Author Topic: Internet Browsers (Read 42333 times)

microsoft windows · « **on:** Wed, 08 August 2012, 12:00:17 »

You can't have a right and proper computer-related forum without a thread for folks to argue about what software they use to view Web pages on the Internet. So here it is!

So I guess I'll kick it off with the programs I use to go on the Internet. On my main machine, a Dell Optiplex GX270, and my Micron, I use Internet Explorer 6. On my Windows 3.1 machine, my iMac, and my Power Macintosh G3, I use MSIE5.

So what browers do you use?

The_Beast · « **Reply #1 on:** Wed, 08 August 2012, 12:08:07 »

Firefox

longweight · « **Reply #2 on:** Wed, 08 August 2012, 12:08:45 »

Chrome.

alaricljs · « **Reply #3 on:** Wed, 08 August 2012, 12:12:36 »

Firefox and Chrome.

funkymeeba · « **Reply #4 on:** Wed, 08 August 2012, 12:18:37 »

Opera all the way, baby.

microsoft windows · « **Reply #5 on:** Wed, 08 August 2012, 12:33:25 »

Opera's not a bad browser. When something doesn't work for me in Internet Explorer 6, Opera's always my second choice. Runs nice and fast and takes up very little system resources compared to Firefox and Google Chrome.

But Firefox...can't stand it. It's almost as irritating as Flash Player where they're releasing whole new versions every month or two. That needs to stop before I start using it again.

And Chrome? They hide all the stinkin' buttons! That's a big turnoff for me right there.

FoxWolf1 · « **Reply #6 on:** Wed, 08 August 2012, 14:12:29 »

SeaMonkey.

mistakemistake · « **Reply #7 on:** Wed, 08 August 2012, 14:14:38 »

I use Maxthon

csm725 · « **Reply #8 on:** Wed, 08 August 2012, 14:35:30 »

Fireofx 14 Alpha 2 custom compiled for Sandy Bridge

microsoft windows · « **Reply #9 on:** Wed, 08 August 2012, 16:27:29 »

Quote from: csm725 on Wed, 08 August 2012, 14:35:30

Fireofx 14 Alpha 2 custom compiled for Sandy Bridge

Is Sandy Bridge a Linux distribution?

csm725 · « **Reply #10 on:** Wed, 08 August 2012, 16:47:15 »

An Intel CPU platform.

nar · « **Reply #11 on:** Wed, 08 August 2012, 16:53:20 »

Maxthon on my Desktop, Laptop and my Android Phone and Tablet.

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #12 on:** Wed, 08 August 2012, 19:13:35 »

I use lynx because who need pictures and junk... lol just kidding. Using Firefox 17UX.

Christown · « **Reply #13 on:** Wed, 08 August 2012, 19:42:44 »

Firefox all the way.

Glissant · « **Reply #14 on:** Wed, 08 August 2012, 20:26:35 »

I use Netscape. Best. Browser. Ever.

hashbaz · « **Reply #15 on:** Wed, 08 August 2012, 20:45:22 »

Chrome! Or when I can't get Chrome, Firefox.

keyboardlover · « **Reply #16 on:** Wed, 08 August 2012, 20:53:39 »

I mainly use Firefox...it's gotten a lot better and now I actually find it faster than Opera overall and more standards-compliant. I still use Opera a bit but Chrome is becoming my favorite second browser (also because it's fast and standards-compliant). I sometimes use IE 9 which is "ok".

hazeluff · « **Reply #17 on:** Thu, 09 August 2012, 00:51:16 »

Chrome.

Everything syncs nicely with my other devices.

Firefox is my backup. And never ever do i touch IE.

silat · « **Reply #18 on:** Thu, 09 August 2012, 02:53:33 »

Maxthon 2 for many years. Then they came out with Maxthon 3 and a new engine. Very disappointing. Roboform does not work properly with MX3 and that is a deal breaker. Also no session manager, no tab utilities type addons etc. I want to like it but the Maxthon crew makes it difficult. And their proprietary bookmarks system is the pits. Not able to use xmarks with the browser either.

