Which Web Browser Do you Prefer?

[Anubis]

The only reason I still use Firefox is because of the AdBlock extension. I haven't seen ads in years. I'm currently playing around with Chrome, but ads are so stinking annoying.

opera as well as chrome have adblock

chrome one linked above

https://addons.opera.com/en/addons/extensions/details/opera-adblock/0.52/?display=en

 

[zokudu]

Opera. I like not having to install extensions to get things working.

 

[Ashely]

There are many useful add-ons provided by Firefox. And moreover, many uploadings to websites like facebook and youtube goes well within Firefox browser.

 

[silvan4now]

i am using Firefox for like 5 years now...best on the market although not free of bugs and freezes i must admit

 

[berryraceroldMatrixLeader]

Firefox owns all other browsers thanks to its great user interface and aswesome addons

 

[qft]

Chrome's pretty great between the design, stability and lack of manual maintenance. But I don't really trust anything put out by an advertising company, which is all Google really is.

 

[TalonStrike]

no one votes for Safari. lolApple

 

[mirandu04]

for me Firefox is the browser to go with

 

[ForumMaster]

opera. been with them since v8.

 

[gmaster456]

Firefox user here. I have not experienced/noticed any of the performance issues that many people have been experiencing since version 4. While still a good browser, I no longer use the spyware that is Google Chrome.

 

[gmaster456]

no one votes for Safari. lolApple

Its been nothing but trash on Windows since the very beginning. And its not much better on OSX either. At least in my opinion.

 

[acefightr]

Chrome = less resources

 

[jkroeder]

Calling Chrome spyware is crossing over to paranoia IMO. Clearly, among all popular browsers, it's the one most people are skeptical about in terms of privacy and yet, in all this time it's been out, there has not been any shred of evidence that it does anything wrong.

Usage statistics, for one, isn't even enabled by default.

The Chromium project, of which Chrome is built upon, is open source too. So there's always that route if you want to use a Chromium based browser but not Googles package.

 

[gmaster456]

Chrome = less resources

On a machine that's even remotely modern (i.e Pentium Dual Core with 2gb of ram) Are resources that big of an issue?

 

[gmaster456]

Calling Chrome spyware is crossing over to paranoia IMO. Clearly, among all popular browsers, it's the one most people are skeptical about in terms of privacy and yet, in all this time it's been out, there has not been any shred of evidence that it does anything wrong.

Usage statistics, for one, isn't even enabled by default.

Well Google has done nothing to have people thinking otherwise. Especially when they knowingly circumvent other browsers security measures.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation...osoft-square-off-over-online-privacy-concerns

I say people have a right to be skeptical. And if google is doing that with other companies browsers, imagine what they're doing with their own. Now, that being said, I am not paranoid. I have nothing to hide. And while I agree you lose some privacy the second you go online. But at the same time shady practices like knowingly circumventing security measures are certainly questionable.

 

[lxskllr]

On a machine that's even remotely modern (i.e Pentium Dual Core with 2gb of ram) Are resources that big of an issue?

I just opened 7 tabs each between Firefox and Chromium, with one tab each playing a YouTube video, and I have Firefox using 181mb, and Chromium using 157mb. Not really a big difference. My Chromium is stripped since I don't really use it, and I have a ton of addons in Firefox. That's probably a lot of the meager difference.

 

[jkroeder]

Well Google has done nothing to have people thinking otherwise. Especially when they knowingly circumvent other browsers security measures.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation...osoft-square-off-over-online-privacy-concerns

I say people have a right to be skeptical. And if google is doing that with other companies browsers, imagine what they're doing with their own. Now, that being said, I am not paranoid. I have nothing to hide. And while I agree you lose some privacy the second you go online. But at the same time shady practices like knowingly circumventing security measures are certainly questionable.

and to me, the stories about Google circumventing those browser bugs have been overblown.

The Safari bug allowed 3rd party cookies to be passed on if a web form was submitted from an iFrame. This is standard cookie setting procedure with ad networks. This is purely a Safari webkit bug. Heck, it doesn't even do anything unless you click the Google +1 like button and it doesn't work unless you're logged into your Google account. When this happens, you purposely clicked a button to set the cookie. Since Safari blocks 3rd party cookies by default, this is Googles justification for bypassing it.

It's like walking into Costco, buying something and not expecting Costco to record the transaction in their system.

In fact, if you check the webkit bug tracker, it was a Google employee that submitted the report for this very issue

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/92142

and the P3P compact policies IE issue? Something that maybe 10% of the web even supports and a third of which, don't even comply with? Even in the article you linked, it says that many of Microsofts own sites don't even comply. P3P is a protocol that no one besides MS supports.

http://eduardo.cereto.net/response-to-google-bypassing-user-privacy-settings

Sure, people have a right to be skeptical about Google. They are an advertising company first and foremost. All I'm saying is there is no direct justification for calling Chrome spyware.

 

[airdata]

Originally Posted by acefightr
Chrome = less resources

I use chrome mostly BUT I do really dislike the resource management. On my office computer for example I have only 2GB of RAM... It's not unusual for me to open up task manager and discover that Chrome is using at least 50% of my total memory.