What Internet Browser?

[MJ5150]

I use IE8 at work and IE9 at home along with Iron. I run across webpages that don't look right or flat out don't work with Iron.

-Mike

 

[EskimoBassist]

All about Firefox or Chrome. I personally prefer Firefox but it's always helpful to have 2 browsers and they both have great extension/app bases.

 

[Strat-Mangler]

FireFox, hands-down.

I agree it's somewhat bloated, but nowadays, PCs are so powerful, they can easily handle the load. AdBlock Plus is by far the best addition to my surfing I've ever tried, along with FlashBlock. These 2 are lifesavers.

 

[baba]

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.

Iron is basically an open source version of Chrome that does away with google usage tracking and other privacy issues.

Firefox got too bloated for me and was slowing down older computers. Iron is FAAAASST!

 

[rtslinger]

Firefox in the office works best. I use Opera at home

 

[Eric Perry]

SRWare Iron, thanks to a recommendation from Eric Perry.

-Mike

I use both SRWare and Firefox, depending on what I'm doing.

 

[MIJ-VI]

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.....

They're different.

*AdBlock Plus blocks (typically revenue generating) adds like those found on TalkBass. (Oops! *selects "Disable on talkbass.com" in ABP's preferences*) It works by choosing (at setup time) from a number of prepared filter lists of which adds to block and therefore is pretty much set & forget (except for manually adding an exception for favoured sites like TalkBass).

NoScript, on the other hand, blocks the automatic running of Java scripts so that one's browser isn't misdirected to a malicious site etc, and thus requires that one examine, understand, and OK the running of all Java scripts (up to three or four times ) on the first occasion each new page is visited.

I got fed up with NoScript's attention-starved behaviour and now rely upon the following set & forget Firefox Add-ons for overall browser security:

- *AdBlock Plus
- **BetterPrivacy
- Flagfox
- ***HTTPS-Everywhere <-- (Good for notebooks on public Wi-Fi.)
- ****WOT (Web Of Trust)

If I still used Windows I'd be more leery of ditching NoScript though.

*Adblock v. Adblock Plus: two Chrome extensions compared
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**It seems that the nearest equivalent for Chrome is Ghostery.
***Beta version available for Chrome.
****Available for Chrome.

The trade off is more security usually = less speed.

 

[UncleFluffy]

Ghostery is pretty useful for de-crapping a page as well.

 

[kserg]

lynx

 

[scorpionldr]

lynx

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[scorpionldr]

The trade off is more security usually = less speed.

wouldn't preventing specific items from loading=more speed?

 

[mrpackerguy]

iron

 

[kserg]

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Yep, it's the best browser for ASCII porn.

 

[kserg]

wouldn't preventing specific items from loading=more speed?

Also, no. Less bandwidth use, yes. More speed, no.

 

[MonetBass]

If ever a thread was begging for a poll, this one is it.

IE9 and Firefox at home, IE9 at work. I tried the new version of Chrome at home when it first came out last year due to its HTML5 support, and it caused my Cubase to continually crash. How do I know? Cubase was fine before the install and after the uninstall. Go figure. Now that IE9 supports HTML5, I don't need Chrome.

 

[klejst]

So I have been using Chrome for a long time now, however recently I went back to using Firefox. It just seems to run a lot smoother and although I do have 8GB of RAM, Chrome was a memory hog and I would actually feel Chrome getting slower and more sluggish and it even started to freeze and not load pages correctly. So I am using Firefox and IE9 occasionally. IE10 has some promise and I will check it out if the reports are true and when Microsoft releases it for Windows 7.

 

[Unrepresented]

I use Firefox. I got sick of picking up spyware and trojans while browsing with Microsoft IE. Don't know if it's more secure, or if I've just been lucky, but I haven't had any issues since I've switched.

 

[tplyons]

I use Safari on my Mac, and Chrome on my work machine (Windows XP)

 

[HaMMerHeD]

Firefox is the slowest, most bloated piece of crap browser I've had the displeasure to work with. Internet Explorer 10 has been a miserably crashy experience for me.

So now I've switched to Chrome.

 

[hover]

I'm not an IE fan because MS has their mitts in everything and they need to be stopped!

Did you miss the part where they lost their anti-trust lawsuit a decade ago? They were "stopped". Sure, that ended, but still...during that time is when Apple gained a buttload of marketshare. MS was neutered through the concessions it had to make from the rulings.