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Safari or Firefox

FireFox is nowhere near as good as it once was, basically useless I find. These days, I much, much prefer Chrome to anything.
 
Chrome all the way. The bookmark sync'ing alone is worth it, not to mention it's a great browser that is lightning fast. I haven't used Firefox since.
 
Firefox for life.

I have used it for 5 years.

I had a brief period using chrome...but went back to firefox.

Sarfari is garbage.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)

In Mac OS X I use Chrome.
In Wlindows 7 I use IE9.
 
I love Chrome, tried out firefox but I hated how it took awhile to open and was always requiring me to update the various extensions and restart firefox.
 
hmmm well Safari cannot cope with Adboe Flash and just crashes after a while it also eats up CPU resources but is has some nice features too.
Anyway to save the crashes I just use Firefox, lacks some of the features of Safari but by God it's a damn site more stable..... Don't let Jobs tell you Flash is unstable, if it was then all the browsers would crash and on my Mac only Safari does.

I would love to use Chrome, unfortunately it kicks in the Nvidia GPU all the time so my battery life sucks!! If it didn't do that than I would use Chrome all the time.
 
For Mac: Firefox as my primary, Safari and my secondary. The main reason is compatibility with certain sites I need access to. Safari is nice and fast but far less customizeable. Sync is also free on Firefox. :D

For PC: 50/50 IE8 and Firefox. Speed and compatibility (mainly compatibility).

I tried Chrome both on Mac and Windows but didn't like it. I'm fairly traditional and don't like to switch browsers just bc one is faster or prettier. Firefox is still the top bi-platform browser for me. :cool:
 
Firefox. I refuse to use a browser that doesn't have a save state as I generally keep 3 or 4 windows open at all times with about 10 tabs in each. Some sites I wont get back to for a while I save to Evernote but most I keep open until such time that I don't need them.
 
Firefox 4 b12. But it definitely takes a hit on my battery, as does Chrome. I get a solid half-hour to an hour more life when using Safari, with pretty much the same, basic extensions across all three browsers. Hopefully the Release Candidate of FF4 fixes this somehow...
 
Tried all three, and used Firefox for a good while before Chrome came out. It's been Chrome ever since though... just performs better and seems less bloated, kind of like FF when it first came out.
 
saxon48 said:
Firefox 4 b12. But it definitely takes a hit on my battery, as does Chrome. I get a solid half-hour to an hour more life when using Safari, with pretty much the same, basic extensions across all three browsers. Hopefully the Release Candidate of FF4 fixes this somehow...
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Thanks for the advice, I've been using chrome a lot and really noticed a drop in battery performance. I'll try switching back to safari, see if it fixes the battery problems.
 
Chrome!

A long time Firefox user, in the last six months I've run them concurrently & hands down Chrome continues to outperform Firefox.

There's a very rapidly growing selection of extensions for Chrome as well.

Many with much more usefulness than Firefox.

With updates automatically pushed & installed quickly in Chrome, Firefox is disappearing in Chromes rear view mirror.
 
I think a lot of people stay away from Chrome, Gmail... because of that news a few years ago that Google logs and keeps records of your internet history.

Does Safari have better compatibility with certain routers or certain locations in the U.S.? I don't understand how some of y'all are using it as your primary browser. I just got my MBP and Safari is pausing and stalling consistently. I downloaded Firefox and it's working great. I would rather use Safari, but I don't like to drive myself crazy! Is there a setting I should adjust?
 
Firefox.

I like the customizable persona option, tweaks and add-ons. They have a bunch of add-ons and extensions to choose from. Even though people are saying Chrome is the best (which is if you want super speed and simplicity) then go for it.

But if you want a customizable web-browser that can fit your personality, then Firefox is the way to go.

Be careful, too many add-ons and extensions running at the same time will make your surfing slower.

I opt for the bare essentials:
- RSS Ticker (RSS feeds are scrolling through)
- AdBlockPro
- TweakTube (Ultimate YouTube tweak, I'd keep it with just the video downloader option on. Customizing youtube takes too much time since the video has to load too)
- Yoono (Needs some work but it gets the job done when you want to peek at notifications without loading the actual social networking site on a tab.)
 
Firefox is a bit more secure then Safari, but the previous release of Firefox was a bit buggy, and had some issues.
 
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