Poll

As subject

Internet Explorer
27 (7.5%)
Firefox/Mozilla (or Netscape for laggards)
166 (46.1%)
Safari
46 (12.8%)
Something else
30 (8.3%)
Google Chrome
91 (25.3%)

Total Members Voted: 322

Author Topic: What browser do you most use to access the forum?  (Read 190416 times)

Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #100 on: 18 February, 2014, 02:36:05 pm »
Opera on laptop and desktop

Dolphin on android tablet and phone

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Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #101 on: 18 February, 2014, 02:45:44 pm »
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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Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #102 on: 13 April, 2014, 02:20:42 pm »

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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Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #103 on: 13 April, 2014, 03:15:09 pm »
I've changed my vote from Firefox to Something Else - Pale Moon, 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 - can emulate Safari, amongst others.
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Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #104 on: 14 August, 2014, 08:09:50 pm »
Google Chrome FTW!

Come on Chromites... get voting.

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Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #105 on: 14 August, 2014, 08:33:28 pm »
I use whatever is available on the device I happen to be using.
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Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #106 on: 14 August, 2014, 08:37:03 pm »
I think you can get Chrome for most devices... snigger.

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Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #107 on: 14 August, 2014, 08:44:36 pm »
Not on a locked down Civil Service 'puter, you can't.
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Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #108 on: 14 August, 2014, 09:02:31 pm »
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.

Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #109 on: 18 August, 2014, 09:11:46 pm »
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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Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #110 on: 18 August, 2014, 09:18:15 pm »
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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Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #111 on: 18 August, 2014, 09:20:28 pm »
Well guessed Mr Larrington. Yes, I'm still having to use IE6. Which is deastating in so many ways.
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Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #112 on: 19 August, 2014, 10:36:02 am »
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.

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Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #113 on: 19 August, 2014, 11:08:33 am »
Chrome on home laptop, Safari on iDevices, IE11 at work.
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Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #114 on: 19 August, 2014, 12:16:34 pm »
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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Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #115 on: 12 October, 2014, 05:16:14 pm »
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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Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #116 on: 12 October, 2014, 05:27:38 pm »
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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Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #117 on: 12 October, 2014, 06:58:35 pm »
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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Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #118 on: 13 October, 2014, 10:41:56 am »
Chrome on the desktop (but what I want most is Tapatalk back for my Android tablet  :(  - sorry, couldn't resist!))

ian

Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #119 on: 16 October, 2014, 10:48:53 am »
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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Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #120 on: 16 October, 2014, 10:55:55 am »
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!

ian

Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #121 on: 16 October, 2014, 11:38:32 am »
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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Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #122 on: 17 October, 2014, 12:01:30 pm »
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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Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #123 on: 31 July, 2015, 09:19:55 pm »
Windows Edge today ;)

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Re: What browser do you most use to access the forum?
« Reply #124 on: 07 August, 2015, 11:32:48 am »
I have read that Windows Edge won't support ad-blockers.  If this is right it can FRO.
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