I've used firefox for quite a few years now. I've tried Chrome to see if it was any better, but quickly changed back. Opera is servicable, but it just seems very clunky to me.
They really need to add built-in PDF reading to Firefox though, it's the only thing I miss from Chrome.
By built in, are you talking native? I know Foxit Reader (which you guys ALL should be using instead of Adobe's shitty and slow reader) does support opening PDFs in Firefox.
Personally, I think Chrome is still missing too many features. I only use two extensions for Firefox (Download Statusbar and Adblock Plus), and I'm on the Aurora 12a2 build. What I like is that Firefox gives me a lot more options to screw around with, from cookies and identity management to RSS feeds. My FF already pretty much looks like Chrome, only having the single address/search integrated bar, a back button and home button. I think if it wasn't for RSS and the automated elimination of personal data, I would be using Chrome. I do need that "Private Browsing" instance, because there are times that I need to open multiple Google accounts simultaneously, so forcing Chrome to perpetually run Incognito isn't really a viable option.
Firefox. I keep trying to use Chrome and I do so for about a month or so then I always end up coming back to Firefox because I just like the feel of it soooooo much more than Chrome.
Chromium on Mac, Chrome on PC. I'm switching to Opera on Mac though because Chrome and Chromium keep locking up randomly when there's Flash stuff in more than one tab.
It was Firefox for a while. I downloaded Chrome at release and it crashed twice in 15 minutes, immediately uninstalled it. Gave it another chance in about a year, loved it ever since. And wow, 64% chrome in the poll. that makes me smile.
Firefox and Opera basically. I like opera for a secondary browser, but I have been using Firefox since it was 0.3 Phoenix. I will admit that after 2.0, the browser got pretty bad as far as now being a slog where it used to be pretty light weight when first installed with not much of the extra crap I will never use, but after they started hitting like versions 6 or so, it started to get way better in that sense.
BTW, I hate this new +X.0 release every month or so. I preferred when 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 where big departures or leaps rather than the way it is now. Sucks that they are just basically trying to catch up to chrome for no reason.
Been using Chrome for a few years and I can't go back to firefox. Even weirder is that I only use two extensions on Chrome and not a gazillion like I did with FF for some reason.
Voted Chrome but I'm starting to use Safari more. Xbox.com seems to have lots of peoples with IE (which, considering, is kinda' fucked up) and Fire Fox just fucks up lots. I've tried Opera before because their seems to be this vocal minority of people who say its really great but most websites don't support it which makes it not worthwhile.
The I use the most is Firefox. Safari only gets used because of my macbook and iphone defaults to it. I tried Chrome but I'm more comfortable with Firefox. For some reason, these discussions remind me of the web browsers war between Netscape and IE.
@courtney12490: Oh thanks I just checked the Chrome web Store, there are tons of great extentions and so far no need for updates wich is great I hated that about Firefox.
I recently switched to chrome, but i use FF for magnet links and direct download links, because for some reason these don't work on chrome. Direct links, at least for podcasts, just take me to a player in a new tab.
I still prefer Firefox over Chrome mainly because of the plugins I use (they still suck in Chrome)
I have Chrome installed as a backup browser, though.
but wtf is MSN Explorer?! another MS browser? who needs that?
MSN Explorer was an old browser released by Microsoft. I used in the early 2000's because I didn't know any better. But it is still a browser people can use (I have no idea why you would want to though). Here's some more info:
I still prefer Firefox over Chrome mainly because of the plugins I use (they still suck in Chrome)
I have Chrome installed as a backup browser, though.
but wtf is MSN Explorer?! another MS browser? who needs that?
MSN Explorer was an old browser released by Microsoft. I used in the early 2000's because I didn't know any better. But it is still a browser people can use (I have no idea why you would want to though). Here's some more info:
They really need to add built-in PDF reading to Firefox though, it's the only thing I miss from Chrome.
By built in, are you talking native? I know Foxit Reader (which you guys ALL should be using instead of Adobe's shitty and slow reader) does support opening PDFs in Firefox.
Personally, I think Chrome is still missing too many features. I only use two extensions for Firefox (Download Statusbar and Adblock Plus), and I'm on the Aurora 12a2 build. What I like is that Firefox gives me a lot more options to screw around with, from cookies and identity management to RSS feeds. My FF already pretty much looks like Chrome, only having the single address/search integrated bar, a back button and home button. I think if it wasn't for RSS and the automated elimination of personal data, I would be using Chrome. I do need that "Private Browsing" instance, because there are times that I need to open multiple Google accounts simultaneously, so forcing Chrome to perpetually run Incognito isn't really a viable option.
I just mean that in Chrome a PDF from a website will open in a tab instead of having to be downloaded which is really handy, there's workarounds on Firefox, such as having a PDF get opened through Google Docs but it's pretty ass in comparison to Chrome's implementation. I'll try the Foxit Reader implementation out, I've just been using the super barebones Sumatra for PDFs.
It's not a dealbreaker though, I mean I don't use PDFs that often but it is something I wish they'd add to Firefox already.
There is no best anymore. Only what you prefer, the differences between actual web browsing between Safari (OS X version), Chrome and Firefox aren't noticeable, the only real variables are start up time (I have an SSD so I don't care about this), how big a fan you are of extensions and memory usage. (Chrome eats memory like crazy when you get to a high number of tabs - not that I care, I have heaps of RAM)
Firefox just doesn't work quite right on 64bit. I always have it crashing or what not. On my older xp desktop, its perfect. Rarely ever crashes or anything.... But on my windows 7 64bit system...it does nothing but crash when the going gets tough.
Now chrome, you have to have some serious hardware, but if you do...it is the best. It takes up more of your ram and cpu usage, but it is less likely to fail compared to the others. I highly reccomend it for 64bit windows 7. Each tab in chrome, is its own.
They really need to add built-in PDF reading to Firefox though, it's the only thing I miss from Chrome.
By built in, are you talking native? I know Foxit Reader (which you guys ALL should be using instead of Adobe's shitty and slow reader) does support opening PDFs in Firefox.
Personally, I think Chrome is still missing too many features. I only use two extensions for Firefox (Download Statusbar and Adblock Plus), and I'm on the Aurora 12a2 build. What I like is that Firefox gives me a lot more options to screw around with, from cookies and identity management to RSS feeds. My FF already pretty much looks like Chrome, only having the single address/search integrated bar, a back button and home button. I think if it wasn't for RSS and the automated elimination of personal data, I would be using Chrome. I do need that "Private Browsing" instance, because there are times that I need to open multiple Google accounts simultaneously, so forcing Chrome to perpetually run Incognito isn't really a viable option.
I just mean that in Chrome a PDF from a website will open in a tab instead of having to be downloaded which is really handy, there's workarounds on Firefox, such as having a PDF get opened through Google Docs but it's pretty ass in comparison to Chrome's implementation. I'll try the Foxit Reader implementation out, I've just been using the super barebones Sumatra for PDFs.
It's not a dealbreaker though, I mean I don't use PDFs that often but it is something I wish they'd add to Firefox already.
Yeah, Foxit runs in a tab. I find it's far better than Adobe's ass-slow implementation on both their desktop client and what I remember of their integration in older IE versions.
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