Favorite Web Browsers

[Zelig]

If I'm right, if you type about:config into the address bar, it might be there. Anyways there's a ton of other options there.

No keyboard shortcuts can be modified from anywhere in the Firefox GUI without addons.

 

[Mr. Keith]

Been using Google Chrome today because something is wrong with my Firefox and I am too lazy to fix it.

Chrome is still very buggy. I might use it all the time if it worked right.

 

[carmen510]

Chrome and Firefox. Although I have used Internet Explorer on occasion and Opera very rarely.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

No keyboard shortcuts can be modified from anywhere in the Firefox GUI without addons.

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maybe i was thinking of an older version. or something.

 

[Ayatollah So]

Chrome is still very buggy. I might use it all the time if it worked right.

When I tried Chrome, the scroll-wheel on my mouse wouldn't work right. That was an absolute deal breaker for me.

Have they fixed that yet? Someone please wake me when they do.

 

[carmen510]

It's working fine for me, I dunno what your mouse is doing.

 

[Mr. Keith]

The wheel works, but I can't press in the third button and scroll. That bugs me.

 

[Nials]

Google Chrome because of its blazingly fast V8 engine. Mozilla Firefox for its features.

 

[Aramazd]

I've been using Google Chrome for a while now, it's pretty much replaced Opera and Firefox for me. Although I still use Firefox occasionally, as I prefer the UI to Chrome.

I tried IE8. It's a nice browser with plenty of functionality if you use IE7Pro, but I find that tabs crash way too often.

 

[minozake]

Firefox, ELinks2, and Midori are my three.

 

[IamJohn]

Firefox for the addons (ad block!), then IE for the school sites that require it.

 

[El Koeno]

Firefox for the addons (ad block!), then IE for the school sites that require it.

Why not use IETab?

 

[Turner]

IEPro has adblock and a lot of the functionality I was looking for (and got) in FF and Avant. Using it w/ IE8 on my laptop and it seems to work well.

 

[Modeltrainman]

I like Internet Explorer 8.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Opera, Opera and then Opera. I only revert to IE8 when I go to two particualr sites that don't support it.

 

[El Koeno]

Opera, Opera and then Opera.

Same here. Although I sometimes use Opera as well.

 

[classical_hero]

Right now I am using Firefox 3.5 and it is much faster than the old version 3.0 which was what I had before. Before I used Firefox I used Netscape, but it was apoor browser, but it did what i needed back then.

 

[Zelig]

Right now I am using Firefox 3.5 and it is much faster than the old version 3.0 which was what I had before. Before I used Firefox I used Netscape, but it was apoor browser, but it did what i needed back then.

I'm pretty skeptical of people claiming they notice a speed difference between versions of browsers, without visiting benchmarking sites.

I'm on a 4 year-old computer, and every browser is pretty much the same speed for me; really fast.

Internet speed has the largest affect on browsing speed, followed by familiarity with the browser and the way it's used.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Nothing to be skeptical about here. There is a very noticeable difference between Firefox 3.0.11 and 3.5. 3.5 Uses a new javascript engine that is much faster. In fact, even when 3.5 was still 3.1 alpha, it was already much faster. It just had a few glitches and bugs, but even then I used it quite extensively.
The difference is even more noticeable when you have more extensions installed.

 

[Nials]

Firefox 3.5 is indeed a lot faster than 3.0. I benchmarked both myself and noticed a respectable increase, but Chrome still largely wins out in the end, which is the sole reason I use it.

I do miss support for extensions though.