What Web Browser Do You Use?

[esco123]

What Web Browser Do You Currently Use and Why?

[Cabalo]

On Ubuntu: Chromium and Firefox
On Windows: Chrome and Firefox

[anon]

Opera 11 and Chromium sometimes. But mostly Opera, been using it since 2006 and haven't really looked back ever since.

[whatcdfan]

FF, never really felt the need to look for anything else

[Xbox_360]

Firefox, but I do sometimes use Chrome.

[Sushi007]

BitCommet is my fav :D

[anon]

What Web Browser Do You Use?


BitCommet is my fav :D

:frusty: :frusty: :frusty: :frusty: :frusty:

[Sennheiser]

firefox`s the best :)

[XDA]

Chrome and Firefox

[claudia]

firefox for sure.

[handelsblatt]

firefox + opera 11

[WaTTacK]

regularly firefox, and chrome when i want to try the chrome experiments (lol that's lame i know.) or when youtube's videos start without audio on FF.

[GreenTea]

For plain and fast browsing, I'll use Chrome/Chromium.
But if I need to use tools/addons, I'll use Firefox.

And to manage my passwords between different browsers, I use lastpass. :D

[Stinson]

I used to use Firefox for a long time, but just recently a friend of mine convinced me to try Chrome. And he was right, I'll definitely stick with Chrome from now on!

[Sonnentier]

I always use firefox, it's a solid browser and the community concept is great.

[Cabalo]

This poll seems to confirm the trend: http://filesharingtalk.com/content/634-Firefox-Dethrones-IE-in-Europe-But-Its-Real-Battle-is-With-Chrome

[esco123]

i agree the real battle is between chrome and firefox.

[anon]

i agree the real battle is between chrome and firefox.

Opera's always so left out in these "battles"... I blame the period of time where you had to pay for the browser. :(

[Bionic]

For Mac: Safari always - On Window I always go with both; FF and Chrome.


FF for awhile now

[dannyyelly]

FF, Chrome..
sometimes opera, and btw, IE9 sucks bigtime.

[esco123]

I'v used opera and its really good, but i fnd that firefox and chrome have more support out there, so i intend to stick to these browsers cuz they do a good enuf job

[anon]

I'v used opera and its really good, but i fnd that firefox and chrome have more support out there

Opera has a help file and a large support community . :unsure:

[Smuze]

For work Firefox, for regular surfing IE as more sites are compatible with it.

[anon]

Just out of curiosity, would you name some of those sites? I can't remember the last time a page worked on IE but not my browser. It does happen, of course.

[MaxxRevs]

I have all of them istalled LOL. Firefox > IE > Chrome > Safari > Opera. Some of them I just good at certain thing that others arent.

I mostly use FF for work and chrome for fun time.

[esco123]

I'v used opera and its really good, but i fnd that firefox and chrome have more support out there

Opera has a help file and a large support community . :unsure:


well its just not as popular as the other big browsers.

[anon]

I have all of them istalled LOL. Firefox > IE > Chrome > Safari > Opera.

Would you elaborate on why Opera's at the bottom of your ladder?


well its just not as popular as the other big browsers.

But then again, if it works, how is that relevant?

I'm not going to try to "convert" you guys or anything, I just want to know why Opera gets so little love. :(

[Cabalo]

In my book, Opera was a paid software. With so many free browsers on the market, they attempted to cash in via software sales, instead the other models adopted by competitors.
So they are a no-no on my book, though I'm yet using their opera mini on my mobile, though I want to ditch it for skyfire, though I haven't yet enough free available RAM.

PS: used though too many times.

[anon]

In my book, Opera was a paid software. With so many free browsers on the market, they attempted to cash in via software sales, instead the other models adopted by competitors.

Very true, but hey, it's free now. It's been free for a while. So, besides people holding grudges from when Opera Software tried to capitalize on their browser... :unsure:


So they are a no-no on my book, though I'm yet using their opera mini on my mobile, though I want to ditch it for skyfire, though I haven't yet enough free available RAM.

Did you try the Russian mod of OM 3.20? That shit is awesome.

