How often do you change Web Browsers?
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Firefox 95% of time. Sometimes a site doesn't show up properly and I have to switch to Chrome. And occasionally MS pops pages in Edge.
Mircea
Mircea Neacsu wrote:
Sometimes a site doesn't show up properly and I have to switch to Chrome.
This is very interesting to me, because I used FF for so long and I too stumbled upon sites that did not work with it at times. Here’s the oddest one ever. I signed into my healthcare site (UHC) and it would give me the error: “You do not have a userid on this system, please create a user id.” That is a terrible error. My user id was fine but for some reason FF gave that error. I would sign in fine on Chrome. Very odd.
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I have attempted to use FireFox exclusively for years now. It's a non-Chrome engine. It has a feature which allows you to watch videos while you do other things -- quite convenient. Anyway, recently FireFox has locked up my Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS desktop completely -- did it three different times. I moved back to Brave (which is seen by the world as Chrome). Do you switch browsers? Which browsers do you use?
Edge for everything - developing, browsing, streaming. Chrome is too intrusive for my taste.
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Jeremy Falcon said:
never
That’s what I expected from 99% of respondents. I used Chrome from 2010 - 2014 (was on Android phone then too) and then I decided to split up all my apps and I switched from Chrome to FireFox but invariably FireFox has had issues that are pretty critical and cause me to switch to other browsers (usually Brave). I have used Opera and I also use Safari on iPhone, of course. I’m writing this up from my iPad Pro running FireFox.
raddevus wrote:
That’s what I expected from 99% of respondents.
Yeah, it's the age old... using a browser for work vs tinkering. For me, I do web dev, so my focus is more on building apps than browser searching. As such, it usually takes a lot to get me to switch and even if I did (and they're using the same engine, etc.) I'll still need to make sure a web app looks good in all popular browsers. So, no getting away from it.
raddevus wrote:
I’m writing this up from my iPad Pro running FireFox.
Noice. I do like how FF's dev tools deal with CSS grid.
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Mircea Neacsu wrote:
Sometimes a site doesn't show up properly and I have to switch to Chrome.
This is very interesting to me, because I used FF for so long and I too stumbled upon sites that did not work with it at times. Here’s the oddest one ever. I signed into my healthcare site (UHC) and it would give me the error: “You do not have a userid on this system, please create a user id.” That is a terrible error. My user id was fine but for some reason FF gave that error. I would sign in fine on Chrome. Very odd.
I had one site simply telling me that my (FF) browser is not supported :omg: Seems to happen more often on big, government sites. Probably people there are too busy to test on other browsers. You know how busy these public employees are :D Anyway it's not often enough to make me change browsers.
Mircea
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I have attempted to use FireFox exclusively for years now. It's a non-Chrome engine. It has a feature which allows you to watch videos while you do other things -- quite convenient. Anyway, recently FireFox has locked up my Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS desktop completely -- did it three different times. I moved back to Brave (which is seen by the world as Chrome). Do you switch browsers? Which browsers do you use?
On my work laptop used to exclusively use Brave until they locked it. Switched to the chromium edge, until they forced it to require me to login with my work account. Now using Chrome. On my PC it has been Brave for a few years now. For some reason I dislike the feel fire-fox gives me.
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I never got around to installing Lynx on any of my OpenVMS systems. I was referring to the browser which dare not speak its name.
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I have attempted to use FireFox exclusively for years now. It's a non-Chrome engine. It has a feature which allows you to watch videos while you do other things -- quite convenient. Anyway, recently FireFox has locked up my Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS desktop completely -- did it three different times. I moved back to Brave (which is seen by the world as Chrome). Do you switch browsers? Which browsers do you use?
I use Chrome but because some of my professional work is on web front-ends I sometimes need to check other browsers and I will use Firefox and Edge for a quick check. Also occasionally the Chrome cache stubbornly refuses to clear for a site so I will use Firefox to get a fresh version of the site.
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I have attempted to use FireFox exclusively for years now. It's a non-Chrome engine. It has a feature which allows you to watch videos while you do other things -- quite convenient. Anyway, recently FireFox has locked up my Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS desktop completely -- did it three different times. I moved back to Brave (which is seen by the world as Chrome). Do you switch browsers? Which browsers do you use?
