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What Web Browser do you recommend?

Microsoft IE
3
3%
Mozilla Firefox
43
44%
Google Chrome
39
40%
Opera
3
3%
Other
9
9%
 
Total votes: 97

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Grifman wrote:
bradcruz wrote:According to me Mozlia Fire Fox is best Browser. Because It works with most of operating platform Mac OS X,like Linux, and Windows. This graphic browser provide a excellent selection of features. Firefox was the first to have start tabbed browsing. This browser also provide anti-phishing protection,integrated download management, live bookmarking, incremental find using the Firefox toolbar.
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as of 1/29/11 - looks like chrome is gaining on FF
Microsoft IE
4- 7%
Mozilla Firefox
29- 48%
Google Chrome
21- 34%
Opera
5- 8%
Other
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Thought this was interesting.
CNET wrote:Just look at the browser market. When Microsoft settled the antitrust case, it controlled more than 90 percent of the browser market. In February, according to Net Applications, Internet Explorer held 57 percent market share. It's still the leader. But Firefox has 22 percent of the market, followed by Google's Chrome with 11 percent and Apple's Safari with 6 percent. Certainly one reason for that shift is that the rival browsers are every bit as good, and sometimes significantly better, than Internet Explorer.
To make a comparison with the above easier

IE - 57%
Firefox - 22%
Chrome - 11%
Opera - 6%
Other - 4%
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stessier wrote: IE - 57%
Firefox - 22%
Chrome - 11%
Opera - 6%
Other - 4%
That very closely matches what visitors to my store are using.
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2015 UPDATE SO, any of you want to change your votes? Any changes in opinion on Web Browsers? I'm finding - actually, for quite a while now - that Firefox seems buggy and slow. Any Web Browser out there that made you say Yowza!
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I pretty much exclusively use Chrome.. I'm not even sure how/when that happened, just all of a sudden I'm using it at work and home.. Safari is my backup for sites that don't render/behave correctly. Firefox is the new IE.. Bloaty and slow.
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I was Firefox, then Chrome.

I am contemplating switching to Vivaldi, but I'm not too sure as I have a lot of config involved in my current Chrome setup, with SafeScript and more.
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FWIW, you can install Chrome plugins into Vivaldi.
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Chrome at home, Safari at work (except for those stupid sites that we have that need me to use IE.)
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Chrome on every device except my phone. But I even have it installed there.
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Zaxxon wrote:FWIW, you can install Chrome plugins into Vivaldi.
Yeah, Vivaldi is Chromium based. It's just that this tech preview doesn't include much of an import function. There's no import FROM Chrome (you have to do HTML Bookmark export from Chrome first), and forget about all the extensions you customized.

I like the idea of the notes / contacts / mail right in the browser, and I can see how they can be hooked to Keep / contacts/ Gmail later, but right now... they're not that useful.

Also, there's a weird lag between when I pressed the button vs. when the page starts to re-render. Can't figure whether it's my setup or the browser itself.

Will try further.
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I didn't meant to imply that Vivaldi is in any way ready for prime time. Just clarifying that if plugins are the hangup, there is a way around it.
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I'm thinking of Chrome as my browser. I've heard some good things about Pale Moon which warrants further investigation. I really only need something generically stable though.
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Pale Moon is pretty fantastic. highly recommend.
Main features:
Optimized for modern processors
Safe: forked from Firefox and regularly updated.
Supported by a friendly, active community of users
Familiar, efficient, fully customizable interface (no Australis!)
Smooth and speedy page drawing and script processing
Increased stability: experience fewer browser crashes
Support for many Firefox extensions (add-ons) and themes
New: support for Pale Moon exclusive extensions and themes
Extensive and growing support for HTML5 and CSS3
Many customization and configuration options
Able to import existing Firefox profiles with the migration tool
it's Firefox with legacy code removed and using the old interface, if that interests you.
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I like Pale Moon and have just now made it my default browser. After just a day's use I'm impressed with how clean and fast it is.

Hopefully this will eliminate the script errors and crashing I've been getting with Firefox.
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Zaxxon wrote:I didn't meant to imply that Vivaldi is in any way ready for prime time. Just clarifying that if plugins are the hangup, there is a way around it.
Vivaldi hit beta today, and now directly supports the Chrome extension store. It doesn't yet sync your content and settings like Chrome does, but for one-PC use it's come a long way since those first Tech Previews.
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Zaxxon wrote:
Zaxxon wrote:I didn't meant to imply that Vivaldi is in any way ready for prime time. Just clarifying that if plugins are the hangup, there is a way around it.
Vivaldi hit beta today, and now directly supports the Chrome extension store. It doesn't yet sync your content and settings like Chrome does, but for one-PC use it's come a long way since those first Tech Previews.
Hey, look! It's me again! I've been using Vivaldi as my main browser on desktop for several months now. It's come a long way since the beta I last mentioned. Further, Vivaldi 1.8 hit today with some new features.

