Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => The Knowledge => Ctrl-Alt-Del => Topic started by: rogerzilla on 06 November, 2010, 09:53:46 pm
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I wondered if the forum stats are actually correct; they show almost no IE use at all.
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Google Chrome FTW!
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^^^ +1
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I know it makes me a total chav, but I like the way web content looks with IE, and I can't recreate it exactly with other browsers (except for those based on IE).
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Firefox on the Linux boxes, Safari on the iPhone. Opera occasionally.
IE never.
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Seems likely. Even the non-geeks on here are fairly geeky, or at least inclined to follow "use Firefox, it sucks less" advice from those in the know.
Which leaves those forced to use IE on work computers. Presumably that sort of thing tends to correlate fairly strongly with firewall rules or policies that preclude the exchange of loosely bicycle related knowledge, smut and innuendo on work time?
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Not enough options in the poll:
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1072/5152518206_a5af5c5987.jpg)
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Firefox from home. By choice.
IE at work where I have no choice.
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Google Chrome :thumbsup:
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Firefox at work or on my home pcs. Safari on the iPhone.
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Firefox on all four PCs.
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Firefox on this machine
Iron (Big Brother free version of Chrome) on my work laptop.
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Chromium if I am first to the netbook, firefox if my missus is. On the desktop, firefox. On th phone, whatever the name of the Android Froyo browser is
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Chrome
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Google Chrome.
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Probably 50:50 Firefox and MicroB
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IE (6 >:() on my work laptop if I am at work (can't seem to make chrome work through the corporate network)
Chrome on my work laptop anywhere else
Chrome on my netbook
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Chrome on the desktop and safari on the iPad.
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I've added Chrome. You can change your vote.
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Chrome & Opera, about 50:50 so I chose "other"
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Safari on iMac and iPad at home.
Nothing at work 'cos YACF is blocked by the Borg >:(
Whatever the little browser is on my Nokia (text only WAP)
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Firefox.
Apparently Chrome is faster, and IE is a bloated slug...
http://www.clickonf5.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/1503_performance_comparison_of_web_browsers_large.jpg
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Firefox since I divorced Microsomething :D
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Safari on 4 devices, never IE. Very occasionally Firefox or Opera.
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IE6 at work
Opera on laptop
FF on desktop
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Firefox under Windows, Linux and Android, although tbh, the Android version isn't brilliant, so I've only occasionally used it. Generally Android's own browser seems to be better on the phone.
I just tried Lynx, and it functions here, but it's hard work. I think I'll stick to Firefox.
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I was using IE but after reading the above I have just changed to Chrome.
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Firefox, home and work; Safari the rare times I view via my Touch.
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Firefox, whatever the mainstream auto-update version happens to be.
It's more stable than IE and less resource-drainy than Chrome, and it has AdBlock, which is enough all on its own. Whenever I switch browser, I get startled by how damn noisy the web is without it.
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Firefox home and work. Like andy, the various plug-ins I use just make it so much nicer and less cluttered.
Safari on the iPhone.
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I just tried Lynx, and it functions here, but it's hard work. I think I'll stick to Firefox.
Try w3m. Tis better
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Chrome (plus a bit of IE8 at work)
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Firefox at home blocked at work
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Opera, so I voted something else
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Firefox (although I have Chrome and Opera installed for when I need them).
I've been a Netscape/Mozilla user since the mid 90s. The only time I've ever used IE was on a work computer and by the time YACF was up and running I had left that place of work. Thankfully, there is no version of IE available for my chosen operating system 8).
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Firefox on both this machine and my netbook.
Don't have a mobile device.
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Chrome at work and at home.
Occasionally Firefox.
Often Safari from my iPhone.
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Chrome here. Used to be Camino (Firefox looks horrid on a Mac and runs like a sloth in a bath full of treacle), but it started to slurp up some of that Mozilla bloat juice. Foul stuff, apparently.
Occasionally dabble with Safari on the few rare occasions when a site doesn't like Chrome.
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IE at work where I have no choice.
I now use Portable Chrome c/o Portable Apps running off a USB key at work. More than fast enough.
Oh and just swapped to Chrome on the home PCs as default, rather than Firefox.
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Opera, which had multiple tabbed browsing before Firefox even existed. Forced to use IE at work.
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I have an instinctive objection to Chrome. Google have enough of my personal info as it is and I'm loathe to hand over my browser as well.
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Agreed.
