Which browser to use?
 

Simple question. I have been using Safari for quite some time, on occasion I go to Chrome.

I have just downloaded Mozilla Firefox and it seems to perform faster than the other two.

Is it just my imagination or is there a logical explanation. Is there any downside to having three browsers loaded onto your computer?

I am quite happy with Firefox.

Every time I try to switch to Firefox or Chrome I end up back at Internet Explorer after a couple weeks.

I keep 3 browsers, Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, on my boxes.

Use Chrome 90% of the time.

Not digging the UI in Safari lately.

As far as speed and function you'll find what's the better performer today may not be when the next release of it or one of the others comes out.

Having multiple browsers hurts nothing and is often useful.

Thanks! :D

I switched to Firefox about 18 months ago. Internet Explorer had become such a slow dog I could not stand it. It is pretty much impossible to un-install IE but I get rid of all the icons and start menu locations for it. I tried Safari and found it just weird to use. I can't even put my finger on a solid reason other than I did not like it.

I have never even tried Edge.

Safari and Chrome for me.

Since 1996 or so I've been trying various browsers, but I've almost always settled on Firefox (well, that far back it was Netscape). I still pretty much only use Firefox, but I do of course, still have IE around and use it occasionally. Sometimes there is a page that just doesn't work right with FF.

As has been said, there's no problem with having multiple browsers on your PC.

Chrome 99% of the time. I keep Firefox on my machine for testing and the occasional web form that doesn't work with Chrome.

I use Firefox primarily and Safari as a backup. I find two are enough. I can have something open on Firefox and go to Safari to look something up on google or whatever, and have it search in the background while I go back to Firefox. Safari is slow and clunky and has the typical Apple, "We've done all the thinking for you, so do things our way" attitude that I hate.

Chrome = google, I avoid any google products when I can. Safari and Firefox.

Won't use Firefox (or any Mozilla product) for what they did to their CEO a while back. Had it force-removed from all company machines, blacklisted Mozilla website...truly hope they fail.

IE works Ok, Chrome is highly tied to Google (of course), cannot seem to find a working Safari for 64 bit Windows 7 but it is also a good alternative.

Historically I have always had multiple browsers, but lately I have restricted to just IE...it seems to do the job well and of course it ties to Windows well.

Dennis

Is Safari the only one that works on an iPhone 6S?

Is Opera still around?

Safari almost exclusively. Chrome on my work PC. I echo the above - try to avoid google products as much as possible (have all connections blocked w/ Little Snitch on my home computer, etc.)

The only reason I use it on my work computer is because it's faster, has a better interface and is and has overall better features for the things I care about than I.E. (which seems chock-full-o-bloatsware like most Microsoft stuff - lots of functions I neither need nor care about).

People chose not to follow or work for a bigot. He chose to resign, instead of seeing Mozilla crash and burn.

Why do people avoid Chrome (Google)? Once again, just curious.

^^
I avoid it to do my small part to dilute google's internet oligarchy. Google has some fine products, but so does Mozilla. Chrome may be better than Safari as a second browser, but I just don't want google's talons in me that deep.

You kids today; NASIOC mosaic was the real deal. Now get off my lawn!

I like FireFox because of the variety of extensions, most specifically the ad, flash, and javascript blocking

Mostly FF since the mid '90's....Some Chrome, never IE......Never Edge on the netbook I'm using to try out Win 10.....(Not planning to put Win 10 on my other computers at this point)

Chrome here switched from Firefox not looking back.

Google's entire business model is predicated on taking *your* information and habits and selling it to other people. Period. They know more about you than you do. And the guise of "free apps" makes it even more insidious imho.

I still have a gmail account as that is pretty much necessary for youtube (though I've switched to vimeo for hosting videos). I still use their news feed but have been migrating to other solutions. I avoid their apps, don't use maps (even though other solutions aren't as good), don't use analytics.

It is essentially pissing up a rope, but individuals have a choice. I think google is the most dangerous entity around right now.

Used Firefox a lot but switched back to safari on the macbook as it seems more energy efficient.

fify,
Chrome = The search engine that shall not be named!





I've heard good things about this one:

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I prefer Chrome. Firefox is #2. At home, I will not touch IE, though I'm forced to use it at work.

Google-Berg: Global Elite Transforms Itself For Technocratic Revolution
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
May 13, 2013

The secretive Bilderberg Group is currently undergoing a major transformation that will see it and other high profile networks merge under the banner of Google as the elite accelerates its plan to consolidate its technocratic agenda.

