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What web browser do you use?


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I can't stand most add-ons.

Firefox is just heads and shoulders above IE. I have never tried Opera, but I hear it's good.

Safari was fine on my Mac, but I tried the PC version... it stank.

I haven't used Netscape since the 90's.
 
Internet Explorer has too many holes that invites virus, trojans and spywares. I would NOT encourage people to use it.

Firefox is the one I use because it's accurate, safe and supports a lot of useful extensions.

Safari is only good on Macintosh. The Windows port has a lot of bugs.

Opera is very good, but lacks useful extensions.

Netscape was good in the old days. It seems to look outdated now.

I haven't tried Mozilla Suite (aka Seamonkey) though.
 
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Mozilla started with Mozilla Application Suite, then moved on to create Firefox. Mozilla was abandond, but picked up again as SeaMonkey.

Firefox was mainly much safer than IE for a long time due to the lack of market share. However, as that changes more and more exploits which target firefox are being found in the wild.

Firefox has a rather fucking slow JavaScript core. It also relies heavily on JavaScript for the UI. (It is, after all, a XUL based application, using JS for all the UI) This creates more UI hangs than IE, Safari, and Opera suffer from.

I use firefox out of lack of a more favoured option for me.
 
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Running on mac, safari and Firefox is pretty much the same for me. I mainly use safari for browsing while using firefox when working with websites.

I agree that Safari certainly blows on windows.
 
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