[james777]

Firefox or Internet Explorer? Which one do you use?

[Jeff Vader]

Opera.

Not srsly, but it is major enough to be allowed to participate in this poll.

[Ghostavo]

Opera.

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,48078.0.html
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,53953.0.html
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,44883.0.html
...

[james777]

fixed it. 

[Jeff Vader]

Opera.

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,48078.0.html
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,53953.0.html
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,44883.0.html
...

I knew there had to be one of these already, but three? Koo.

Oh, oh! Safari is missing too. And Chrome, depending on if you want to count it as it is still in "beta".

Maybe Konqueror?

[captain-custard]

i use opera, firefox and konqueror on linux and opera  firefox and chrome on windows , it just depends what im trying to do ,ifim watching p2p sports fims etc i use opera and firefox


nver use internet explorer it just annoys me

[eliex]

Firefox - essentially a better version of IE 7, so I would go for it.

[Scuddie]

I use Firefox.  Not because I prefer it to Opera, but because I can't be arsed to load up Firefox in order to view the poorly written websites that Opera can't render properly when I'm already running it.  So yes, my browser of choice was chosen because of ****ty web authoring practices.

And no, I don't want to visit your forum.

[Mars]

It's interesting how consistent the responses have been in these polls.

[IceFire]

Browser of choice?  Firefox 3.0.  Its a great mix of compatibility, speed, and extensibility.  IE7 is at least a credible browser unlike IE6 which was far too long in the tooth and is unfortunately still around in far too many numbers.  Safari is light and fast but I find the UI a bit jarring at times...not a strictly Mac OS X person so that may be my issue.  Sometimes it seems so simple its hard.  Chrome is similar both technologically and with the same sort of UI issue where its so simple its missing something for me.

Opera is nice, full featured, but some websites render improperly for it (bad coding often the cause) and its just a little different when it comes to UI.

[Fenrir]

FireFox. Browsing the internet without a certain set of extensions is a painful experience for me.

[DREDHAWK]

FireFox   I never did like Internet Explorer it always seem to crash on  when i used it. 

[Dark Hunter]

Both.

Desktop has IE.
Laptop has FF.

Have not noticed anything in Firefox that makes it so much better than IE. In fact, I find IE a bit more convenient, believe it or not.

[IceFire]

FireFox   I never did like Internet Explorer it always seem to crash on  when i used it. 

One of the many reasons I call it Internet Exploder

[blackhole]

Ever since I moved to Firefox it seems to have found a way to crash about every 2 days. It never ends.

[Solatar]

I use Firefox most of the time. However I use Songbird sometimes because it seems to access my university's classical music database much quicker (streams the files much quicker on this World of Warcraft saturated network).

[LeGuille]

I find Chrome simple and light. It has independent operations for functions like video-streaming so that if the streaming itself messes up, the browser doesn't crash. It has a neat TAB feature and 'incognito'. If pop-ups get through, they 'pop-under' at the bottom of the browser so that it doesn't interfere with the browsing.

FireFox 3.0 and Vista don't seem to get along in the resource-sharing part. I hate when it skyrockets to 600megs of my memory in comparison to Vista operating under 500 megs taking half of my resources alone just running Windows and my browser! at 3 gigs of memory, a browser should not take over 20% of your overall maximum physical memory.

[DREDHAWK]

I dont have any resource sharing problems.  i run Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit   

[IceFire]

I find Chrome simple and light. It has independent operations for functions like video-streaming so that if the streaming itself messes up, the browser doesn't crash. It has a neat TAB feature and 'incognito'. If pop-ups get through, they 'pop-under' at the bottom of the browser so that it doesn't interfere with the browsing.

FireFox 3.0 and Vista don't seem to get along in the resource-sharing part. I hate when it skyrockets to 600megs of my memory in comparison to Vista operating under 500 megs taking half of my resources alone just running Windows and my browser! at 3 gigs of memory, a browser should not take over 20% of your overall maximum physical memory.

What are you doing to get 600 mb of memory taken by Firefox?  I've been surfing all night and its at 89mb right now.  Which is fine given all my extensions and so forth.

[Scuddie]

Probably by visiting TomsHardware or another hideously complicated and broken website.  Memory leaks and such are often caused by the site, not the browser.