[Cabalo]

Link?

First time I heard about that. :mellow:

[anon]

Link?

Latest stable:
http://opera-mini.ru/last.html

Testing versions:
http://opera-mini.ru/test/

The page's in Russian, but the mod's in English. As I said above, it has lots of extra functionality, including an FTP client, streaming support, and so on. You also have a wizard in that page to build a version including only the features you want, with your favorite skin. :)

[Cabalo]

:mellow: Wow... Fucking awesome!

I owe you a beer!

[anon]

He he, glad you like it. :happy: I'm particularly fond of the disk cache and text reader capabilities, considering my phone's e-book reader is absolute crap.

That's not the only mod around, there are many others. Their complexity ranges from simple screen rotation or server selection to full-scale stuff like this.

[Stvstas]

Windows: Chrome and Firefox

[worldpease]

only Chrome,
so minimalistic and lite'
a couple of extensions and that is it.

[esco123]

only Chrome,
so minimalistic and lite'
a couple of extensions and that is it.


i agree... the only strange thing i find is that it takes up about 150MB hard drive space which is a lot compared to other browsers.

[anon]

the only strange thing i find is that it takes up about 150MB hard drive space which is a lot compared to other browsers.

Chromium only eats 67MB here. It's more than Opera, but it's just 67MB (or 150, in your case). And we're not in the era where a 2GB hard drive made you a god, so I'd hardly call that a problem with Chrome.

[ampere]

firefox yooo

[Expeto]

era where a 2GB hard drive made you a god
ahh, good old times. I still miss my 2mb inbox

[anon]

ahh, good old times. I still miss my 2mb inbox

One of the dial-up ISPs I used back in those days offered an e-mail account with unlimited space. :01:

[Expeto]

ahh, good old times. I still miss my 2mb inbox

One of the dial-up ISPs I used back in those days offered an e-mail account with unlimited space. :01:

Wow! I bet you didn't even had to delete spams every two hours :)

[anon]

Wow! I bet you didn't even had to delete spams every two hours :)

Correct, and public SMTP servers (in case your favorite service didn't offer outgoing e-mail) also existed. Although to be honest I've never received spam on my Fastmail account. :happy:

[mr. nails]

Firefox 7b1

I tried Chrome a couple of years ago or something and missed FF. I did the same with Opera too. I don't need countless browsers on my PC. I find it pointless and IE was garbage imo.

[TrustedGuy]

On Ubuntu: Chromium and Firefox
On Windows: Chrome and Firefox

same as Cabalo ;)

[megabyteme]

Firefox. I tried Opera about a year ago, and didn't see any reason to switch. I abandoned IE once I became "savvy" enough to know there were better browsers available- that was 8-10 years ago.

[mjmacky]

Used internet explorer to download Firefox, and Firefox to download Chrome. Firefox is my primary, Chrome is a browser I'll open on the side for browsing porn incognito without messing up my FF tabs.

[yevgeny]

recently changed to chrome..

I saw this article today about opera11.

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Critical-vulnerability-in-Opera-web-browser-1175689.html :unsure:

[anon]

I saw this article today about opera11.

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Critical-vulnerability-in-Opera-web-browser-1175689.html :unsure:

Every program has or has had critical vulnerabilities at some point of the other. Hardly a reason not to use it anymore, specially since the Opera guys don't want their image sullied and are working to patch that as soon as possible.

If you wanted to use bugless applications, you'd be limited to "hello world".

[Aum]

http://www.beatnikpad.com/images/posts/minefield-icon.png (http://nightly.mozilla.org/)

[waffler]

on windows 7 : Firefox / IE 9
on opensuse : opera
on xp : Safari / Opera

[anon]

Just curious, why do you use different browsers on XP and 7? :)

[bijoy]

Basically use Firefox & Opera for 99% of browsing, but use IE for the remaining 1% browsing ( IE=safest browser :01: )

[pawel679]

FF is the best!

[cibu]

maxthon 3. It has pretty nice UI

[Pozarynicoeta]

Chrome for speed, FF with Firebug for development

[motorsport1989]

internet explorer

[snap3r]

FF because its the best.

