Poll: Which browser should I use?

[Nouw]

Chrome. It loads the fastest, has a clean and simple look and is easy to use.

 

[TheSear]

Chrome, it is easier to use, and IE has always been unreliable (or it at least was when I used to use it.) Also, Chrome just feels faster.

 

[Evilpigeon]

I use firefox because the icon is cute :3

 

[miketehmage]

I've used every browser in the poll (except other).

My favourite is chrome. It's light, and it's fast. That's what I want from my browser. I don't want 12319238123871238138718392719873918723918237198371982371 toolbars.

IE, firefox and safari felt too bulky. (especially safari)

Opera I loved until it stopped working for me. I can't remember exactly what went wrong, but that's when I decided to give chrome a try. And I haven't looked back.

Also I've always heard that IE is pretty bad in terms of security, since you're looking for a reason to switch away from it.




Also part of my reasoning is that if there is anyone that knows how to make shit for the internet, it's google.

 

[CrystalShadow]

IE sucks because it is the only browser that requires extra work to make sites work. I also find it tends to be last to catch up at all times you can even see it now with html5 and CSS3. I like Firefox and Safari but chrome is a great choice too I have also heard good things about Opera but I dunno how quick they are on the ball or how much support it gets.

As far as I've been able to tell, opera seems to lead in terms of implementing official standards, but in practice it's not the most compatible browser around, precisely because it implements the standards properly...

I use it, and I've seen it myself. The list of compatibility problems is endless, because it has only about 1% adoption, so no-one tests things properly for it. (The opera devs do make great efforts to change the browser to deal with this though, and you'd be surprised how effective getting opera to pretend to be something else.)

You might wonder why a browser that implements web standards properly could be so unreliable though...

Well, the answer is many web sites don't use those standards properly. Especially because IE never implemented them correctly.

So... What happens when a browser that expects pages to use the official specs hits a site using some messed up hacks so it'll work with IE?

Well... Usually, the browser breaks, and the site doesn't load properly.

Standards are only as good as the proportion of people that actually pay attention.

Having said that, this problem isn't as bad as it used to be. I run into a lot less compatibility problems with opera 11 than I did when opera 8 and 9 were in use.

It's possible this is because of efforts made by the opera dev team, but it's also just about possible that web developers are starting to make a lot less use of weird non-compliant code.

 

[Solid Reece]

I changed to Firefox because of this website. On IE, it just wouldn't let me stay logged in so I tried a different browser. Still use Internet Explore on some occasions thought.

OT: Form my recommendation, If IE still works fine for what you need from it, I would just say, use it. It takes time to move you favorites, and set up the browsers to your liking. Its just a waste of time if IE still works with you to switch.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

I'm still using Internet Explorer.

Nothing wrong with IE. I use it for my RP forums because it has the best favorites system.

I use Firefox for the Escapist and YouTube because it loads fast.

I use Chrome for... everything else. Chrome loads a little slower, but when I don't trust a website, it's also the safest (best security features of the three, IMO).

 

[DazZ.]

I dunno...I want something...that's not Chrome...

Why are you open to Chromium but not Chrome?

there's so much hype and egotism surrounding other browsers that I don't much want to relate myself to them.

You seem to be at the exact same pettiness as this but for the polar opposite reasons.

No you wouldn't need to constantly update Chromium, it has the same style of silent auto update that Chrome does.

Download Chrome and open that at the same time as IE and see which loads seconds faster, that should help you visually see one minor improvement.
Then download every browser you can think of, try them all and pick the one that you like, if that happens to be IE then you can say why precisely to whomever gets uppity about what browser you use.

Just eventually move away from IE and make web development easier, it doesn't hold up to web standards very well (at least it didn't used to, which is where a lot of hate comes from it's better now but far from perfect).

 

[bullet_sandw1ch]

opera is the real innovator in the web browsing market, but chrome takes those implementations and does it better. firefox is slow, and IE is even slower.
WINNER: Chrome

 

[neonsword13-ops]

I just installed chrome.

I was looking for a picture to use for my own theme and it said the site with the picture (nothing porn related, I assure you, just Persona 4 wallapapers) gave me a trojan.

So, yeah, that scared the shit out of me.

 

[Olas]

Chrome has [a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hehijbfgiekmjfkfjpbkbammjbdenadd"]an extension[/a] that creates an IE tab inside your chrome browser. So any advantage IE had over Chrome is now history. Apparently Firefox has [a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ie-tab-2-ff-36/"]something similar.[/a]

The only reason I ever use FireFox is for Download Helper. Otherwise it's not much of a step up from IE IMO.

Opera is a cute, and quite fast, browser. I'd recommend it for anyone using a very slow computer.

 

[sethisjimmy]

Firefox. It's faster, lighter, and has more available addons than Chrome in my experience.

Not to mention it has working adblock that can actually block video ads.

 

[justnotcricket]

I've used Firefox foe years, but recently, it just started to get slower and slower until it just started crashing my computer.

Now I uses Chrome and I'm impressed with how slick it feels. It's faster and just feels less cluttered than Firefox.

Exactly this.

However, in the case of anyone except myself, I'd say 'whichever one annoys you the least'. In my own case this is, obviously, decided.