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[rridgely]

I thought this could be an interesting topic to get people arguing.
What web browser do you use 99.99% of the time and why?

I personally use firefox most of the time still. I do use IE every once in a while though.
I do not use chrome because I don't like the fact that it doesn't have an option to clear my browser history on exit without an extension. I personally cant stand having a ton of options start popping up everytime I type into the address bar.

[Winapp2.ini]

Mostly firefox, but chrome as well.

[Andavari]

Pale Moon.

[rridgely]

Had to look that one up andavari. What do you like about it over plain Firefox?

[hazelnut]

Opera mostly but also use IE9 on Win 7 sometimes.

[Winapp2.ini]

I used pale moon a while back, I liked it a lot but then it separated its profile from Firefox's, and I didn't care for that so much.

Pale Moon does not subscribe to the 6 week update schedule, if I'm not mistaken.

[nodles]

Firefox, but I've many different portable browsers on my USB stick.

[TheWebAtom]

Google Chrome; but I have Opera, Firefox (aurora), Safari and IE9 installed for testing code.

On my phone; I use Dolphin HD and occasionally the Android stock browser.

[nodles]

TheWebAtom, on 29 June 2012 - 03:22 AM, said:

for testing code.

Same here, also for testing different sites etc.
I've installed only Firefox and Waterfox, but I've Firefox, Chromium, Chrome, Iron, Maxthon, Opera, GreenBrowser, Palemoon and SeaMonkey as portable on my USB.

[Alan_B]

Palemoon.

I was using Firefox and wished for a portable equivalent and started using Portable Palemoon and comparing with Firefox.

Then Firefox started using us as Beta testers,
and formatting and readability of Gmail messages and forums became chaotic and unpredictable day upon day,
whilst Palemoon kept on working perfectly.

Mozilla Firefox is now totally absent
All I want or need as a browser is Palemoon, which still gets the same security fixes as Firefox.

[login123]

IE about 99.9 percent.
Blackhawk about .1 percent, cause it seems faster.  
I just install it when I want it, then it's gone after a restart.

[Eli]

I`m a Pale Moon user, previously on Firefox .It is more like a lighter firefox  version. Details: http://www.palemoon.org/

[Andavari]

rridgely, on 28 June 2012 - 11:20 PM, said:

What do you like about it over plain Firefox?

Pretty much everything! It's an optimized compile of Firefox and supports your Firefox profile using the migration tool (or you can manually copy your profile over), supports Firefox addons/themes, etc. I switched to it because it's on a more sane release schedule versus Firefox.

[DennisD]

Opera and occasionally Firefox.

Opera gets better and better as you learn it's many configuration options. It's great to run straight out of the box, but once you begin to learn how to tweak it's ini files, it's great fun to experiment.

Firefox is a close second for me.

[Super Fast]

login123, on 29 June 2012 - 06:14 AM, said:

IE about 99.9 percent.

Which Internet Exploder features do you use most?

- Active X automatic "drive-bye" malware installations, just from visiting a website
- Being slower than newer browsers
- Random crashes with lots of tabs, unless your on IE9
- Bugs in properly rendering websites
- In-ability to completely uninstall & re-install IE in the event of nasty malware to fix a badly corrupted install

Just wonderin! Actually, Internet Exploder really isn't that bad. Except for the problems listed above,

[TheWebAtom]

I'm sick of people bashing on the newer versions of IE. While I don't use it; it's still a damn good browser these days.

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- Active X automatic "drive-bye" malware installations, just from visiting a website

IE9 doesn't allow unsigned active x code to run

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- Being slower than newer browsers

If 1/1000th of a millisecond really matters to you, of course...

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- Bugs in properly rendering websites

That I can't argue with that. That said; I bet you can't name a single website that doesn't work in IE9.

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- In-ability to completely uninstall & re-install IE in the event of nasty malware to fix a badly corrupted install

That's because technically IE is a Windows component, not a Windows application. If it were allowed to be uninstalled; any application that uses the WebBrowser control or WebClient class would stop working. I do agree that it's a bit stupid that MS never decided to separate the network API's from the browser client; but I'm certain there is some semi-valid design reasoning at work here.

[Winapp2.ini]

IE 10 is still in development but its kind of nice. Doesn't let you linebreak with ENTER though..

[Corona]

TheWebAtom, on 30 June 2012 - 12:26 AM, said:

I'm sick of people bashing on the newer versions of IE. While I don't use it; it's still a damn good browser these days.


IE9 doesn't allow unsigned active x code to run


If 1/1000th of a millisecond really matters to you, of course...


That I can't argue with that. That said; I bet you can't name a single website that doesn't work in IE9.


That's because technically IE is a Windows component, not a Windows application. If it were allowed to be uninstalled; any application that uses the WebBrowser control or WebClient class would stop working. I do agree that it's a bit stupid that MS never decided to separate the network API's from the browser client; but I'm certain there is some semi-valid design reasoning at work here.

Fanboy alert.

[Andavari]

TheWebAtom, on 30 June 2012 - 12:26 AM, said:

That's because technically IE is a Windows component, not a Windows application. If it were allowed to be uninstalled; any application that uses the WebBrowser control or WebClient class would stop working.

Yup! I remember several years ago just for a curiosity test just before I was about to format and reinstall Windows I downloaded some freeware tool that could partially remove IE by only leaving behind the needed components, although it made Windows look silly and caused it to lose a ton of functionality.

[login123]

Super Fast, on 29 June 2012 - 09:56 PM, said:

... - Active X automatic "drive-bye" malware installations, just from visiting a website ...

I think SpywareBlaster helps stop that.  http://www.brightfor...areblaster.html
Says here that it works w/ win 7  http://www.sevenforu...ster-4-2-a.html
Very lightweight software.