# What Browser Do You Use? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 1, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-browser-do-you-use/598217 "2011-10-01T01:25:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BowlOfDucks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@BowlOfDucks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BowlOfDucks)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-browser-do-you-use/598217/21 "2011-10-01T07:49:24Z")
Firefox 7. Though I also use Chromium and Opera occasionally. I just couldn’t live without Firefox’s addons. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-browser-do-you-use/598217/22 "2011-10-01T08:02:44Z")
I’ve just switched to Opera after a fatal Firefox crash, and a friend convinced me to try. I didn’t like it at first, but I’m liking it more and more. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-browser-do-you-use/598217/23 "2011-10-01T08:05:55Z")
Firefox. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-browser-do-you-use/598217/24 "2011-10-01T08:17:16Z")
Chrome, for simplicity and speed plus the I like the extensions and the new app integration works rather neatly. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-browser-do-you-use/598217/25 "2011-10-01T10:18:33Z")
Chrome and Firefox at home; I’m constrained to use IE (7, but the best thing you can say about that is that it’s not 6) at work because of corporate policies. ---
**Author:** ![kenner116](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kenner116](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenner116)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-browser-do-you-use/598217/26 "2011-10-01T11:03:34Z")
Firefox, since summer 2004. Chrome is faster and more stable, but that is likely do to the extensions I have on Firefox (TabMixPlus is usually the culprit). ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-browser-do-you-use/598217/27 "2011-10-01T12:30:23Z")
Firefox at home. IE at work, because I am not allowed to install what I want. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-browser-do-you-use/598217/28 "2011-10-01T12:38:38Z")
I use all five major browsers for different purposes. Safari is my at home browser. Chrome is my “creative writing” browser. Opera is my “freelance work” browser. Firefox is my office browser. Internet Explorer is my “nothing else seems to be working, so I’ll try it” browser. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-browser-do-you-use/598217/29 "2011-10-01T12:38:46Z")
Chrome. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-browser-do-you-use/598217/30 "2011-10-01T12:49:43Z")
Safari at home. Safari and Firefox at work. I don’t really see any appreciable difference, but granted I’ve set them both up exactly the same way. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-browser-do-you-use/598217/31 "2011-10-01T13:41:19Z")
For most stuff, Pale Moon, which is Firefox-ish but seems to be less of a memory hog. It uses similar addons so I can use Adblock Plus and Greasemonkey. For my Facebook and Google+ accounts, I use Chrome. This keeps those social networks from automatically logging me into other webpages, grabbing cookies from my other surfing, etc. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-browser-do-you-use/598217/32 "2011-10-01T14:16:22Z")
I love Safari and Firefox; they’re like my children, it’s so hard to choose (but I voted for safari, since I seem to use that more often… Has some very nice subtleties, and works well on a Mac with Lion). I do open up Chrome every now and then to mix it up, but :meh: ---
**Author:** ![Terraplane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Terraplane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terraplane)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-browser-do-you-use/598217/33 "2011-10-01T14:36:02Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > Seems like everyone is falling all over themselves about Chrome. I downloaded it, and I use it occasionally for things that don’t work well in Firefox, but I have found it incredibly slow and so I don’t use it as my main browser. This is the exact opposite of my experience. I used Firefox for years but finally gave up on it because it would take 20 seconds to open compared to Chrome’s almost instant start. Even for browsing I think Chrome is a touch faster for me. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-browser-do-you-use/598217/34 "2011-10-01T14:49:31Z")
Chrome. It is sleek and fast. Once in a while I use IE for sites that may not work quite right in Chrome. IE 9 is not bad. It’s basically Chrome. I never liked Firefox. Before Chrome, I used IE. On my phone I use Dolphin Browser. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-browser-do-you-use/598217/35 "2011-10-01T15:08:58Z")
> [@Sudden\_Kestrel](#): > > I use Firefox on my home computer. I am forced to use IE7 on my work computer. Same. At work we have a lot of programs that won’t work on either Firefox or a higher version of IE. I used Chrome for about 10 minutes, hated it, deleted it and went back to Firefox. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-browser-do-you-use/598217/36 "2011-10-01T15:45:43Z")
IE and have never had any of the problems with it that so many others seem to have. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-browser-do-you-use/598217/37 "2011-10-01T15:54:35Z")
Chrome at home, IE at work. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-browser-do-you-use/598217/38 "2011-10-01T19:14:01Z")
Mostly IE, but I have been using Chrome more for some stuff, like FB games, they don’t play well with IE. And lately my PhotoBucket has been crashing my IE when I upload pics, so tried it on Chrome today and it worked great! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-browser-do-you-use/598217/39 "2011-10-01T20:02:52Z")
I totally don’t understand the disdain for Internet Explorer. I use it and have no complaints against it. Well, IE9’s download manager used to have an issue with hanging, but that seems to have been resolved. I also have Chrome, and use it occasionally, but I actually prefer IE. ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-browser-do-you-use/598217/40 "2011-10-01T20:29:13Z")
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