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I have an instinctive objection to Chrome. Google have enough of my personal info as it is and I'm loathe to hand over my browser as well.
Chromium ( not Chrome) is completely open source with no built in tracking or reporting features . Windows version here Download Chromium Browser - Open Source Software - Tucows (http://www.tucows.com/preview/610631)
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I have an instinctive objection to Chrome. Google have enough of my personal info as it is and I'm loathe to hand over my browser as well.
Very much how I feel about it. I've been to Google's Zurich office and know several people who now work for them in various technical roles. I do view it as something of a cult.
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Since there are at least two forumers who work for Google in London, you had better watch out, they'll be after you shortly. ;D
Repeat after me "Chrome is wonderful, I shall buy an Android phone..."
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Opera :thumbsup:
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I have an instinctive objection to Chrome. Google have enough of my personal info as it is and I'm loathe to hand over my browser as well.
Very much how I feel about it. I've been to Google's Zurich office and know several people who now work for them in various technical roles. I do view it as something of a cult.
I get out of any cultishness by using Safari on OSX. ;D
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Firefox from home. By choice.
IE at work where I have no choice.
Ditto.
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I get out of any cultishness by using Safari on OSX. ;D
That just means you belong to a different cult… ;)
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Firefox. And YACF is one of the better sites to browse when using Safari on the iPod Touch, although it's still an interesting experience.
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chrome
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Firefox, started using it when I converted to Ubuntu a couple of years ago and I'm happy with it. I don't have access to a computer at work and I don't use the internet on the phone , so its Firefox on this machine only.
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Opera, so I voted something else.
But recently my contact with the online world has been from the library, which has only IE.
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Just trying firefox 4 beta for android, and very nice it is too.
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Opera, at the moment, but thinking of switching back to Firefox or giving Chrome a blast.
plus - haven't tried it yet, but whatever the built-in browser in Android is called.
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I read all 4 pages - am I the only person using Seamonkey?
(it is the same engine as Firefox but includes the Thunderbird mail client, i.e. the old Netscape suite, so I don't have to worry about upgrading several bits of software)
Celebrate diversity!
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Chromium on Ubuntu.
I used to use Opera a lot, but it always seemed to have problems with flash-based sites...
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I used to use Opera a lot, but it always seemed to have problems with flash-based sites...
Ditto, except I don't know if it was just flash-based sites. It worked well for a few months then recently it became incredibly slow and crash-prone on this and other sites. So I've gone back to Google Chrome.
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Chrome on Crunchbang on this machine. It seems a bit shit.
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Chrome on Crunchbang on this machine. It seems a bit shit.
Is that Chrome or Chromium.
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Safari on iMac, windoze laptop, and iPhone, and whatever Amazon's 'experimental' browser is called in the Kindle.
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Chrome on Crunchbang on this machine. It seems a bit shit.
Is that Chrome or Chromium.
Chrome. This is Statler, the Debian-based one
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Iceweasel. :thumbsup:
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Chromium stable (on Crunchbang) at home, Chrome (on Vista) at work, Dolphin HD (on GingerVillain (Android)) in bed or on the move ;D :-[
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Are the stats generated by inspecting the User-agent ? THAT can be changed so don't pay too much heed to the numbers. FWIW I'm using Firefox exclusively to access this forum on a computer and some mobile think on my Symbian
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No, this is a poll so I could report I was using Firefari on Debian Windows, Snow Leopard edition if it were an option.
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No, this is a poll so I could report I was using Firefari on Debian Windows, Snow Leopard edition if it were an option.
OK I must have misread the OP.
"I wondered if the forum stats are actually correct; they show almost no IE use at all."
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I.E. was many years ago wasn't it?
Even this old geezer has moved on :P
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OK I must have misread the OP.
"I wondered if the forum stats are actually correct; they show almost no IE use at all."
I think Roger has access to some secret stats, but was checking them by doing a poll.
I use IE on my laptop running Windows XP because I like its option to use Clear Type when Clear Type is otherwise turned off. Apparently some version of Firefox can be made to do this too, but I don't have the right version and plugin for that yet. I use Firefox with my desktop PC running Windows 7.
IE is still one of the most popular browsers in the real world. It only appears less popular on the forum because we've got a large geek population here.
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I don't think it is most popular in the real World but rather an old habit. My ex-Company which has many branches in Asia originally required everyone to make Microshaft and Internet Explorer their standard. Hence passing files between Offices created no problems.
