What's your main web browser?

[JanusChrist]

Mozilla Firefox here.

[solemnwarning]

firefox

[muzzy]

internet explorer

[Annorax]

internet explorer

TROOOOLLLL!!!11111111eleventyone! [/sarcasm]

Seriously.... why do you use IE over Firefox?

[muzzy]

Well, I have firefox too, but I tend to only use it on sites which absolutely won't work without javascript. It's kind of my "plan B" browser. My IE is configured to work without activex/activescripting, so 99% of IE security holes never apply to me. The rare ones that do, I patch. IE has worked perfectly for me, and for a while I thought it was misbehaving until I started debugging it and realized the glitches I was having were because of my own browser helper objects leaking. Oops!

I've found that in every way that matters to me, IE has been superior for a long time. Only recently (like, late last year) the firefox has become actually usable. I'll still stick with IE, though, I see no reason to switch over. Oh, and I'd have to reimplement all my plugins for firefox, and I hear they need to be rewritten every now and then as different firefox versions have plugin compatibility issues. Yay.

I also have various versions of netscape and opera installed, back from the times I did some webdesign. I only use them for testing purposes, though.

[Laukev7]

Firefox. Although I find it very buggy; it tends to crash on my very often and slow down a lot. The only explanation to this is that I may have installed a buggy extension; it used to work rather well when I used its beta versions.

I find myself switching to Opera often as a result. I would use it more often, as it's a very good browser, but I can't use it with certain services such as StumbleUpon or Jybe.

[bedouin]

Safari.  I like Firefox, but on Mac it's just not close enough to acting/feeling like a native OS X app for my taste.

[WMD]

Laukev...are you using Tabbrowser Extensions?

I use Mozilla.  I don't know what the fuss about Firefox is; I never found it nearly as good.

[Stilly]

safari

although i have to use mozilla to get to my gmail account

[Kintaro]

Firefox myself - with firefox the plugin issues arnt a problem. When you upgrade it automatically updates your extensions.

[cahult]

Firefox for everything surfingwise, Mozilla suite because Firefox didn

[bedouin]

safari

although i have to use mozilla to get to my gmail account

Why?  I access GMail all the time with Safari.

[MrX]

Well, I have firefox too, but I tend to only use it on sites which absolutely won't work without javascript. It's kind of my "plan B" browser. My IE is configured to work without activex/activescripting, so 99% of IE security holes never apply to me. The rare ones that do, I patch. IE has worked perfectly for me, and for a while I thought it was misbehaving until I started debugging it and realized the glitches I was having were because of my own browser helper objects leaking. Oops!

I've found that in every way that matters to me, IE has been superior for a long time. Only recently (like, late last year) the firefox has become actually usable. I'll still stick with IE, though, I see no reason to switch over. Oh, and I'd have to reimplement all my plugins for firefox, and I hear they need to be rewritten every now and then as different firefox versions have plugin compatibility issues. Yay.

I also have various versions of netscape and opera installed, back from the times I did some webdesign. I only use them for testing purposes, though.

Opera web browser has been superior to IE for a long time, and was out before the Firefox wave. So don't think I have ran out of ammo in my arsenal, muzzy.

Mr X

[Calum]

well, firefox is supposed to be "testing" is it not? regardless, since phoenix 0.1 i have found it to be very stable, although it *definitely* depends on the build you get. some windows binaries were quite horrible around 0.5-0.6 (and then i stopped using windows for the 'net so i don't know) and i have never yet had a good rpm (third party of course) of firefox, but the mozilla.org (static i think) binaries are rock solid.

also, i find they use netscape type plugins 100% ok, i mean i only use the java, helix player, and flash player plugins, and they've always been dead right. oh yes and plugger too, which is very good at piping things through other stuff within the browser window (not that it gets used a lot).

i did used to advocate opera since it's better than netscape, and was better than mozilla (featurewise) when i was using it, but now firefox + prefbar really *almost* contains all the features i ever used with opera anyway, plus it's free and open source (no ad banner too)

[Aloone_Jonez]

I used to use MSIE until I discovered FireFox and I've never looked back. Despite taking all of 3 seconds longer to start it renders a lot faster than MSIE and dosen't crash as often too, and I'd be lost without the tabbed browsing feature - I hate using MSIE at work.

Not only that it's not spyware like MSIE and when you ask it to clear the cache it does it with out leaving any shit behind. I've had to download some 3rd party software to get rid of this shit. Then I deleted the software an upgraded to firefox, only to find it left some shit in the regestry too so I spent 2 hours deleting it. :mad:  :thumbdwn:  :fu: M$IE!

I agree with JanusChrist: