared to FF, I do love some of my FF plugins and I want to like it the most, but startup speed is an issue they need to resolve (Without the hack).

Essentially they are all flawed in different ways

donmeister

Switched from Firefox to Chrome some time ago, and never looked back, I love it!

towel401

chrome is a load of ****e. damn google and their web apps

Tar.Aldarion

What's all this startup time business with FF? Mine opens instantly and it's not like I have a great computer etc.

How long does it take you?

cherryghost

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

What's all this startup time business with FF? Mine opens instantly and it's not like I have a great computer etc.

How long does it take you?

mines boots instanstly, probably because i save all my tabs before i close it? dunno, never had a problem with quick boot

EvilMonkey

I use opera and IE occasionally, i have no idea if its the best I'm just used to it. There all the same really who cares if one loads a page a fraction of a second quicker than another or what ever other statistic people come up with to proclaim there browser is the best. Use whatever makes you happy

marco_polo

cherryghost wrote: »

mines boots instanstly, probably because i save all my tabs before i close it? dunno, never had a problem with quick boot

Hmm I take that back, as an experiment I disabled the only two plugins I currently have installed on 3.5 (Firebug and WebDeveloper) and it instant loading. (NB - The term 'instant' is relative on this crappy laptop but that is another story )

dulpit

Boo at the lack of a chrome option...

Sometimes Chrome doesn't work particularly well with websites (I find that chat and some other features of facebook don't work great on chrome) so I'll use Firefox then, but i do find firefox a bit of a resource hog...

Opera - don't like at all... Don't like the overall UI of the browser...
IE - also don't like, only use it on computers that are not mine where it's the default.
Safari - I actually really like safari on windows, it's an awesome looking browser but it crashes too much for me to use it properly..

(Oh, i use Firefox exclusively on linux, but would prefer to use something else...)

AlmightyCushion

Use firefox, chrome is pretty good too though. Never been a fan of opera mainly just because of the feel of it.

Fluffybums

Safari because the MacBook so works and the MS machines get too slow too quickly. I like it, never tried it on a windows platform though.
Also use IE, if the machine isn't in need of an overhaul of is okay. Also started using Chrome on PC and like. Have opera on terminal desktop.

Simply Red

Have always used firefox and never had a problem with it, but have starting to use chrome more recently because of its speed, very impressive

Diddy Kong

+1 on the missing all of above option.

Use IE & FF in work and at home IE, FF & Chrome. Each have their good points and each have bad. Didn't vote in the poll as I use more than one.

old boy

sea monkey for me, i used to use k-meleon, but it started to loose all my bookmarks regularly.

Headshot

got the new IE

pure crap

Brian

marco_polo wrote: »

Its a bad state of affairs when people won't even admit it anonymously

I use IE for Outlook Webmail that is all. I find Opera (Handy inbuild RSS UI) and Chrome to be the fastest at the moment but limited feature wise compared to FF, I do love some of my FF plugins and I want to like it the most, but startup speed is an issue they need to resolve (Without the hack).

Essentially they are all flawed in different ways

If you'd like to get around using IE for Outlook Webmail, you should try the Firefox addon "IEtab" - what it essentially does is use iexplorer.exe to render specific tabs if you choose it. It can be set to automatically load certain webpages using IEtab. I set this up for my dad's work outlook webmail and it works great.

I have used all of the browsers in the poll, and have settled for Firefox. Just can't live without AdBlock, and all the other customisability. I really want to love Opera since truth-be-told Firefox is horribly slow to start up on my netbook, but it feels so alien to me...

Quint

Am I the only one that finds Chrome really slow? Starts up faster than firefox, but browsing, say boards.ie, firefox is way faster

Overheal

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Where is my "all of the above"...........

shouldve been multiple choice: I have to use IE @ work. Only because Nothing else will run vbscript.

Max Power1

Firefox FTW

Ghost Train

Tinytony wrote: »

Maxthon 2

used to be my main browser, still use a good bit, use firefox a lot now too, sometimes IE, safari on ipod, sometimes chrome

K-9

PaddyTheNth wrote: »

Mozilla did an incredibly dumb thing with 3.5 which is responsible for huge increases in startup times of FFX 3.5.

