Comments on: Poll Follow Up: What is Your Preferred Browser?

By: Sanket Sahu

Sanket Sahu — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:03:56 +0000

Only those who don’t use Internet Explorer take this poll. Isn’t it? IE still holds larger chunk of share i.e. around 60-65%. I hate IE.

By: sunwukung

sunwukung — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:37:30 +0000

FF for dev – I flirted with Opera, but just couldn’t make the transition to Dragonfly.

Surfing, Chrome is sweet – Opera is great because of MyOpera persisting bookmarks across locations (to replace XMarks) but again, FF has so many decent addons in this regard. It’s just slow as a dog with the full arsenal loaded up, so much so that I’ve started disabling extensions that I’m not using to speed it up.

Really want Chrome to get some decent extensions rolling.

By: emceha

emceha — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:25:18 +0000

In work FF is best thing in world, but for free surfing FF sucks.
No sidepanel notepad, plugin gestures are slow, speed dial page slowing down FF.
FF for work, Opera for fun.

By: Brother Erryn

Brother Erryn — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:37:54 +0000

I really want to like Opera, but xmlhttp requests won’t work on localhost as of 9.5, because of a change made to the security layer. That means I can’t troubleshoot/debug my web applications locally…or even run them. When some investigation revealed that the developers knew about this, that there was no workaround, and they had no intention of changing that, I felt I had no choice but to drop it as a supported browser.

Since I don’t support it, I don’t use it. A shame really, it’s otherwise a great browser. My browser of choice is Chrome, with Firefox for active development.

By: davep

davep — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:05:54 +0000

You should give the “second prefered browser” poll a try. I’ll happily use Firefox for general browsing and development (mainly the plugins), but I always use Chrome now for web services at work I need to stay logged in for… Google Analytics & Adwords, SalesForce, Email marketing systems etc, purely because I can keep all them in one space and away from my usual browsing and its as good as firefox.

By: James

James — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:01:42 +0000

Let’s face it: Opera is great, Safari is great, Chrome is great, Firefox is great and so is Firebug and related plugins. Which makes FF the greatest…

By: cssProdigy

cssProdigy — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:26:10 +0000

I’m surprised to see that Chrome has toppled Opera, which is a great browser that’s always has innovation.

By: dave

dave — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:20:09 +0000

Development tools and other extensions is exactly the reason I use firefox the most, but I have to admit I do really like Opera. I would happily move over to Opera if, as you said they learn from this.

By: Yo Gabba Gabba

Yo Gabba Gabba — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:53:13 +0000

I applaud those honest enough to vote for Internet Explorer.

And I, under my breath, call them freaking idiots who are ruining the internet.

By: Facundo

Facundo — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:31:09 +0000

I don’t understand item 4. ( …although I may as well consider Chrome “Safari – Windows.””)…