What browser should I use?

I use Chrome, and enjoy it. I find it difficult to suggest a browser to you, though, just because I have no idea what you like in one. Are you more of a fan of interface over speed or eye candy over usefulness? Can you not live without facebook, last.fm, or twitter? I suppose you have to take that into account.

Chrome is to hard to maneuver in, Internet Explorer to insecure and slow, Opera crashes to often…on my system anyway. Safari gives me an “eye-ache.”

Firefox is fast, adaptable and simple. It’s sleek and can be made beautiful on the user’s own terms. My vote goes the Fox way.

@dverhey I kind use everything. I have no issues running Firefox for daily internet use, but I can’t help but feel like I ought to use something newer and flashier. For a regular Internet user, is there a difference? I like to open a lot of tabs, but mainly news stories and blogs. I use Facebook daily, but not all the time. I don’t watch a lot of video. My brief sortie into Safari-land this evening has kinda prompted me to go back to Firefox.

Firefox by a long way.

Always have IE, as most of the web sites are exclusively tested in IE rather than Web Standards.

You can have chrome and use it for browsing google based products.

Haven’t used Opera/Safari.

For the most part, I don’t care, they all work fine for me, but mostly I use Firefox.

I moved to Firefox for tabbed browsing.
Now all browsers have tabs, but I stay with Firefox for the extensions.

Chrome, when Firefox locks up my slow notebook with Yahoo mail and Gmail.

Safari and IE when I am designing a web page and want to see it in many browsers.

Firefox. Much safer.

First off, IE sucks. Too slow, too bloated, too insecure, lacks too many features… it’s just crap.

I haven’t tried Opera in years so I have no opinion on the newer versions. The older ones seemed nice enough though, so I imagine it’s still not bad.

To date, I have yet to see Safari work and any browser that crashes on launch is bad in my book. Even if you get it to run, it’s practically an older version of Chrome (same engine) so there is no net gain; Chrome is just as fast and actually runs on my machine. I leave Safari to Apple and disregard it as viable for PCs.

Chrome is good if you just want a fast, light, basic browser with no bells or whistles. However, if you like things like bookmarks, adblockers, preferences, or anything fancy then look elsewhere. It’s made to be lean and mean, and that is exactly what it is. There are also incompatibilities with certain sites as most are written for IE and/or Firefox only.

Then there is Firefox. Not the fastest browser (though it’s only slightly slower; not enough to really matter unless you care about bragging and are willing to sacrifice many other things to load 0.05 seconds quicker) and it can take up a bit of RAM (compared to Chrome at least), but if you have the right add-ons, the web is your beeyotch.
It’s safer, more customizable, more powerful, and basically just plain old gets things done…. whatever those things might be. One-click video downloads? No problem. FTP transfers? Piece of cake. Custom script/image blocking? Easy. Anything you want to do, FF will do it.

@jerv Beautiful analysis. :)

Safari won’t open several sites that I need to use, including one for registration at our local junior college.

Don’t get me started about IE!

Haven’t tried Chrome, but if it doesn’t have adblock, it isn’t for me.

I use Firefox. Most of the time it’s fast enough, and it cooperates with all the sites I need to peruse. It is almost always faster than IE.

I mainly use firefox. It is fast enough for me and versatile as can be.
It is usually well behaved and even when it crashes, it restarts when I was magnificently.

So Fox You and enjoy!

I use Firefox because it’s almost consistent across all the platforms. I started using Firefox when I was running BeOS because it was way better than Net+. Then I used it in Windows and now Linux. So I always know what I’m doing and how I’m doing it.

Although, I do use Chrome for my gmail. ‘Cause it’s Google.

The latest upgrades to Firefox include more convenient tabs than previously. Unfortunately any plugins you’ve gotten used to won’t be compatible with the newest versions of Firefox. Still, Firefox is what I use.

I alwaysd liked I.E.until that last incarnation which just blows.
Now I’m digging the Firefox. Love the spellcheck. For some graphics applications it kind of sucks though. So is still use the I.E. but rarely.

I don’t notice any speed differences between Firefox and Safari. Firefox is compatible with more things than Safari is. I recommend Firefox. I use it for everything and have been using it for years. Chrome is overrated in my opinion.

I also have been consistently using FF and I have no complaints.

A few seconds gain in speed is meaningless to me. I have Safari on my Mac, but just haven’t found any compelling reason to use it.

I never have used IE and I never will for any of the million or so reasons cited by those wiser in computers than I.

Oh, wait a minute. I did use IE once when I found a bargain PC laptop on craigslist for only $100.

So I used IE once to go and download FF. How else was I supposed to get to the Mozilla site?
:D

I am on a MacBook. I always used Safari but there was a video clip I wanted to download and couldn’t and johnpowell did it for me with Firefox so I tried it. I think it is substantially slower and there was a glitch that caused it to crash repeatedly when I wanted to save as a pdf instead of printing.

Other than that, it does have nice bells and whistles.

Chrome, FTW. I’ve used everything else, and all my customers have used everything else – I can’t seem to talk anyone into going back to IE or Firefox after I let them use Chrome for a while. Ever. Whoever said it’s hard to maneuver in Chrome, obviously needs a new mouse.

So far this seems like a slam dunk for Firefox and I do like it especially with applications like Fluther. But there is a definite jpeg lag compared to I.E. even with the avatars here. Not a huge difference but definitely noticeable. And again there is an application that I.E. excels and that is the pop up blocker extraordinaire. Somethings will hang up my PC continually with Firefox. Even still my go to is still Firefox at this point.

Firefox is getting better and better w/ each upgrade. Chrome is also evolving faster too and also coming out w/ great extensions.