What browser do you use?

PsychoYoshi · July 10, 2012, 01:11:07 PM

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

zephilicious · July 10, 2012, 02:49:56 PM

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areas chrome fall behind in are almost all tested in abnormal conditions (i.e. loading 40 tabs at once), or based on outdated technology (flash and java), whereas the area chrome wins are all related to standards compliance, security, and raw rendering speed.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.

Rius · July 10, 2012, 09:38:15 PM

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.

PsychoYoshi · July 10, 2012, 11:05:23 PM

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 to refine it even further.

zephilicious · July 10, 2012, 11:25:54 PM

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.

jnfs2014 · July 11, 2012, 12:30:45 PM

I use Firefox mostly for my laptop, and Opera/Chrome for my phone (Opera for casual web browsing, Chrome for Google stuff).

Kayo · July 11, 2012, 12:58:55 PM

Oh yeah, my phone uses Opera. So yeah, that.

Dog Food · July 13, 2012, 08:07:26 AM

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...

Silverhawk79 · July 13, 2012, 09:49:34 AM

Opera.

Zero · July 17, 2012, 12:16:44 AM

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.

Custom · October 04, 2012, 01:18:15 AM

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.

… · October 04, 2012, 02:15:33 AM

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.

Neerb · 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?

Custom · October 04, 2012, 11:54:00 AM

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

The Seventh · October 04, 2012, 01:43:37 PM

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).