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What Internet Browser?
- Thread starter klejst
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I use chrome and Firefox. Both work well for casual surfing, but Firefox has a plug-in to convert YouTube videos into MP3's, which I like
I use Chrome. Used Opera for a while, but didn't get as much usefulness as i do out of Chrome.
Maybe I didn't discover it enough though.
Maybe I didn't discover it enough though.
Alkali Ike
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Internet Explorer still has about 30% market share among browsers yet inexplicably nobody ever publicly admits to using IE. It reminds me of TV shows like Hell's Kitchen: Nobody ever admits they watch it, yet it gets enough ratings to keep it on the air.
I use IE9 for everything at work except Gmail which I use Chrome for. At home on my iMac I primarily run Chrome, occasionally Safari. On my Windows 7 system it's about 50/50 IE9 & Opera.
I use IE9 for everything at work except Gmail which I use Chrome for. At home on my iMac I primarily run Chrome, occasionally Safari. On my Windows 7 system it's about 50/50 IE9 & Opera.
A lot of Web based business apps only work with IE, or are hobbled if you use a different browser.
I've been a dedicated Firefox user for as long as I can remember, but to be honest, I have been considering switching to Chrome recently.
In the past I had used Opera, but never liked it enough to make it my default. Lately Firefox has been giving me some intermittent problems with things such as memory usage and flash integration, and I'm not sure if I want to keep dealing with it.
Also, in the past couple months I've really started using Google products like Drive and their music storage, now called Play, yet it's not 100% functional in firefox for some reason. I think Google is secretly pushing Chrome to the point of not making their products work on competing browsers
In the past I had used Opera, but never liked it enough to make it my default. Lately Firefox has been giving me some intermittent problems with things such as memory usage and flash integration, and I'm not sure if I want to keep dealing with it.
Also, in the past couple months I've really started using Google products like Drive and their music storage, now called Play, yet it's not 100% functional in firefox for some reason. I think Google is secretly pushing Chrome to the point of not making their products work on competing browsers
Alkali Ike
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fdeck said:
Exactly Man says: Exactly.
. And a surprising number of e-commerce sites don't work well with all browsers.
I think a fair proportion of IE users are those that use what comes on the PC/Laptop to begin with, and may not be as savvy "Interwhatty now?"
I'm tempted to give the new IE a bash and see how she handles.
Lots of good responses. I never heard of Iron, have to look into it. As I said I have been a long time IE user and IE9 is nice but I anymore use it whenever something does not display or work properly in Chrome. I recently gave version 12 of Firefox a try, however after using Chrome for so long I just cannot bring myself to keep using Firefox over it. Plus Chrome has the ability to use Adblock Plus and other useful plugins and extensions as well. Chrome often gets a bad wrap for being a memory hog at times, however I found Firefox to still be kind of heavy on resources.
One of the reasons I've always been a bit iffy with Chrome is the tracking that it apparently used/uses (that and I have always been reasonably happy with firefox).
You can add Adblock and other plugins to firefox too (heck, I thnik you can do that with the newer Internet Explorers too).
You can add Adblock and other plugins to firefox too (heck, I thnik you can do that with the newer Internet Explorers too).
well like one friend of mine said when I showed him Iron "dude, it's chrome!" "No, dude, this is much different, it's Iron". "Dude c'mon, its chrome" "yea, the interface is the same but they pulled a ton of the web tracking **** out". So in short, you'll get all the same benefits out of using Iron that you would with Chrome. Personally I've never found it to be a memory hog, frankly I was kind of elated to find that it was lightning quick to FF when I changed.
lol internet explorer is the bug that doesn't go away. I took a computer literacy course that heavily relies on online web classes/microsoft office tutorials, and found that it only really cooperated with IE. Nothing else really. So it does serve some rudimentary web browsing purpose.
is adblock like noscript? I found noscript to be kind of restricting after a while.....