But now they are tending to prefer Linux and open source in general. Must ask my friend if they use a different browser these days.
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I don't think it is most popular in the real World but rather an old habit. My ex-Company which has many branches in Asia originally required everyone to make Microshaft and Internet Explorer their standard. Hence passing files between Offices created no problems.
But now they are tending to prefer Linux and open source in general. Must ask my friend if they use a different browser these days.
IE is the most poplar with the users of the application I support at work. They are real world users.
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Never ceases to amaze me how I miss these heavily trafficked threads. Firefox.
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safari on the mac and ipod, opera on my nokia…
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I read all 4 pages - am I the only person using Seamonkey?
(it is the same engine as Firefox but includes the Thunderbird mail client, i.e. the old Netscape suite, so I don't have to worry about upgrading several bits of software)
Celebrate diversity!
I've used it on Linux VMs. :o)
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Are the stats generated by inspecting the User-agent ? THAT can be changed so don't pay too much heed to the numbers.
But in practice the vast majority of people don't, so it still has quite a lot of value unless you're analysing a very restricted / skewed user base. [ok maybe that does apply here.... ;)]
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I am using IE <spit> at the moment. For some peculiar reason, yacf (& nothing else) was flaky on FF & BT.
I gave up with FF after I could not reply to a thread after >60 min and tweeting Dez.
Please forgive...
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I'm in the "if your browser doesn't support proper standards don't moan about my webapp because i ahve more important things to do than making it work for broken browsers, just get a proper browser mkay?" camp. IE8 or higher. FF or one of the various webkit browsers such as Chrome or Safari.
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Crome usually, firefox occasionally, IE never
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Firefox mostly.
Sometimes Safari.
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Oh,
and IE sometimes- forgot about the work laptop.
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I don't like FF 10 after two days of use. 3.6 was great but we are all expected
forced to change to FF 10 in the near future.
What is the best alternative Browser as I'm ready for a probable change?
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I don't like FF 10 after two days of use.
What's up with it?
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I don't like FF 10 after two days of use.
What's up with it?
What's wrong with it - it seems much the same as any other version of Firefox.
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I don't like FF 10 after two days of use. 3.6 was great but we are all expected forced to change to FF 10 in the near future.
What is the best alternative Browser as I'm ready for a probable change?
Chrome.
Also - and I'm probably alone in this - I like IE with XP because it gives the option to use Cleartype for HTML even when Cleartype is otherwise turned off.
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What's wrong with it?
Well, I don't like the Office black look. There are no alternatives to choose at present.
Since FF5 all versions freeze my computer and FF 10 is still annoyingly the same. I have never had that problem with 3.6.
There are no colourful tabs available for FF 10. I like them because of eyesight issues.
It slows my computer down terribly compared to 3.6 which was always very fast. I have loads of memory and disk space.
I use Ubuntu which has now adopted FF 10 as it's standard - buggar.
So I'll look at chrome for starters and ???
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So I discovered that Chromium is the Chrome Browser for Ubuntu.
Started trying it and identified that it doesn't have a menu bar or coloured tabs. However when I pin my main website pages, the tabs get shortened and are in the colour of the website which is OK for my poor eyesight. The bookmarks were also a new learning curve which still needs some more improvement from me.
Otherwise I think I will stick with Chromium as it hasn't frozen my computer like FF 10 was doing.
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I was 100% FireFox until recently. Then I started to use am under powered laptop and switched to chrome. Chrome used less RAM.
Now, I am often reading yacf on the train using the HTC phone browser
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chrome here, occasionally safari.
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I use Chrome and love it. It seems to encourage FB chat to behave better, whereas it was constantly freezing the whole browser experience with FF.
I keep FF on my computer for the occasional website that won't support Chrome...mostly horsey ones (notoriously low-tech in general) and oddly the Royal Opera House's ticketing software! :facepalm:
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I'm loving the Add-Ons available for Firefox. I spent a solid couple of hours last night trying new ones.
I think I'll delete White on Black, though.
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I think I'm about to ditch Firefox. Just finding it a bit quirky now. e.g. tonight lovefilm instant not working on FF (no yellow play triangle), but this works fine on Chrome...
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Same here. On the home computer, I've been using Firefox for most purposes (including browsing yacf), for a few years but recently I've been getting messages warning me that it no longer supports my OS (OS X 10.5.8) and occasionally behaves in a slightly flaky fashion so I'm probably going to have to change one or the other.
