Poll: What is the best web browser, in your opinion?
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I'm curious to see what browsers people favor. Want to explain it? Leave a comment. If you chose other, leave a comment telling what it is and why you think it's a good browser.
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58% (31)
26% (14)
5% (3)
1% (1)
5% (3)
1% (1)
Aug 3 2010, 6:11 am
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Ryuk25
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I use to use Firefox but I used it for 2 years and I felt I needed something new I switched to Opera 10.60 but it was way to buggy I only used it for like 3 days then I switched to Google Chrome I love it, but opera has a nicer interface.
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The 2 people who selected IE should be shot.
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Internet Explorer is superior in so many ways.
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For me it's either Google Chrome or Opera. If you have enough RAM (I only have 1GB and I'm just fine) then I say Chrome is the way to go. Not only is it the most stable out of everything if you can deal with the RAM of running all those separate applications, but it's also very simple and user friendly. To add to that, Chrome has been proven to be the fastest browser out of all of them. Opera on the other hand is also just fine. The interface is fully customizable and it's plenty fast. I've had no stability problems, but the reason Chrome beats everything there is because it takes an approach with handling the tabs in which each tab is a completely new Chrome program running. This way, if one crashes then the whole browser won't crash if there's more tabs open. If you like Firefox, I don't really get why. I think Firefox users are just too attached to their ugly, clunky, slow, and unstable browsers to have an open mind. They are welcome to debate that though.
I'd like to add that Chrome has had extensions just like Firefox for some time now, so that's not an argument anymore for Firefox. | |
I see no better things in IE than MF. Firefox has pretty much everything IE has, and Firefox can even be customized. Plus, IE tends to stop responding a lot.
(My Mom had IE, once I showed her Firefox she just had to get it.) | |
Fugsnarf wrote:
Chrome is superior I'm not too sure about the faster thing. I recall running a java program in the web browsers to see which browsers would use up less CPU. Internet Explorer was the worst, but I didn't see much difference between Firefox and Chrome. Chrome isn't all Google is cracking it up to be. | |
Fugsnarf wrote:
Firefox users are just too attached to their ugly, clunky, slow, and unstable browsers to have an open mind. They are welcome to debate that though. I'll grant you slow, but I'd say "ugly" and "clunky" would depend on the individual configuration. I've never had a problem with stability on any browser, except for IE and Safari. I think Firefox's level of customization and power still beats the competition, and I think it finds a good balance between ease of use for those who are not "power users" and access to advanced features for those who are. For example, just the other day I popped into the about:config page to change the links' behavior so they only open in a new tab if I middle click them, regardless of whether or not the link's target was a new window (and it also had an option to still allow javascript-based popups so some forms aren't all screwed up!) (Edit) I looked up some more info about Chrome, and while it doesn't look like it currently has an about:config page (it does have several others, including about:internets) it seems enough people are asking for it so hopefully it will some day. I'd like to add that Chrome has had extensions just like Firefox for some time now, so that's not an argument anymore for Firefox. Good to hear. Maybe I'll give it another try now. I see most of my favorite extensions finally have Chrome-equivalents available. | |
Google Chrome is good, it's fast and simple. But it has it's cons for me personally, I hate how it wants to kill every page I visit. But I love how it starts up faster and I save more time browsing with Chrome than I do with Firefox. Firefox is a mess, always crashing and slow as hell to start up, the web browsing is alright too but Opera and Google Chrome are clearly superior.
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Google Chrome is just faster in my opnion.
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Jedioh wrote:
Google Chrome is good, it's fast and simple. But it has it's cons for me personally, I hate how it wants to kill every page I visit. But I love how it starts up faster and I save more time browsing with Chrome than I do with Firefox. Firefox is a mess, always crashing and slow as hell to start up, the web browsing is alright too but Opera and Google Chrome are clearly superior. Hahaha, always crashing? I run several tabs, including YouTube and some Java web-based applets at the same time and don't experience these sudden crashes. Most of the crashes I've experienced were in IE. What are you doing in Firefox to make it crash all the time? | |
EmpirezTeam wrote:
Hahaha, always crashing? I run several tabs, including YouTube and some Java web-based applets at the same time and don't experience these sudden crashes. Most of the crashes I've experienced were in IE. What are you doing in Firefox to make it crash all the time? I -have- had Google Chrome crash, but it's only been in certain situations where I copy and paste text over existing text. It doesn't happen always, but it's kinda frequent. That's the absolute only issue I've had with Chrome besides the RAM usage. | |
All browsers crash and all browsers have exploits. Its a matter of market share which determines the amount of known bugs and security exploits a browser might have.
