Poll: The best webbrowser

[MaraN88]

I just formatted my drive so I'm looking for a new webbrowser and I thought you could help me. These 5 are the ones I know about but if I missed one (yeah I know there's like a thousand) just lemme know.

Short summery of the 5 (correct me if i'm wrong)

Internet explorer:
As I understand it it's the most used webbrowser out there (duh) and somewhat slow, but it makes up for it by beeing dependable.

Firefox:
The addon king with tons of features (if you want them) and second biggest(?) Faster then IE if you use Fasterfox (might be faster anyway) but a bit of a boring choice if you ask me.

Opera:
I heard that this is the fastest webbrowser of them all. But not all that user friendly..

Safari:
Mac's standard webbrowser.. Don't rly know that much about it. Never tried it..

Chrome:
Googles webbrowser.. Just tried it and it seams kind of nice. Don't rly know a lot about this one either though...


So go on and vote and tell me what you use and for what reasons!

 

[meatloaf231]

Firefox, mainly because of it's security.

 

[Say Anything]

Opera for me, definitley. Though I do love Chrome's incognito feature, hahawink. Safari was nothing special, and I really just do not like Firefox. It goes without saying that Internet Explorer gets last for me.

 

[Avatar Roku]

FireFox. Keep in mind with IE, its tied into your computer, so if it goes, there's a chance your computer will too. Fire fox doesn't have that problem, it crashes, you just delete it.

 

[Wicky_42]

I think with the current version, Firefox is easily the fastest, though Opera is close. But I don't really care since my internet keeps stalling, making the difference null.

Then again, having used IE once the other day I could definitely feel the drag - it was just sooo... sluggish.

I used to use Opera, and everything it can do, so can Firefox. It's just a matter of which name you prefer, tbh. Havn't tried Chrome, and Safari is little better than IE.

 

[Aardvark]

There's only 5, they don't interfere with eachother and they're all free, so why not install them all and test them all out, eliminating each one as you see fit?

 

[xitel]

I switched to Chrome recently and I love it. I'll admit, I used to use IE for a long time because I was too lazy to switch, but when it started eating any free memory I had, up to the point where it was taking 900,000 bytes, I said screw it and kicked it out on the street. Although Chrome does have an occasional memory leak, it's still new, so I plan to stick with it for a while.

 

[MaraN88]

There's only 5, they don't interfere with eachother and they're all free, so why not install them all and test them all out, eliminating each one as you see fit?

True.. But it seams like a lot of work and before you know it there's an update that changes everything.. Rather just let other people do that for me

 

[pantsoffdanceoff]

Well, I have to go with Firefox, its a much more friendly browser. Also, thunderbird is nice as well to go with your Firefox.

 

[z121231211]

My favorite is Opera. Though I am trying out lolifox.

 

[Dudemeister]

Firefox, but Chrome is quite cool

 

[cleverlymadeup]

have to say firefox it's rather secure and fast and you can add stuff if you want or not

opera isn't bad, has a bunch of stuff that firefox has addons for by default

chrome is just a fancy clown suit for ie unless they've changed things around a lot, found that out by doing a test on something, both chrome and ie did the same thing and funnily enough had the same preferences

ie is a walking security hole, most of the security features in there are only suggestions

 

[MaraN88]

Wow.. An overwhelming lead for firefox, not that unexpected but still 21 to 2 ? Thats insane..

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

I love Safari.

I'd love Firefox more if it didn't need twice as much as Safari RAM to run it.

 

[implodingMan]

Firefox for my precious stumble toolbar.

 

[Radelaide]

I use Firefox and have just started using Chrome (Probably for the same reason as everyone else). Although, FF does take up a lot of memory. Om nom nom's mah RAM.

But FireFox any day of the week.

 

[RedDiablo]

I like Opera the most, cause I think it's the safest browser around, and I just like it. I like the widgets and all the other stuff thats on the panels.

 

[jasoncyrus]

I tend to use both IE and firefox.

IE because tbh it works 90% of the time (although for some reason at 5-6am every day reguardless of internet usage it'll slow down to a freakin crawl)

and FF because it works when IE is slow or generally refuses to work. FF tends to be a bit more versitile HOWEVER the developers somehow have yet to acknowledge how to make genuine commercial product addons work properly with all versions. Real player's video download adddon being prime with this. Every update FF decides it no longer wants to play nice with it.

I wouldnt touch safari with a 10ft barge pole to be honest, last i heard it was about as secure as a slice of swiss cheese.

Opera...relatively unknown news wise, doesn't seem to be able to do anything firefox cant do and doesnt stand out in anyway really.

Chrome...briefly heard of it a while back, havn't bothered with it though really. Firefox and Ie still do everything i need done.

EDIT: just saw the thing about firefox eating memory. It's got a nasty habit of having a memory leak if you run it for too long and grinds your entire rig to a halt or locks up every single browser window (reguardless of brand) until you shut down FF totally.

 

[Spartan Bannana]

I like Firefox, it's fast and secure and most video players work with it.

 

[Izerous]

My vote goes to FF. I'm a programmer and have to deal with the following a lot.

Exploder 6/7
Chrome for ever beta
FF2/3 (win and mac)
Opera
Safari (win and mac)

Opera has serious compatibility issues with flash/flex, JavaScript, and various plug-ins.
Clients refuse to work with Chrome until it comes out of beta, which may be never.
Safari is a necessary evil but I find it extremely slow compared to all the other browsers.
FF3 / IE7 are the most reliable from a programming standpoint but I hate internet exploder too much proprietary junk.