What Browser Do You Use?

[ControlJunkie]

Same here, even though the IT guys at work give me grief for it!

Not directing this at you (or anyone else for that matter), so please don't take it that way

I'll be the first to say that Firefox is nice, although IMO Opera is superior, but as an administrator/infrastructure engineer, from a support standpoint, all of them suck the big one compared to IE. Yes, 6 was awful, but 7 & 8 have made improvements, and they have made strides to adhere to more standards. Still not quite there, but it has gotten somewhat better. Still, case in point, we had an issue going on where, after implementing some mandated security standards, our corporate intranet homepage was prompting users for their credentials in both Firefox and IE. I knew what the fix was immediately, and for IE, using Active Directory Group Policy, I was able to implement that fix in less than 5 minutes. 15 minutes later, the problem was resolved for 2500 machines site-wide. Unfortunately, for Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari, and many others, it's not quite so easy. Telling some of the people here to go to about :config and change network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris would be equivalent to asking them to translate the Magna Carta. Another alternative is asking support personnel to go touch each individual machine and make the required changes. That's about as much fun as stapling your bits and pieces to a burning building. So my point is when your support people at work look down on people using a 3rd party browser, it's not to be jerks, there is actual reasoning behind it -end of rant And to answer the OP, I use IE7/8, Firefox 3.5.6, and Opera 10.10. I refuse to use Chrome Each of them has their advantages on different pages, and I've got it down to a science as far as which one to use on which page. As I said above, Opera probably is my favorite, but I normally have all of them running at the same time, and switch through pretty regularly. I'm happy with all of them, but if Adobe would put out a 64-bit version of Flash, I'd be very happy!

[aca247]

How about this: go to getfirefox.com and download Firefox. You'll see what the differences are as you use it.

thanks for the advice iacas i had used ie all my life but firefox is so much better

[HoosierGolfer]

I use I.E 99% of the time but for whatever reason I can't get the video's here to work so I use one called Flock when I'm here.

[ET-Taylor]

Mozilla Firefox or Safari i don't like IE

[zeg]

Firefox. Very occasionally Safari if something seems broken and I suspect it might be a FF problem.

[Fastrack]

IE and Firefox, probably half and half...

[misty_mountainhop]

Firefox and a bit of Safari. Dislike IE and pretty much all Microsoft software to be honest......

[wmiller]

Firefox, almost exclusively. Occasionally I'll bring up Safari if I think there's a problem with FF and a particular website, but that has been occurring less and less of late.

[nevets88]

I use IE 7/8, FF, Safari, Chrome and Lynx.

When I specifically want to use FF extensions, like Greasemonkey, I use FF.

When I use a Mac or iPhone, I go with Safari, although sometimes I like Chrome.

When I'm on an underpowered machine, I like Chrome or when I'm using some form of Google App, I use Chrome as well - it seems a little zippier.

When I work, I use IE 7/8.

When at the command line, sometimes Lynx, a text based browser.

One more thing. Many good and useful extensions/add-ons are free or reasonably priced for FF. On Safari, you usually have to pay and usually more than FF extensions. For example, I have a free page capture FF extension. Works great. On Safari, something like Snapper costs $10 and isn't as seemless as the FF extension.

[Meddle]

I've tried a heap of browsers over the years but I keep coming back to Firefox. Kind of a hog on my netbook, but its so convenient and comfortable. Gave up on IE and Microsoft a while ago, now a dedicated Linux guy.

[Cody Hancock]

I use Firefox.

[flopdarock]

used ff for the longest but its a memory hog... now im using chrome and so far im liking it most of the time

[jamo]

I used to use Firefox, but it didn't work to well on my old laptop. I would try to force quit it and open a new window if it froze, but it kept telling me it was already open and wouldn't let me open a new window. So i started using Chrome, and i use a little Flock to which is made by Mozilla, so it is basically a stripped down Firefox.

[ERC7.5]

Google Chrome at Home and IE8 at work (not by choice). May look to switch to Chrome at work soon.

[Jay-Bird]

Safari.

[Doctorfro]

Firefox and Google Chrome on my pc. Safari on the mac

[finoky]

I use Firefox exclusively.

[Phil McGleno]

Firefox. Can't stand the steaming pile of poo that is Internet Explorer. Don't like that one from Google. Haven't tried anything else.