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anti-alec

(420 posts)
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 12:54 AM Mar 2012

Poll: What is your browser of choice right now?

I will tell you my browser of choice is SRWare Iron that is similar to Google Chrome but with all the data mining crap removed from the source code.

http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php

It does a wonderful job and is much faster.

If you use Safari, please indicate iPad or just your Mac.

The poll is completely unscientific, there is no errors made in there, just looking for people who have similar tastes that i do.



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Poll: What is your browser of choice right now? (Original Post) anti-alec Mar 2012 OP
Mozilla Firefox. SheilaT Mar 2012 #1
Firefox & Chrome bhikkhu Mar 2012 #2
Safari and Firefox burrowowl Mar 2012 #3
Firefox alittlelark Mar 2012 #4
Firefox & Chrome DearAbby Mar 2012 #5
Firefox because of extensions. gvstn Mar 2012 #6
Chrome. jillan Mar 2012 #7
Chrome kestrel91316 Mar 2012 #8
Chrome Logical Mar 2012 #9
Safari. I have Firefox, too, but always seem to use Safari. nt gateley Mar 2012 #10
Internet Explorer 9 William769 Mar 2012 #11
Oh William, how could you? denem Mar 2012 #16
I guess you can't teach a old dog new tricks. William769 Mar 2012 #17
I was using IE until 9 Union Scribe Mar 2012 #23
Firefox Cali_Democrat Mar 2012 #12
Intertube Traveler 9 cherokeeprogressive Mar 2012 #13
Opera and Firefox mythology Mar 2012 #14
...in that order n/t dogknob Mar 2012 #15
Firefox pokerfan Mar 2012 #18
mozilla foxfire. DesertFlower Mar 2012 #19
Firefox, but version 3, not the quinnox Mar 2012 #20
Iron - thanks for the suggestion qb Mar 2012 #21
Chromium MichaelMcGuire Mar 2012 #22
Chrome, though I still would prefer to use Firefox. Codeine Mar 2012 #24
Firefox 11 madokie Mar 2012 #25
Safari and Firefox. MrSlayer Mar 2012 #26
Safari for iPad GP6971 Mar 2012 #27
Usually Firefox, and sometimes Chrome on the PCs, and Thegonagle Mar 2012 #28
Mozilla Firefox 5.01 and Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.10 hobbit709 Mar 2012 #29
Firefox n/t ohheckyeah Mar 2012 #30
It WAS Chrome.. sendero Mar 2012 #31
Firefox on Ubuntu Linux longship Mar 2012 #32
SRWare Iron Generic Other Mar 2012 #33
Firefox Canuckistanian Mar 2012 #34
Firefox 11.0/Ubuntu. bemildred Mar 2012 #35
Can I complain about Internet Explorer? Quantess Mar 2012 #36
Firefox - all platforms. HopeHoops Mar 2012 #37
Opera on Debian. hunter Mar 2012 #38
Chrome, Safari, and Firefox on a Mac Poiuyt Mar 2012 #39
Opera nt steve2470 Mar 2012 #40

bhikkhu

(10,713 posts)
2. Firefox & Chrome
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 12:59 AM
Mar 2012

Home computer vs. work computer. I like the looks of chrome better, but I think the toolbars and functionality of firefox are more comfortable to use.

I haven't tried any of the others - except the nightmare of explorer, which I had to use setting up another computer until I could install a real browser.

gvstn

(2,805 posts)
6. Firefox because of extensions.
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 01:19 AM
Mar 2012

Chrome may be faster and SRWare may strip out the data mining but FF just has every possible addon I could want available if needed.

I never gave Chrome a fair chance because Google is becoming "Evil" but from what I saw I still prefer FF despite Chrome's speed advantage.

Union Scribe

(7,099 posts)
23. I was using IE until 9
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 06:47 AM
Mar 2012

My browser updated to 9 and some of my daily visited sites stopped loading right. Now I'm half and half with it and Chrome.

pokerfan

(27,677 posts)
18. Firefox
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 02:05 AM
Mar 2012

with Chromium (open source version of Chrome) as a back on the rare occasion FF fails to render a page correctly. I don't even have IE installed on this Linux machine.

 

quinnox

(20,600 posts)
20. Firefox, but version 3, not the
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 02:51 AM
Mar 2012

current crap where they release a new version every month or so. Firefox is still unrivaled because of the vast variety of extensions/add-ons available.

Safari is my second go-to choice, it's getting there but still not there yet to dethrone Firefox. Needs more extensions/add-ons yet.

I use Vista by the way (and now that I'm used to it, have grown fond of it believe it or not, fuck Win 7 or Win 8!)

qb

(5,924 posts)
21. Iron - thanks for the suggestion
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 05:11 AM
Mar 2012

I had already opted out of Google's snooping to the extent that I can, and changed my default search engine to ixquick. It's great to have a 'chrome' browser that's not Google Chrome!

 

Codeine

(25,586 posts)
24. Chrome, though I still would prefer to use Firefox.
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 07:39 AM
Mar 2012

Just got tired of it eating up my processor power and hanging. Chrome is ugly but it works.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
25. Firefox 11
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 07:51 AM
Mar 2012

I used to argue that firefox wasn't as fast or as good as exploder but now that I'm a linux man I find that firefox is indeed faster than internet explorer

Who puts out SRWare?
I really would like to know

Thegonagle

(806 posts)
28. Usually Firefox, and sometimes Chrome on the PCs, and
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 08:11 AM
Mar 2012

Dolphin on the Android phone, and Atomic on the iPod touch.

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
29. Mozilla Firefox 5.01 and Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.10
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 08:14 AM
Mar 2012

I have Internet ExploDer blocked from accessing the internet

sendero

(28,552 posts)
31. It WAS Chrome..
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 08:34 AM
Mar 2012

... until Google got so damn insane about tracking every thing you do.

I'm back to Firefox, which isn't quite as good overall as Chrome but It does have lots of add-ons that make it better than Chrome in some ways.

I seriously do not trust Google any more and am also using other search engines more often also.

Quantess

(27,630 posts)
36. Can I complain about Internet Explorer?
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 10:21 AM
Mar 2012

It sucks even worse now, that they force Bing on you. If Bing wants to compete with Google, fine, but it just adds to the annoyance of IE.

I use Google Chrome now, which works a lot better than IE.

Poiuyt

(18,117 posts)
39. Chrome, Safari, and Firefox on a Mac
Sat Mar 17, 2012, 11:39 AM
Mar 2012

I have three different Google accounts, so I use three different browsers so I don't have to keep logging out and logging back in. I like Chrome, but I don't like the way the bookmark menu works.

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