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**Jesse Barnett** · 10-21-2009, 03:28 PM

Firefox is main
Chrome for questionable sites

whyroc · 10-21-2009, 03:29 PM

Chrome here.. switched from firefox and haven't looked back! Love the start tab, bookmarking, themes, and simplicity of chrome.

-w

Pol · 10-22-2009, 12:15 PM

Firefox because of its plugin support (Google Toolbar, Adblock Plus, DownloadHelper, Greasemonkey, Firebug, 1Password). Overall I prefer Safari, but it has no plugin support.

Ariane · 10-22-2009, 12:56 PM

Stuck using IE6 (yuck) at work, but at home I use Firefox almost exclusively.

I learned to love tab browsing with the tabs at the BOTTOM. Chrome, IE8, and Safari do no have any options to change where the tabs are located. Thats a big fat fail in my book.

Firefox natively doesn't either but there are several add ons that can do it. Opera is second choice but there are too many sites that don't like Opera.

**eku Zhong** · 10-22-2009, 01:01 PM

firefox and IE8
dunno why but with win7 some things like SL live chat thingie wont work properly with firefix... also some japanese pages come out gobbledygook even though i have my language set to japanese

Fade Languish · 10-22-2009, 01:22 PM

Safari 4. Because it's really fast, and the top sites and cover flow for bookmarks and history rocks.

Wildefire Walcott · 10-22-2009, 01:25 PM

Firefox for greasemonkey and google toolbar support. I have a greasemonkey script called Facebook Purity which HIDES ALL THE GODDAM APPLICATION SPAM on Facebook. It has changed my life.

The only thing I use IE for is to download firefox. (And our stupid intranet at work that uses Windows domain security, which doesn't work well with FF.)

Bruise Shepherd · 10-22-2009, 01:38 PM

I used Firefox for a couple of years, but I'm back on Safari, mainly because my bookmarks are synced quite painlessly between my macs and iPhone.
At work we can only use IE(five dot something I think)

Lewis Luminos · 10-22-2009, 03:27 PM

I use Firefox, though I used to use Opera mainly, until a couple of years ago. I stopped using Opera because it didn't keep pace with Firefox. For a while I also used Flock, which is a Firefox-based browser with a different look, and some built-in functionality for integrating various social networking sites. (Hmm I should take a look at that again, see if they included Plurk support yet).

I kind of like Chrome except that it's a little TOO minimalistic for me, and I can't install Adblock Plus to it. Which of course Google wouldn't allow, being the kings of Internet advertising, and all that.

Stuck with IE at work but I rarely get the chance to look at the web at work anyway so it doesn't matter much.

Warder Revestel · 10-22-2009, 06:57 PM

Hands down, Firefox. I stopped IE8 because its the most common way to get a virus.

I'm not a good Safari/Chrome user, I've used Firefox for SLU since I joined, and overall for 4.5 years.

Richie Waves · 10-23-2009, 03:20 PM

Chrome.. it's fast as hell.. I can be nearly into my email before the windows jingle finishes... when I see Firefox now it looks cluttered and annoying.

Kalor Rayner · 10-23-2009, 03:23 PM

I like minimalistic designs, but I just find Chrome too minimalistic for my tastes.

Imnotgoing Sideways · 10-23-2009, 03:43 PM

Firefox as main because it's fast, has the plugins I want, and I'm used to all the controls. (^_^)

Safari on my iPhone because there ain't any other option. (>_<)

Kristian · 10-23-2009, 03:47 PM

Safari because 1 > I'm on a mac. 2> Google quick search bar which indexes my safari bookmarks. 3> firefox is noticably much, much slower for a lot of the stuff i do (i'm not a typical user tho)

I use GlimmerBlocker as an add blocker.

My ONLY complaint is that my 'resize window' bookmarklets are broken/do not work half the time in Safari, because I have a 1920x1200 screen and prefer a specific size browser window inside it.

Xero Static · 10-23-2009, 08:49 PM

I use FF 90% of the time and IE the other 10. The reason is simple; the work I do with just about every company I work with requires our websites to be 99.5% bug free with FF; their browsers of choice. While the other 10% choose IE.

Also after following "orders" I have come to realize how much easier it is to set up our sites for FF compatibility. Which I didn't expect to be the case when I first took this job. Mainly because fricken windows made IE! Then I remembered they are the same folks who developed vista! ahhh!

Before this job I used IE 100%, but after using it daily for work I became used to the UI and grew to love it much more.

My only complaint is FF's Bookmarks/Favorites as IE has them spanked in that arena.

Sansarya · 10-23-2009, 08:56 PM

Chrome. Firefox got very crashy with my computer. No problems with Chrome, except at work.