Full details here - http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/archive/2009/07/09/the-firefox-3-5-fiasco.aspx

How to fix it here - http://lifehacker.com/5311669/speed-up-firefox-35-start+up-on-windows

I read on one of my Technology sites on Google Reader, they've fixed it. A good reason for FF, they fix problems if enough people report problems.

Baza210 wrote: »

I have used all of the browsers in the poll, and have settled for Firefox. Just can't live without AdBlock, and all the other customisability. I really want to love Opera since truth-be-told Firefox is horribly slow to start up on my netbook, but it feels so alien to me...

This is what brings me back to FF. Opera is nice, but just can't get used to it. The idea of an email and newsreader in one is brilliant. Chrome is superfast but few add ons, like Safari.

Back to FF for me. I've one toolbar, the address bar combined on it. Weather, time and date, currency conversion and a music player on my status bar.

FF for how you want a browser to look, not how Microsoft, Apple or Google want it.

Podge2k7

Firefox

redox

I 've been using opera since 2001. Wouldn't change it for anything else.
It's fast, customizable and works with few resources.

Gaspode

IE8. Its brilliant! Byebye Firefox, and ugly Chrome browser!!

Brian

K-9 wrote: »

Back to FF for me. I've one toolbar, the address bar combined on it. Weather, time and date, currency conversion and a music player on my status bar.

FF for how you want a browser to look, not how Microsoft, Apple or Google want it.

Hehe.

As ironic as it is to be touting Firefox as a good browser for an underpowered machine like a netbook, it really is the easiest and most effective to minimize in terms of its UI - all thanks to the addons, once again.



If there was a way to remove the titlebar in Opera, I would be extremely tempted by it again, but right now Firefox is winning the screenspace race, which to me is paramount.

AlmightyCushion

Baza210 wrote: »

Hehe.

As ironic as it is to be touting Firefox as a good browser for an underpowered machine like a netbook, it really is the easiest and most effective to minimize in terms of its UI - all thanks to the addons, once again.



If there was a way to remove the titlebar in Opera, I would be extremely tempted by it again, but right now Firefox is winning the screenspace race, which to me is paramount.

Do you have a link to the addons you are using to get it to look like that?

K-9

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Do you have a link to the addons you are using to get it to look like that?

I use Compact Menu2.

AlmightyCushion

K-9 wrote: »

I use Compact Menu2.

Does that put the tabs into the title bar?

K-9

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Does that put the tabs into the title bar?

No, you can put the Menu toolbar into one button and put it on the menu bar or navigation bar. I then just show one toolbar and the tabs move up like the screenshot.

Sorry, link here:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4550

There's a link for FF 3.5 in the comments section.

AlmightyCushion

K-9 wrote: »

No, you can put the Menu toolbar into one button and put it on the menu bar or navigation bar. I then just show one toolbar and the tabs move up like the screenshot.

Sorry, link here:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4550

There's a link for FF 3.5 in the comments section.

The tabs don't seem to move up for me.

K-9

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

The tabs don't seem to move up for me.

Do you mean having the tabs and menu/navigation toolbar all in one?

Don't think you can do that!

AlmightyCushion

K-9 wrote: »

Do you mean having the tabs and menu/navigation toolbar all in one?

Don't think you can do that!

No I mean like in the screenshot posted by baza above. The tab bar is integrated into the title bar like in chrome. That's what I'm trying to replicate.

calex71

Are you taking about Opera or FF Almighty???

Add screen shot of how my opera looks, no add on's to get it to look that way there are other ones there but not to get it to look like that.

deckie27

K-Melon

AlmightyCushion

calex71 wrote: »

Are you taking about Opera or FF Almighty???

Add screen shot of how my opera looks, no add on's to get it to look that way there are other ones there but not to get it to look like that.

Firefox. See it in this picture.

http://omg.wthax.org/firefox_now.png

Effluo

Gaspode wrote: »

IE8. Its brilliant! Byebye Firefox, and ugly Chrome browser!!

What kind of Monster would call Chrome ugly??? :O

I think it's beautiful!


btw chrome