Just the other day, an application got installed on my machine through a FireFox exploit. It could have nuked my system but luckily (and hopefully), it did little harm. It was an .exe and it could have totally owned me. It got on my system by simply navigating to a website. I have a bit of experience with browsers and hands down, the browser of choice is FireFox. Chrome comes in second because it's light weight but the speed (myth) is mostly unnoticeable when you have a high speed internet connection. Opera is 3rd because of its leadership in standards support but its interface has always... always... sucked. Safari just sucks in all possible ways. IE is last because it has a history of exploits and has always lacked standards support. Even with IE8, they came close but it still lacked customization and has suffered from performance issues. IE6 was so far ahead of the curve, Microsoft literally moved on and had declared the browser war over. Oops... and so began their fall... and eventual rise. All else is really a crap shoot. There are other browsers but you must understand... staying on top of security and bugs requires a LOT of time and money. Going with some "lesser" browser can be very risky. If the top browsers struggle to stay on top of exploits, how could anyone else? With that said... the game will change very soon. IE9 will ship with hardware support and it will change everything. While hardware support has been available in various browsers (FF), the larger part of the market share has not yet experienced it. That means... most developers haven't yet considered it. Once we get web content (games) rendering with hardware support, the web will change overnight. At first, it will be the ads. They will get even more fancy and annoying. Then comes the interfaces and menu's. Eventually the games will start to pop up. IE may yet lead the pack once again but only time will tell. People who are anti-ms will spew what they may. It's what they do. Just know that their children will spew anti-google stuff one day to. What can you do? Although, they clearly are in the right when it comes to the last couple of versions of IE (among other things). Point to take from this. Install all the top browsers. Pick one that you feel good about. When new browsers come out, try them and see if they make you feel any better. It's largely personal. Each of us browse the web a little differently. Each browser provides a slightly different experience. Which one do you prefer? Only you can answer that. With all that said...my current preference is easily FireFox. However, that can easily change. I'm not married to my browser. It's a tool... and nothing more. ts | |
Tsfreaks wrote:
Just the other day, an application got installed on my machine through a FireFox exploit. It could have nuked my system but luckily (and hopefully), it did little harm. It was an .exe and it could have totally owned me. It got on my system by simply navigating to a website. The speed is not a myth. Just pop something related to that in a search engine and you'll find all the proof you need that everyone finds Google Chrome to be faster than anything else out there. Also, you gave nothing to support Firefox, you simply said it's your preference. | |
Fugsnarf wrote:
Tsfreaks wrote: If by proof, you mean those speed tests involving bullets and electricity... I've seen them. I've also heard a lot of speculation about those tests. Besides, the best test is simply browsing the web and I found the differences between Chrome and FF to be mostly unnoticeable. Why do I prefer FF? In priority order. - It's the only browser that lets me (with plugins) manage tabs the way I want to. - It's more performant and stable than IE - Provides large selection of plugins and customizations | |
Tsfreaks wrote:
Why do I prefer FF? In priority order. Sorry, Ts, but I just gotta defend Chrome here. I don't really understand the deal with tabs you're talking about. Chrome lets you move the tabs around just as you please. You can even pin tabs to come up every time you load the browser and just to make them smaller and stick to the side. You can also change the theme of the tab's looks just like in Firefox. FF is more stable than IE, while Chrome is more stable than FF. Each tab is a different application. I can crash one tab (which doesn't happen often, only under one specific circumstance I've found which I've reported) and everything else will stay intact. They aren't all bound by one big, slow, Firefox browser. Chrome has a very large selection of extensions and customization options available. That argument isn't valid anymore. | |
Fugsnarf wrote:
Tsfreaks wrote: The most important thing for me was to protect my tabs from being blown away. Primarily... I was sick of my Pandora tab being navigated. I wanted every navigation to occur in a new tab and absolutely never blow away my Pandora (streaming music/movie) tab. Opening a webpage from my email (new tab), searching (new tab), opening a favorite (new tab). The last time I ran through the major browsers looking for this ability, FF did it the best (with addons). Last I checked (albeit, some time ago), Chrome did not provide full support for tab lock down. I'll give Chrome another chance today thanks to your persistence. Lets see how well they support my base requirement. ts | |
If you pin a tab (right click, "Pin tab") it will never go away. It even takes away the x to delete the tab until you un-pin it. You can pin all the tabs you want and they will always pop back up when you reload the browser no matter what.
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Fugsnarf wrote:
If you pin a tab (right click, "Pin tab") it will never go away. It even takes away the x to delete the tab until you un-pin it. You can pin all the tabs you want and they will always pop back up when you reload the browser no matter what. Pinned tabs don't prevent accidental navigation. I installed the TabJump extension and it can lock some tabs. Pandora happens to be one of them. So far so good. Netflix does not lock so that's a bummer. I've migrated my core favorites over and made it the default browser. I'll give it a test drive and see how it goes. ts | |
Chrome, i play alot of online game's, WoW, and such, and mozilla would be my vote if it could open, not bog down a game or other application and stream decently.
Chrome opens fast, streams fast, has alot of extensions and has a nice sleek interface that's easy to access and use once you figure out the controls. That accompanied by the 'inspect element' feature has come in handy for me numerous times. | |