Xiomara Mendes · 10-23-2009, 08:58 PM

I'm a noob who finds anything other than IE intimidating. I really don't like Firefox and I don't know why. Sorry.

NukeMom · 10-23-2009, 09:46 PM

Firefox at home, unless I have to access our student database site from home because they only allow IE. IE7 or 8 at work because I HAVE to.

Fmeh · 10-23-2009, 10:03 PM

Firefox because of NoScript and Adblock Plus addons. I like to be able to surf literally anywhere without worry of spyware, adware, and malware. If I used Linux as my OS, I might feel differently.

Xero Static · 10-23-2009, 11:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xiomara Mendes

I'm a noob who finds anything other than IE intimidating. I really don't like Firefox and I don't know why. Sorry.

I didn't like it at either - i was strickly a IE supporter, but being forced to use it was actually a blessing for me as once I got used to the interface I really enjoyed it much more.

Brenda Connolly · 10-23-2009, 11:07 PM

I've used IE since the beginning. It's always worked for me. I've never looked at any of the others.

Nibb Tardis · 10-24-2009, 09:00 AM

I use Firefox with AdBlock, Greasemonkey, and IE Tab for the couple of websites that don't like Firefox.

Whenever I'm forced to use anything else, I'm amazed at how people can actually put up with so much annoying advertising. I won't be using chrome or any other brower until they have an ad filtering option.

Brenda Connolly · 10-24-2009, 11:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nibb Tardis

I use Firefox with AdBlock, Greasemonkey, and IE Tab for the couple of websites that don't like Firefox.

Whenever I'm forced to use anything else, I'm amazed at how people can actually put up with so much annoying advertising. I won't be using chrome or any other brower until they have an ad filtering option.

Just wait until it shows up in the SL Client.

**Roxanne Blue** · 10-24-2009, 11:28 AM

I use Firefox pretty much exclusively... I have IE 7 because that's where my tech leaves the router access...not a chance in Hell I'm upgrading to IE 8 after the bug reports I've heard.

I tried Chrome for a while, but came back to Firefox when I upgraded to the new HP xw9400 beast I use now.

Argent Stonecutter · 10-24-2009, 12:25 PM

Camino and Firefox and Safari and when I absolutely have to IE. It'd be Camino and Safari all the time because I hate the way Firefox is implemented... that customization comes at a heavy cost in security and startup time... but Camino has problems with the proxies at work and sometimes gecko just works better than Webkit (and vice versa, mind). I also use Safari on Windows because it handles certain quirks in work's web pages better. IE? I haven't used IE except for sites that specifically require it since 1997.

View Poll Results: Which web browser do you use?
Internet Explorer	11	15.71%
Firefox	53	75.71%
Chrome	12	17.14%
Opera	6	8.57%
Safari	11	15.71%
Other	1	1.43%
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10-21-2009, 03:28 PM	#26 (permalink)
Jesse Barnett she, not he! SLU Supporter addicted to catnip Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: South of DC Posts: 529 My Mood: SL Join Date: 5/21/2006	Firefox is main Chrome for questionable sites __________________ Coffee smells like freshly ground heaven. ~Jessi Lane Adams

10-21-2009, 03:29 PM	#27 (permalink)
whyroc Senior Member Blue Marsified Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 164	Chrome here.. switched from firefox and haven't looked back! Love the start tab, bookmarking, themes, and simplicity of chrome. -w __________________ Come visit our new City on Blue Mars, now open for preview: http://gridrock.com/

10-22-2009, 12:56 PM	#29 (permalink)
Ariane Senior Member Reticulating Splines Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 297 My Mood:	Stuck using IE6 (yuck) at work, but at home I use Firefox almost exclusively. I learned to love tab browsing with the tabs at the BOTTOM. Chrome, IE8, and Safari do no have any options to change where the tabs are located. Thats a big fat fail in my book. Firefox natively doesn't either but there are several add ons that can do it. Opera is second choice but there are too many sites that don't like Opera. __________________ ArianeB's Life in the Metaverse and Blog

10-22-2009, 01:01 PM	#30 (permalink)
eku Zhong Rotisserie/Compulsive SLU Supporter caffienating Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: 田舎 Posts: 1,855 My Mood: Bistro Stars Champion! SLShopper Ads: 10 SL Join Date: 9/29/2007 Business: Apocalips Japan	firefox and IE8 dunno why but with win7 some things like SL live chat thingie wont work properly with firefix... also some japanese pages come out gobbledygook even though i have my language set to japanese __________________

10-22-2009, 12:15 PM	#28 (permalink)
Pol Prim hair is for sissies. Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: the Davis Square neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts Posts: 686 My Mood: SL Join Date: December 18, 2003 Business: Habitabla	Firefox because of its plugin support (Google Toolbar, Adblock Plus, DownloadHelper, Greasemonkey, Firebug, 1Password). Overall I prefer Safari, but it has no plugin support.