[OlegL]

Firefox 4.0.

[TorrentMaster9]

opera

[natural]

I voted for Mozilla Firefox

[kunto]

use opera.......

[Henderson7]

Firefox for years, and still loving it.

[mediafired]

Firefox . It does more. Simple as that.

[Krik]

Windows: Chrome and Firefox

[ncore21]

Firefox,chrome

[Sporkk]

I would use chrome if it had a feature to disable history logging while allowing cookies. Incognito mode throws out everything.

I might play with linux some more so I'm curious which browser has the best bookmark syncing.

[predateur]

Chrome !

[anon]

I would use chrome if it had a feature to disable history logging while allowing cookies. Incognito mode throws out everything.

You could go to your the User Data\Default folder, and either set the History file to read-only or delete it and create a folder with the same name. Chrome will give an error about your profile not being loaded correctly every time it starts, but it should no longer log the sites you visit.

[Glaucon]

I'm using Firefox, loving it's extensibility.

[Ramesh1]

Firefox is good but sometimes chrome is also very good ................

[hectorbenson]

Firefox 4.

[Piccolo]

firefox 4

[duke0102]

FF on Ubuntu and FF on windows but I've got them all installed lol

[shipwreck]

See, that's why I love Firefox and won't change anytime soon...

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/firefox-add-on-redirect/

[anon]

shipwreck: I hope they do know they're only going to get tons of people to mirror that addon...

[shipwreck]

That's for sure. But I was more refering to the fact that Mozilla didn't just comply and removed the addon, but asked the feds to provide a proper reason / explanation first. I can see quite a few other companies handling this very differently.

[hostingguru]

i m using chorme. because this d best. by running mozila system get hang and it takes too much time

[Cooper41]

Firefox user for a long time now.

[mbfraser]

Chrome. I think Google's brilliant and use alot of their stuff.

[Azeus]

Switch from FF to Chrome 4 months ago, chrome is a lot faster, although adblock does not seem to work as good as it does in FF.

[anon]

hi,

what is article spinning...??? meet again.

What the hell are you talking about? :ermm:

[yevgeny]

PassIFox 1.1.2 - handy password management extension for chrome and firefox. i like the speed and integration of ie9 but ff4 addons are too good.

[coldito]

firefox is the best

[diamondzul]

I use Firefox and Internet Explorer.Firefox is best among them. Firefox is best.

[axkabe]

Opera and FF

[neoleeyennek]

Rockmelt

[spikednet]

Chrome and firefox for sure!

[Evelyn]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ilo/thumb/0/0c/Firefox-logo.png/92px-Firefox-logo.png

[Hologram]

Another good thing about firefox is its badass icon as you can see above.

[snake212]

chrome and firefox for sure

[Hologram]

Flock should change its name to Fock. More badass.

[Evelyn]

Flock should change its name to fUck. More badass.
:)

[Cabalo]

17 people using opera? :blink:
How many dupe accounts does anon-sbi have in FST ?

[anon]

17 people using opera? :blink:
How many dupe accounts does anon-sbi have in FST ?

My name is Legion, for we are many...

Actually, Opera was a very good and underrated browser. But nowadays, I'm considering switching to something else (Firefox or Chrome), as v11 blows (crashes all the time and takes my private tabs away with it) and 10.63 is aging, albeit much more stable.

[mjmacky]

Just curious, why do you use different browsers on XP and 7? :)

cause chrome won't run on Windows 2000 Server :(

[anon]

Windows 2000 was the shit!

Run XP inside a VM and use that addon to interact with guest windows as if they were running locally? :shifty:

[Hologram]

Flock should change its name to fUck. More badass.
:)

Fock is more incospicous, therefore it's win.

[Funkin']

Chrome. Used Opera for years but then I switched as Chrome is faster on my aging computer.

And actually I've been playing with Midori lately as it seems faster than Chrome, but not as light. If Dillo used Java and at least something block ads then I would use it as it's the fastest one I've ever used. Everything is instant on that browser.