1. Firefox
2. Chrome
3. Maxthon in a pinch

WRXChris · « **Reply #19 on:** Thu, 09 August 2012, 02:58:08 »

Chrome. Firefox as a backup but I rarely use it. It's just soooooo slow compared to Chrome.

rowdy · « **Reply #20 on:** Thu, 09 August 2012, 04:51:58 »

Chrome on the Mac at home, Firefox on Windows at work (used to use Chrome on Windows too, but it has gone freaky recently - won't load pages properly).

Daniel Beaver · « **Reply #21 on:** Thu, 09 August 2012, 09:15:13 »

Firefox on Windows, Chrome on Linux, Dolphin on Android, Mercury on iOS.

I would like to use Chrome on every platform, and I feel like it will completely take over the browser market in the next few years. But I get extremely annoyed by it's quirks and it's relatively poor extensions (Firefox's ieTab implementation is much better, and chrome doesn't have a FlashGot equivalent. Not to mention that Xmarks routinely ****s up bookmark sync on Chrome). I run Linux on my old, slow computers; Firefox is noticeably slower, so I use Chrome there. But on my fast Windows 7 machine, where I do most of my web browsing, Firefox reigns supreme.

Dolphin on Android just kills. Nothing else even approaches it.

Mercury has nicer gesture support and more options than other browsers on iOS. In-built adblock is a very nice perk.

pyro · « **Reply #22 on:** Thu, 09 August 2012, 09:44:25 »

Firefox on my computers. And Sleipnir on Android, because it does gestures and especially tabs right. I also like how its interface just gets out of the way.

Asininity · « **Reply #23 on:** Fri, 10 August 2012, 13:30:52 »

I'm a Chrome/Waterfox sort of guy. Opera on my Asus EEE PC and Dolphin on my phone.

NSMarkop · « **Reply #24 on:** Fri, 10 August 2012, 16:03:17 »

I use Chrome mainly and Firefox as a backup like I see a lot of people here do. I've been having a lot of problems with flash in Chrome lately however, so I'm a bit on the fence at the moment.

davkol · « **Reply #25 on:** Sat, 11 August 2012, 07:16:20 »

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ekw808 · « **Reply #26 on:** Sat, 11 August 2012, 12:28:01 »

it doesnt matter HOW good your commercials are IE!

Striketh · « **Reply #27 on:** Sat, 11 August 2012, 20:30:41 »

I use Chrome now, but for the last few years I used Firefox exclusively. There's things I still do prefer about Firefox (the Nagios extension for Chrome sucks, for example) but Chrome is overall faster and a more light weight experience thus far, so no real complaints. Firefox is a memory hog and while they've greatly improved the performance over the years, Chrome still zips past it with ease.

hoggy · « **Reply #28 on:** Sun, 12 August 2012, 00:37:26 »

Chrome is my favourite. IE and firefox seem to need a lot more typing.

IPT · « **Reply #29 on:** Sun, 12 August 2012, 21:38:51 »

firefox, with IE when some sites don't like Firefox.

MarkPharaoh · « **Reply #30 on:** Sun, 12 August 2012, 21:47:31 »

Chrome whenever an update that Google pushes doesn't cripple it, Firefoz when they do. AOKP browser on mobile.

mickd · « **Reply #31 on:** Mon, 13 August 2012, 00:17:59 »

Chrome exclusively and when something doesn't work (which is rare), IE.

I used to use Firefox exclusively, but that was over a year ago now.

isp · « **Reply #32 on:** Tue, 14 August 2012, 15:16:43 »

Iuakit

Computer-Lab in Basement · « **Reply #33 on:** Tue, 14 August 2012, 15:21:56 »

CHROMEEEE!!!

Computer-Lab in Basement · « **Reply #34 on:** Tue, 14 August 2012, 15:24:03 »

Quote from: ekw808 on Sat, 11 August 2012, 12:28:01

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it doesnt matter HOW good your commercials are IE!

