# What Web Browser Do You Use?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-browser-do-you-use/274158
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 11, 2004, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-browser-do-you-use/274158 "2004-11-11T05:12:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2004, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-browser-do-you-use/274158/1 "2004-11-11T05:12:47Z")
I don’t think this has been done lately, but if so, pardon.
For clarity, I am separating the Mozilla flavors into Mozilla, Netscape and Firefox.
And for Apple users, please specify any Apple-specific browser you guys use, as I’m not real familiar with Mac only browsers. (If there is such a thing)
I don’t want to debate pros and cons of browsers or start yet another platform war, just a poll. Thanks in advance.
I use Firefox 1.0PR under Win 2K Pro.
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### Author:  [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2004, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-browser-do-you-use/274158/2 "2004-11-11T05:33:57Z")
I use Opera (version 7.54 at the moment) for basically all of my internet browsing. Gmail (and a few other websites) doesn’t work in Opera, so I use Firefox 0.9.3 for that. I have Windows XP Pro.
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### Author:  [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2004, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-browser-do-you-use/274158/3 "2004-11-11T05:37:10Z")
> [@Nightwatch Trailer](#):
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> I use Opera (version 7.54 at the moment) for basically all of my internet browsing. Gmail (and a few other websites) doesn’t work in Opera, so I use Firefox 0.9.3 for that. I have Windows XP Pro.
Ditto.
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2004, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-browser-do-you-use/274158/4 "2004-11-11T05:37:46Z")
The latest Firefox (1.0PR?) with Windows XP.
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### Author:  [@leenmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leenmi)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2004, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-browser-do-you-use/274158/5 "2004-11-11T05:44:20Z")
Opera on Linux and Windows XP. Firefox for those sites I have to access but don’t play well with Opera.
Love my Opera browser.
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### Author:  [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2004, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-browser-do-you-use/274158/6 "2004-11-11T06:07:17Z")
I’m using Mozilla and FireFox on both Mac OS X and PC (mostly Mozilla these days).
I also use Safari (Mac OS X-only browser).
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### Author:  [@Baraqiyal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baraqiyal)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2004, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-browser-do-you-use/274158/7 "2004-11-11T06:08:54Z")
Maxthon
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2004, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-browser-do-you-use/274158/8 "2004-11-11T08:39:39Z")
At Home: Mozilla 1.6 mostly, Opera (not sure which version) when I need a quick startup.
At Work: Mozilla on freeBSD
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### Author:  [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2004, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-browser-do-you-use/274158/9 "2004-11-11T08:39:50Z")
Safari for 99.9% of what I do.
Firefox for GMail.
IE for the three stupid, wretched, broken POS websites I have to use (to pay bills) which cannot seem to figure out that things other than IE exist. 😃
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### Author:  [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2004, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-browser-do-you-use/274158/10 "2004-11-11T09:35:09Z")
I use Firefox for Mac—version 0.8, I think. Safari’s okay and I like the look of it, but Firefox has a feature that Safari lacks that I absolutely must have. I can’t remember what it’s called, but if I have some pages pulled up in Firefox and I shut the browser down, it “remembers” the pages and pulls them up again the next time I use it. Safari can’t do that. Otherwise, I’d just use Safari.
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### Author:  [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2004, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-browser-do-you-use/274158/11 "2004-11-11T13:23:52Z")
At work I’ve got Safari on the Mac.
At home I too use the latest version of Firefox on Windows XP.
I prefer the Mac.
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### Author:  [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2004, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-browser-do-you-use/274158/12 "2004-11-11T13:39:57Z")
Firefox 1.0PR
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### Author:  [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2004, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-browser-do-you-use/274158/13 "2004-11-11T13:42:53Z")
IE ver 5.2, and occaisionally Safari
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### Author:  [@Balduran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balduran)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2004, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-browser-do-you-use/274158/14 "2004-11-11T13:53:18Z")
Mozilla 1.7 on both linux and Win2K.
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### Author:  [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2004, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-browser-do-you-use/274158/15 "2004-11-11T14:02:15Z")
Mozilla on Windows 2000 Professional.
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### Author:  [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2004, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-browser-do-you-use/274158/16 "2004-11-11T14:02:35Z")
I’m a recent convert to Opera. For those sites that don’t work on Opera, I continue to use IE.
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### Author:  [@blinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinx)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2004, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-browser-do-you-use/274158/17 "2004-11-11T14:26:04Z")
brian@slakemoth ~ $ firefox --version
Mozilla Firefox 1.0, Copyright © 2004 [mozilla.org](http://mozilla.org)
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### Author:  [@RandomLetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandomLetters)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2004, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-browser-do-you-use/274158/18 "2004-11-11T15:00:47Z")
Firefox 1.0. Gotta love the tabs and open-sourceness.
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### Author:  [@Lips\_Obsession](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lips_Obsession)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2004, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-browser-do-you-use/274158/19 "2004-11-11T15:38:15Z")
Recent convert from NetCaptor (an IE overlay with tabbed browsing) to FoxFire 1.0. I’m a very happy convert.
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### Author:  [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2004, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-web-browser-do-you-use/274158/20 "2004-11-11T15:46:42Z")
Firefox and Mozilla. IE for difficult sites (java-wise).
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