Just a random thought i just had... What browser are people using these days?

 

I normally swear by Chrome.. mainly because of habit and it syncing between machines, but i randomly tried IE11 on windows 8.1 a go recently.. and it actually seems faster and smoother than chrome!.

 

Should be a poll attached

Safari for me :yes:

Where is Opera?!  That's my main browser for most of my machines although despite disliking Internet Explorer for many years I fid the new touch screen version in Windows 8 is good, its quick and responsive in use, the minimal touch interface unusually works well (I find it annoying in most of the touch software) and the gestures work well too making it quick and convenient to navigate between tabs and pages.

 

I started with Opera years ago when I installed XP on a laptop when that OS was fairly new, it was chronically slow so I tried Opera as I liked it on my PDA (it was bundled on an old Linux based PDA called a Sharp Zaurus).  I found it worked well on the laptop and have used it since, it's a very underrated browser as despite the small number of users it's been responsible for a lot of the modern browser innovations.  I find it's well featured out of the box and there's some features like mouse gestures which I miss on other browsers.

 

Joh

Where is Opera?!  That's my main browser for most of my machines although despite disliking Internet Explorer for many years I fid the new touch screen version in Windows 8 is good, its quick and responsive in use, the minimal touch interface unusually works well (I find it annoying in most of the touch software) and the gestures work well too making it quick and convenient to navigate between tabs and pages.

 

I started with Opera years ago when I installed XP on a laptop when that OS was fairly new, it was chronically slow so I tried Opera as I liked it on my PDA (it was bundled on an old Linux based PDA called a Sharp Zaurus).  I found it worked well on the laptop and have used it since, it's a very underrated browser as despite the small number of users it's been responsible for a lot of the modern browser innovations.  I find it's well featured out of the box and there's some features like mouse gestures which I miss on other browsers.

 

Joh

 

Updated... including some OSX options.

Chrome on my laptop

Chrome on my desktop

Chrome on my iPad

Chrome on my iPhone

Chrome portable on a memory stick, in case I use a machine without chrome or my bookmarks.

I think I'm a bit biased.

On safari here too, works fine no issues

Finding chrome very sluggish these days

Firefox with Adblock Plus and Noscript. Every time. Opera isn't too bad, I used to like the 'speed dial' feature but FF has that now. IE is something you use to download FF. **** Chrome, Google want to know too much and pretty much all you do with it is tracked and logged to be held against you at some point.

Lee, everything we do is logged and tracked and our details plundered we are a watched state.

 

 Did you know when you walk into a large shopping centre and have your smart phone in your pocket, technology exists for your details and number to be collected as you walk through the door!   We are not alone lol.

Safari for me :yes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA26T_UGou4

 

Biggins did 'I'm a **** get me on a plane to a luxury hotel in Blighty' years ago

Lee, everything we do is logged and tracked and our details plundered we are a watched state.

 

 Did you know when you walk into a large shopping centre and have your smart phone in your pocket, technology exists for your details and number to be collected as you walk through the door!   We are not alone lol.

I never ever walk into a large shopping centre. I strut Seriously I never use shopping centres. Ever. I know what you mean about being tracked though. I have a second PC that's a bit 'dark' for occasional use

Lee, everything we do is logged and tracked and our details plundered we are a watched state.

 

 Did you know when you walk into a large shopping centre and have your smart phone in your pocket, technology exists for your details and number to be collected as you walk through the door!   We are not alone lol.

 

They can collect the MAC address of the wifi card (which some bins were using to display adverts) but they can't collect your personal details and phone number from it at the moment unless you let them.  There may have been older technology do to this in the early Bluetooth days when there wasn't much consideration given to security but it's different now.

 

John

Firefox on laptop and old desktop and have done for 4 years or so. Started with FireFox 3, or even older.

 

I recently tried to load up M$ Exploder on desktop (running XP) and didn't seam to load at all (rarely use IE). When my dad used to use it he always used Opera. Mother uses Chrome on her laptop, (mainly for TV Catchup) although recently found a problem with BBC iPlayer on full screen mode. She uses FF for that. Strangely, when you click on icon for IE, Chrome starts.

I use Chrome, let them spy on me!

Safari on a MacBook Pro

Safari and occasionally chrome on MacBook Pro and iPad.

Mostly chrome for dev tools and as mentioned above synching between workstations.

 

Save one browser for banking and have a multitude.. normally 3 or 4 open to test different user scenarios simultaneously, so chrome, ff, opera, safari, 

 

Recently got a win 8.1 device, need to do some real windows testing. IE feels good, mainly as it looks sharp, firefox is fuzzy. Chrome is a pita to use how I want to use it, forced into a split or full screen, but thats more of a windows anti google chrome. I'm sure I'll figure how to float it like a normal desktop program... breaking a 7 year absence from windows.

 

Chrome is hungry for ram, especially if you're a tab monster.

 

Here are the site stats, yes I'm a part of the watching state now

 

The site reflects the rise of Chrome

 

 

Some interesting stuff above, RFID was touted as a great opportunity for retail. You trolly some white chocolate... when in the biscuit aisle, the displays scan your trolley as you enter a new aisle. Seeing white chocolate, it can tailor an add for you on something related. Or maybe you have some steak meat, it could prompt you to a suitable red wine when passing the winery and a good after dinner chocolate etc.

 

I don't think it ever got of the conceptual wagon.

 

IIRC a tech talk, google identify 50+ metrics from you when you hit their search page. More than enough to figure out a few things missing between browser switching, or ip changes. 

IE on all windows machines, safari on my macs. Fairly std.

I'm surprised from Colin's stats that Safari ranks higher than firefox. Guess there is a lot of iPeople out there!

Opera, always ahead of the rest and they are the ones who tool Microsoft to the European Commission and forced them to offer windows users a choice. For that they deserve a lot of kudos!

FF as my choice. I might lok at chrome ,but for my worries on the update sites that try to install chrome on the sly .

Still use Explorer on my laptop here. At work I'm using Firefox, the CAD software I'm using has an embedded browser that it uses for its data management system and it fell over the other day when Explorer updated to 11. The cure was to change to Firefox, might go that way on the laptop too.

I'm surprised from Colin's stats that Safari ranks higher than firefox. Guess there is a lot of iSheeple out there!

FTFY

Firefox and Mozilla are the same browser surely - eg 88611 - 2nd place

Firefox (Mac) on the desktop machine for me, and use the standard iPad browser which is safari I guess?