This past weekend, Infowars reporters Paul Joseph Watson and Jon Scobie visited the luxury Grove Hotel in Watford, UK, site of the 2013 Bilderberg Group conference set to take place June 6-9, a clandestine annual gathering of over 100 of the world’s most influential power brokers in the fields of politics, academia, technology, business and banking.

The investigation was prompted by our sources, who advised us to visit the Grove in advance of Bilderberg 2013. This is part one of what promises to be a developing story as the pieces of the jigsaw fall into place backed up by years of Bilderberg tracking and research.

What we discovered was groundbreaking and represents one of if not the most important development in Bilderberg’s 59 year history.

Put simply, Bilderberg is merging with Google under the stewardship of Google CEO Eric Schmidt, a regular Bilderberg attendee. Google’s annual Zeitgeist conference, which has been based at the Grove since 2007, immediately precedes the Bilderberg Group conference by a matter of days.

Backed up by prior research, we were able to confirm in conversations with hotel managers and others that the Grove is now a central base for Google’s agenda to control the global political and technological landscape.

The talk in the Grove is not of Bilderberg, that is barely a footnote, the real excitement centers around Google Zeitgeist, which was described by the London Independent as, “a cuddlier version of the Bilderberg Group, the supposedly shadowy network of financiers that holds a private annual assembly, recast in the image of our new tech masters.”

Bilderberg is indeed being recast as ‘Google-Berg’ – partly because of efforts on behalf of activists to tear away the veil of Bilderberg’s much cherished secrecy, and partly as a means of re-branding authoritarian, undemocratic secret gatherings of elites as trendy, liberal, feel-good philanthropic-style forums like Google Zeitgeist and TED.

In reality, behind the scenes Google is using such forums as proving grounds on which to form the consensus that shapes the globe. We were told directly that the organizers behind the so-called “Arab Spring,” which began in Tunisia and Egypt, which as we have documented is in fact a series of contrived western-backed color revolutions masquerading as organic uprisings, were recruited by Google and subsequently attended the Zeitgeist conference at the Grove.

It’s also well documented that the man responsible for kick-starting the “revolution” in Egypt, which led to the installation of a Muslim Brotherhood dictatorship which the west can now use as a justification for further intervention, was Google employee Wael Ghonim.

Google’s growing influence within both the British and American governments is also well documented. Eric Schmidt was a campaign advisor and a major donor to Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns. He was also reportedly offered the post of Treasury Secretary within the Obama administration. In Britain, Google representatives have met no less than 23 times with Conservative Party officials since the general election in 2010. David Cameron addressed the inaugural 2006 Zeitgeist conference before going on to become Prime Minister four years later. British Chancellor George Osborne paid a visit to Zeitgeist just weeks before he also attended Bilderberg 2011 in St. Moritz, Switzerland

Chrome and FF. I pretty much stopped caring about data collection. I am sure that MS and Apple are right on Google's heals in that regard. Don't want a DB with your name on it, stop using computers and credit cards. Good luck with that.

Tim Cook and Brin/Page have polar opposite opinions on privacy and data. The companies reflect that. While data is collected, how and where it goes is very different.

It's funny, I used to be a die-hard Android guy, and I still they they make a decent phone OS. I also use gmail, and google.com, but the whole "Chrome = google" thing is one of the main reasons that I don't use Chrome.

I use Firefox 99% of the time, even at work (kind of shocking that it's an option at work, but it is). I feel fairly confident when I next purchase a PC, I'll be getting an iMac. I guess then, I'll probably mostly use Safari, but even then it won't be 100%, because my wife occasionally has issues with Safari correctly rendering a website on her fully up to date Macbook Air.

I tried Mosaic, and I have even used Lynx (as a last resort and curiosity more than anything else).

At work we have IE, that's it.

They recently upgraded from IE whatever to IE11.

Near as I can tell, the only difference is that all the stuff I was used to being on the left is now on the right.
Why can't they leave my stuff alone?

No worries here.

I've got an insider edge:
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/3pcmo3/facebook_will_now_notify_you_if_government_is/ (spying on you)

I've bailed from FB as well (other than band/biz page). Their business model is exactly the same.

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That reminds me, I need to send in a check to re-new my Pelican subscription before it expires. ;)
j/k

I'm using Chrome right now. I switched from Firefox about 6 months ago because "work" installed a restricted version on my LT. :rolleyes:

Chrome is lightweight and it works well but I don't like the way Favorites are displayed.

Guck Foogle
Chuck Frome

FFox for browser and DDGo for search

I use Opera.