This made me lol.

bisl · « **Reply #35 on:** Tue, 14 August 2012, 15:35:07 »

IE10 whee

peptobiscuit · « **Reply #36 on:** Tue, 14 August 2012, 17:35:44 »

Palemoon

Wow. So many firefox users (noobs).

Everybody who prefers FF should upgrade to Palemoon. Its firefox modded to remove all the code for older processors (Pentium 1,2,3 , Old Athlons, etc). AKA NO JUNK CODE. Makes it noticably faster, has exact same functionality and layout of firefox. Srsly, i discovered this thing a year ago after years of firefox, and it is in every way an upgrade.

sth · « **Reply #37 on:** Tue, 14 August 2012, 17:41:06 »

Quote from: peptobiscuit on Tue, 14 August 2012, 17:35:44

Palemoon

Wow. So many firefox users (noobs).

Everybody who prefers FF should upgrade to Palemoon. Its firefox modded to remove all the code for older processors (Pentium 1,2,3 , Old Athlons, etc). AKA NO JUNK CODE. Makes it noticably faster, has exact same functionality and layout of firefox. Srsly, i discovered this thing a year ago after years of firefox, and it is in every way an upgrade.

peptobiscuit · « **Reply #38 on:** Tue, 14 August 2012, 17:47:37 »

Quote from: sth on Tue, 14 August 2012, 17:41:06

Quote from: peptobiscuit on Tue, 14 August 2012, 17:35:44
Palemoon

Wow. So many firefox users (noobs).

Everybody who prefers FF should upgrade to Palemoon. Its firefox modded to remove all the code for older processors (Pentium 1,2,3 , Old Athlons, etc). AKA NO JUNK CODE. Makes it noticably faster, has exact same functionality and layout of firefox. Srsly, i discovered this thing a year ago after years of firefox, and it is in every way an upgrade.
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That is a fine beard right there.

oTurtlez · « **Reply #39 on:** Tue, 14 August 2012, 17:55:43 »

Chrome for life <3

Viz · « **Reply #40 on:** Fri, 17 August 2012, 09:08:50 »

Normally, I use firefox with vimperator.
But sometimes I use elinks etc. I'm a big CLI guy.

Icarium · « **Reply #41 on:** Fri, 17 August 2012, 13:50:26 »

firefox with pentadactyl

slueth · « **Reply #42 on:** Sat, 18 August 2012, 01:40:36 »

Hey I use palemoon too! rock on

Findecanor · « **Reply #43 on:** Sat, 18 August 2012, 08:45:36 »

Firefox 14.0.1, but that is mostly because I am too lazy to switch to anything else. Browsing in multiple medium-sized windows, just as I have done since Netscape 4 in 1999. For years I was an Opera user, which I had configured like Netscape 4.
Never use tabs -- I use "window shade" in the window manager instead. Since getting a widescreen monitor, I often browse with two windows side by side.

thegunner100 · « **Reply #44 on:** Sat, 18 August 2012, 09:23:30 »

Opera 11.11, the latest version of opera doesn't seem to like flash players, and 11.11 has the really nice feature which shows an icon and website information forn bookmarked pages on the address bar. Otherwise I resort to firefox when websites don't like opera.

Matt3o · « **Reply #45 on:** Sat, 18 August 2012, 11:09:56 »

chrome, firefox as a backup.

harrison · « **Reply #46 on:** Sat, 18 August 2012, 16:51:15 »

Chrome all the way. I do, however, work somewhere that IE is mandatory, and use IE9 here an there when I truely have no choice. Whenever possible though, I use Chrome+IETabs... but it's not perfect by any means. I've recently found some really strange permissions issues in Sharepoint.

486 · « **Reply #47 on:** Sat, 18 August 2012, 17:13:49 »

I use IE exclusively. I can't be bothered downloading other browsers.

Sifo · « **Reply #48 on:** Sun, 19 August 2012, 13:54:56 »

Chrome and then Opera on my phone. Haven't ever experienced a problem using Chrome

Okita · « **Reply #49 on:** Sun, 19 August 2012, 18:25:37 »

Safari and firefox.

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