What web browser do you use?
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Sure, but the overall number of people who block ads is pretty low, Google gains more people using Chrome by allowing adblock (so attracting power users who recommend Chrome to their friends.)
Google has a conflict of interest with every free product and service they provide.
dirtyparrot
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Except for Maxthon, I regularly use all the other ones listed. I also use seamonkey.
Switched to Firefox several years ago, and have always been satisfied enough to not switch away until now. Ever since Firefox began having problems with Flash and videos in general, plus it's random near-crashes on my laptop, I've started switching between Firefox and Chrome.
So I put down Firefox since it's still in the lead by an ever slimmer margin.
So I put down Firefox since it's still in the lead by an ever slimmer margin.
Luckymoose
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Chrome has been the best browser for years. Firefox was the best prior to that.
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I get those too, which is why I switched to Safari for a while. It seems some scripts don't end and slows the laptop, a macbook if that matters, until the program crashes. I figured the support for macs was the problem, but I'm not sure.
This is a spurious opinion.
Chrome cannot be the best browser because of the lack of single-key tab-switching keyboard shortcuts.
DroopyTofu
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Internet Explorer. 
I use both Chrome and FF. I find FF's adblock more reliably blocks ads in streaming content, e.g. TV shows on major network and cable websites. However sometimes FF crashes when streaming which is usually when I fire up Chrome.
Can use mouse for that: "Click!' Done.
I can navigate tabs faster with single-key shortcuts than you can with a mouse.
I typically have many dozens of tabs open across several windows each of several browsers at any given time, and I'm much more efficient because of it.
Opera Opera and Opera since its early days. Awesome and innovative. I rarely have less than 10 tabs that never get closed.
IE10 is good.
wolfigor
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I mostly use Opera on my laptops due to it's many functionalities (in my view the best usability) and sometime Chrome (especially now that they removed auto-install of extension that was a huge security hole).
I gave up on Firefox: it's very slow to start, rather bloated in terms of consuming resources, and lack by default some usability goods found on other browsers (however one can start installing, updating, etc. a bunch of extensions to do the same).
In Opera I love the flexibility of its speed-dial and tabs.
Its tabs management is exceptionally good, simple, and sophisticated at the same time.
Just to say that you can group tabs and save "sessions" is a great plus (so I can easily separate work and personal browsing to resume it whenever I want).
Where Opera is really excellent is on mobile especially if you read a lot of articles or forums.
Opera Mini (the proxy version of Opera) is mandatory whenever you are on data roaming.
I gave up on Firefox: it's very slow to start, rather bloated in terms of consuming resources, and lack by default some usability goods found on other browsers (however one can start installing, updating, etc. a bunch of extensions to do the same).
In Opera I love the flexibility of its speed-dial and tabs.
Its tabs management is exceptionally good, simple, and sophisticated at the same time.
Just to say that you can group tabs and save "sessions" is a great plus (so I can easily separate work and personal browsing to resume it whenever I want).
Where Opera is really excellent is on mobile especially if you read a lot of articles or forums.
Opera Mini (the proxy version of Opera) is mandatory whenever you are on data roaming.
Sins of the father.
That is also a spurious opinion. I can switch multiple tabs on Chrome just as easily with multiple keys because the OS, alt and arrow keys are all right next to each other. I don't actually know if that works for windows but that's the setup for OSX and it works great.
I doubt that, as I always use mouse-clicks to switch. So it's a comparison between mouse-click and hitting a key. I can type pretty fast, but still prefer to click between tabs.
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