Best Browser?

frash

Been using Chrome a while now but I find that I keep having to clear out the cache as it's slow to load the first page on start-up. Seems to be a common problem.

Anyway with that in mind I was wondering what browsers people find the best.

Black Swan

They all have their shortcomings. I continue to use FF.

excollier

I use Firefox with Linux (and Vista on the rare occasions i use it) and also Chrome / Chromium.

Peregrine

Chrome for PC
Chrome for Android
Chrome for iOS too..

I don't have the cache problem on Chrome. I haven't really had any problems actually since I started using it in 2008.

Sometimes, I use Opera or IE 10 on Windows 8, I can't stand IE8 or 9 though.

yoyo

Firefox for me too, never liked Chrome when I used it so kept coming back to Firefox

Nick

bonzodog2

Opera, FF and IE, for different purposes. Multi-choice poll needed !

johndoe99

used Internet Explorer since the beginning, started using Firefox as well about 3 years back, finally stopped using Internet Explorer about 6 months back.

The amount of times i came close to ripping the monitor off the desk becuase of Internet Explorer down the years is unreal. Embarassed to tell people I used IE for so long. I bet the programmers at Microsoft even use FireFox.

Chrome, i always found it took too long for a browser to start. FireFox is a dream, not once has it crashed or thrown a message in front of me.

PropJoe10

I change between Firefox and Chromium a lot, currently using Chromium but I voted Firefox because I've been using it for years. Great browser.

practice

Firefox for me.
I like the simplicty of its addons

Sin City

oisin

Maxthon for me.

Peregrine

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LKTechGuy

I use Chrome at home, forced to use Firefox at college but it's not so bad.

MrJoeSoap

Chrome on my home laptop, home desktop, work laptop and Android mobile. Never had any real reason to change since first trying it.

Gamayun

I recently moved to Opera as the new Firefox's Plugin-Container was using too much CPU (stressing my poor crappy Celeron) resulting in choppy scrolling and such.

Opera is quicker but seems to use more memory, 300MB compared to Firefox's 100MB average, this isn't an issue though just something I noticed in the system monitor. Very happy with it so far.

MickFleetwood

I use Firefox, mostly. Always ran far quicker and smoother on my laptop compared to Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.

Dubwat

Firefox for me.
- Doesn't take up too much real estate.
- 'Fastdial' for my home page and 'feedly' for my rss feeds.

Tried Chrome and Opera. Not saying they were bad but they didn't suit me. I was surprised by Chrome because some people swear by it but it didn't do anything for me...

Never tried IE.

flutered

i use the prehistoric sea monkey.

PropJoe10

Wish the Netscape Navigator name would make a comeback! That was a classic browser

mitosis

I hate that firefox won't set home on a new tab. How is this progress? IE does.

I hate that chrome won't clear cache on exit. How is this modern? IE does.

I use IE because it browses without all the attendant whinging FF and chrome do. I'm not interested in which is the trendy browser, I merely want one that'll do what I want. Bizarrely, the so-called "modern" browser fails to do what the "archaic" one can.

MickFleetwood

mitosis wrote: »

I hate that firefox won't set home on a new tab. How is this progress? IE does.

I hate that chrome won't clear cache on exit. How is this modern? IE does.

I use IE because it browses without all the attendant whinging FF and chrome do. I'm not interested in which is the trendy browser, I merely want one that'll do what I want. Bizarrely, the so-called "modern" browser fails to do what the "archaic" one can.

Naming two things that IE does better than Chrome or Firefox doesn't mean that it isn't still terrible. How many activities could one name that Chrome or Firefox can do that Internet Explorer can't?

Whatever your prefer, though. Not going to get into a debate about Internet browsers of all things.

Overheal

I fancy the way Chrome syncs your browsing across devices in a scary type of way, but its not enough to get me to switch off Firefox. Addons seem to work better in FF. I'll jump into IE sometimes for the better hardware acceleration, task-dependently.

200motels

I use Waterfox the 64 bit version of Firefox, I use Chrome now and again but I'm not a fan of it, as for IE enough said the better.

Stinicker

Firefox for me, and Safari on the iPhone. Google are hell bent on Global IT domination so I boycott as much of their products as possible.