10-22-2009, 01:22 PM	#31 (permalink)
Fade Languish something here Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 2,070	Safari 4. Because it's really fast, and the top sites and cover flow for bookmarks and history rocks.

10-22-2009, 01:25 PM	#32 (permalink)
Wildefire Walcott Baby Baroness Pew pew pew. Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 4,010 My Mood: SLShopper Ads: 4 SL Join Date: 2005.10.28 Business: Desperation Isle Estates	Firefox for greasemonkey and google toolbar support. I have a greasemonkey script called Facebook Purity which HIDES ALL THE GODDAM APPLICATION SPAM on Facebook. It has changed my life. The only thing I use IE for is to download firefox. (And our stupid intranet at work that uses Windows domain security, which doesn't work well with FF.) __________________ Desperation Isle Estates: Great prices, great neighbors, great service! New Desperation Isle: The prettiest BDSM Playground and Fetish Mall in SL! Desperation Isle Productions: Scripted skyboxes for lots (and budgets) of all sizes! Wildefire Walcott's Mistressy Musings: My blog about D/s and BDSM in Second Life.

10-22-2009, 01:38 PM	#33 (permalink)
Bruise Shepherd Vox populi, vox dei listing to port Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Scotland, east coast Posts: 2,010 My Mood: SL Join Date: 18/june/2007	I used Firefox for a couple of years, but I'm back on Safari, mainly because my bookmarks are synced quite painlessly between my macs and iPhone. At work we can only use IE(five dot something I think) __________________ "OH...YOUR...GOD" Bender Bending Rodríguez "'Politics' is made up of two words. 'Poli,' which is Greek for 'many,' and 'tics,' which are bloodsucking insects." Gore Vidal "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." Groucho Marx

10-22-2009, 03:27 PM	#34 (permalink)
Lewis Luminos The Gingerbeard Man Ginger Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: UK Posts: 3,315 My Mood: SL Join Date: 08/11/2008 Blog Entries: 12	I use Firefox, though I used to use Opera mainly, until a couple of years ago. I stopped using Opera because it didn't keep pace with Firefox. For a while I also used Flock, which is a Firefox-based browser with a different look, and some built-in functionality for integrating various social networking sites. (Hmm I should take a look at that again, see if they included Plurk support yet). I kind of like Chrome except that it's a little TOO minimalistic for me, and I can't install Adblock Plus to it. Which of course Google wouldn't allow, being the kings of Internet advertising, and all that. Stuck with IE at work but I rarely get the chance to look at the web at work anyway so it doesn't matter much. __________________ -- Just Add Ginger -- -- Plurk -- -- last.fm -- -- flickr --

10-22-2009, 06:57 PM	#35 (permalink)
Warder Revestel The Flame Warden The Flame of the Phoenix still burns in searing heat... Join Date: May 2009 Location: Tempest Keep Posts: 222 My Mood: Cannon & Ball (Zuma Clone) Champion! Cone Crazy Champion! Beat the Cheese Champion! Dancer Champion! SL Join Date: March 18th, 2009 Blog Entries: 18 XBOX Leaderboard: 14^th	Hands down, Firefox. I stopped IE8 because its the most common way to get a virus. I'm not a good Safari/Chrome user, I've used Firefox for SLU since I joined, and overall for 4.5 years. __________________ Signature change: 500th post Personal Links - Feel free to visit them if you like. FLAME BLOG\|FLICKR\|YOUTUBE\|WOWWIKI\|MMOC\|WOW\|SLU BLOG\|TOTM

10-23-2009, 03:20 PM	#36 (permalink)
Richie Waves Joie de vivre! Is Three apples Tall Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Between Iraq and Israel Posts: 8,992 SL Join Date: 27/06/2005	Chrome.. it's fast as hell.. I can be nearly into my email before the windows jingle finishes... when I see Firefox now it looks cluttered and annoying. __________________ My lastfm Oooh, Betty! the cat did a shit in the hat

10-23-2009, 03:23 PM	#37 (permalink)
Kalor Rayner A Face in the Crowd Lost in the Twilight Zone Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: California Posts: 186 My Mood: SL Join Date: 7/3/2006	I like minimalistic designs, but I just find Chrome too minimalistic for my tastes. Last edited by Kalor Rayner; 10-23-2009 at 03:23 PM. Reason: typos

10-23-2009, 03:43 PM	#38 (permalink)
Imnotgoing Sideways odious little volunteer vicious little nonentity Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Darkly Cute :: Ferguson Posts: 694 My Mood: SLShopper Ads: 1 SL Join Date: November, 2007 Business: Darkly Cute	Firefox as main because it's fast, has the plugins I want, and I'm used to all the controls. (^_^) Safari on my iPhone because there ain't any other option. (>_<) __________________ Somewhere in this world; there is someone having some good clean fun doing the one thing you hate the most. (^_^)y Darkly Cute :: Ferguson :: Glasses, Eyes, Gestures... Goth, Loli, Anime. (^_^)y http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ferguson/54/237/94 http://tinyurl.com/DarklyCute-SLX

