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How many Browsers do you use?

ikos said:
Once again, this is not a Firefox vs Safari thread, so please keep it nice and short and simple and either respond to the asked question or don't post at all.
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Before you read what I wrote below, I would like to let you know that I'm holding myself back from completely flaming you for this request and saying a lot of stuff that would probably put me 'In-Time-Out'. I'm going to try to keep this as civilized as possible.

Wow, where on earth are you coming from with this demand? You posted a thread asking how many browsers do people use, and I responded telling you which browsers I use and why I use them. If you wanted people to just vote on which browser they use most, why didn't you just make a poll? Having 30 posters or so just post a list of browsers isn't going to gain much. If you are trying to figure out which browser you are most likely to use or like, how did you expect to get anywhere in this thread without people explaining why.

When I posted my response, I had only looked at the first post and I didn't notice any sign of a fiery debate breaking out. I have/had no intention of starting a debate, and I don't see how anybody could think that I was by my post. I simply stated why I prefer one browser over another, no technical terms about how one browser's whatever processes the whatever better than the other's, because I have no clue how the internals like that work. I simply stated why I prefer one over the other on a simple user-appearance basis. My post was by no means long compared to others on this site [or the one I'm typing right now].

I didn't come into this thread and try to throw it off onto a tangent or throw it into a discussion not pertinent to the topic at hand, I plain and simply responded to the discussion question as to how many browsers I use and why I use them. If people in this thread want to have a discussion about web browsers and the pros and cons of certain ones, then I will gladly join in with that discussion and contribute as much as I can. If you don't want to read those posts then don't, nobody is forcing you to and by no means do you own or moderate this site or thread.

So please, if you don't like responses that you see that are not blatantly out of the topic at hand, please keep it to yourself in your response or don't respond at all.
 
Always Safari, but Firefox is always on hand if there's ever a problem... but I must admit I haven't had one in a long time.

OP, I hardly think JML42691 was out of place by explaining his choice with a few details.
 
Firefox 99.9%
Safari .1%

I've been using Firefox since all the way back to Netscape Navigator :)

I've tried other browsers along the way, but I've always just preferred the way the Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox browsers have worked. Safari's no slouch, but without the library of addons, it's just not customizable enough. Same with Camino - if it had HALF the number of extensions that Firefox has, I'd probably use it instead of FF.
 
On my macbook I use Safari 4 religiously.

On my netbook, when it is actually hooked up to Interwebz, I use IE8. Hasn't disappointed me yet.
 
I use Safari the most (but I'll sometimes switch to Firefox exclusively for a month randomly).
and about once or twice a day I'll use one of these:

Camino
Opera
Chrome
Shiira
OmniWeb.
 
I use Safari 4 mostly, I wish I had the tabs on top again.:( Sometimes I use Firefox since it has a TOR plugin and I rarely use Opera.
 
designgeek said:
I use Safari 4 mostly, I wish I had the tabs on top again.:(...
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That's how I feel too, when I first downloaded Safari 4 Beta a few weeks after it was released, I hated the the tabs in the title bar, but in a matter of hours I basically fell in love with it. It helped to bring the clutter at the top of the window to the absolute smallest level and that is what I liked most about it. All I need is the address bar, my favorites/bookmarks bar and the tabs, and the fact that they were able to bring the tabs to the title bar shrunk what was there to the perfect level. I just wish there were still an option in Safari Preferences to bring the tabs back to that spot, maybe in Safari 4.0.3 (or 4.1 even).

I'm still here, I'm not going to fall to the wishes/demands of a thread troll.
 
Safari 4 (most of the time)

Firefox 3.5 (occasional email accounts)
iCab 4.6 (one email account)
Opera 10 (for YouTube viewing)
Omniweb
Camino
 
I always use Firefox, it's just what I'm used to. I like Safari, and I'm not saying it's bad or anything, I just don't see what it can do that's any different from Firefox, I don't see a reason to switch, I don't use the dashboard widgets that Safari uses, and I don't use the page which shows all the windows one likes to visit.

I don't hate Safari, and I can't say anything bad about it, it just doesn't seem very different to me from Firefox. On the other hand I could see why anyone would want to use something different than IE, but yea lol.
 
I was using Firefox 3.5 99% of the time, until it decided to crash every time I tried to print more than once per session.

So, as of today, I'm 99% Safari 4.

I'd love to use Opera more, but I won't until 1Password works with it.
 
Signal-11 said:
I use Safari only when something doesn't work quite right in FF.
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I do the opposite. There is one web site I frequent that doesn't play nice with Safari, but it likes Firefox just fine. There's another that right up front said to use Firefox, so I do. I've never tried to go there with Safari.

Nice poem! (next post)
 
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