Gadgetman496

mitosis wrote: »

I hate that firefox won't set home on a new tab.

New Tab Homepage

T-Bird

Palemoon for pc and mostly opera for android

Dude111

mitosis wrote:

I use IE because it browses without all the attendant whinging FF and chrome do.

Very nice..... So Do I!!!!!

Im very big on privacy and I am very grateful/thankfull I have IE6 on here as I feel IE6 is the last version of IE that DOESNT SPY ON THE END USER TO MICROSOFT!! (Which might explain why M$ wants ppl on the newer IE's so bad)

I mostly browse with MyIE2 however but TECHINALLY im using IE as MyIE2 is just an IE wrapper.. (THE BEST ONE I HAVE EVER HAD)

mitosis

MickFleetwood wrote: »

Naming two things that IE does better than Chrome or Firefox doesn't mean that it isn't still terrible. How many activities could one name that Chrome or Firefox can do that Internet Explorer can't?

Whatever your prefer, though. Not going to get into a debate about Internet browsers of all things.

Thanks for contributing, so I am not pulling two things IE does better, they are two things very important for me - I am on a shared computer very often for one.

I do online banking with BoI, for my sins, another thing chrome and FF don't seem to do. I know it's BoI's fault, but this doesn't lessen the inconvenience of the browsers.

yoyo

The new versions of IE are actually very decent, since IE9 the browser has improved enormously, it is only lacking extensions which is why I use Firefox. Security is not really an issue with the new versions either. The problem with IE in the past was that people never updated it, and some companies required old versions (IE6) that had known issues for certain web apps.

Nick

cookie1977

I use Chromium

Antar Bolaeisk

I primarily use Opera, have done since the introduction of the sync ability a couple of years ago, especially to mobile devices which was handy. I can't quite put my finger on it but I keep coming back to Opera even though other browsers can now do all the things that first brought me to Opera, any time I try to chance I find some little annoyance that drives me back.

glynf

Chrome for PC & android.

PropJoe10

Maxthon is another decent browser. Very fast and easy to use.

Ballyv24

Opera for me. Big fan of the speed dial. It is really useful, sometimes it takes me half an hour before I notice that my keyboard is switched off

Joeface

Laptop: IE
Desktop: Firefox
Mobile :Opera

Not sure why but find IE and Firefox are pretty much on par these days.

Use a crappy Nokia C5-03 , Mobile Opera has made some difference to the phone. The internet actually works and I can open any site i need or want to.

BailMeOut

Chrome and always the beta version so one major version ahead.

unkel

Opera. Cache in ramdrive and it flies. Native mouse gestures and speed dial FTW

BopNiblets

Firefox then Chrome would be my preference, I'm slowly trying to switch to Chrome but I keep having some issues with it, such as passwords or logins not being remembered on some sites (Firefox does this easily), also the mousewheel scrolling in Chromium doesn't scroll enough, only 2 lines at a time, whereas it's normal on Windows.
It also doesn't play animated gifs sometimes which is annoying.

My issue with Firefox is syncing it's addons and profile between computers is cumbersome.

MillieJ

I started as a chrome fan, but then I heard of a browser that's got everything that chrome has with a couple of built-ins added to it, so I tried it out, liked it, and used it since. It's called Torch and it's also chromium-based.
So I guess that I'm under the "Other" category.

PropJoe10

MillieJ wrote: »

I started as a chrome fan, but then I heard of a browser that's got everything that chrome has with a couple of built-ins added to it, so I tried it out, liked it, and used it since. It's called Torch and it's also chromium-based.
So I guess that I'm under the "Other" category.

Not heard of that one, it looks cool. Cheers for the heads up!

MillieJ

PropJoe10 wrote: »

Not heard of that one, it looks cool. Cheers for the heads up!

Yeah, definitely give it a shot. Torch browser is great if you're into downloading videos and torrent files. Cheers

nucker

IE10/Firefox/Chrome and Opera....I do a lot of browsing, only joking, doing some web design at the moment

PropJoe10

MillieJ wrote: »

Yeah, definitely give it a shot. Torch browser is great if you're into downloading videos and torrent files. Cheers

Yeah its handy, shame it doesnt have a Linux version though!