I've used FF for decades (since before the getfirefox campaign, since it was still in beta, actually). I'm not particularly happy with the way Mozilla is going with it, but considering that the alternative is to further the monopoly of a single browser engine, I still stuck with it. Recently, I've heard good things about a FF fork - Floorp. Tried it briefly only. It's about time that someone forked FF properly: Mozilla is a horrible steward, and spends all their money on diversity outreach while firing FF engineers. It's no wonder that FF went from 75% market share (pre-diversity initiatives) to around 5% market share (post-diversity initiatives). You cannot even contribute money to FF development anymore (I used to contribute), you can only contribute to Mozilla, and they make no promises about what they use your contribution for. Download - Floorp[^]
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I have attempted to use FireFox exclusively for years now. It's a non-Chrome engine. It has a feature which allows you to watch videos while you do other things -- quite convenient. Anyway, recently FireFox has locked up my Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS desktop completely -- did it three different times. I moved back to Brave (which is seen by the world as Chrome). Do you switch browsers? Which browsers do you use?
Back in high school, which is about 20 years ago, I switched from IE to Firefox. A few years later I switched to Chrome and I'm still using it today.
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I have attempted to use FireFox exclusively for years now. It's a non-Chrome engine. It has a feature which allows you to watch videos while you do other things -- quite convenient. Anyway, recently FireFox has locked up my Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS desktop completely -- did it three different times. I moved back to Brave (which is seen by the world as Chrome). Do you switch browsers? Which browsers do you use?
Rarely. 99% of the time I use Chrome, but will switch to Edge when I need to not be signed in to something. (Chrome keeps all my passwords and logins, Edge I never save anything. There are times when I need to be logged into two different accounts simultaneously, and so using two browsers is helpful). I do have FF installed and had to use it just last week when I got a bug report for one of my public sites. Turns out FF doesn't handle
javascript:protocol in links the way that everybody else does; it executes the code then displays any object resulting from that code, normally[Object object], as the entire content of the page. Don't know who's doing it wrong, FF or the rest of the world, but it was a quick fix so don't care. Not keen on Edge when I've used it, but that's possibly because I've never bothered spending time configuring it how I like - don't even know if it can be done. I work on a laptop screen 100% of the time so its default big blocky URL bar and tabs just waste space for me. Its debug tools aren't what I'm used to so are slower for me to use. Just inertia, really. And that's basically the reason I don't often change browsers!Telegraph marker posts ... nothing to do with IT Phasmid email discussion group ... also nothing to do with IT Beekeeping and honey site ... still nothing to do with IT
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I have attempted to use FireFox exclusively for years now. It's a non-Chrome engine. It has a feature which allows you to watch videos while you do other things -- quite convenient. Anyway, recently FireFox has locked up my Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS desktop completely -- did it three different times. I moved back to Brave (which is seen by the world as Chrome). Do you switch browsers? Which browsers do you use?
I was not aware of this, using Firefox exclusively for just a month now (on a windows box btw). Googling Firefox freezes PC permanently at unpredictable times, forcing me to force-restart pc | Firefox Support Forum | Mozilla Support[^] puts it at hardware (graphics) hardware acceleration. Did you try this? Perhaps video watching suffers, haven't tried.
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Chrome, and Edge when MS forces it upon me (despite my setting Chrome as my default browser ... :mad: ) It does the job, and fails to annoy me nearly all the time.
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I have attempted to use FireFox exclusively for years now. It's a non-Chrome engine. It has a feature which allows you to watch videos while you do other things -- quite convenient. Anyway, recently FireFox has locked up my Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS desktop completely -- did it three different times. I moved back to Brave (which is seen by the world as Chrome). Do you switch browsers? Which browsers do you use?
Rarely. I use Firefox since version 4. I moved to Brave in my current company since out proxy filters out every request not coming from Chrome, and changing the presentation string in Firefox gave me some rendering issues. On my phone I use Brave as Firefox tended to cook my battery and it doesn't support add-ons on mobile, Brave at leas does a minimum of ad-blocking. Sometimes I use Brave if Adblock is detected and a page refuses to load.
