What Browser Do You Use, and Why?

[deepakvrao]

Tried Safari again after seeing this thread, and I remembered why I gave up on it in the first place.

In Chrome, if I visit a forum and zoom the page, all further pages from that website will open in the same zoomed state. Not like that in Safari, unless I am missing something. I find this feature great, as with the native res of the MBA screen, I find many web pages have text too small for me to comfortably read.

 

[jj48]

It's got to be Safari for me. Until I got my MBA this summer I had been a Chrome user about as long as it had been around, but that changed pretty quickly.

The integration with Lion is just so good, and I have become dependent on the bookmarks bar.

 

[Rob.G]

My primary browser is Chrome, but I use FF and Safari too. FF for development (I love Firebug and the Web Developer Toolbar), and Safari is used when I need "another" browser to login to a site I'm working on (for account overlap).

BTW, you can get AdBlock for Chrome and Safari. It's not made by the same guy who does the FF version, but it works VERY well.

Rob

 

[bbhegedus]

I use Chrome. I feel it's faster and I love the integrated search bar.

That was the only thing I liked about Chrome. After finding this extension for Safari, I'll never go back. It's called Safari Omnibar and will make the Safari address and search bar, one big bar just like chrome, except less clunky.

 

[iDuel]

I use Safari on Mac and either Safari or Internet Explorer 9 on Windows.

Safari isnt perfect, but I have confidence in Apple that they will improve it greatly in Safari 6

 

[YosemiteSam81]

I really tried to give Safari a chance but I had to go back to Chrome. At first it was the lack of an Omnibar but that was solved by an extension. The thing that annoyed me the most was the fact that I had to hold the command key to get a search to open in a new tab whereas Chrome does it automatically for me.

If somebody has a solution that would be great because I do like the way Safari runs with Lion.

 

[Stein357]

That was the only thing I liked about Chrome. After finding this extension for Safari, I'll never go back. It's called Safari Omnibar and will make the Safari address and search bar, one big bar just like chrome, except less clunky.

Thank you! I just downloaded the bar and it's great.

 

[ChuckMogal]

Mozilla Firefox is really useful for most of works. Firefox is very user friendly and it has more features than the other web browsers.

 

[Wild-Bill]

Firefox:

• Adblock Plus
• Firebug
• 1-Click Weather

Been using Firefox since my PC days.

 

[thuglove]

Chrome because I use Windows sometimes and the sync is invaluable.

 

[Boe11]

I've been a chrome fan since its beta days. For me, it's got everything I need any nothing I don't. Fast and minimalistic.

Safari seems alright, but the few times I've used it before installing chrome, I've been a little put off by the fact that you have to click the address 3 times to highlight it, as opposed to once in chrome. I'd imagine this might be something you can change in the settings.

 

[entatlrg]

I'm surprised there's not more Firefox users, I've used it for years. Looks like I better catch up with the times and give Safari and Chrome a go.

 

[mousouchop]

I cannot believe that I am in the minority, using Firefox. When did that happen? Or is this a Mac thing? Haha.

 

[Dweez]

Chrome.

 

[yongren]

Safari seems like it has better system integration (gestures). Reading list is also good.

 

[Spinning]

Safari, best integration with my iPhone.

 

[badman89]

Chrome

I use Google Chrome; it's simply the best browser. The omnibar is too good to pass up. I see absolutely no reason to use Safari.

For those complaining that Chrome, Firefox, etc. don't have multitouch functionality, please, allow me to introduce you to BetterTouchTool. You can set up much better trackpad functions that Safari ever had or will have.

 

[jeffg819]

Safari
- integrates well with the OS
- well supported
- clean sync across all my Macs
- Google is starting to feel like a whole lot of badness to me

 

[808?]

Chrome, it is fast.

 

[Sankersizzle]

I used to use Safari, but I've recently switched to Roccat. Safari had some sort of memory leak or something, where after browsing for a few hours it and flash player would eat 2+ gigs of my ram.

 

[illini71]

Safari because the integration is so good. I like chrome, but its a tad unpolished like all google products. Also Chrome dosent tap to zoom for me in Mlion.

 

[KohPhiPhi]

I use FireFox because of the add-ons. They say that Google Chrome is faster, but I can't live without Firefox add-ons

 

[ixodes]

The first thing I did with my new 13" MBA is load Google Chrome.

Why?

Because Google got it right, continues to update it, and offers great extensions. It's usefulness for the kind of work I do is stellar. Super fast, stable and good looking.

It's got all the elements that matter to me. Using most all of the various Google services makes my computing experience terrific.

 

[tblrsa]

Safari and Chrome. Chrome seems to have a better memory management though. It´s faster on the my MBP, but of course Safari has the better system integration.

 

[srikat]

Firefox because my job as a premium WordPress theme support person involves using Firebug heavily. I find the in-built webdev tools in other browsers inferior.