Thread: Browser Wars

I'm using Firefox 3x. I've tried Chrome, IE8 and Safari. Safari is pretty bad on Windows though, so I went away from that quickly. Chrome was better, but lacked a core addon that I really like to use.

I use Chrome for windows.

Chrome is so darn fast compared to IE or firefox. It is just slightly glitchy sometimes for me.

I use FF3x because I haven't really tried that many browsers, but I know that IE sucks in all ways possible. Chrome was nice, but it lacked an adblocking addon that FF could use. It didn't stop (come up with Connection Reset) most of the way through loading like FF does, but loading a whole page was still slower on ad-ridden websites.

FF 3X for the win for me... I've messed around with IE and all it's versions and it just blows a**. I recently tried out Chrome and it was very decent but as others have mentioned, it lacks the unique customization attributed to FF 3X, Haven't tried Opera, had Safari on my iTouch iPod and it just blowed ass... I actually used to think FF sucked balls until i started delving into it's many many many add-ons, which in turn inspired me to learn coding and scripting and hopefully someday I'll write some add-ons attributed to DV's in the near future

Opera

I have Mozilla 3.5, Chrome, Safari, and IE running on my machine right now. All are opened to this page.

Task manager says:

Mozilla is using ~70,000K for memory
Chrome is using ~24,000K
Safari is using ~28,000K
IE is using ~40,000K

Mozilla is definitely the heavyweight here. But the addons (esp. adblock) make up for it big time. I have a very slow internet connection, so loading any more data than I have to will increase loading times for me significantly.

Originally Posted by Odd_Nonposter

Mozilla is definitely the heavyweight here.

yes and no

in fact, more no than yes, but anyhow....

http://dreamviews.com/community/showthread.php?t=74369

Originally Posted by Odd_Nonposter

Mozilla is using ~70,000K for memory
Chrome is using ~24,000K
Safari is using ~28,000K
IE is using ~40,000K

Impossible, those numbers are way waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too low.

Safari 4 and Firefox are both Heavy hitters on OSX. Safari is gobbling up 128MB, Firefox is using 109.1MB, and Chrome is only using 24.0MB

Atlast! A complete free-for-all browser battle!

Mozilla charges for the fight!(I still have to test the others, but i love mozilla.)

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Impossible, those numbers are way waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too low.

Safari 4 and Firefox are both Heavy hitters on OSX. Safari is gobbling up 128MB, Firefox is using 109.1MB, and Chrome is only using 24.0MB

I dunno, I'm running Windows and my Firefox is eating only 84,940KB right now and that's with the smileys jumping around, three other tabs open and a movie buffering on one of them...

Maybe Safari is lighter weight on Windows that it is on OSX.

IE7. I've tried FF on my school's computers, but for some reason I prefer to stick with IE. Not updating to 8 though, just yet.

Then again, knowing my school, their version of FF is probably horribly outdated.

Firefox FTW. I haven't tried Chrome yet though. Will vote after testing it. It seems it's the only that could match Firefox IMO.

I use Chrome on Windows, but I still use FF on my linux boot. However, I'm thinking about switching to Safari there. The latest versions of FF have just been too damn big and slow for my tastes.

I like the Google Chrome ^_^ It looks cute to me.

I use Google Chrome for everyday browsing, with Safari and Opera close seconds. I use Opera when a page or image stops loading halfway in Chrome or Safari, as it is apt to do for some reason. I use Chrome mainly because of it's tiny footprint and crash handling.

I use Firefox for web development, though. And IETester to test sites in all versions of IE, so I don't have to actually open IE7.

You know that IETester only tests the rendering abilities of IE 6-8 right? Not the JS engine?

Originally Posted by Emi Chan

I like the Google Chrome ^_^ It looks cute to me.

all of this this.

Firefox can be cute.

It's Opera all the way for me.

I've tried and used firefox 1x, 2x, 3x, safari4, Chrome 1x, 2x, 3x, IE6, IE7 and IE8, some on both linux and windows, but only Opera fulfills my browsing needs.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

You know that IETester only tests the rendering abilities of IE 6-8 right? Not the JS engine?

No, I didn't know that.

Originally Posted by My-DebugBar.com

Welcome to the IETester Homepage.

IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.

Oh, they must have added that since I looked at it It used to just be rendering, at least I think so.

Ha, I had a dream about this last night, looking at a graph I saw a while back and hearing someone (myself maybe?) saying "nerds are always really stubborn about which browser they use and usually refuse to change" and something like, "and they really hate IE".

Anyway, I use Firefox 3, or whatever it is. I hate IE, but only for the shitty interface and I've only really ever tried FF.

i for some ungodly fuk-saked reason open IE8 last night to just glimpse at it's flaws and BAM! i got attacked by some serious Malware!!! GRRRR i wanna rip IE outta my computer physically..... Bill Gates you sonovabich!