Web-browsers

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Sat Jun 14, 2014 10:28 am

Let's talk about web-browsers. Which one do you use, and why?
Yesterday I've flipped the table and went back to Opera 12 from Chrome. Chorme pissed me off by blocking the extension without my permission and refusing to turn it back on.

darkmaster · Post by **darkmaster** » Sat Jun 14, 2014 10:41 am

I use Fire Fox because add-ons.

erik · Post by **erik** » Sat Jun 14, 2014 12:40 pm

darkmaster wrote:I use Fire Fox because add-ons.

+1. That's my main usage.

And rather than shuffle add-ons, like when I want to turn off ad-block, I just use different browsers for various things so also use Safari and Chrome as they have different add-ons, and also different sites work better under some browsers. Also since my wife and I share computers we use different browsers for different things to keep from having to log each other on and off various sites. So going multi-browser works for lots of things for us.

On the windoze I use Komodo, Chrome or IE (and again we divide different browsers between my wife and I), because for reasons that baffle me in 2014 some sites still are only functional in IE.

schpeelah · Post by **schpeelah** » Sat Jun 14, 2014 1:22 pm

erik wrote:On the windoze I use Komodo, Chrome or IE (and again we divide different browsers between my wife and I), because for reasons that baffle me in 2014 some sites still are only functional in IE.

Some of those rely on having the permission to open pop-ups (sometimes even when they do not actually open any) which is default-off in Firefox and Chrome and on in IE. You can set that for a particular site in page info. I know my bank works this way, for instance.

I use Waterfox (Firefox compiled for 64 bit) loaded down with 40 extensions as my main, Pale Moon (64 bit Firefox with features cut down for performance) with less extensions for more limited but faster browsing, and Chrome occasionally.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Sat Jun 14, 2014 2:36 pm

I use Opera mostly out of habit as it's got all my bookmarks and stuff, (also I like that popups open in new tabs instead of windows, the decent download manager (i.e. it can usually resume interrupted downloads, something Chrome often has difficulty with IME) and better handling of crappy unstable connections (I think)). I also keep Firefox (mostly for the addon that lets me download videos) and Chrome around as Opera can't handle some pages (like certain google doc formats). I sometimes have multiple browsers open as I prefer that to multiple windows of the same browser for some reason.

rampaging-poet · Post by **rampaging-poet** » Sat Jun 14, 2014 3:45 pm

I'm running Pale Moon here as well. The only plugins I'm running are Add To Searchbar and Greasemonkey, and so far I only use Greasemonkey to remove pointless "are you sure you want to redirect?" pages.