What are people doing for desktop web browsers these days?

[MontyAC]

Using Firefox but will check out cyberFox.

 

[phucheneh]

I'm getting more used to Firefox now. With NoScript actually disabled (I must've previously either temporarily disabled it, or only disabled on whatever page I was on), it is functioning rather flawlessly, while still avoiding the glitches that were plaguing Chrome (many of them script-related).

 

[Towermax]

Still using Palemoon 24.7.2, but going to give Cyberfox a try.

 

[HeXen]

I'm kinda surprised so many people tend to choose Chrome over it's base, Chromium since the latter doesn't have all of Googles BS on it.

 

[lxskllr]

I'm kinda surprised so many people tend to choose Chrome over it's base, Chromium since the latter doesn't have all of Googles BS on it.

Is it easy to get for Windows users? I've looked a couple times in the past, and a convenient download wasn't obvious to me. I don't care for the whole mess, but if I were to use any, it would be Chromium. In fact, I have it installed(easy through Debian), but I don't really use it.

 

[Ketchup]

Download is here:
https://download-chromium.appspot.com/

 

[ithehappy]

Download is here:
https://download-chromium.appspot.com/

What's this browser?

 

[RampantAndroid]

What's this browser?

It's the "open source" version of Chrome. IE, it's chrome minus stuff like MP3 and other stuff.

Oh, and unsandboxed plugins.

 

[ithehappy]

All right Mr. Bean thanks.

 

[RampantAndroid]

All right Mr. Bean thanks.

(It's a fitting avatar when posting in P&N)

 

[Jodell88]

It's the "open source" version of Chrome. IE, it's chrome minus stuff like MP3 and other stuff.

Oh, and unsandboxed plugins.

The only plugin that Chrome\Chromium sandboxes is Flash, and it does it on all platforms.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Download is here:
https://download-chromium.appspot.com/

So, the only builds of Chromium are the potentially unstable nightlies right off the trunk? Ummmm...

 

[RampantAndroid]

The only plugin that Chrome\Chromium sandboxes is Flash, and it does it on all platforms.

From reading online, Chromium requires to use a non-sandboxed flash plugin (the old one from versions ago in Chrome itself); the renderers in Chrome are also sandboxed, it seems:

http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/sandbox

 

[RampantAndroid]

So, the only builds of Chromium are the potentially unstable nightlies right off the trunk? Ummmm...

...build the code yourself? That's the other option. (There's also dev and canary builds of Chromium.) They warn you on the site to not run Chromium basically, and not updating every time leaves you very vulnerable.

 

[inf1nity]

Is it easy to get for Windows users? I've looked a couple times in the past, and a convenient download wasn't obvious to me. I don't care for the whole mess, but if I were to use any, it would be Chromium. In fact, I have it installed(easy through Debian), but I don't really use it.

http://chromium.woolyss.com/

If you're on linux

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

 

[nemesismk2]

i like the news that firefox 38 will be getting shumway so no more using adobe flash player.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2395482/mozilla-creates-shumway-to-shun-flash-away

 

[Ketchup]

i like the news that firefox 38 will be getting shumway so no more using adobe flash player.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2395482/mozilla-creates-shumway-to-shun-flash-away

Don't toy with me, lol.

Seriously, that could be a welcome change, depending on its performance.

 

[nemesismk2]

Don't toy with me, lol.

Seriously, that could be a welcome change, depending on its performance.

if mozilla can get shumway performance fast enough with HTML5 then i can see me neverf using Adobe Flash Player ever again.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Thank you, that is pretty cool and very promising. I like the fact that they are doing some good new innovation!

i like the news that firefox 38 will be getting shumway so no more using adobe flash player.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2395482/mozilla-creates-shumway-to-shun-flash-away

 

[Leros]

I use Chrome, but I'm willing to throw a few GB of RAM at it.

 

[Ichinisan]

Chrome with Adblock on desktop
Mobile Safari on smartphone

I was pleased to see that the desktop version of Safari supports AdBlock on the iMac I refurbished and gave to my mother.

With Chrome, I do not experience the high load times the OP mentions. Is it because I run AdBlock Plus? That's practically the only extension I use. I always have 20+ tabs open...so high memory usage is my own damn fault.

 

[HeXen]

Is it easy to get for Windows users? I've looked a couple times in the past, and a convenient download wasn't obvious to me. I don't care for the whole mess, but if I were to use any, it would be Chromium. In fact, I have it installed(easy through Debian), but I don't really use it.

Yes, Chromium auto updater.

A small application to automatically update Chromium, but also to quickly install or uninstall the browser from your computer with ease

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Browser-Tweak/Chromium-Auto-Updater.shtml

I'm pretty sure there are others too and that particular one isn't the one I used to use. It's been forever since I used much of Windows but the one I had worked really well. I'm sure there is some way you can schedule a task to do this.

 

[inf1nity]

With Chrome, I do not experience the high load times the OP mentions. Is it because I run AdBlock Plus? That's practically the only extension I use. I always have 20+ tabs open...so high memory usage is my own damn fault.

Maybe you're using an SSD? For me, Chromium has always started up faster than Palemoon. Same goes for Chrome vs other builds of Firefox.

 

[Kalimera]

Firefox and Chrome...but not because I like them but because I haven´t found smth better

 

[Olivier Duff]

My problem with Cyberfox is that there is no way to auto-update it that I could find. So I use Palemoon, which does away with Firefox's dubious design changes.

I used to love the older Opera, but not so much since Opera switched to the Chromium engine.

I read that the original Opera founder is making a new browser called Vivaldi. For now it's incomplete but if it can be like the Opera of yore I'd definitely be interested. The advantage of the old Opera was that it had so much functionality built-in that you had very little need for multiple extensions.

As for Chrome I used to use it as my main browser, but I dropped it since they changed the way it displays fonts a few years ago. I don't like the way Internet Explorer now displays fonts either.