If I ever update my computer or just get a new altogether I'll probably switch back to Opera. Or who knows, maybe just stick with Chrome. I love it's simplicity.

[scottperez]

i prefer mozilla firefox (because it has good plugin, extensions and theme support)
i also use chrome (because it is fast, has got few cool applications, and new emerging plugins works smoothly , which wasn't the same case in the past)

i also prefer apple's safari, because of its extensive plugins list, the best one i like is the adblocker plugins which blocks all unwanted ads

[anon]

If I ever update my computer or just get a new altogether I'll probably switch back to Opera. Or who knows, maybe just stick with Chrome. I love it's simplicity.

Saying this makes me a bit sad, but I wouldn't recommend Opera these days. Anything from 11.00 onwards makes you play Russian roulette every time you watch a YouTube video or even open/close a tab, and hitting the chamber holding the bullet means the program crashes and all your work goes to hell. This doesn't happen with the 10.xx branch (where the latest version and the one I'm using is 10.63), but those versions will eventually become too old or exploitable to be used. As I said above, I'm considering changing to something else. If you liked Chrome, you should probably go for that, they appear to have done a good job with it.

[moarm]

rockmelt should be one of hte options

[mjmacky]

rockmelt should be one of hte options

That's what Other is for, I mean nobody is really voting on this poll to make it meaningful (154 votes?)

[Evelyn]

welcome to thew gang scottperez

[moarm]

true, and its chrome with facebook cancer basically

[lukarav]

I still use FF, but i am testing Chrome.
99% of people who use IE, dont know alternatives exist

[abkhan]

Firefox ....... I found it best

[Only4Djs]

Chrome + FF + Opera:))

[spot101]

Firefox on Ubuntu and Windows

[Evelyn]

99% of people who use IE, dont know alternatives exist
lol right said.
for them internet = internet explorer, and 50% among them thinks, all websites are software/plugin/addons installed inside IE :)

[kadrykov]

99% of people who use IE, dont know alternatives exist
lol right said.
for them internet = internet explorer, and 50% among them thinks, all websites are software/plugin/addons installed inside IE :)

I suspect they would know what is "software/plugin/addons" :yup:

[anon]

99% of people who use IE, dont know alternatives exist
lol right said.
for them internet = internet explorer, and 50% among them thinks, all websites are software/plugin/addons installed inside IE :)

My father uses IE. He says he's too old to learn to use another browser. :unsure:

Anyone tried Opera 11.50?

[ZoeL]

Opera

[ronaldnelson75]

FireFox is main use but i think it is a little slow...

[esco123]

chrome has overtaken firefox in UK

[Human_Being]

chrome allday long

[galactica]

I use opera and Firefox,but mostly Opera.

[anon]

I use opera and Firefox,but mostly Opera.

Are you a dupe of me? :unsure:

[axkabe]

Anyone tried Opera 11.50?
Me :shifty:
I have many browser installed in my laptop: IE, Opera, FF, Chrome but i use almost Opera for everything and FF for email :whistling

[thegunners]

I.E 7 it runs smooth on my machine :)

[Randude]

Firefox and sometimes Chrome, firefox offers more easy of use!

[anon]

Me :shifty:
I have many browser installed in my laptop: IE, Opera, FF, Chrome but i use almost Opera for everything and FF for email :whistling

I was using 10.63 when I made that post, because later versions were very unstable. I updated to 11.50 (which I'm using right now) some weeks ago, not a single crash so far. :)

[axkabe]

I'm using this, nothing problem but some scripts cannot work perfectly with Opera

Version: 11.50
Build: 1074
Platform: Win32
System: Windows 7

[anon]

It always had that problem, if you're referring to user scripts. :dabs:

Thankfully I only use a few ones to make simple cosmetic changes to some sites I frequent, and they work fine.

[axkabe]

Just few sites that not support Opera, and in that case i use FF or other instead :D

[Stabber]

I am using chrome at the moment but it takes some time to get used it since i was a long time firefox user

[esco123]

with time chrome will be number 1, due to its money.

