I've used Firefox for a very long time, I haven't really given Chrome a chance. What about you? Opera? Firefox? Safari? IE?
Firefox since 2007. I'm happy with it.
I use Firefox primarily, but Chrome is my go-to browser if I ever want to not use Firefox for whatever reason.
Firefox as main, Chrome for back-up if something happens to Firefox.
Why anyone would use IE or Safari is beyond me in this day and age, I don't understand.
Quote from: Nayrman on July 07, 2012, 04:10:43 PM
Firefox as main, Chrome for back-up if something happens to Firefox.
Why anyone would use IE or Safari is beyond me in this day and age, I don't understand.
I could swear Silver still adamantly uses Opera, but I could be wrong...
Quote from: Tupin on July 07, 2012, 04:18:51 PM
I could swear Silver still adamantly uses Opera, but I could be wrong...
Opera is fine for what it does, and it does a few things differently. I don't have a problem with it. I just meant specifically IE and Safari. They're both just so awful. <_<;;
First of all, Chrome blows Firefox out of the water in every perceivable way and all you kids using Firefox because it's "good enough" are no better than IE users you're making fun of.
Quote from: Nayrman on July 07, 2012, 04:10:43 PM
Why anyone would use IE or Safari is beyond me in this day and age, I don't understand.
And in response to this: IE8 still sucks and anyone on WinXP needs to switch (but they also need to upgrade their OS and thats a hell of a lot more important). IE9 on the other hand is perfectly fine for the average end user. It still sucks for developers, but what the hell I wouldn't have a job if web dev was easy.
Safari is a slightly more bloated version of Chrome and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it.
When Chrome crashes I use FF. When FF crashes I use Chrome.
Well, trying out Chrome. May take a bit to get used to, but I think I'll give it another shot.
Quote from: Tupin on July 07, 2012, 05:09:37 PM
Well, trying out Chrome. May take a bit to get used to, but I think I'll give it another shot.
Main reason I don't use it more is all my bookmarks on firefox I don't feel like copying them over. Chrome did have a feature that would import my bookmarks but it never worked for me.
Quote from: Kayo on July 07, 2012, 07:06:49 PM
import my bookmarks
every single browser ever can do this
Quote from: zephilicious on July 07, 2012, 07:10:07 PM
every single browser ever can do this
Except I don't feel like using any browser that's not Firefox or Chrome. Sue me.
The point was that it's something so trivial and easy and that any problems you encountered were entirely your fault.
I used to use IE. Then I learned it was poop.
I used to use FireFox, but something happened, it stopped working for some reason, so I got Chrome.
Still use it.
Though at work I use FireFox.
I don't really care, as I just need internet.
Quote from: zephilicious on July 08, 2012, 07:17:18 PM
The point was that it's something so trivial and easy and that any problems you encountered were entirely your fault.
I didn't spend more than like 10 seconds on it; honestly I'm content with Firefox.
Pale Moon.
Quote from: zephilicious on July 07, 2012, 04:56:03 PM
First of all, Chrome blows Firefox out of the water in every perceivable way...
uh ok then (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/windows-7-chrome-20-firefox-13-opera-12,3228-15.html)
I will admit that I haven't closely followed firefox updates since around version 6, and it looks like it's made some significant progress since then, but that test is hardly definitive (and still gives the victory to chrome anyway).
First, the areas chrome fall behind in are almost all tested in abnormal conditions (i.e. loading 40 tabs at once), or based on outdated technology (flash and java), whereas the area chrome wins are all related to standards compliance, security, and raw rendering speed.
The browsers are also tested without extensions, which firefox users are more likely to load up on in the real world.
And lastly the test ignores a couple of key real world scenarios that would give further advantage to chrome (browsing in one tab while loading others, etc.)
And after all that, we've still only compared performance. There's a whole host of other (more subjective) reasons to choose one browser over another.
Um, I use both Chrome on my desktop, Chrome and Firefox on my laptop, and Firefox and Opera on my netbook. I prefer Chrome, mostly because I'm a Google whore now.
We weren't originally discussing a relatively close victory, we were discussing "blowing out of the water in every conceivable way," which Chrome does not do. From a present-day purely performance-based standpoint, yes, it is superior (though FF recently won one of the GPs, so they're pretty darn close).