Their mobile release is still not here, and session/settings sync is missing along with it. Once those are there I think it'll compete very well with Chrome. Until then, you've got to be willing to live without those features. If you are, though, it's a great little browser. Really feels to me a lot like Opera did in the 1999-2005 timeframe, when it was kicking ass and taking names among geeks who wanted a ton of control over their browser and a more advanced feature set than the big browsers provided.

Anyway, consider giving it a shot if you haven't looked in awhile. The back-end is Chromium, so site compatibility really isn't an issue. Chrome extensions all work (or all the ones I use or have tried, anyway).
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Desktop Browser Market Share
BROWSER TOTAL MARKET SHARE
Chrome 58.53%
Internet Explorer 19.17%
Firefox 11.68%
Microsoft Edge 5.55%
Safari 3.45%
Opera 1.22%
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That really surprises me. The order seems normal but the big lead for Chrome and the poor showing for Firefox are both not what I expected. For that matter I'm a little surprised that Safari is so low but I'm not a Macbook person; maybe it really is bad.
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I've been slowly transitioning to Vivaldi. I'm not unhappy with Opera but Vivaldi feels more like the old Opera than the new Opera does. I just have to get my settings/bookmarks/logins/etc slowly transferred over.
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I'm still on Firefox because it has the best extensions still. (but use uBlock instead of AdBlock, it's far less processor intensive).

Tab Mix Plus is my killer app/ext (aside from uBlock), but I also use:

a JavaScript toggle (great for killing adblocking detection, and other issues
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I recently and reluctantly switched from years of Firefox use to Chrome.

I do miss a couple of key extensions that I really loved that were FF only, but 90% are on Chrome, and those that are on both seem to be more updated, integrated and robust in the Chrome version.

FF just became too damn slow and crashy in the past couple of years, and I did everything to try and remedy that from the user side.
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Carpet_pissr wrote:I recently and reluctantly switched from years of Firefox use to Chrome.

I do miss a couple of key extensions that I really loved that were FF only, but 90% are on Chrome, and those that are on both seem to be more updated, integrated and robust in the Chrome version.

FF just became too damn slow and crashy in the past couple of years, and I did everything to try and remedy that from the user side.
And with FF dropping support for NPAPI Plugins that advantage is going to continue to go away. Just curious, what are your most-missed extensions?
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Tab Mix Plus and the one that uploaded images automatically to imgur - with one right click (iirc) on any image, it would upload to imgur and put it into your clipboard for pasting. Pretty slick.
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The Imgur plugin for Chrome allows you to right-click to register, or you can capture an area of a page for hosting. It's very handy
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I'm still using Opera. I tried Vivaldi awhile back. Sounds like I need to try it again.
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It really has improved markedly in the past six months.
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Isgrimnur wrote:The Imgur plugin for Chrome allows you to right-click to register, or you can capture an area of a page for hosting. It's very handy
Hot damn! Time to get weird!

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That'll do it.
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Isgrimnur wrote:The Imgur plugin for Chrome allows you to right-click to register, or you can capture an area of a page for hosting. It's very handy
Which one? I saw about 40.
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It was the first one that came up for me from a "imgur" search in extensions.
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My tool tip says "...by Metronomik".
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Ouch, those permissions are scary. "Read and change your data on the websites you visit." "Read and modify data that you copy and paste." "Send notifications."
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Chrome is crashing on me a bunch, tried Firefox yesterday and had issues, so I'm seriously considering Edge. Anyone using it? I really don't want to use the others, I'm looking for something more mainstream.
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I tried Edge for a while, but didn't care for it. It is speedy though (or feels speedy). Probably because it's not loaded with extensions.
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FWIW, I've got no issues with Edge. Well, except for one older banking site that requires Java to deposit a check via my scanner so I use IE for that. Or (finally) their mobile app.
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Decided I'd better update my vote.
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Firefox released its new "Quantum" update today that's supposed to fix and re-design everything including the kitchen sink. I'm going to give it a whirl, as it says it is supposed to be faster and more efficient than Chrome. I have an older PC and laptop and that could be a good thing.
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Blackhawk wrote: Tue Nov 14, 2017 6:12 pm Firefox released its new "Quantum" update today that's supposed to fix and re-design everything including the kitchen sink. I'm going to give it a whirl, as it says it is supposed to be faster and more efficient than Chrome. I have an older PC and laptop and that could be a good thing.
I'm using it, seems fast!
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Definitely quicker! I am a sad panda over some of my lost extensions, a good half of mine are not compatible with the new engine. I already was transitioning to Chrome and now many of my missing extensions can only be duplicated on Chrome. Hmmm...

On another note, I've had a few crashes on the new one and it just seems to instantly open back up again afterwards without any input.
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