Browser battles: Which browser is best for you?

Which Internet browser do you prefer?

  • Internet Explorer

    Votes: 17 7.4%

  • Firefox

    Votes: 140 60.6%

  • Google Chrome

    Votes: 38 16.5%

  • Safari

    Votes: 7 3.0%

  • Opera

    Votes: 26 11.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 3 1.3%
  • Total voters
    231
I use FF with plugins for web development and debugging. But for browsing, Chrome is the bomb.
 
Opera 9.6

Widely regarded as the best browser on mobile platforms, Opera’s dominance on handhelds shows in its PC browser version with its speed dial feature. This offers one-touch access to favourite sites, stored in one of nine quick connect slots, much like you would be accustomed to on a cell phone. A new feature on Opera 9.64, Feed Preview, enables you to preview the content of a feed before subscribing to it. With a miniscule 5.4 megabytes footprint, Safari consumes little space and almost rivals Chrome for speed at times. However, it does lack support for some sites.
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Typo.
 
Garyvdh said:
Still use Firefox predominantly. Those people who don't like Firefox just don't know how to use it or how to install add-ons. Firefox with add-ons is ten times better than any other browser out there. But loading more extensions does slow it down. When I have to check a website quickly I will just load up Chrome. But Firefox stays open to this board and to Gmail for 99% of the time my computer is on.
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Yeah I switched to FF too, because I was always a big Netscape fan, that being my first browser since 1995. If Netscape was still around I'd go with that though. Opera is nice too, used it in the the early 00s but now Mozilla FF.

On the Mac which I don't use much for internet, I use Safari, it's good enough.
 
Firefox with adblock plus! After that I don't know how people can use another browser...
 
FIREFOX is the BEST.

It is the most secure browser when combined with the Ad-Block and Noscript plugins, and consumes far less bandwidth than Internet Bloatplorer, Sucksfari or Gurgle Chrome.
 
Opera FTW

I use Opera Mini on my phone, and Opera on my netbook as it has a handy "fit to width" feature which makes viewing pages on the 7" screen on my eeepc easier.
 
Firefox used to be my browser of choice mainly for the addons and it's stability. I have tried using IE8, Chrome and Opera and found that Opera Version 9.64 works best for me merely for the Javascript capablities (Opera seems to process JS better than any other browser). I just tried Opera 10 beta and have been blown away, great job.

It is all about what browser fits your needs the best so would be very difficult to say which is the #1 browser as they all have their own strengths and weaknesses but I could say in order of preference:
Opera > Firefox > Chrome
 
in order of use

1) Fire fox
2) Internet explorer
3) chrome
4) opera
 
Used FF for years until I tried Chrome and since then it's been Chrome all the way. With the new release I've noticed few if any bugs. I love the thumbnails and the stability achieved through each tab or window running independantly from each other.

Would be nice if Orbit would sync and recognize Chrome but there issues there which is a minor irritation and the only reason I still use FF from time to time...
 
Firefox 3 for me, no doubt. Having around 12 tabs open simultaneously, with a few add-ons like Adblock Plus, DownThemAll and NoScript, makes FF an extremely stable and gratifying browser for around 4 hours per day Internet time. It has never failed me and continues to function like a charm.
 
I've tried them all. FF in my opinion is the best all-rounder.
 
Use a mixture of mainly ff (both windows and linux), epiphany and opera mini
 
I used 4 out of the 5 browsers mentioned - only one I haven't tried [yet] is Safari.

I don't use FF anymore - it kept on crashing a few minutes after using it. Couldn't even sort that out with numerous re-installs so I ditched it some time ago.

Currently I use the other three (Opera, Chrome, IE) on a daily basis. In order of use: Opera (v10beta), IE, Chrome.


Lydon said:
Funny enough, I just opened MyBroadband in order to bookmark it after switching back to Firefox from Chrome. The reason being that Chrome is doing an annoying thing in the form of grinding to a halt when I open more than 3 tabs. Could be a Windows 7 problem. Hopefully they fix it soon, as I love Chrome. But Firefox it is for now.
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I've found Chrome to have a memory leak problem. With one tab open my memory usage was +/- 230MB, while on Opera with 10 tabs open I was using +/- 130 MB and one of the tabs open in Opera was the one in Chrome. I'm using Vista Home Basic.
 
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