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I have attempted to use FireFox exclusively for years now. It's a non-Chrome engine. It has a feature which allows you to watch videos while you do other things -- quite convenient. Anyway, recently FireFox has locked up my Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS desktop completely -- did it three different times. I moved back to Brave (which is seen by the world as Chrome). Do you switch browsers? Which browsers do you use?
I have most web browsers installed so I can test, even though most are Chromium these days... Half the icons on my task bar are web browsers, both Windows and MacOS. I'm actually enjoying "Opera One developer". It has a few extra features baked in that other Chromium browsers don't.
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There's only two browsers I've ever commited to: - IE - Edge (Chromium-based, I couldn't stand the previous version and ignored it throughout its entire lifetime) I don't know why people complain about MS trying hard to get people to move from Chrome to Edge. Whenever I visit Google properties, I get as many incessant popups trying to convince me to switch to Chrome. Google isn't any less annoying.
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I don't know why people complain about MS trying hard to get people to move from Chrome to Edge. Whenever I visit Google properties, I get as many incessant popups trying to convince me to switch to Chrome. Google isn't any less annoying.
Windows is likely preinstalled on their machine, that's why they complain. You only get google popups if you deliberately visit a google site. You get Windows popups just by turning on the machine. You don't get that difference? To opt out of google popups, just don't visit certain sites. To opt out of Windows popups (i.e. switch OSes), you have to change your whole workflow, then do without the applications you previously used which weren't portable, then learn how to use your new OS (good luck if you're moving to MacOS, which has a primitive but pretty UI). You don't see the difference?
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I have most web browsers installed so I can test, even though most are Chromium these days... Half the icons on my task bar are web browsers, both Windows and MacOS. I'm actually enjoying "Opera One developer". It has a few extra features baked in that other Chromium browsers don't.
Graeme
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Graeme_Grant wrote:
I have most web browsers installed so I can test
Ditto. Professionally, my group develops on Edge as that is the organization standard, and it works fine. We test on Chrome and Firefox. The ancient application we replaced a year+ ago ran ONLY on IE (yeah, it was that old) and pre-Win10, the org standard was IE. We cheered when that changed, and cheered again when the customer agreed we didn't need to support IE!!! On my Android phone I use DuckDuckGo, and occasionally Bing. I don't use Chrome for anything. On my personal PCs, I use Vivaldi (Chrome clone) as my primary, with Edge and Firefox installed and used occasionally. I don't have Chrome installed. It's weird, but I trust Microsoft more than Google. This doesn't mean I trust MS; rather that I see MS as the lesser evil, even if not by much.
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I have attempted to use FireFox exclusively for years now. It's a non-Chrome engine. It has a feature which allows you to watch videos while you do other things -- quite convenient. Anyway, recently FireFox has locked up my Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS desktop completely -- did it three different times. I moved back to Brave (which is seen by the world as Chrome). Do you switch browsers? Which browsers do you use?
I switched to Opera couple years ago, never looked back.
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I have attempted to use FireFox exclusively for years now. It's a non-Chrome engine. It has a feature which allows you to watch videos while you do other things -- quite convenient. Anyway, recently FireFox has locked up my Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS desktop completely -- did it three different times. I moved back to Brave (which is seen by the world as Chrome). Do you switch browsers? Which browsers do you use?
I'm locked into the Chrome ecosystem for better or worst - probably worse. But syncing everything across all my devices with basically one transparent service is just too appealing to me.
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I was not aware of this, using Firefox exclusively for just a month now (on a windows box btw). Googling Firefox freezes PC permanently at unpredictable times, forcing me to force-restart pc | Firefox Support Forum | Mozilla Support[^] puts it at hardware (graphics) hardware acceleration. Did you try this? Perhaps video watching suffers, haven't tried.
Thanks a ton for posting that. I searched for any related news and couldn't find it. I'm always interested in root causes of issues like this one. It's quite terrible because my machine would lock but I could still hear video playing in the background but once it locks like this there is no escape. A long, long time ago on an OS far away (NT 4.0) I had a graphics problem that occurred the same way. The graphics would freeze making you think the machine was frozen but it was just the graphics card so I thought it might be something like that. Thanks again.
