QOTW: Which desktop web browser do you prefer?

[EzioAs]

Firefox. Always Firefox. Hopefully Mozilla makes sure it stays that way for me.

[=assassin=]

I stick with Firefox, it works fine and does all I need it to, with addons that serve me well. IE, when I've breifly tried recent versions, has sometimes failed to load certain pages correctly. Chrome I have only used briefly, and found it to be a buggy mess that crashes alot, so I won't give it another chance; it makes it even more surprising to see it so high in the list, but does this include smart-phone usage?

[anselhelm]

Firefox due to add-ons and the fact that it doesn't disable my add-ons like Chrome does. (In Chrome, I have to run in developer mode and load YouTube Center from a folder to allow it to run.)

[jimborae]

Was a Firefox user but that became a resource hog, so switched to Chrome and now thats a massive resource hog to the point at which it's become unusable on older machines. So now looking at switching back to Firefox or looking at another alternative.

[Wrinkly]

Firefox 1st with Chrome & Opera coming a close 2nd.

[lkarunan]

Firefox, ever since Opera ditched Presto.

[chrism]

Firefox, because of the way it saves images - it defaults to the last place on your filesystem you saved an image from that site, rather than your profile\pictures folder (or some other generic location).
And the scrapbook add-in.

[scasiello]

Palemoon (which is excellent) Primarily on desktop.

Chrome secondarily on desktop, mainly as it still has annoying rendering issues.

Chrome on phone, and Palemoon on tablet.

[Wozza63]

Chrome, because it seamlessly synchronizes history and bookmarks between my devices and also has a few add-ons that I can't get on any other browser. I use Firefox occasionally and IE/Edge when I'm doing web development. I used to use firefox but chrome just seemed to perform better. Also used Maxthon for a while when it was rated the fastest browser available but was missing a lot of standard features and there were very few extensions available, and those that were available were usually in Chinese I think.

[ET3D]

FF FTW. I'm a tab hoarder, and Firefox is the only browser that allows me to conveniently have hundreds of tabs open (thanks to Tab Mix Plus' multiple tab rows and tab groups).

[jimborae]

Just been checking out Pale Moon browser as an alternative and it's really nice and quite speedy too. Will stick with for a while.

[Marenghi]

Firefox for years. Palemoon sounds interesting, I'll give it a try as my backup

[failquail]

FF FTW. I'm a tab hoarder, and Firefox is the only browser that allows me to conveniently have hundreds of tabs open (thanks to Tab Mix Plus' multiple tab rows and tab groups).

Not sure if it's due to that addon, but do you not have problems loading up huge amounts of tabs at once?

I'm a bit of a webcomic addict and have found FF quite often breaks if you attempt to load more than ~64 tabs at once, had to split my webcomic bookmark folder into two and load them in two batches otherwise i end up with broken 'zombie' tabs that can't be clicked on or closed.

EDIT: though i suppose as long as you don't use the session restore feature and open tabs at a normal rate it'll be fine

[dayside69]

For years I have tried all browsers but I came to a point which I didn't use/need any plugins, well then I said why loading my computer with extra plugins dll's and programs, ie came with windows, updates are on and I wont count in milliseconds the page loading.
That's it from now then I stick with ie platform(don't like edge so far).

There are same pages with loading problems but there is 1/100(and none of them from a big commercial company), but I wont blame the program I will blame the site makers, if you write a code you are responsible of the compatibility with the world if your site is not compatible with my device I will not use it/visit it and you will loose profit!

[plexabit]

Chrome, and Yandex (A Russian browser) for when I need Flash-based websites and/or a secure connection. Although I do want to try out Edge and maybe migrate to it someday.

[Agrippa]

Been using Firefox for ages. Why? Because of the wealth of extensions, because I've never had any problems with it and because I can't be arsed swapping from what I'm both familiar and happy with just because something else has been found to be some milliseconds faster or whatever.