O/T Internet Browsers

Which browsers are people using at the moment, and are there any browser related issues with using this site? I'm about to get a new laptop, and as a result I will be needing to use a different browser to the one I currently use (as it's a version that's about 2 years out of date even if I use the same provider it's a new browser to learn aesthetically).

Normally I'd look at the specs and online discussions, but having checked with other websites I use I know they're all fully compatible with the leading browsers so it's just this site and the performance with iplayer that's relevent. With iplayer it's very rare that I actually watch the video as a stream rather than downloading it so even that's not really relevent unless there's a browser that's terrible for it.

I already know IE isn't really the one to be using, but of the rest I've not really got much of a clue as to which is best for what. Last time I looked Chrome was a bit funny with Java sites and was better with html5 than Firefox, but that was a couple of years or more ago so one or other company could have dealt with the issues.

 

Both Firefox and Chrome are reasonably flawless these days although both can become bloatware if you pile a ton of add-ins into them, especially Firefox.

I prefer Chrome as it's less sluggish, but find on slower computers Firefox streams better.

Not tried Opera recently.

 

Yea, agree that Chrome is better. Its very good on my work but have noticed that at home where my internet is slower its not as good. Havn't had any issues with this site with any browsers. Hate Opera and Internet Explorer though, both of those piss me off

 

I've been using Chrome for around 2 years now, far better than anything else I've come across in terms of speed.
As for using this site, I've had no issues except for the irritating "Navigation - changes made in the editor will be lost. Are you sure you want to leave this page?"

I wouldn't mind, but most of the time I haven't even fricking typed anything

Having said that, it's fairly likely it happens on the other browsers anyway.

 

Internet Explorer or Safari for me

 

Safari on the iPad but Chrome on the computer.

Chrome is brilliantly fast on mine, and if you get Firefox, I recommend installing Ad-Block Plus to get rid of those stupid adverts popping up everywhere.

 

I use Chrome and you can also install ad blockers on it through Google apps. Also, if anyone uses facebook and can't get used to timeline there is also an app to block out timeline, I use that too and it does what it says on the tin

 

Safari on my old Mac; Chrome on my PC laptop.

Used to use Firefox, but switched to Chrome about 3 months ago. I prefer it, but it does occasionally piss me off. For instance, a couple of weeks ago, it started opening a notice when I tried to access it - had to 'ok' it/press 'Enter', to get to my recently used icons. It did this for about 10 days and then went away! Not just for me - it happened at same time for a mate of mine.

 

Also using Chrome here, have tried others in the past but none compare to chrome

 

I've used IE & Firefox fairly recently, until I switched to Chrome.

Definitely the better of the three for me.

I did have some issues around Flash player at one point making it crash on certain sites, but I managed to establish that it was my newer add-ons conflicting with Chrome's in built stuff. Sorted it out, and away we go.

Chrome for me.

 

Chrome.

 

I went on Firefox until a few months ago because it got all slow so I downloaded Google Chrome and it's a lot better

 

Chrome +ad block and occasionally Safari .

Chrome has been by far the best browser ive used

 

I had enormous problems with IE - it's generally rubbish IMO, and a very helpful guy on one of the City forums pointed me towards Firefox some time ago. Firefox was brilliant and solved all of my problems at a stroke. I loved it. Never had a single issue. Then recently updated the software (new Firefox updates are released very frequently it seems), and it crashed constantly. It was a disaster.

Changed over to Chrome and it has been excellent. Very stable and well designed. I find it highly user friendly. Only issue for me is it doesn't work with all banking software at the moment - Santander in my case - although they tell me they are working on it.

But on the whole, I'd say go with Chrome.

 

FireFox on my work machines. We are only allowed FireFox or IE and I need something that works well on both Windows and Linux. Even then I still need IE on occasions as I need access to some sites that don't support FF.

At home its Chrome. It came pre-installed on the new laptop I got. I hadn't used it before but got to like it and installed it on our other computers. It does have quite a few sites that it doesn't like though so I have FF as a backup.

 

Chrome.

 

firefox is over its resource hogging days. 14 tabs at the moment on a pc that's heading down vintage street.

 

I'm on Chrome too.

Seems Chrome seems to be winning the vote at the minute. I never realised how popular it had become.

 

Tried Chrome, never liked it on my PC and recently tried it with my iPad and was very slow compared to Safari. I used to like Firefox until the latest update which made it really slow and crashed all the time so I am on Internet Explorer as I can't be arsed to try Opera or Safari and IE doesn't seem too bad but I hope Firefox get's fixed at some point.