Hello all,

So, you guessed it. It's on IE9 -

http://browseryoulovedtohate.com/

I personally still don't like it. What do you all think? It's probably to do with me not dressing my cat like a police officer.... Ahem.

Rob.

I like IE9, depending on my mood I float between this and Chrome, Firefox has lost it's way

IE9 is reliable and fast, and does everything you want a browser to do, no complaints here.

Moved to Mac about 6 years ago and never looked back.....the funny part is that all day long I am dealing with Windows users, so when I get home I can relax

Moved to Mac about 6 years ago and never looked back.....the funny part is that all day long I am dealing with Windows users, so when I get home I can relax

Same here :yes:

I use Safari, I find it so clean and 'uncluttered' by annoying toolbars you don't want, need and never use!!!

been on google chrome since getting a windows 7 laptop and never looked back, hate going to work and being stuck with IE8

Sometimes find that Chromium (Linux) doesn't play well with some sites, possibly a Java problem. Load up Firefox and all is well except a tad bloated.

They really need to get firefox memory leaks under control as it's just as hoggy as seamonkey now.

IE, it's ok.

Chrome, yeah I don't like google having that, so I can always run an open source based version of it if I need.

IE, never use it if I can avoid it. I have used Opera for nearly everything (including email and reading RSS feeds) since I moved to it a few years back. Does everything I need really, and does it well. I have t on PC, phones (x2) and on a tablet and work laptop.

Same here :yes:

I use Safari, I find it so clean and 'uncluttered' by annoying toolbars you don't want, need and never use!!!

Where are all those annoying toolbars you don't need and don't use in IE9, I am confused

Love Google Chrome.

Hate that it stores everything I search for, consequently linking it to my phone, Gmail and YouTube account.

I am a Chrome user, and if I have to IE9 (or IE8 in the backward company I work for).

I was in the cinema last night, and I saw an advert for IE9..... I nearly had to go and have my eyes bleached. I don't have enough cores or TBs of ram in my machine to run IE9 smoothly!

IE hate is akin to Apple hate. Mostly irrational.

I fix PCs for as living and have lost track of the number of PCs that chrome has trashed. The main problem with "tool bars" is that so many programs you install add a tool bar as part of the installation, people just do not look at the fact you can take the (default) tick out of the box during installation. Also most "web" departments code their page to work in IE then do UAT with the other browsers and "try" to iron out the bugs.

Where are all those annoying toolbars you don't need and don't use in IE9, I am confused

No idea, I only use Safari and have for the past 5 years now.

Kitten has IE7 and it not nice to look at or work with, I find it confusing and fragmented. :yes:

Also most "web" departments code their page to work in IE then do UAT with the other browsers and "try" to iron out the bugs.

The use the word web department, suggests you are mean internal IT teams for a company. Which case the company probably has a mandated browser, which is generally IE, as it is part of the normal OS build (assuming they run windows). This means less patching, etc so is easier in the long run.

Any website/application being developed for the internet rather than intranet should be designed to work with all browsers in the development phase and not hacked at the last minute.

I agree with the advert. The only good thing that Micro$oft Internet Exploder can do is download other browsers. :p

I've been a fan of Firefox for a number of years and still love it.

IE, never use it if I can avoid it. I have used Opera for nearly everything (including email and reading RSS feeds) since I moved to it a few years back. Does everything I need really, and does it well. I have t on PC, phones (x2) and on a tablet and work laptop.

Same here, started with Opera after being impressed with it on the Linux powered Sharp Zaurus (Opera was the stock browser) and having trouble with IE6 on a new XP build, stuck with it ever since as it works well and has a lot of very handy features, many of the innovations in modern browsers have come from Opera. I did used to hate IE6 as it was so open to malware and poorly featured, I don't hate the current versions of IE but just not fussed about using them unless I have to.

John

IE9 works... I don't see the need to install another program to do what IE9 can do.

Also I know IE9 is better for my netbook... It is easier on battery power in comparison to firefox, safari and chrome. Also it has good flash and GPU acceleration. Might as well make use of the ION gpu in the netbook.

I have tried firefox and chrom and uninstalled after about a day.

Phil

Another Opera user here. I hate the way Google sneaks Chrome in under the radar as an additional install with stuff you want - you have to explicitly turn it off, if you notice. I've had to uninstall it 3 times now. It's very patchy on site compatibility - I guess particularly ASP ones.

Can't use IE9, don't have a computer (work or home) with a new enough version of Windows.

Safari is still my favourite... Simple browser made for simple folk I'm a mac convert of 4 years now and I won't go back now. I'd never heard of safari before that and I just used it because it was there and I kind of just got used to it.

Chrome knocks everything else into a cocked hat - fast and easy.

Microsoft have lost the plot as far as ie9 goes, I've never seen a browser that suffers as many hangs and lock-ups as ie7-8-9 and that's having used it on many different PC's. ie6 was good and has being going downhill with every new incarnation.

Another Opera user here. I hate the way Google sneaks Chrome in under the radar as an additional install with stuff you want - you have to explicitly turn it off, if you notice. I've had to uninstall it 3 times now. It's very patchy on site compatibility - I guess particularly ASP ones.

I dislike that side of Chrome as well and I'm surprised it doesn't seem to bother most people.

John

Not a fan of IE9, always seems several steps behind other browsers.

Chrome wasn't bad, but had countless problems with it crashing the computer and things.

Randomly came across a browser called Comodo Dragon, made by Comodo, They specialise in internet security, But the browser is just like chrome, but faster, safer and doesn't trash your computer. Never used anything else since...

Not only is Dragon "just like Chrome", it's based on the same open-source Chromium core that Chrome is. So it's basically a branded version of Chrome.

A site being written in ASP can't affect browser compatibility, it's a server-side language. Your problem is with the HTML which is being spat out by said web-app, and poor quality web-authoring, it's just as easy to chew out poor quality HTML from a PHP app, Ruby on Rails, Perl via CGI, etc.

I've used Chrome for a couple of years, since the very early releases. I haven't found a site it doesn't work with (usually better than IE, our "web team" once released a set of customisable website templates which would display correctly in any browser EXCEPT our corporate standard IE7). It's fast, reliable, syncs my bookmarks etc across PCs so is very easy to use (although I believe Firefox also does this now so I could move browser and keep this feature). The only issue I have with Chrome is that on the odd occasion it does crash, it'll sometimes take two tabs out as the original "sandbox for every tab" approach seems to have been compromised, and links launched from a tab will sometimes share the process of the parent tab. It's so rare it happens though, that I generally don't care.

I use Linux Ubuntu 11.10 with firefox. It runs very fast indeed in Linux OS's, much faster than in Windows. I've also used Chromium, Chrome, and of course when in windows on other machines, IE8 & 9. I can honestly say the most problems I've ever had have been with IE9. It's also quite vulnerable in certain curcumstances...and no I'm not saying what those are. My last EHC opened my eyes.