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  • Firefox

    37 77.08%
  • I dont use a pc i use a mac

    6 12.50%
  • Other as listed below

    7 14.58%
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    Which browser do you use

    This came up in another thread so i thought it would make an interesting poll
    I have been using firefox for about four or five years now and only us I.E. when the site in question hasn't been written properly to allow any browser

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    Re: Which browser do you use

    Quote Originally Posted by martingold View Post
    This came up in another thread so i thought it would make an interesting poll
    I have been using firefox for about four or five years now and only us I.E. when the site in question hasn't been written properly to allow any browser
    Gah, rubbish poll. You do get IE and FF on the MAC, and you do have people who have a MAC and a PC. And there are other browsers.

    I use Firefox and Opera mainly. In fact IE is blocked by my firewall.

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    Re: Which browser do you use

    nowt very interesting about a poll with only 2 options on it . . . .

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    Re: Which browser do you use

    Hmmm. I use, in no particular order:
    IE6
    IE7
    IE8 (beta)
    Safari (Mac & PC)
    Chrome
    Firefox (Mac & PC)

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    Re: Which browser do you use

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    Gah, rubbish poll. You do get IE and FF on the MAC, and you do have people who have a MAC and a PC. And there are other browsers.
    which was why the poll had multiple ticks available
    the mac bit was a bit tongue in cheek
    sorry to the mac user out there lol

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    Re: Which browser do you use

    When I'm on a Windows box, I'll use whatever comes to hand – IE or Firefox. Usually all I'm doing is downloading software and updates, etc.

    When I'm on a Mac, I primarily use Safari, though Firefox has its uses...

    When I'm on Linux, again, whatever is there, Konquerer or Firefox, probably.

    On my phone, the standard Nokia browser derived from Apple's Webkit software.

    On my iPod, MobileSafari.

    Um... Think that's the main ones...
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    Re: Which browser do you use

    I have a mac (which I hardly ever use) and a PC, I use Firefox on both.

    The reason I prefer Firefox on the PC is because it's about 30% faster than IE, and I have a 500mB connection so speed matters. Oh and Azande pointed me in the direction of 'Adblock' so I can permanently remove Franck's advertising banners from the top of my page (sorry Franck ).

    That said, I do have some annoying problems with Firefox on this Forum.


    I am using the standard editor and the default orange forum skin.

    When I'm using FF I can't just click on a smiley and use it in a PM or post (hence I haven't used many lately). None of the editing options work in FF either, bold, underline, change font colour etc.. In IE it's all fine.

    If I click on the Quick Links menu option, then instead getting the drop down menu which includes 'Who's On-line' it completely refereshes the menu bar with different slightly different headings (Quick Links turns into Mark Forums Read for example).

    Grrr.....

    Any ideas?
    Last edited by Zebra Woman; 17th-December-2008 at 12:25 PM.

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    Re: Which browser do you use

    Well you did keep it simple Martin

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    Re: Which browser do you use

    I'd been using Safari on the Mac quite happily until it came to building the website and then I had to install Firefox, as the website program didn't like Safari for some reason

    I use Explorer on the laptop and sometimes AOL
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    Re: Which browser do you use

    Quote Originally Posted by pmjd View Post
    Well you did keep it simple Martin
    lol

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    Re: Which browser do you use

    Quote Originally Posted by Lory View Post
    I'd been using Safari on the Mac quite happily until it came to building the website and then I had to install Firefox, as the website program didn't like Safari for some reason
    Which website program?

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    Re: Which browser do you use

    Quote Originally Posted by Zebra Woman View Post
    ... 'Adblock' so I can permanently remove Franck's advertising banners from the top of my page (sorry Franck ).

    That said, I do have some annoying problems with Firefox on this Forum.


    I am using the standard editor and the default orange forum skin.

    When I'm using FF I can't just click on a smiley and use it in a PM or post (hence I haven't used many lately). None of the editing options work in FF either, bold, underline, change font colour etc.. In IE it's all fine.

    If I click on the Quick Links menu option, then instead getting the drop down menu which includes 'Who's On-line' it completely refereshes the menu bar with different slightly different headings (Quick Links turns into Mark Forums Read for example).

    Grrr.....

    Any ideas?
    Try removing the "Adblock" software.

    Oh, and clear your cache, etc...
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    Re: Which browser do you use

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    Try removing the "Adblock" software.

    Oh, and clear your cache, etc...

    Thanks Ducasi!

    I must have got carried away disabling stuff with Adblock, and gone a step too far.

    Brilliant!

    ZW

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    Re: Which browser do you use

    Quote Originally Posted by straycat View Post
    which website program?
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    Re: Which browser do you use

    I mostly use Chrome (it's light and fast and is very well behaved. In particular, it's tab implementation is brilliant).

    On my work PC, I use IE7 - mostly because I need to use Sharepoint and this is not well written for any browser. I occasionally use Firefox, but has a few issues (on certain sites, it suddenly starts over-using the CPU; that and the fact it's a memory hog).

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    Re: Which browser do you use

    Chrome for me.

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    Re: Which browser do you use

    I have just googled chrome and watched the demo - looks good. I quite fancy switching to that from Firefox.

    Are there any disadvantages in switching from Firefox to Chrome?

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    Re: Which browser do you use

    Quote Originally Posted by Zebra Woman View Post
    I have just googled chrome and watched the demo - looks good. I quite fancy switching to that from Firefox.

    Are there any disadvantages in switching from Firefox to Chrome?
    Chrome doesn't have the range of plug-ins that Firefox has.

    But I really like the way it has separate processes for each web page.

    I'm looking forward to Chrome (or something with the same process model) coming to the Mac.
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    Re: Which browser do you use

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    Chrome doesn't have the range of plug-ins that Firefox has.
    I stopped using Chrome as my Hard Drive was constantly going. For most pages i visit, i have no need of plugins.

    But I really like the way it has separate processes for each web page.
    Me too. That was the biggest annoyance with Firefox, its inability to have more than one session on one PC at a time - unlike IE, you cannot open a new session of Firefox - it complains that Firefox is already running .

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    Re: Which browser do you use

    Quote Originally Posted by Zebra Woman View Post
    I have just googled chrome and watched the demo - looks good. I quite fancy switching to that from Firefox.

    Are there any disadvantages in switching from Firefox to Chrome?
    The biggest issue is that it locks up on some websites, so it's not quite quite ready IMH.

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