Browser of choice

[jMcQuarrie]

Hi all,

I'm a big fan of Firefox, both on OS X and Windows, to the point where I only use IE (as well as Safari, Opera, etc) for testing designs.

Which browser do you use?

[goldfries]

I use Firefox on Windows
I use Firefox on Mac OS X

Being a web designer, I test all my sites on Firefox + Safari (which usually works well) and IE6 (which usually sucks big time on CSS interpretation) on Windows.

and also Firefox + Safari on Mac OS X.

[Jelena]

Firefox here as well. I do test in IE if I need to, but I rarely open it.

[ses5909]

Firefox ALL THE WAY. I only use other browsers for testing :)

[Megan]

Def Firefox with a few add ons - Firebug, Styles, colored tabs and a pretty skin :) love it.

[snookca]

Firefox FTW!

[doorlight]

Firefox, my baby!! :) How come IE can't beat Firefox? :p

[davemcnally]

Firefox and the rare use of IE when it's absolutely required..

[Michael Martin]

FireFox. The customisations are second to none. I adore my tweaky little Fox. :D

That said, I love the bookmarks bar in Safari and the input button effects in Opera. There's probably something I like about IE, but I can't think of it at the minute... ;)

[goldfries]

I hate Safari on Windows in some ways, like where da heck is the HOME button. :) well, that among many other things.

my favourite part about Firefox would be the Web Developer extension. that's THE extension to have. i also have sparky, searchstatus and showIP (don't ask me why the 'S')

[SarahG]

Firefox for everything besides IE7 for using the Outlook exchange for my work's email (the AJAX stuff is only set to work in IE).

[Grandad]

Firefox. Why? Are there others? :bigsmile:

[BPartch]

I use Firefox as well. Though I also use Opera from time to time.

I hate Safari on Windows in some ways, like where da heck is the HOME button. :) well, that among many other things.Goto > view > customize toolbar and then you can drag and drop whatever buttons you want. Even the Home button. :)

[chimeric]

I use Fx even though I have the feeling that it gets slower and slower with every new version :/ (to me there`re no really good alternatives yet... maybe the khtml engine will be one sometime soon...).

[rochesmxl]

ever since i seen Firefox i have never gone back to IE its too slow

[starfeeder]

Me too, def only FireFox and IE/Safari just for testing

[Dan Schulz]

Opera (http://www.opera.com/download) all the way.

[goldfries]

Goto > view > customize toolbar and then you can drag and drop whatever buttons you want. Even the Home button. :)

see, it should be there by default! :)

The nice thing about Safari is the total display area. It renders the page very well an passes the Acid2 Test.

Too bad it doesn't minimize with Windows Key + M and it renders page a little different from Safari on Mac.

Take for example the Catagories list on my blog. The Safari on Mac shows the page just fine while the Safari on Windows would make the link to go under the bullet when mouse over. Same page, same browser, different OS, different effect. hrmm.....

[Jeremy]

I love firefox, although it continues to disappoint me more and more. On my laptop especially, there is a terrible memory leak, and over the course of a day in the office it generally ends up eating up 250MB or more of ram and the process needs to be killed in order to keep using it.

Aside from that, it renders very fast, displays pages how I expect them to, and is the most friendly to use. IE sucks my ass.

[pennylane]

I mainly use firefox,too :bigsmile: been using it for a year now, and IE now seems confusing and unfamiliar... :'"

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[shyflower]

Firefox -- can't find anything I don't like about it.

[jMcQuarrie]

And I remember a time when I had to explain to people what Firefox was :)

[tetsujin]

Firefox is wonderful and amazing and great.

[goldfries]

Firefox -- can't find anything I don't like about it.

it's a memory hogger. even with 2GB RAM, opening too many Youtube tabs would result in the rest losing out audio. at least that's what i face, but rarely do i open that many youtubes tabs.

[ghing]

I use firefox..
for me it's more reliable..
you can add add-ons that can make the work of an SEO more easier...

for me other browser such as yahoo are for testing only..

[Dan Schulz]

Yahoo isn't a browser. It's a Web portal with its own search engine.