Ask dotTechies: What Internet web browser do you (mainly) use?
November 5, 2009 76
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Firefox is, more or less, known as the browser which initiated the browser wars. However, now with so many browsers out there, many users are using different browsers. So the query is simple. What internet browser do you mainly use?
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After you vote, feel free to post a comment below saying which one you use and why you use it so we can get a good idea of why people use what.
I mostly use Fire Fox. I like the add ons, Speed Dial, Interclue, Hyperwords, Pop Up Blocker, and Down Load Helper works for me. I have others but they are disabled at this time.
I use Firefox 3.0.15 not the newest because too many of my addons dont work with it.But yes addons are what makes Firefox king for me.
I use IE 7, but Firefox (Updated) is also on the PC.
At my age, one don’t like changes, but I will probably pass to IE 8 some day.
I like the addon feature very much and the protable version is another surplus.
Given the obvious popularity of firefox I’ve tried it on several occasions but always return to IE: currently IE8. Opera 10 is perhaps even better than both IE and Firefox, however, the lack of support for Opera is quite baffeling! Perhaps “age” also explains my preferances!!
For those using IE7 or IE8 in XP.
Do you image your hard drive ?
If your PC dies, do you have a dream of being able to restore that image into your new PC ?
That is possible you know, by NOT booting into the new PC, until you first use your XP CD to do a repair install.
That repair will allow XP to correct all the drivers to match the new PC.
However be warned, that the repair will partially be a mess, because the XP repair process cannot handle IE7 or IE8.
It is for this reason that I no longer use IE7 IE8
Greetings all! I’m a long-term Firefox user. I love the add-ons and customisation possible. I have everything at my fingertips laid out just the way I want it. Love it!
Google Chrome Dev Channel user, its fast, minimalistic, and is starting to get many of the essential addons, it is themeable and i love it.!
Firefox = nomor satu = numero uno = number one.
Why? Fully custom-able, dozen of themes, incredible add-on, fast.. well, what can I say? I bet all of you people know this better than me..
On 5 of my pc’s (even on the iMac!) I use Firefox 3.x, because of the addons. Only on an old laptop I use Chrome. Chrome seems to be a lot faster than Firefox, but I use Xmarks to synchronise my bookmarks and there is still no good version of Xmarks for Chrome…
I’m a long (long!) time user of Firefox and still use it as my principal browser at work. However at home, where I use a 6 year old laptop, I principally use Chrome because it’s *much* faster to startup than FF (even FF without addins, and yes, SpeedyFox did *significantly* improve FF startup on my home machine), uses far less memory, and as for the javascript engine… there are many javascript heavy sites that I can’t even *open* with FF – my machine just grinds to a halt, LOL, but with Chrome I can not only load them but *use* them too :-)
I use IE8 with Chrome as a backup..I have tried Firefox,Maxthon all ok but am more comfortable with IE8.So far I havent had any probs and IE only gets better.Firefox users seems to be over the top with so much praise for FF. So much zeal, hmm makes me wonder??
Opera 99% of time, with Opera@USB on my USB :) stick …
But because I’m lazzy, I use Google Chrome too, with several pages automatically opened on my Google News, Agenda & Docs … plus one in Facebook …
And I use IE8 only for some sites who are not working well with Opera (banking & institutional with account login)
I separate out my browsers for time management purposes. It’s easy to see where my time-wasting goes to when I crunch my data.
2% of my time with IE7 for a browser game I use – there are compatibility issues with the particular old javascript it uses.
66% of my time with Google Chrome for ‘fun’ browsing – like the GOTD site
32% I use Firefox for study/work – the screen capture plugins (fireshot) and citations plugins (Zotero) are what I most value about Firefox but I think it’s slow and prefer the Chrome rendering of pages.
I use google chrome mainly.
One of the reason is because it is fast!
It’s my net, the way I want it; bugs and all…
Dropped IE years ago (IE6 !)
Had some short trials with Opera
Have sticked for years to FF,
My first try with Chrome was awfull (many freezes),
some months ago, I went back to Chrome and never have quitted since :
lightning fast, the few plugins features I regularly used with FF are available in Chrome,
my FF javascript bookmarlets work even faster with Chrome,
and as one said upper, I enjoy its minimalistic UI.
Most of my bookmarks are in my database (PersonalBrain 5): as soon as clicked in Brain, the page is opened in Chrome (at least, most of them !)
Like BDKnut, I use Opera too (gosh, I think I´ve used it for a decade already!). It is, without a doubt, THE fastest browser, specially for those persons (like me) that keep 50+ pages opened. Anyway, there are times where some pages do not load correctly (banking and institutional). Then, I go to Firefox. If all fails, M$ Expl*rer!
Greetings!
Hey there Silly ;)
Whassup w the site?? A few hrs ago I saw an entry arrive at my RSS widget thingy about Which browser dotTechies use, but when I arrived at the site only got «the page does not existe» 8O even after refreshing multiply times!! :?
So I was thinking *we was robbed* ArkArkArk
BTW, the scrolling window on the front page is quite nice indeed :-D
But why does it not scroll on the Review pages? :(
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About browser choices: Pity we can only pick one …
* Mostly FF 3.0.15 (as Rose said, can’t upgrade to 3.6, still too many addons not yet compatible)
* Still use FF2 for certain things
* Chrome 4.0.220.1 (Dev.channel for the add-ons) for all Google Apps
* IE7 for MS updates only
Tell us, which do you use??
No one browser is perfect. Use The World browser for fast launching and quick searches. Firefox 2 with plug-ins/add-ons for serious browsing/downloading and IE6 with 3rd party utilities when nothing else wants to do a particular job. Opera is nice, but a problem with some websites. Don’t like Google’s insistence on looking over my shoulder. FF3 and IE7+ need to mature a bit. No sense in having heavy browsers for fast surfing and being saddled with other snags. Other browsers are just variations and, in real terms, offer little more than I already have.
K-meleon for its speed with my dial-up. Also I like its simplicity.
Has anyone noticed the Iron browser? It’s essentially Chrome (which is open source), but with better security built in.
@Josh:
In my post #6 above I mention why I avoid IE7 and IE8 (they cause problems if I do a Repair Install).
I have browsed the ‘World Browser’ web site but cannot find an answer to this question -
Which version of the IE engine does it use ?
@ Rob
“Do you image your hard drive ?” Yes!
If my PC dies, i hope to restore on the same PC, with new ram chips.
Mainly…Firefox but I do have the other browsers installed..
Opera tends not to display some sites properly for me…
Google Chrome…lack of customizabilty although they are starting to have add-ons
Safari…on a Mac, it might be good but on Windows, it still have not met with my expectations.
I have tried a lot…including K-Meleon, Maxthon, CometBird, Wyzo, etc…
But always go back to Firefox :)
And yeah, almost forgot…IE, let’s just say we all know how good/bad it is..
IE crashes way to frequently. Have tried Opera Avant Chrome. They ok but found firefox worked the best on my system. Although firefox gets slowed down after a while, I found a few tips to help make it run fast again. I like add-ons because you can customise to what you want use.