[Yeahh]

google chrome and mozilla firefox

[Flacr]

I like how the others look but Mozilla wins cause of Adblock. Cant live without it anymore.

[iLED]

Opera!nice design as opposed to FF and chrome

[Glaucon]

I like how the others look but Mozilla wins cause of Adblock. Cant live without it anymore.

Chrome's got it as well: http://adblockplus.org/en/chrome

[anon]

Every browser has a way or extension to block advertisements these days. Opera's the only one where that functionality comes built-in as far as I've noticed, though.

Sadly, the Web is not without its share of annoyances nowadays - pop ups and unders, Flash ads, seizure-inducing banners, tracking cookies of all flavors. If ads on every site were like here on FST, i.e. simple banners that don't distract you from browsing, I'd gladly turn my ad blocker off.

[zot]

annoyances nowadays - pop ups and unders, Flash ads, seizure-inducing banners, tracking cookies of all flavors. If ads on every site were like here on FST, i.e. simple banners that don't distract you from browsing, I'd gladly turn my ad blocker off.

But FST uses those annoying animated ad banners, a few of them seem to be designed specifically to make a person dizzy.

That's one reason why for simple web browsing, i prefer to use a browser without Javascript enabled or Flash installed (not 'blocked' flash- which some ads can defeat)

The only problem is that an increasing number of sites don't view properly --if at all-- unless all the browser's junk is turned on.

[anon]

But FST uses those annoying animated ad banners, a few of them seem to be designed specifically to make a person dizzy.

I have disabled animations :P


That's one reason why for simple web browsing, i prefer to use a browser without Javascript enabled or Flash installed (not 'blocked' flash- which some ads can defeat)

I have JavaScript disabled by default as well. Can you tell me more about those ads? I have Flash installed (but turned off) and never stumbled upon any of those.

[zot]

@anon - I was using an older version of Firefox, with (at different times) several different flash-blocking plugins. Maybe the browser version made a difference. It blocked maybe 80 or 90% of animated flash ads.

For sites like Youtube, i use a different browser with flash.

[Limeru]

I use Mozilla Firefox. However, I think it's got to the point that the top 3 browsers (FF/Chrome/IE9) are indistinguishable when it comes to usability, speed etc. The only reason people stick with what they use is that they're accustomed to it.

[zot]

I decided to try out the just-released version 6 of Firefox, and was surprised and disappointed to learn that a type of spyware is built-in.

Basically, URL hotlinks secretly go to a Google address, which are then forwarded to the actual address. So Google knows the websites we visit, but we don't (easily) know that we're being monitored by Big Brother. I'd like to know a way to disable this "feature" -- or maybe just go back to using an older version.

It would be nice if a web browser could allow the user to bypass these forwarded referral links (except for FST's of course) and jump directly to the end destination site -- rather than hiding the referrer from the user and deceiving the user into thinking that the actual desired address is being clicked on.

[anon]

I decided to try out the just-released version 6 of Firefox, and was surprised and disappointed to learn that a type of spyware is built-in.

Basically, URL hotlinks secretly go to a Google address, which are then forwarded to the actual address. So Google knows the websites we visit, but we don't (easily) know that we're being monitored by Big Brother.

So, let me get this straight... the browser rewrites every link to bounce through Google first, and deliberately hides that from you? That's disgusting.

[DarkAngel1337]

Chrome. Upgraded about a year ago from Opera, wich was a upgrade from Safari. At the beggining I was using IE, an7yway I never liked firefox.

[Glaucon]

I decided to try out the just-released version 6 of Firefox, and was surprised and disappointed to learn that a type of spyware is built-in.

Basically, URL hotlinks secretly go to a Google address, which are then forwarded to the actual address. So Google knows the websites we visit, but we don't (easily) know that we're being monitored by Big Brother.

So, let me get this straight... the browser rewrites every link to bounce through Google first, and deliberately hides that from you? That's disgusting.

Would love to see some proof. Why the hell would Firefox redirect you through Google? On the other hand, it's common knowledge that Google's Chrome assigns a unique user ID to everyone, tracking their browsing history.

