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Which browser is everyone using?

Which browser are you using?

  • Safari

    Votes: 144 73.5%

  • FireFox

    Votes: 21 10.7%

  • Chrome

    Votes: 30 15.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 1 0.5%
  • Total voters
    196
SS4Luck

SS4Luck

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Aug 23, 2014
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I have a fleet of iDevices that I use for all sorts of things and realized I use different browsers for each device. Seems kind of silly to me and its habbit from acquiring them at different times. I use Chrome on my iPhone from when I had an HP laptop, Safari on my iPad because its newest and I haven't fiddled with it much yet and FireFox on my rMBP.

I figure switching it up and using the same one on all 3 would making transferring windows and sessions quite a bit easier so what is everyone out there using?

I should add my rMBP is on 10.11.2 and the iPad and my 6S Plus are both on 9.2
 
For my iPhone 6 Plus, my iPads my MB, MBA , MBPr laptops it's Google Chrome Browser that is my favorite by far. So many extensions and other excellent tools for optimization on the desktop, nothing else comes close.
 
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Google Chrome - First thing I download and install on any new device. I like that I can sign in to the browser and all my settings, bookmarks, and extensions are there.
 
I have heard chrome is a ram hog, any truth to this?
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lclev said:
Google Chrome - First thing I download and install on any new device. I like that I can sign in to the browser and all my settings, bookmarks, and extensions are there.
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The mass spread of all the settings etc is definitely what I'm looking for
 
With more than a few tabs open, Chrome and its spawned processes can start to eat a lot of resources. Firefox, for me at least, tends to handle lots of tabs without using as many resources. It also has a syncing feature that allows everything to be synced across different platforms. I suggest you try both Firefox and Chrome to determine which is a better fit for your browsing style.
 
I use Safari on my rMBP 15" and on my iPad mini 98% of all times. I only use Chrome when I have to play some Flash games (Safari heats up the CPU more on flash content-my observation) or when I'm having an extremely slow internet connection(Chrome loads faster on a slow internet connection as compared to Safari).

While Windows BootCamping, I use Chrome always.
 
I have Safari, Firefox and Chrome installed on my cMP and MBA. Primary Browser on both is Safari. On my Android Galaxy S4 I use Firefox.

Lou
 
Safari on all my devices. I'll open Chrome if there's a Flash video I absolutely have to see, thankfully that doesn't happen much anymore.

Back in my Windows PC days I used FireFox exclusively, but now Safari on OSX is so stable I see no reason to waste time with anything else.
 
Safari first and Firefox secondary followed by Chrome. I heard Chrome heats up and eats up lot of RAM while watching Youtube and what not.
 
I have a variety of browsing that I find work best on different browsers, but I use Safari the most.
Secondary Chrome Canary, and Roccat is my fav for reading books online. I have one .edu site that seems to only do what l need on Firefox.
Then two old tech sites that I have had bookmarked for years in OmniWeb.
 
Partron22 said:
Mostly Firefox. I use Safari when I go to the Apple Support Downloads pages because the download buttons and icons won't appear when I use Firefox. -Odd that. I haven't tried Chrome there.
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Assuming it's not a script blocking issue, do you have a custom font set along with "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above" unticked? Located at -- Fx preferences --> Content --> Font & Colors --> Advanced

Had the same problem as yours at a different site, in the past. Ended up having to give up a custom font along with ticking the box "Allow pages to choose...." to cure the issue.
 
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I think that Safari is faster and has a lot of great implementations of features that people might actually like and use, like gestures (3 finger tap on word for dictionary, 3 finger tap on link for preview, pinch for zoom and for viewing and changing tabs. Keeping previously seem pages in memory, etc.). Then you have the less impact on battery life.

However, I've found that a number of extensions hurt Safari's performance and not Chrome's, like Adblock Plus and the most used lists, a must have for everyone. Safari makes up for it by becoming lightning quick with Content Blockers.

So, I realize that Safari is superior and, surprisingly, feature rich. However, Chrome is amazing and there's no hit in performance or memory management, especially since it become 64 bit only. The only impact that I can see is battery life, what how much is it because of Chrome Vs Extensions?

All things considered, despite Safari being better (for me), I use Chrome with Adblock Plus and the built-in flash disabled. If I need it, I enable it without having to download Flash. I still have an Android device, and Apple offers no other option, so Chrome it is.

PS: The Google Scholar button is also convenient.

Anyway, as soon as I have an iOS device, I will use Safari. Having said that, Chrome is amazing too, and there's no problem in using it.
 
I use different browsers for different purposes.

I use Safari in 3 user profiles - my admin, work, and financial user accounts.

For my "goofing off" user account, I use Opera for this site, Fluid for several sites (Weather Underground, monitoring tides, Netflix accounts), Firefox for another forum, Chrome for Feedly, and Safari for other stuff. I don't want to mix my histories, cookies, and activities. I also don't want a whole bunch of web browsing data populating to my iOS devices and Mac, so I regularly clear my history/cookies/caches - I set up an initial "state" for logins, then clear behind them of recent activity. QED, and I have a zippy Mac without any synched clutter...
 
Safari is main between MBP and iPhone, Firefox on MBP if needed. Never liked Chrome and it hasn't been that great of a browser as of late.
 
pedrom said:
I think that Safari is faster and has a lot of great implementations of features that people might actually like and use, like gestures (3 finger tap on word for dictionary, 3 finger tap on link for preview, pinch for zoom and for viewing and changing tabs. Keeping previously seem pages in memory, etc.). Then you have the less impact on battery life.

However, I've found that a number of extensions hurt Safari's performance and not Chrome's, like Adblock Plus and the most used lists, a must have for everyone. Safari makes up for it by becoming lightning quick with Content Blockers.

So, I realize that Safari is superior and, surprisingly, feature rich. However, Chrome is amazing and there's no hit in performance or memory management, especially since it become 64 bit only. The only impact that I can see is battery life, what how much is it because of Chrome Vs Extensions?

All things considered, despite Safari being better (for me), I use Chrome with Adblock Plus and the built-in flash disabled. If I need it, I enable it without having to download Flash. I still have an Android device, and Apple offers no other option, so Chrome it is.

PS: The Google Scholar button is also convenient.

Anyway, as soon as I have an iOS device, I will use Safari. Having said that, Chrome is amazing too, and there's no problem in using it.
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