Post subject: Re: What web browser do you use? Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:25 am
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Firefox 16.0 (I'm on the Beta Channel), due to the consistent performance, and relatively fast startup and opening. My favourite addons work on Firefox (Flashgot), and it is supported by my university's websites (whereas some online quizes do not work on Chrome, and sometimes IE is not recommended).
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Post subject: Re: What web browser do you use? Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 11:23 am
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On Windows 7, I use Chrome (it's the easiest to install and the quickest to load up) however I may move away since I've been getting problems with it on Windows.
On my Arch Linux machine, I use Chromium because it runs pretty perfect on here, it's like it was meant to run on Linux.
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Post subject: Re: What web browser do you use? Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 11:33 am
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Firefox on Windows because lots of addons are avalible and good looking. Safari on Mac because very beautiful. Default on Galaxy Nexus (4.0.1), again, beautiful. Fail to upload screenshot from mobile. No screenshot for Windows and Mac now.
Post subject: Re: What web browser do you use? Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:30 pm
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Firefox since version 1 in 2004
I use it for its features and its addons have. Addons like Adblock, DownloadHelper, Greasymonkey, NoScript, PDF Download, Save Session and WOT are more than necessary.
Post subject: Re: What web browser do you use? Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 2:18 am
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I use Safari as my default on my OS X partition - it integrates into the OS nicely, is genuinely fast and speedy, has a large collection of extensions and is genuinely pretty awesome.
On Windows I use Chrome, more out of habit at this point than anything. Plus it syncs with Chrome on my Android tablet and my iPhone, which is a plus.
Post subject: Re: What web browser do you use? Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 4:50 am
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Opera since 10.10 when it used to the lightest browser, I had 256 MB of RAM and every other browser was too slow. Things have changed and Opera is not the lightest anymore, but it is faster and as safe as it used to be. Also I've been using Opera Link since then and I sync all of my bookmarks on all of my computers and cellphone.
Post subject: Re: What web browser do you use? Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 7:27 am
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EPPM wrote:
Opera since 10.10 when it used to the lightest browser, I had 256 MB of RAM and every other browser was too slow. Things have changed and Opera is not the lightest anymore, but it is faster and as safe as it used to be.
I used to use Opera, it was very fast (including option for light browsing, which was useful for dialup), it had mouse gestures, and had tabs (back when other browsers needed extensions for it).
About the syncing, I used Chrome for a while with both my laptop and netbook, which was very nice, since all the changes I made to the looks and addons on my main computer were immediately synced onto my netbook, and any bookmarks made on my netbook went onto my main PC, but then I just returned to FF, and Chrome runs really slow now.
Firefox is not a light browser though, with 2 tabs (both BA), its currently using 189mb...
Post subject: Re: What web browser do you use? Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:04 am
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EPPM wrote:
Opera since 10.10 when it used to the lightest browser, I had 256 MB of RAM and every other browser was too slow. Things have changed and Opera is not the lightest anymore, but it is faster and as safe as it used to be. Also I've been using Opera Link since then and I sync all of my bookmarks on all of my computers and cellphone
Post subject: Re: What web browser do you use? Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 5:02 pm
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mycomputerhelp wrote:
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What is it with this DuckDuckGo search thing?
It's another search engine, though this one claims to have better answers and it doesn't track you. The reality is that they are years behind Google and their semantic search. It's nice to use though.
john11 wrote:
I used to use Opera, it was very fast (including option for light browsing, which was useful for dialup), it had mouse gestures, and had tabs (back when other browsers needed extensions for it).
The mouse gestures are pretty useful but the catch is that doing them on a trackpad can be really difficult. And Opera Turbo is a nice proxy too
Post subject: Re: What web browser do you use? Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 11:22 pm
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Chrome on Windows\Mac, Chromium Nightly builds on Linux (nightly whenever I remember to update it) and Lynx for command-line only machines (such as SSHing into them).
Post subject: Re: What web browser do you use? Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 4:19 pm
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I use Chrome because it's the most light weight and stable browser I've found. I used to use Firefox until it became as bloated as it is today and had to constantly be restarted due to memory leaks. >_>
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