Best browser?
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- grafician
So what is the best browser right now?
Name and version please, and a quick "why" and "why not?"
Thank you.
- clearThoughts0
My dick. V.1.0
Guides me through life.- hahaspraycan
- You're still on version 1? I just upgraded to 8.1 myself, with built in virus protection...ismith
- I'm old school man.clearThoughts
- orrinward0
I'm on Windows and I'm using whatever the latest version of Google Chrome is.
I like it because:
It loads up the fastest
The omnibar is great
It loads pages the quickest for me
There are Javascript bookmarklets for whatever I personally need (Delicious-this page/Linkify)
It's easy to snap tabs out onto external monitors and back
It has exactly what I need with no extra crap that I don't.
- ukit0
Either Safari or Chrome - for speed and simplicity.
I don't know what they did to Firefox, but it runs painfully slow these days. However FF still has by far the best extension support.
- kingkong0
chrome
- ernexbcn0
Chrome, specially now that it has extensions, they only thing I dislike from Chrome is not being able to use it on my aging Powerbook (Chrome is Intel only)
- grafician0
Oh and I'm on Mac 10.5.8, using Safari 4, Firefox 3xx - latest versions - and I installed Chrome but I don't need it because Safari 4 has everything I need and more. Also I recommend Camino http://caminobrowser.org/ and Stainless http://www.stainlessapp.com/ if you need to try another browser.
As for Windows, Firefox and also Safari for Windows, latest versions.
- invisiblechamber0
firefox 2, but youtube support ends in 6 days.
ff update is no option. probably back to safari then.
- ismith0
BY THE WAY
http://www.qbn.com/topics/623384…
- GeorgesII0
Firefox 3,5
is pretty neat, I don't see what is wrong with it,
I tried chrome its pretty fast but doesn't have the dev bar yet so its no use for me,
safari just is lame, I'm on a pc and seems apple made it suck on purpose, I use ff on my mac at work too,
- raf0
Firefox 3.6
Chrome is basically the same browser Safari is, I can't stand how it reports to google every time I launch it and every time it can.
- set0
Firefox is pretty good but you can't drag an image straight into photoshop
Safari is pretty good but it doesn't have 'recently closed tabs/windows'
Chrome is ok but was still crashing a lot for me so i'll wait until they work that out.
I wish safari had recently closed tabs/windows. Its a small niggle but if you accidently close a tab that you have had open for a while and have visited a ton of pages since its hard work to go back through your history and find it, especially if you don't know what the title was.
By the same token I wish photoshop would recognise images dragged straight from firefox.
Small issues but still issues
- stewdio0
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Timeline people!
Here are some thoughts on Safari, Chrome, FireFox, and Opera for OS X:
http://qbn.com/topics/623384/.
- lukus_W0
I actually like Opera .. I don't use it - but I like it.
- 74LEO0
flock
- pango0
Netscape was great.
- SchOzzZ0
Firefox + Chrome
- Stugoo0
good and bad for browsers
ie8 is going in the right direction, but wont use it because everything else is better.
safari - quick, reliable stable, uses webkit, and has high css support. nice for iphone testing. but the lack of fullscreen really fucking annoys me so thats out.
chrome - renders so fast and reflects safari in all the renderings that i really want to use it. however I have concerns with privacy + google
Use this for personal browsing.Firefox - running slow because of the number of extensions I use but is by far my favourite browser for development for obvious reasons. and my most widley used interface.
- Ruffian0
Firefox 3.6
Chrome is good but doesn't support all the addons I'm used to in FF.
- jamble0
I've started browsing with Chrome, it's just the super speed that's impressive.
For work I'm still using firefox because the plugins are much better for development.