[anon]

Would love to see some proof.

Same. I downloaded Firefox 6 a few days after reading zot's posts, and scanned the requests it made using SmartSniff. Didn't spot any Google redirects.

[superpagla]

I use Firefox most of the time...Chrome for some special sites......In-private in IE 8(very few)

[kallieb]

I love firefox. Its smooth. Works best with most sites, and the add-ons are an absolute bonus :)

[nova250]

I use firefox. Mozilla forever :)

[zot]

I decided to try out the just-released version 6 of Firefox, and was surprised and disappointed to learn that a type of spyware is built-in.

Basically, URL hotlinks secretly go to a Google address, which are then forwarded to the actual address. So Google knows the websites we visit, but we don't (easily) know that we're being monitored by Big Brother.

So, let me get this straight... the browser rewrites every link to bounce through Google first, and deliberately hides that from you? That's disgusting.

Would love to see some proof. Why the hell would Firefox redirect you through Google?

Sorry, I forgot to mention more specifics on Firefox's built-in spyware. It's on Google.com and News.google.com that a lot of Firefox's search results are actually redirect links that go to Google.com and then get redirected to the actual address. Google has been doing this --on and off-- for the past year or so. I presume Google's reason for *snooping* everyone's site visits is so they can push the most visited sites higher in their search rankings.

Even within a given set of search results, some links are referral links and others are not. I was just experimenting and discovered that Google's redirect links appear to target users with specific IP ranges (the same search results that have one or more referral links when using a US IP address contains zero referral links using German and Dutch proxies.)

In most web browsers, when you hold the cursor over a web URL link, the address appears at the bottom left corner of the browser. What has recently changed in Firefox is that when you mouse-over a link in Google's search results, the browser now disguises the Google redirect links to appear as if the links do not go to Google.com when they actually do. (but you can still sniff out those referral links if you pull up the page's source code)

It seems that No other URL redirect links (such as FST's own) are made invisible. Only Google's.

So why does Firefox do this? Apparently Google, Inc. paid the Mozilla corporation $104 million for this and other preferential treatments to be built into Firefox.


http://www.extremetech.com/internet/92558-how-browsers-make-money-or-why-google-needs-firefox
http://www.extremetech.com/internet/92558-how-browsers-make-money-or-why-google-needs-firefox


Final thought: Anyone know of any Firefox plugins that will remove this "feature"?

[Glaucon]

Sorry, I forgot to mention more specifics on Firefox's built-in spyware. It's on Google.com and News.google.com that a lot of Firefox's search results are actually redirect links that go to Google.com and then get redirected to the actual address. Google has been doing this --on and off-- for the past year or so. I presume Google's reason for *snooping* everyone's site visits is so they can push the most visited sites higher in their search rankings.

Even within a given set of search results, some links are referral links and others are not. I was just experimenting and discovered that Google's redirect links appear to target users with specific IP ranges (the same search results that have one or more referral links when using a US IP address contains zero referral links using German and Dutch proxies.)

In most web browsers, when you hold the cursor over a web URL link, the address appears at the bottom left corner of the browser. What has recently changed in Firefox is that when you mouse-over a link in Google's search results, the browser now disguises the Google redirect links to appear as if the links do not go to Google.com when they actually do. (but you can still sniff out those referral links if you pull up the page's source code)

It seems that No other URL redirect links (such as FST's own) are made invisible. Only Google's.

So why does Firefox do this? Apparently Google, Inc. paid the Mozilla corporation $104 million for this and other preferential treatments to be built into Firefox.


http://www.extremetech.com/internet/92558-how-browsers-make-money-or-why-google-needs-firefox
http://www.extremetech.com/internet/92558-how-browsers-make-money-or-why-google-needs-firefox


Final thought: Anyone know of any Firefox plugins that will remove this "feature"?

As far as I know, their contract only involves the search bar. Are you sure it's not the actual website that's redirecting you and not the browser?

[Microphoner]

Only Chrome.

[Mariusqk]

Firefox ftw