And as you just said, there are plenty of other personal reasons why someone might choose a browser. -From a privacy standpoint, FF is innately superior on account of not being owned by Google. Change the search provider to someone other than Google (Ixquick, DuckDuckGo, etc.) and block Google Tracking with ABP and Ghostery/Do Not Track+, and the amount of data they can aggregate on you is considerably less than they would be able to with Chrome.
-Subjectively: the options menu in Chrome really sucks.
If people enjoy Chrome, then I encourage them to use it. FF is not, however, a bad browser by any stretch of the imagination, and the forks like Pale Moon and Waterfox do a lot (http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/waterfox_chrome_sunspider.jpg?323f2c) to refine it even further.
So I exaggerated a bit to get my point across.
My issue was with people that make fun of IE users, yet never bothered to explore beyond the first 3rd party browser they discovered.
The current versions of all 5 major browsers are perfectly usable.
I use Firefox mostly for my laptop, and Opera/Chrome for my phone (Opera for casual web browsing, Chrome for Google stuff).
Oh yeah, my phone uses Opera. So yeah, that.
Quote from: Z on July 07, 2012, 05:08:56 PM
When Chrome crashes I use FF. When FF crashes I use Chrome.
So what do you use when they're both working properly?
I'm a Chromer. Mainly because Google is my life. I even use Chrome on my mobile now, so...
Opera.
Quote from: Dog Food on July 13, 2012, 08:07:26 AM
So what do you use when they're both working properly?
I'm a Chromer. Mainly because Google is my life. I even use Chrome on my mobile now, so...
Firefox. I used to have Chrome macro'd to my mouse but I've had computer issues in the past year and have been too lazy to redo it.
I haven't had any problems with FF in a very long time.
I use Chrome (EVEN THOUGH OMG NETBOT OMG GOOGLE)
I use Firefox for school stuff. It tends to be a tad more reliable. I'm all about dat speed Chrome has though.
I use Firefox and Chrome. Both at the same time, even right now. Though I would say Firefox is my preferred browser.
I kind of really don't like the way tabs are done in Chrome for the most part and how many processes it creates, especially when you start getting on up there in tab count.
I used to use Firefox, but my friend practically begged me to get Chrome (although now he uses Rockmelt, so what the heck). So, I've been using Chrome now. Frankly, I'd be fine with Firefox, but now I have an Android, and Chrome on my laptop links stuff with my phone, so that's cool.
The ironic thing is that Chrome on Android isn't that good according to user reviews; people say to use your phone's default or install Dolphin. Tell me, Google, why is your own browser not the best browser for your own OS?
Quote from: Trevelyan on October 04, 2012, 07:08:23 AM
I used to use Firefox, but my friend practically begged me to get Chrome (although now he uses Rockmelt, so what the heck). So, I've been using Chrome now. Frankly, I'd be fine with Firefox, but now I have an Android, and Chrome on my laptop links stuff with my phone, so that's cool.
The ironic thing is that Chrome on Android isn't that good according to user reviews; people say to use your phone's default or install Dolphin. Tell me, Google, why is your own browser not the best browser for your own OS?
well i mean, IE isn't the best browser for windows machines
I guess I could give my two cents.
Firefox on my laptop. Chrome on my desktop (this USED to be Firefox before the way it handled hardware acceleration caused the drivers for the old Nvidia GTX 560 card the desktop had to constantly kill themselves over. And over. And over again.).
I particularly like the usability and ease of adding onto Firefox-tons of extensions. I just had to ditch it on the desktop for reasons stated above and haven't really felt a strong need to change back...as I've found, despite being occasionally quite unstable (Chrome has to be the first browser, as far as I can remember, to make poop like FLASH AND SHOCKWAVE CRASH. WHAT THE FUCK).
Quote from: Custom on October 04, 2012, 11:54:00 AM
well i mean, IE isn't the best browser for windows machines any device
I haven't heard of anything better on windows phone, not that ive had any reason to look
and ie10 still has some advantages over other browsers on windows 8
and if we look back far enough im sure we can find an os that supports ie and nothing better
so intercourse you and your generalizations
I use Internet Explorer. Just because I don't give enough of a SEX to download any other one. So YOLO!