What web browser do you use?

TheMilkyPirate

So, which browser do you use? Chrome stopped working on me lately so back to firefox.

Pauleta

Opera. Its fast and effective.

chin_grin

http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php

Also,

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=9

Atari Jaguar = 'Other' option so............

Minstrel27

Chrome for me.

themadchef

Is this the "what are you wearing" nerd version?

Google chrome.

n0irin

Usually Chrome, but I also use Firefox occasionally...

JohnMearsheimer

Chrome, Internet Explorer is slow and rubbish.

stupidusername

This place is like the feckin census with all these invasive questions... Opera for me.hate the look of IE,Chrome has a bug in it,FF pisses me off ...so now on Opera.it's grand for the most part.

Mimikyu

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chin_grin

Pffffffffffffffft hahahahaha two for IE? G'wan. Who are yee?

Badgermonkey

Pauleta wrote: »

Opera. Its fast and effective.

Does it prevent embarrasing feminine leakage?

kippy

IE/CHROME/FIREFOX
Depending on what I am doing tbh.

stupidusername

chin_grin wrote: »

Pffffffffffffffft hahahahaha two for IE? G'wan. Who are yee?

Why is it considered uncool to use IE?

Korvanica

Chrome, because everything else is ****e!

Duggy747

I use FireFox, but I've realised it's a resource hog when running in the background against other applications so I'm going to try Chrome for dee craìc.

In work I use IE because of certain web UI's the network has to use.

chin_grin

stupidusername wrote: »

Why is it considered uncool to use IE?

....................um................Well.................Er..............NO U!

I think it's as a result of being overshadowed by better, more competent browsers.

NothingMan

Netscape...

davetherave

stupidusername wrote: »

Why is it considered uncool to use IE?

I suppose it depends on whether they are using ie6 or ie9 :pac:

liah

stupidusername wrote: »

Why is it considered uncool to use IE?

Because you have to be technologically illiterate to ever even consider touching IE.

Anyway, I use Chrome, because I love the free Last.fm plugin as well as the Chrome Toolbox "Mute All Tabs" plugin.

ejmaztec

stupidusername wrote: »

Why is it considered uncool to use IE?

Cos cool people want to stick it to the man (or Bill Gates in case of browsers).

I used to use Opera until IE all of a sudden became a lot quicker, and now I can't be bothered changing to something else.

stupidusername

liah wrote: »

Because you have to be technologically illiterate to ever even consider touching IE.

What? Why's that?

Mark200

stupidusername wrote: »

What? Why's that?

Because it's slow, buggy and vulnerable in comparison to most other browsers. To be honest I didn't really have a problem with IE when I switched to Chrome a few years ago, but after using Chrome for a while you really notice the difference when go back to using IE (eg if you're on a computer that only has IE installed).

Eric Cartman

themadchef wrote: »

Is this the "what are you wearing" nerd version?

Google chrome.

yeah and internet explorer is the equivalent of wearing a tshirt with a swastika on it and a kick me sign, its not right and your asking for trouble

liah

stupidusername wrote: »

What? Why's that?

Frankly I've no idea about 9, but if it's like any of the rest of them:

1) easy as hell to exploit
2) far, far fewer customization options
3) an INCREDIBLE PAIN IN THE FECKING HOLE FOR WEB DESIGNERS! :mad:

etc etc.

It's basically useless compared to essentially any other browser. I refuse to use it out of principle as a designer. They seem to refuse to want to have anything to do with things like 'standards.'

stupidusername

Fair enough if it's actually buggy.i dont use it so I don't know.seems to me some people just have a kind of browser snobbery for no reason other than it's not 'cool' which is just pathetic.

stupidusername

liah wrote: »

Frankly I've no idea about 9, but if it's like any of the rest of them:

1) easy as hell to exploit
2) far, far fewer customization options
3) an INCREDIBLE PAIN IN THE FECKING HOLE FOR WEB DESIGNERS! :mad:

etc etc.

It's basically useless compared to essentially any other browser. I refuse to use it out of principle as a designer. They seem to refuse to want to have anything to do with things like 'standards.'

Hmm as a tester I really should start using it actually out of interest i'll test in it for the rest of the day and see how it goes.

Eric Cartman

stupidusername wrote: »

Fair enough if it's actually buggy.i dont use it so I don't know.seems to me some people just have a kind of browser snobbery for no reason other than it's not 'cool' which is just pathetic.

any time you make a website you effectivley have to write a f*ck load of extra code to deal with the fact that internet explorer wont adhere to standards, you can design a site that will display correctly on every other browser easy enough, then IE adds about 10 hours of work fixing it and making IE copies of pages

bonerm

1. Chrome for myself
2. Firefox when I need to use snaplinks
3. IE when a 3rd party asks to use the internet (eh yeah, knock yourself out there.)

