Comments on: What Browser Are You Using – And Why?

By: glc

glc — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:20:06 +0000

I primarily use Opera (Why? Because I’ve been using it for 10 years and I like it) with FF as my secondary for sites that Opera doesn’t like.

By: Piedro (@Pedroble2)

Piedro (@Pedroble2) — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:06:49 +0000

I’m an XP user and was stuck on IE8 till reading the Insider article.
Downloaded Chrome and yes it’s much faster but I anm having a problem with the Norton Identity extension and there are some websites that do not load properly.

By: Andrey Yuzeff

Andrey Yuzeff — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:27:34 +0000

My favorite browser is Opera, but I also use FF, Chrome, Maxthon, both Comodos, Tor and Torch. Thus I have a full toolkit for any site.

Opera is moving from Presto to Webkit, so it definitely will gain popularity among browsers for desktop PCs.

By: Gina

Gina — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:52:00 +0000

I’ve been using Firefox and NoScript for years now because I also like the add-ons that are available. I’ve used FF on my last (and current) 3 or 4 computers now and I’ve never gotten a notice saying, “Sorry, this website has taken too long to load and was reset, try again.” Not sure what would cause that? I also have Chrome installed, but I, too, missed many of the add-ons I have with FF so I went back. Perhaps I should try it again since Matt mentioned it has added more add-ons now. Although I noticed Chrome loads pages faster, I didn’t think it was THAT much faster to switch from FF (that may be due to using ‘Noscript’). The only time I use IE is when I do state and local income taxes online (Federal works fine with FF). Although both places in PA say you can use FF, I’ve encountered problems almost every time; so I’ll use a FF add-on to ‘view page in IE’ and do them that way. Then it’s right back to my FF!

By: pogomcl

pogomcl — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:04:34 +0000

actually chrome sucks about double resources as FF and it is a pain in the ass to use. I can have 20 windows and 104 tabs open on FF and use about half of what chrome takes with 4 windows and 40 tabs, so I never know where you get this info. Moreover, it seems that there is never any real articles on this site. It’s always “What browser do you use?” “I hate FB” rant or “trash IE” rant… When it comes to doing much web work, FF still is far superior to chrome. Just the layout of Chrome and iinability to use plain text quickly makes Chrome suck. but worse is google’s override of personal settings on Chrome, you wouldn’t know because you’re in the US an would never comprehend the frustration of having all your work, pages, blogs being converted into a foreign language because google does this automatically based on your browser location.\

google overall has become a pain. So chrome is not optimal simply because of all the tricks google uses to be invasive… the constant hassles of being locked out of account simply because google demands your mobile phone, the pinpointing of your personal residency, release of your birthdate without permission, etc… google trumpets it protects privacy while violating it in every possible way. Chrome is just the feeder for google amassing tons of data on users.

FF never asks me for my telephone number, doesn’t violate my privacy, doesn’t put my whereabouts on a map where I can be easily tracked and attacked.

but opera is definitely the most reliable of the three.

as for “fast” this is probably the stupidest quality to market a browser. Most people don’t go about racing browsers. From this column, I know that web use gets limited to very few things.

so I never know where the claim comes that Chrome doesn’t eat as much resources when in reality it usually eats double the resources of FF and half the windows and tabs open. But then, I work on the internet, use my browsers intensely and don’t go about racing. Somehow uploading 60 and 90MB images day after day and recovering taxonomy, identifying species, writing restaurant reviews, etc uses a whole lot more internet resources than just opening FB, G+ or posting retweets on twitter.

but FF a resource hog? scarcely. Nowhere near that of Chrome.

By: Arnav Binaykia

Arnav Binaykia — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:10:15 +0000

Firefox

By: Mason Barge

Mason Barge — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:23:20 +0000

Firefox for me, nothing like it for working on websites. Firebug and Web Developer!

I like it anyway, despite its ineffecient use of resources. It’s friendly and customizable. My only complaint is that I can’t get CCleaner to remove cookies from it.

By: jlloyd

jlloyd — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:49:41 +0000

I’m a older guy, 70 yrs old. I don’t just use what’s in front of me But, I try and always keep it simple. I am a I/E user always been . As, anyone knows software is always de-bugged by the end user when the software is issued. I/E has had security problems and they are addressed by updates. I am not interested in using crome (GOOGLE) or anything associated with a company that offers a service and then exploits its use there of. Chrome’s look changes every 3 months, its search engine records your use so it can possibly sell you something. (not ethical). I don’t google anything, I am ok the way I am.

By: Rob Crombie

Rob Crombie — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:04:38 +0000

Chrome irritates me (smarmy arrogance, where they decide what it looks like, and how to use it)
FireFox WITH NoScript is the only safe way to browse the web

And there is an added bonus for FF users.
Go to Comodo’s web site and download IceDragon
It is FF, plus there are a couple of Comodo security features that you can use, or not use.
All the FF extensions, will work because it is 100% FF
When you install it, there is a checkbox that you can tick to make it portable.
So pre create a folder where you wish the portable version to be ‘placed’.
Then install NoScript, and fine tune it (IceDragon) to your liking.
Then copy the folder, with a different name. Do that as many times as you like, to have available, multiple IceDragons.
They will be independent of each other, as long as you don’t have multiple IceDragons running at the same time.
And if you choose, you can rerun the installer, and have an Installed version (not portable). I have done that as well.

Now who can argue with that ? (Blazing Saddles, in the Church),
Rob

By: Herman Kretinburger

Herman Kretinburger — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:19:11 +0000

I use Opera mainly with Chrome as a backup.I really cant fault Opera though.