To answer the OP, I mostly use Tapatalk so I checked "other", but I guess that as an iPhone app, it's technically some kind of shell based on Safari, right?
I've just realised that none of the devices I use regularly to access the web even have IE installed. And I've never once missed it. (Admittedly, all the devices I use regularly are Steveware, so maybe it's not really that surprising.)
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Chrome on PCs, Tapatalk on phones.
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Just binned FF 20 and gone back to Chromium. Browsing vastly improved as a result :thumbsup:
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Chromium is OK, but has known vulnerability to Twitter infection
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Usually use google chrome on the pc, and tapatalk4 on mobile.
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Links on MacOSX, fekkin graphical nonsense!
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Chrome
Firefox
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Surf ran within tabbed.
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Usually use google chrome on the pc, and tapatalk4 on mobile.
Google Chrome on Google nexus7, Samsung galaxy tab 3 and pc. Opera Mobile on Samsung galaxy S2.
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Opera on laptop and desktop
Dolphin on android tablet and phone
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I'm using Iceweasel on my netbook now but I voted Firefox because, as the name suggests, it's just a modded/optimised version.
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Firefox. I like firefox better than the others.
If I'm away from home I use Firefox for Android on my tablet. If I'm somewhere without wifi and want to get online I turn my phone into a wifi hotspot and still use Firefox for Android.
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I've changed my vote from Firefox to Something Else - Pale Moon (http://www.palemoon.org/), based on pre Australis-themed Firefox.
Be warned that your customisations may be badly messed up if you let Firefox update to v29 - at least on a PC, I don't know about Android. You might want to turn auto updating off.
Secondary browsers I've got installed include Slimboat (http://www.slimboat.com/en/) - can emulate Safari, amongst others.
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Google Chrome FTW!
Come on Chromites... get voting.
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I use whatever is available on the device I happen to be using.
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I think you can get Chrome for most devices... snigger.
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Not on a locked down Civil Service 'puter, you can't.
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Oh.
I thought google set us free; free to browse without fear. Cookies and downloads all the days of our life.
Clearly you live in a different world to me. Was it a choice thing? Or the pension? I guess for a good pension I'd use whatever browser I'd been given.
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Let's see. On my own PCs it's Firefox. At work, Internet Explorer.
Can you guess, gentle reader, which version of IE I have to use at work?
No... I cannot say... it's too awful to even contemplate. :facepalm:
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Let's see. On my own PCs it's Firefox. At work, Internet Explorer.
Can you guess, gentle reader, which version of IE I have to use at work?
No... I cannot say... it's too awful to even contemplate. :facepalm:
Something with a devastatingly low Number, I should think. At the BigCo were had to run (IIRC) IE6 as the crappy terminal emulation SCIENCE wouldn't run with anything more "advanced".
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Well guessed Mr Larrington. Yes, I'm still having to use IE6. Which is deastating in so many ways.
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That reminds me of the state-of-the-art digital sound desk I was faced with at work, which booted up as ... Win98.
And then crashed out to the blue screen of deth
You might want to turn auto updating off.
It was never on.
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Chrome on home laptop, Safari on iDevices, IE11 at work.
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Just Chrome these days. Firefox has become way too slow for the lapdancer and while Chrome is annoying on the iPad, Safari is even more so. Take that, Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia!
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Still Pale Moon for me, but it's getting a bit big for its boots and changed its globally unique identifier From Firefox's to "reflect the continuing divergence between the browser and its sibling". This has stopped some addons working. They've also dropped Windows XP (Atom version excepted).
http://addons.palemoon.org/firefox/incompatible/
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Safari on the iPad; FF on the linux laptop. Chrome whenever I can be bothered to wake up the Windoze netbook.
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Well guessed Mr Larrington. Yes, I'm still having to use IE6. Which is devastating in so many ways.
Oh the "PC Refesh" project - they hate me reminding people they promised to have finished in 2013 - has recently e-mailed everyone saying they are now committed to upgrading everyone from Windows XP to Windows 7 in 2015.
Internet Explorer 6... it lives on :(
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Chrome on the desktop (but what I want most is Tapatalk back for my Android tablet :( - sorry, couldn't resist!))
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Not sure if it's just me, but Chrome – which has been my preference for a while – seems to be very crashy of late. Pages hang on the Mac and PC versions and the iPad version occasionally goes pop. All seems fine in Safari.
