Which browser is your default one?

Posted by: Peter Dinh on 01 December 2011

Chrome is for me definitely, personally I think it is the best one in terms of performance, reliability, functionality, ease of use, presentation and security. I have tried and persevered with IE9 but after awhile, I find that it is not for me, the user interface is still too bulky, clumsy,  however it has also gone a long way recently.

Posted on: 01 December 2011 by Richard S

Just switched to Chrome as was having too many issues with instability and crashing from Firefox following recent 'upgrades'.

Don't plan on going back.

Posted on: 01 December 2011 by Guido Fawkes

Safari on my iPAD, Chrome on MacBook. Firefox for work as it is a controlled build on Windows and if I didn't use Firefox, it would have to be IE (which is my least favourite).  

Posted on: 01 December 2011 by BigH47

Chrome seems to be the best so far, couldn't get on with Safari, Firefox seemed to start playing up  and slowing things down, so changed to Chrome. 

 

It might have been an over crowded iMac that caused Firefox problems, I may try Firefox again some time.

 

I couldn't get the ubuntu Chrome to load on my other machine.

Posted on: 01 December 2011 by Peter Dinh

Ubuntu Chrome works fine for me, the only problem is that the fonts on Ubuntu seem not as good as the ones on Mac / Windows.

Posted on: 01 December 2011 by tonym
Chrome for me too.
Posted on: 01 December 2011 by Tony Lockhart
I use Explorer on my desktop pc, but I hardly use the machine anyway. My first iPhone killed my desktop use stone dead except for when I prepare photographs for Alamy. I've a feeling I'll be joining the Mac gang sometime in the next year, maybe this Christmas, so the desktop will then go to a poor bugger at work that can't afford a mouse, let alone a PC. Tony
Posted on: 01 December 2011 by Richard D

Firefox for years. Simple, fast and for me, trouble free.

Posted on: 01 December 2011 by Steven Shaw

Safari on Macbook Pro. Firefox on anything pc.

Posted on: 01 December 2011 by Lontano
Safari on iMac, MacBook Pro, iPad and iPhone..........no desire to look at or try anything else. At work I have to endure an old version of ie.....
Posted on: 01 December 2011 by Paper Plane

Firefox + Safari on both Macs.

 

steve

Posted on: 01 December 2011 by Peter Dinh

I would have thought Safari on Mac is nice, but it does not sort bookmarks alphabetically and it has some kind of severe memory leaks, these are the show stoppers for me. 

 

I guess that for those Safari users, you need to start and stop Safari now and then. Otherwise, it will make your machine go slower and slower, eventually it may kill your machine.

Posted on: 01 December 2011 by Bananahead

IE9

 

No reason to use anything else.

Posted on: 01 December 2011 by JamieWednesday

Been using Firefox for years. It's good. Never had any probs.

Posted on: 01 December 2011 by bhaagensen
Safari on Apples - cause its there and integrated with the Mac-system by default.
Posted on: 01 December 2011 by bhaagensen
Re: mem leaks in Safari. There is a new version as of yesterday which should fix some problems - though it could seem some are still left. Personally I run for weeks without restart - it does hog virtual mem, but not equally bad with resident.
Posted on: 01 December 2011 by northpole

Safari has worked great for me on macs - more reliable than ever in its current iteration.  Haven't tried Chrome so unable to comment - might give it a whirl in due course.


Peter

Posted on: 01 December 2011 by matt podniesinski

Safari. Seems to work well for me.

Posted on: 01 December 2011 by Mark J
Firefox for ever on the laptop. Chrome is good but I don't want google owning details on every click I make online. Dolphin on the mobile which seems to work well.
Posted on: 01 December 2011 by BigH47

You don't think Google and other don't know already??

Posted on: 01 December 2011 by Mark J
Eggs in different baskets
Posted on: 01 December 2011 by spartacus

Safari for me all the way but I have ditched everything else in exchange for Apple kit. Can't say that I have noticed any memory leaks or hogging.Even with loads of tabs open. MacBook Pro runs for weeks/months without reboot or slow down. mac Mini is left on all the time in the Hi Fi rack and kept awake using an application called Caffeine.

Posted on: 01 December 2011 by Jim Lawson

IE9

 

All I need.

 
Posted on: 01 December 2011 by Stoik

IE and Safari (when it don't work well on IE). If a web site don't work well this those two, it ain't worth my visit.

 

Google Chrome is very nice too.

 

Firefox is just ok.

 

Bye.

Posted on: 04 December 2011 by Willy
Opera. IE9 as a fallback for the few sites that are badly coded.

On my phone it's Opera Mini. Compression via their proxy servers hits 85% plus. Keeps me under my 500mb quota.

On the iPad I alternate between Safari and Opera Mini. Safari annoys the he'll outta me because of the spelling"correction" in the search input. Grrrrr.

Willy.
Posted on: 04 December 2011 by ianrobertm

Currently, having bought a new PC, am using IE9. Works.. mostly.

I have found a few issues, with some sites not working 100% with IE9.

Never seemed to have any prob with IE8, though, on the old PC.

Not sure I can be bothered to try an alternative to IE9, bit if I did, I guess it would be Chrome..