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What are people doing for desktop web browsers these days?

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ithehappy said:
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.
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Actually, the tabs are individually processed is a good thing. It keeps certain things from carrying over, rights-wise, from tab to tab when you do not want one website knowing what you were doing on the other tab.

Personally, I use FF in a fairly moderate locked down approach, but use Chrome unaltered/unrestrained.
 
VirtualLarry said:
WUT? Smoke less, and get a new keyboard, yours is obviously broken.
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Right. When I hit enter in a reply box, the text moves down and looks normal, but when I hit 'submit,' the breaks go away. So CLEARLY it's a faulty keyboard, and not a browser glitch. 🙄

I guess I'll try one of these CyberWaterFox things or something, because this crap is annoying the shit out of me. The Chrome 'all of the forum texts turns into lines' glitch is happening more frequently, and Firefox is just unusable.
 
I tried chrome for awhile, but the memory usage was too much, and the add-ons were too little. So I went back to Firefox. Like this guy. (Pardon the swares in the link and page title.)
 
I use Safari on Mac. It's good on battery and I can't live without having smooth zoom by pinching my fingers on the trackpad.
 
phucheneh said:
Right. When I hit enter in a reply box, the text moves down and looks normal, but when I hit 'submit,' the breaks go away. So CLEARLY it's a faulty keyboard, and not a browser glitch. 🙄

I guess I'll try one of these CyberWaterFox things or something, because this crap is annoying the shit out of me. The Chrome 'all of the forum texts turns into lines' glitch is happening more frequently, and Firefox is just unusable.
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Wierd. I'm using Waterfox 35.0 on Win7 64-bit, and have no problems with these forums.
Also using Firefox 35.0 on Win8.1 32-bit on my HP Stream 7, also no problems.

What platform are you on, and have you altered your User-Agent string at all? Any dodgy add-ons?
 
phucheneh said:
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.
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phucheneh said:
Right. When I hit enter in a reply box, the text moves down and looks normal, but when I hit 'submit,' the breaks go away. So CLEARLY it's a faulty keyboard, and not a browser glitch. 🙄
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edit: The buttons you mentioned don't work if I turn off Javascript, and in that mode the Enter needs to be added manually with html: <br /> <br />
 
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I am using firefox rather than chrome or ie. I only wish they could somehow streamline it so it loads faster.
 
I use Firefox here.
Startup takes 2 seconds FLAT right after I've turned on the computer, and I have 30+ extensions and 100+ open tabs.

Most stable browser I've tried by far and a way, and definitely the most customizable (= the fastest).

Nothing beats Firefox, despite it going downhill in terms of features and customization for the last few years.

Everything else is going downhill a LOT faster. Opera most of all.
 
I use Chrome on all of my personal devices. I use Fire Fox at work because it's a hell of a lot better than Internet Explorer 8 that we are stuck with. However, I recently tried Dolphin HD on my Note 4 and it seems to work a lot faster than Chrome and it's possible to load Adobe Flash onto it to watch Amazon Instant Video.

I'm considering checking these ones out pretty soon to see what they have to offer:
https://gigaom.com/2014/08/24/six-alternative-web-browsers-you-should-know-about/
 
Chrome.

But version 31.0.1650.63, not anything recent. When Chrome 32 came out with styled scroll bars and some other crap, I managed to roll back to Chrome 31 and disable all of Google's update mechanisms.

If I wasn't using Chrome, it would most likely be Firefox.
 
VirtualLarry said:
So... user error, not Firefox problem.
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I don't think phucheneh sounds smart enough to know how to turn off Javascript himself, unless he's using a version below Firefox 23 or an addon like NoScript without fully understanding how it works. It could be that someone smarter than him (a technically-gifted girlfriend? :awe: ) was using his computer/device and playing a trick on him, or an anti-virus or firewall or external program or his router or malware is somehow able to intercept his javascript, or he's on some sort of tablet or phone that blocks it automatically? Anyone have any other theories?
 
Hey! I AM TWO SMARTE, SO SHUT YUOR FACE.

[size=-2]...it was NoScript...I thought I had turned it off but it didn't take...[/size]
 
Red Squirrel said:
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.
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Opera doesn't some neat FF addons like mozilla archive format, noscript, otherwise I'd use it more often.
 
Man, lots of love for Firefox here it seems (or is that hate for Chrome, I can't tell 😛). It shouldn't come as a surprise that I use Chrome and recommend it because of its security and with some configuration privacy should not be a concern either.

Speaking of love for Firefox, I do recommend you check out uBlock[1] for Firefox. More specifically I recommend you check out the dynamic filtering[2] portion of it which acts sort of like no script but in a more intuitive way I think. So if the slightly more invasive approach[3] of NoScript turns you off to it I recommend you check it out because you can get very good coverage by blocking 3rd-party scripts and iframes with dynamic filtering which should limit which pages break.

Also keep in mind that its blocking potential is (or should be) identical to ABP with the same filter lists being used, only uBlock will be leaner and use less cpu time (even with more lists enabled). Even if you don't use dynamic filtering I still recommend it over ABP for the listed reasons.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases
[2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering
[3] Whitelisting ALL things javascript, although to be fair you can allow top-level (1st-party) domains by default which I recommend.
 
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I've been using firefox since version 2.0. It's really about the only decent option left but it keeps getting more and more bloated it feels like. Definitely not as lean as it once was. Startup times leave more to be desired too. Not really many other options out there. I don't mind chrome but don't want to be data mined into oblivion. Opera is.....opera, Safari? LOL! IE 12 isn't bad but extension support is poor.
 
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