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Safari on my iPad2 (iOS8) is very, very slow, and crashes quite often. I find I'm hard quitting the app when I need to use other stuff on the iPad. OK, it's an iPad 2, but a browser shouldn't tax it that much!
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Safari on my iPad2 (iOS8) is very, very slow, and crashes quite often. I find I'm hard quitting the app when I need to use other stuff on the iPad. OK, it's an iPad 2, but a browser shouldn't tax it that much!
It's Apple's way of telling you that you're behind the times (me too, I'm still using an iPhone 4).
Today will be a day of temptation, I hear a rumour of a new retina-display 27 inch iMac... don't tell my c2009 Mac Mini.
It does seem to be certain pages that kill Chrome - the Guardian (*cough*) for instance.
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Chrome seems OK for me under Windows 8.1 but, in common with many things, is a bit flaky under IOS 8.0.2 and if I see that "No SIM Card Installed" message once more today then there may well be an arson attack on the nearest premises of the Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia.
Edit: yes, the Grauniad's webby SCIENCE is well-nigh unusable now. A pox on the Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia and all its white mice >:(
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Windows Edge today ;)
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I have read that Windows Edge won't support ad-blockers. If this is right it can FRO.
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Confusingly, there's a version of Adblock called Adblock Edge - now discontinued, apparently.
The browser I'm still most using is Pale Moon, though I'm not happy that it doesn't support all Firefox addons. (It's based on Firefox, with the old look).
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Firefox cos I use mac, linux, and Windows so I want to sync bookmarks. Chrome does that, but last time I tried it completely killed my MacBook. It's also very heavy in a virtual machine.
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I hsve been forced to switch to Safari on the fondleslab because the most recent update to Chrome has rendered it unusable for reading the forum.
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Currently Chrome, although firefox is still an attractive option.
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Back on Chrome on the fondleslab, though the latest update's penchant for "Aw, snap" errors on sites which used to work perfectly well may yet see me retreating to Dolphin or Opera Mini again. FFS, Google, if it ain't broke....
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On my own time, Safari, mostly iOS, but occasionally iMac. While at the clever factory (no, I don't know why I'm allowed here either) mostly Edge, but when that doesn't want to cooperate, IE11
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I use Vivaldi. It is chrome based and was created by the original authors of Opera which I used to use until it got simplified by the current owners.
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Opera, the ad blocker was decent until the ad providers started detecting it :-(
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I use Vivaldi. It is chrome based and was created by the original authors of Opera which I used to use until it got simplified by the current owners.
Thanks for that, I hadn't heard of it's existence
The browser is aimed at staunch technologists, heavy Internet users, and previous Opera web browser users disgruntled by Opera's transition from the Presto layout engine to the Blink layout engine, which removed many popular features
That's me.
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I wondered if the forum stats are actually correct; they show almost no IE use at all.
IE is really pretty crap (pigeons would be quicker) and even the EDGE is not that much better.
I am using Google Chrome and have been doing so for some y years but have recently changed from Windows 7 onto Windows 10 with an SSD upgrade on my hard wired PC.
The SSD (Solid State Drive) was money well spent at my local Computer Fix.
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I wondered if the forum stats are actually correct; they show almost no IE use at all.
IE is really pretty crap (pigeons would be quicker) and even the EDGE is not that much better.
I am using Google Chrome and have been doing so for some y years but have recently changed from Windows 7 onto Windows 10 with an SSD upgrade on my hard wired PC.
The SSD (Solid State Drive) was money well spent at my local Computer Fix.
Old thread so likely not the same now.
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Just switched to Brave on Win 10 and iOS.
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Wow, this is an old thread. About the time it was started, I switched from Windows (probably using IE - can't remember) to Linux. I currently use Firefox as my main browser and Chromium as a secondary browser. I've recently installed Brave and use that quite a bit too - usually when Firefox isn't playing well with some websites (or vice versa) - I think I prefer it to Chromium. I sometimes have a go with others but end up not using them (currently I have Midori installed too).
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Thread necrophilia.
Ive been using Tapatalk for years, putting up with the adverts for the sake of convenience.
On the rare occasions I need a browser for the forum (thread starting or searching for example) it's Chrome on a Chromebook
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Firefox when on my laptop; DuckDuckGo on the desktop; Safari on the phone. Since I'm on the laptop most often, I voted accordingly.
(https://i.imgur.com/1fy4ovQ.jpg)
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I primarily use Google Chrome to access the forum.