What are people doing for desktop web browsers these days?

[phucheneh]

Opera? It must be Opera. I hope it is, because that's the only thing left.

I've been using Chrome for a long time now. I put up with its insane amount of processes, memory hogging, and long initial startup time, because it does everything else so well.

...used to, at least. Now it just gets buggier every day. What do I do most of the time on the internet? Browse forums. What's broken? Forums. I have to restart it all the time, animated gifs can break pages, stupid ad scripts cause perpetual loading...

...so back to Firefox, which I had dumped for Chrome so long ago...because of its insanely long startup times and huge memory leak. Sound familiar?

God, it's awful. It's trying to be Safari. It does at least work, once I tweak a few things. And turn off this awful lag-scrolling garbage. No disappearing text, no images breaking pages, ect. I guess I'll just have to get over the minute changes in font styles, the lack of inline image-resizing...

But no, there is too much that is still just all kinds of herpy derpy. If I were writing this post in Firefox, it wouldn't have any paragraph breaks, because apparently enter is the same thing as a space bar, so far as it's concerned. And none of the clickable lazy-BBcode stuff works.

All I can do is trade broken for more-broken. I remember when browsers used to be more personal preference, and not just 'this is the only way I can kinda sorta make the internet functional.':'(

Is this just me?

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Firefox here. I hear you about the long startup times, I really hope they can improve that soon. Unless you have an SSD, I find that it takes a while to first open it up.
I don't see any big memory leaks though, it could be something in the way you configure it.

 

[ControlD]

I still use Chrome. I don't notice a long startup time or have any stability issues though.

 

[MustISO]

I still use Firefox. I'm not happy with the last few builds but I still like it for the addons I use.

 

[lxskllr]

Firefox, on desktop and mobile.

 

[tsupersonic]

I'm also starting to hate Chrome - it is hogging way too much memory (I have 8GB in my desktop). I'm utilizing 40-85% of my RAM just browsing the internet. That's just ridiculous! I've noticed that I'm using Firefox here and there, but it is overall slower than Chrome, even if it does use less memory.

 

[flexy]

Cyberfox > ALL

Try it, not kidding.


Longer Version: Cyberfox has all the advantages Firefox had when it was still good without the limitations of Palemoon (Palemoon also uses outdated mozilla builds)

Added Bonus: Firefox extensions etc. are all compatible. It's really FF on crack without the negatives.

As for Chrome, I don't think it's bad "per se", minus the multiple processes and whatever nonsense it does but I simply don't see a reason to use Chrome instead of Cyberfox.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Firefox here, it's better in Linux than it is in Windows. In Windows there's Pale Moon. Opera is ok too, never really had an issue with it. I don't even remember why but I'd always end up switching back to Firefox when I try it, but I really can't think of something I did not like in Opera. Not a fan of Chrome. I don't like this whole cloud stuff. I want my bookmarks, history and other settings to be local not on some server I have no control over.

The last few Firefox builds for windows are horrible though, the stuff they did with the title bar is just fugly as hell. It now requires extra steps to fix that such as installing an add-on. I install Pale Moon in Windows now. They still do the crap where they get rid of the menu but at least when you put it back it puts it back properly instead of shoving it in the title bar. I really don't know what's up with this trend of removing the menu bar. I'm seeing this more and more now.

 

[Berryracer]

Cyberfox > ALL

Try it, not kidding.


Longer Version: Cyberfox has all the advantages Firefox had when it was still good without the limitations of Palemoon (Palemoon also uses outdated mozilla builds)

Added Bonus: Firefox extensions etc. are all compatible. It's really FF on crack without the negatives.

As for Chrome, I don't think it's bad "per se", minus the multiple processes and whatever nonsense it does but I simply don't see a reason to use Chrome instead of Cyberfox.

+1 on Cyberfox, awesome browser without the Mozilla bloat and easily configurable (as in, you can turn off the stupid One Click Search within the options no need to mess with about:config) and it doesn't break the web and is compatible with every FF addon since it's based upon the latest builds of FF unlike Pale Moon which went from being the best to the crappiest and buggiest browser I have yet to try

I like Chrome but cannot use it because it doesn't play well if you do DPI scaling like me. I have a 1920x1080 screens so I do a 125% scaling otherwise everything looks tiny, but Chrome doesn't adhere to my scaling settings and thus some sites like my banking site displays weird with all the buttons on the top bar missing

Cyberfox FTW

 

[ArisVer]

Waterfox, on Windows. Not many add ons and not bad. A browser is a memory hog if the webpages you visit are.

 

[RampantAndroid]

Waterfox, on Windows. Not many add ons and not bad. A browser is a memory hog if the webpages you visit are.

Not totally true - Chrome pre-loads a ton of stuff...so regardless of how bad the current page is, it's loading some other pages in case you open them.

 

[MongGrel]

Firefox, used Pale Moon for awhile but went back.

 

[ronbo613]

Firefox on the PC, Chrome on the Android phone. I've used Firefox for a long time, but it's not as solid as it used to be. Freezing, probably caused by plugins and an increasing number of website videos not playing has got me looking around.

 

[ithehappy]

Chrome.

However I always prefer Firefox, but no way I can fathom that browser with their horrendous font, so I am kinda forced to use Chrome. The RAM usage of Chrome, and how every single tab is a separate process is beyond me.

 

[MongGrel]

Cyberfox > ALL

Try it, not kidding.


Longer Version: Cyberfox has all the advantages Firefox had when it was still good without the limitations of Palemoon (Palemoon also uses outdated mozilla builds)

Added Bonus: Firefox extensions etc. are all compatible. It's really FF on crack without the negatives.

As for Chrome, I don't think it's bad "per se", minus the multiple processes and whatever nonsense it does but I simply don't see a reason to use Chrome instead of Cyberfox.

Might give it a try out of curiousity.

 

[tynopik]

there's this other web browser, it's pretty obscure so you probably haven't heard of it, but it's called 'Internet Explorer'

 

[Ketchup]

I am trying to figure out the problems you are describing with Firefox, but I have never seen those. FF continues to be the best browser I have ever used. I try Chrome from time to time, and every time I find a different glitch that takes me back to FF.

 

[schmuckley]

pre-bs Firefox that doesn't auto-update.
must be 28 or older with matching flash :/

 

[shimpster]

Cyberfox ftw!!!!

 

[Chiefcrowe]

FYI - just did a memory test in Firefox and it reclaimed memory to go from 1 GB to 400 MB in one browsing session, so it is doing good here in that aspect.

 

[VirtualLarry]

But no, there is too much that is still just all kinds of herpy derpy. If I were writing this post in Firefox, it wouldn't have any paragraph breaks, because apparently enter is the same thing as a space bar, so far as it's concerned. And none of the clickable lazy-BBcode stuff works.

WUT? Smoke less, and get a new keyboard, yours is obviously broken.

 

[ninaholic37]

The RAM usage of Chrome, and how every single tab is a separate process is beyond me.

I think the separate process thing is so that Chrome can use a different CPU core for each tab until it fills them all, and I think IE does something like this too now. I have a single core CPU so I imagine that style would only add overhead here.

 

[MongGrel]

there's this other web browser, it's pretty obscure so you probably haven't heard of it, but it's called 'Internet Explorer'

Never heard of it.

 

[denis280]

Firefox all the way.

 

[Hugh Jass]

there's this other web browser, it's pretty obscure so you probably haven't heard of it, but it's called 'Internet Explorer'

If IE allowed me to block ads as well as Firefox I might consider going back to it...but it doesn't so I won't.