Google Chrome vs. Internet Explorer vs. Mozilla Firefox

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I prefer Firefox above all the others for is security and expandability even though it is
a bit of a memory hog. Right now with only one tab open it is using around 240 megs of
memory. Opera with 30 tabs open is only using 20 megs.

I usually use chrome and firefox at once, FF for the add-ons, but chrome when I just want to play or something because it's much faster. I refuse to use anything but chrome at school, the internet connection there is horrible and the computers are about ten years old, it's slow enough using chrome, FF and IE are a nightmare there.

I watch YouTube videos on FireFox. You just have to install Adobe Reader. It should ask you when you try to watch a video on the YouTube website.

You can also watch YouTube videos on Safari without any problems.

I prefer Internet Explorer for cut and paste web links, but I use FireFox and Safari for pretty much everything else.

For the most part, I can't tell the difference between Chrome and IE8 for typical usage. Each has a few features the other doesn't. Each is a tiny bit faster than the other in a few niche scenarios. Both of them render a majority of sites properly, there are a few brain dead sites that don't work right in Chrome.

Firefox has a richer network of plugins etc, but I don't care enough to use them. It has never rendered everything completely right, which is an immediate deal killer for me.

I like Firefox because of Ad-Blocker Plus however Google Chrome runs nice on Low-End and older hardware.

"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. "

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Firefox renders code correctly - its IE that stuffs it up and forces web developers to add "IE hacks" to get the thing to do as its told - many older sites are full of code errors because before FFx became common coders were forced to put the errors in to make the blimmin thing work... Note the "compatibility mode" button in IE8 - this is because IE8 ALMOST displays code correctly in the new versions but has to make allowances for its own messups in old versions

As for google chrome - thats one of the biggest spyware scams ever i think - anything you do gets sent back to good ole google At least it renders the darn code correctly though
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Firefox with a bunch of web developer addons loaded is my choice
Oh - and tabmix+ addon - i love that undo close tab button

I don't care what the reason is - which browser is more standards compliant. That is a matter for web developers. For a user, it doesn't render things right.

By the way I have full Chromium source code. I'm tempted to look for the places it phones home, but no time for that.

I think so, plus google is corporate so I suspect chrome is the next internet explorer in waiting, the more popular it gets the more hacked it will become.

neither... still have yet to try chrome, can't stand the way firefox displays, it's only facntion for me is to watch streaming vids, I am a hard core IE'er but since IE7, the most recent upgrade, what ever it's last upgrade version prior to eight was. I've had consistent issues w/it's tab fuction freezing and rendering the browser unresponsive and not navigating properly from one sub apge to another or form sub page back to main page on pretty much every single website I use with any level of frequency.

Firefox 'cause of Greasemonkey. Greasemonkey rules.

I've yet to run into something that doesn't render properly in Firefox, except as a result of scripts being blocked, which I do for security reasons.

And as an aside, FF is not really at the forefront of standards-compliance. Chrome, Opera, and Safari/Webkit all beat it on that count.

Maybe not imperfect in deviating from standard, but it doesn't really look good. Too lazy to provide examples, it's true of almost any site.

I can't see much difference at all in page rendering between Gecko and Webkit, and those are really the two major rendering engines out there now. I mean, if you try the badly-hacked-together adblockers for a Webkit browser, rendering gets screwed up, but aside from that either one seems to get pages correctly.

I can't speak as to IE because I seldom use Windows, and when I do I've only ever visited on site in IE: mozilla.com.

Very minor s*** like line spacing (by a few pixels) can be slightly different between the two. It's enough to annoy me.