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26 Apr 2012, 5:29 pm

Chrome with the right extensions.


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26 Apr 2012, 6:22 pm

That's a tough one. I alternate from Google Chrome to Firefox, depending on whether or not Google Chrome is giving me issues.



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26 Apr 2012, 11:48 pm

I also alternate between Chrome and Firefox. I just like Chrome's interface better, but extensions in Firefox are more and easier to install. I'd use Firefox only for AdBlock Plus.


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27 Apr 2012, 12:34 am

I use Chrome because I like the minimalism. I use a laptop, and I don't want my screen cluttered up. I know that you can probably fiddle with IE and Firefox to make them more minimalist, but I respect Chrome for being minimalist right out of the box.



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27 Apr 2012, 8:16 am

SeaMonkey - because it all works.


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27 Apr 2012, 9:25 am

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Some Linux distros customise the look of Firefox with with appearance/layout add-ons, you should be able to disable it and use the default appearance/layout. The look of the default Firefox layout is almost identical to the Windows version.

Meh, I'm so used to the Chrome layout that I really don't want to switch.



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27 Apr 2012, 9:48 am

I used Internet Explorer for a long time, It had a load of bugs.

Crashes, slow responces, videos that would not play without a refresh and dont even try to "recover last session".

The final straw came when the browser outright killed the anti-virus and frequently overheated the hard drive.

I now use FireFox for its nicer looking interface that is less cluttered, loads without problems and is more secure, quicker responding, is not hardware draining and relatively bug free.

I am a person with one heck of a level of patience, but Internet Explorer took the cake.


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28 Apr 2012, 1:55 pm

I use Firefox because of the speed and stability. I tried Chrome and Safari, but Safari was slow, and neither of them allowed me to smoothly browse one tab while a page was loading on another tab like Firefox does. Maybe they fixed that by now, I don't know. IE just sucks, and that's no exaggeration.



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30 Apr 2012, 4:56 am

Opera is my favorite. I like its custom-ability and wide variety of available features.



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01 May 2012, 2:49 pm

I used to use Firefox, but I discovered that flash doesn't run quite as smoothly on FF and Chrome did it much better. Minimalist on screen icons. Very secure. The only issue I have with it is that AVG is saying it's using too much memory. Usually over 200MB.



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01 May 2012, 4:20 pm

I've just used Firefox for years, but thinking about trying Chrome



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01 May 2012, 7:59 pm

I'm currently using Firefox. I'm an open-source nerd 8-)



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01 May 2012, 8:06 pm

1. Safari.

2. Google Chrome

3. Mozilla Firefox.


I cannot abide the Microsoft product.


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03 May 2012, 12:52 am

I found some things don't work in Opera, though it's been too long for me to recall what. I noticed on Linux if you launch a browser session just to view a document, the entire last-used session has to open with it. That can be inconvenient.

I use Chrome on all platforms. I understand the ad blocker in Firefox can be convenient, I wish Chrome didn't allow popunders and I think I'd be satisfied. Early versions of Chrome had some problematic bugs but I haven't run into anything noticeable in the past year or so.

I don't buy that Firefox is efficient. I realize most machines these days are fast enough that it isn't a serious problem, but I can tell Firefox uses more resources than both Chrome and IE.



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10 May 2012, 10:59 am

Firefox and rekonq.
Is there still anyone who prefered Microsoft Internet Explorer?
Would anyone use Microsoft Internet Explorer if it wouldn't be on your computer when you install a windows operating system?



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10 May 2012, 12:23 pm

I prefer IE 9 to whatever the last Firefox was that I used. I believe IE is faster.

Back in the day I wouldn't touch FF because it rendered pages differently than IE, and I really preferred the way they looked in IE. Those are probably the old days now.