TheMilkyPirate

Just installed opera, so far very impressed. Nice and sleek and good customization options, Very fast so far as well.

Oh and IE is rubbish.

Duggy747

Out of the main browsers out there IE is definitely on the lower end. Haven't tried IE9 out yet but when compared to Chrome or Firefox you really do see the difference in terms of freedom.

As Liah said, for web designers IE is far too constrictive. I use IE for our network based stuff becuase the others don't react too well our systems but I use FF when designing.

liah

stupidusername wrote: »

Fair enough if it's actually buggy.i dont use it so I don't know.seems to me some people just have a kind of browser snobbery for no reason other than it's not 'cool' which is just pathetic.

For me it's nothing to do with being 'cool,' it's just the browser has an incredibly long history of being easily exploitable, having memory leaks all over the place, not handling web languages/code as well as other browsers/just not keeping to web standards, being more or less impossible to customize (at least in comparison to FF/Chrome), etc.

I tend to avoid anything Microsoft anyway outside of my operating system; their products just aren't as good as competitor's, and if I weren't a gamer I wouldn't even be using the OS.

mconigol

I connect directly to the internet with my mind.

stupidusername

Eric Cartman wrote: »

any time you make a website you effectivley have to write a f*ck load of extra code to deal with the fact that internet explorer wont adhere to standards, you can design a site that will display correctly on every other browser easy enough, then IE adds about 10 hours of work fixing it and making IE copies of pages

Really? It's a year or so since i've made any sites but don't remember having problems.not arguing just saying I dont recall having issues.

liah

stupidusername wrote: »

Really? It's a year or so since i've made any sites but don't remember having problems.not arguing just saying I dont recall having issues.

Absolutely true - just have a quick google for "internet explorer web design" and see what comes up, shouldn't be long before you come up with a whole slew of reasons why IE is the devil to designers.

It's ridiculous, like. There's basic web standards set out that other browsers more or less follow, but genuinely if you're writing more than a few divs and tables, you're going to have to have an extra section in your CSS stylesheet just to make it work in IE. It shouldn't be like that, and I have no idea why they still haven't made an effort to bring the browser up to standard, but whatever. I just boycott it now.

MGMTea

NothingMan wrote: »

Netscape...

hipster aye?

stupidusername

Hmm so MS are letting go of their grip.

chin_grin

stupidusername wrote: »

Hmm so MS are letting go of their grip.

I think they lost it ages ago! In terms of their browser.

OutlawPete

I just stick on my Spiderman costume, no bother to me then.

Pepe LeFrits

liah wrote: »

3) an INCREDIBLE PAIN IN THE FECKING HOLE FOR WEB DESIGNERS! :mad:

This, this, a thousand times this.

IE6 is ****ing SATAN.

I've started doing websites recently for other people, and as such can no longer take the 'Internet Explorer users can **** off, they deserve to see a badly mangled webpage' approach. The bugs drive me demented.

dubtom

Firefox for me. I'm not a web designer,IE's slowness alone drove me to distraction. Haven't used it in years.

jester77

Chromium

Pepe LeFrits

I use Chrome, btw.

I must say, as a part-time webdesigner, big thanks must go out to all the companies who keep IE6 and IE7 alive by refusing to update. You'd think that they'd want more secure browsers, apparently not...

omahaid

No one using Lynx then?

Wossack

firefox

dont trust google.. <.<

omahaid wrote: »

No one using Lynx then?

Different thread - I use Sure btw

fryup

none of the listed, i use avant browser - the easiest to use

mikedragon32

In work IE7. At home Chrome and sometimes IE9 (which isn't too bad at all).

Safari on my iPod touch

Opera on my phone.

bonzodog2

Opera for most things, Firefox & ToR for BBC iPlayer, IE8 for some things

Blazer

Firefox for the past few years but switched to chrome recently...hated the version of firefox plus the fact I can add apps to chrome's home pages is so handy...
another thing is the url+ search bar all in one...

flyswatter

I use Firefox for downloading usually, it has the best range of download managers for maximising speed.

Chrome has the Last.fm plugin for free music which is brilliant.

I've been using FF mainly for a few months.

Started using Chrome today again. Reminded how impressive its speed is for browsing.

Is there a way of deleting IE cos I hate it? You would think Microsoft would have the money to design a decent browser!

Opera on my phone, any good on a computer?

omahaid

Wossack wrote: »

Different thread - I use Sure btw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

The best bar none

Chrome all the way except for outlook web access which only displays correctly in IE. Never bothered even downloading fire fox, no need when chrome is so good.

I use Safari on the iPhone.