10-23-2009, 03:47 PM	#39 (permalink)
Kristian stored in the cloud SLU Supporter PHIL LINDEN SKULLFCKED ME RIGHT HERE* Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 4,867 My Mood: SL Join Date: 2/26/2005	Safari because 1 > I'm on a mac. 2> Google quick search bar which indexes my safari bookmarks. 3> firefox is noticably much, much slower for a lot of the stuff i do (i'm not a typical user tho) I use GlimmerBlocker as an add blocker. My ONLY complaint is that my 'resize window' bookmarklets are broken/do not work half the time in Safari, because I have a 1920x1200 screen and prefer a specific size browser window inside it. __________________ Ming's Things http://slurl.com/secondlife/Stargazer/232/232/1501

10-23-2009, 08:49 PM	#40 (permalink)
Xero Static Digital Threat Sweet n Sour Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Albany NY USA Posts: 49 My Mood:	I use FF 90% of the time and IE the other 10. The reason is simple; the work I do with just about every company I work with requires our websites to be 99.5% bug free with FF; their browsers of choice. While the other 10% choose IE. Also after following "orders" I have come to realize how much easier it is to set up our sites for FF compatibility. Which I didn't expect to be the case when I first took this job. Mainly because fricken windows made IE! Then I remembered they are the same folks who developed vista! ahhh! Before this job I used IE 100%, but after using it daily for work I became used to the UI and grew to love it much more. My only complaint is FF's Bookmarks/Favorites as IE has them spanked in that arena. __________________ SL: "Xero Static" Raptr: "Xeroxer" / X-Fire: "eswwolferine" GR: Admiral "ESW_Wolferine" BF2: General ".SiLeNt.Kn\|ghT."

10-23-2009, 08:56 PM	#41 (permalink)
Sansarya Koo Koo Kachoo! Feeling Octoberish Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Rosebud Posts: 1,516 My Mood: SL Join Date: April 2005 Blog Entries: 2	Chrome. Firefox got very crashy with my computer. No problems with Chrome, except at work. __________________

10-23-2009, 08:58 PM	#42 (permalink)
Xiomara Mendes Not here to make friends I'm here for Brett Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Where people are shorter and live by the water Posts: 2,724 My Mood: SL Join Date: 01/10/07	I'm a noob who finds anything other than IE intimidating. I really don't like Firefox and I don't know why. Sorry. __________________ NOBODY IN THIS HOUSE ORDERED ANY MILLIPEDES.

10-23-2009, 09:46 PM	#43 (permalink)
NukeMom Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 89	Firefox at home, unless I have to access our student database site from home because they only allow IE. IE7 or 8 at work because I HAVE to.

10-23-2009, 10:03 PM	#44 (permalink)
Fmeh The Fourth Dimension Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Tacoma, WA USA Posts: 4,865 Blog Entries: 30	Firefox because of NoScript and Adblock Plus addons. I like to be able to surf literally anywhere without worry of spyware, adware, and malware. If I used Linux as my OS, I might feel differently. __________________ The Fourth Dimension Club and Hangout http://slurl.com/secondlife/Meribel/211/172/103

10-23-2009, 11:07 PM	#46 (permalink)
Brenda Connolly Senior Member I am THAT crazy Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 7,260 SLShopper Ads: 2 SL Join Date: Jan 9,2007	I've used IE since the beginning. It's always worked for me. I've never looked at any of the others. __________________ http://brenda-connolly.blogspot.com

10-24-2009, 09:00 AM	#47 (permalink)
Nibb Tardis Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: France Posts: 89 SL Join Date: 2004 Business: primOptic eyewear	I use Firefox with AdBlock, Greasemonkey, and IE Tab for the couple of websites that don't like Firefox. Whenever I'm forced to use anything else, I'm amazed at how people can actually put up with so much annoying advertising. I won't be using chrome or any other brower until they have an ad filtering option.

10-24-2009, 12:25 PM	#50 (permalink)
Argent Stonecutter Emergency Mustelid Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 1,073	Camino and Firefox and Safari and when I absolutely have to IE. It'd be Camino and Safari all the time because I hate the way Firefox is implemented... that customization comes at a heavy cost in security and startup time... but Camino has problems with the proxies at work and sometimes gecko just works better than Webkit (and vice versa, mind). I also use Safari on Windows because it handles certain quirks in work's web pages better. IE? I haven't used IE except for sites that specifically require it since 1997.

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