Re: Features - QOTW: Which is the best desktop web browser?
I vote for Firefox.
You have an open source browser, with the speed of Chrome (neck and neck there), a large creator community, and a safe browser. IE I find lacking with safety. Chrome...well Google's profession is data mining so that turns me off.
Re: Features - QOTW: Which is the best desktop web browser?
Firefox.
History:
Firefox 'til they made a change and upset me.
Opera 'til they butchered their fantastically customizable, privacy enabled browser for a featureless Chrome reskin. Also, the community were quite unpleasant.
Chrome, I tried so hard to like Chrome. But it's slow to open, laggy, the tabs keep locking up, I don't have enough privacy control, and I couldn't get ntlm authentication to work through the corporate proxy which killed it dead for me.
So back on Firefox :) where the add ons do what I want, and I can keep the cookies I specify.
Re: Features - QOTW: Which is the best desktop web browser?
Believe it or not, but for a long long time I kept on using IE6. Simply because it was fairly lightweight (mostly compared to IE7 and IE8). For the last five years or so I've been a Firefox afficionado, however. Don't think I could live without NoScript, FlashGot and Cookie Culler. I'm running FF with the menu bar switched on. That gives me kind of a "retro" look, but at least that also prevents a lot of the Australis crap.
I also have Chrome installed, but I hardly use it. The general lack of configurability turns me off, as does that long standing issue of not pre-selecting whatever is in the address bar on start-up. I generally use about:blank as the start page for all the browsers I use and in Chrome that means that I have to manually delete that text. A minor quibble, I know, but annoying nonetheless.
Re: Features - QOTW: Which is the best desktop web browser?
IE 11 and Chrome. IE 11 for me has better compatibility but Chrome is slightly faster.
Re: Features - QOTW: Which is the best desktop web browser?
I was using Waterfox which is a less bloated version of Firefox, lately i find myself using Chrome a lot more merely as it synch's so well with other devices.
I also use Opera a bit in turbo mode to visit torrent sites which are banned through my ISP.
Re: Features - QOTW: Which is the best desktop web browser?
Firefox.
You have an open source browser, with the speed of Chrome (neck and neck there), a large creator community, and a safe browser. IE I find lacking with safety. Chrome...well Google's profession is data mining so that turns me off.
I just couldn't help copying your post Robb because it's what I would write anyway. :)
Re: Features - QOTW: Which is the best desktop web browser?
Firefox with Stratiform. I keep Chrome as a backup browser, but its Chrome-OS context menus and lack of a proper bookmarks menu tab kill a lot of the day-to-day usability for me. That said, I'd be happy with anything if there was a browser on the planet that Flash didn't brutally murder with every update.
Re: Features - QOTW: Which is the best desktop web browser?
Another (long time) Pale Moon user, x64 usually.
Re: Features - QOTW: Which is the best desktop web browser?
Mainly Firefox, due to the plug-ins I use and the fact i can have hundreds of tabs open with no ill effects (and not lots of separate processes like Chrome).
I also use Chrome for TweetDeck (Chrome app is better than standalone)
Re: Features - QOTW: Which is the best desktop web browser?
Firefox and Chrome Combo. Chrome mainly for flash, while Firefox for the rest.
IE 11 is not that bad actually.
Re: Features - QOTW: Which is the best desktop web browser?
Firefox fanboy eversince, it just works for me. :)
Re: Features - QOTW: Which is the best desktop web browser?
Re: Features - QOTW: Which is the best desktop web browser?
I much prefer Firefox over the others.
Re: Features - QOTW: Which is the best desktop web browser?
Pale Moon, no competition
Re: Features - QOTW: Which is the best desktop web browser?
Chrome most of the time, it's quick to launch, pages pop up instantly, I like the multi launched pages and find it very simple to sync with other devices. I don't like the choppy scrolling on pages like FB or the slow, bogged down playback on you tube.
I also use FF, but really only when I get impatient with Chrome issues mentioned above, The scrolling is silky smooth with FF. Sync is to complicated, I really can't understand why they can't use a similar system to Chrome, it's slower to launch and generally most thing seems just that little bit slower. Appz tend to work that bit better on FF.
IE? - It's so slow I might as well use a phone and yellow pages for information.
Re: Features - QOTW: Which is the best desktop web browser?
Thanks to the earlier mentions on this thread, I've now switched from Firefox to Pale Moon (x64).
That way I can still get the familiar experience I'd rather not be without (various addons), but optimised as much as possible. :D