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Which browser do you primarily use?

Which browser do you primarily use?

  • Safari

    Votes: 136 47.1%

  • Firefox

    Votes: 104 36.0%

  • Opera

    Votes: 7 2.4%

  • Chrome

    Votes: 32 11.1%

  • Camino

    Votes: 9 3.1%

  • Other

    Votes: 1 0.3%
  • Total voters
    289
Use 98% of firefox. at 3.6 b5 now.

Opera 10.5 will be much faster in JS than any browser I tested, so if somebody is obsessed with JS speed, that would be a good thing to try.
 
I use Chrome primarily. I have not had any trouble with it crashing and it is blazing fast. Safari crashes or beachballs on me way too much, so I gave up.

I'd been a long time Firefox users on Windows, but I really don't care about many customizations and extensions, and it's not nearly as fast as Chrome, so I've mostly given up on it, both on Windows and Mac.

Once there is 1Password integration with Chrome, I won't have any complaints with it at all.
 
I've tried a lot of browsers over the past few years: Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Camino.
Frankly, I really don't understand where all this popularity for Safari is coming from. The extensionsystem sucks, it still can't remember my last session (yea, I know you can go to History - Restore last session but I want that when it opens), it gets very slow after a while and I think it really loves watching the beachball spinning around on my screen.
I've tried different versions of Opera over the years but it still doesn't feel right. I can't really say what 'it' is but it just doesn't.
Firefox was my main browser most of the time. It never let me down, never had any real problems with it, it was fast. Tried Camino but Firefox felt better.
Finally I tried Chrome and since then (for about 3 months or so now) I've been using it all the time. It starts up fast, it loads everything fast, if a plugin crashes it doesn't crash your browser and if a webpage acts up it neither crashes your browser but just its own tab unlike most other browsers. One thing they could improve is how they organize tabs though :').
 
i use safari on my mac and since im not that much into addons i rather not download an extra program that id never use. I refuse to use chrome for the simple fact that it is supporting google's take over of the world. Other than google.com and gmail i dont use anything google because i hate hotmail, bing, yahoo. On my PC however i use firefox.
 
Chrome is my main browser that I always find myself using it I've used all of the others but chrome is my favorite. I'm a little bit of a google fanboy :D .
 
Firefox, Safari

I love chrome on windows, but i do not like the fact that the I do not have the option to set the tabs under the address bar. Im picky i know but on the mac you should have the option, this is not windows.
 
I don't get why people bother with Firefox. It's about 3-4 times slower than Safari without the mostly useless add-ons added on. I use add-ons quite often for web development purposes, but most of the time I don't. It's not reason enough to drag the entire web browser down.

I'd rather take what matters in a web browser, the speed and performance of the rendering engine. I utilize a web browser's speed and performance 100% of the time, add-on or not, whereas I use the add-ons <1%.

I use the fastest (fact) and best (opinion) browser in the world. Safari.
 
Firefox 3.5.6 on both my home and work machines

Safari 4.0.4 at work for a couple things like the internally-server-hosted mail and for an online ordering system I do some adminstrating of

oddly enough, the girlfriend (who is pretty much 100% PC user) prefers to use Safari here at home...
 
Firefox 3.6 beta 5.

In this browser the color management is fixed (broken in Firefox 3.5.5) for Snow Leopard.

I also use Safari 4.

I switched from Safari to Firefox a few months ago, and I love this browser.
 
Chrome

Although in the minority, it has to be one of my favorite browsers after testing the listed browsers. Its fast, light, and interfaces well with all the google services i use day to day
 
Firefox for two reasons:

AdBlockPlus
Native 3-finger swipe up/down

The bad:
It's slower than Safari (loading the program as well as webpages)
It crashes on me sometimes.
 
i don't care how much more stable chrome is or whatnot, it's just SOOOOO ugly that I have to use Safari. it's as beautiful as my mac.
 
opened safari , took one look at it , remembered how bad it was on my other comp , never went back...
firefox for mac sucks , its like 2 years behind even 1.1 for pc ...
i hated 3.5 on my pc tho , horrible memory-hog and a major loss of apps and functionality compared to older versions...
 
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