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what web browser do you use?

internet Explorer 14 5.00%
 
Mozilla Firefox 146 52.14%
 
Safari 16 5.71%
 
Google Chrome 74 26.43%
 
Opera 29 10.36%
 
other (post it) 1 0.36%
 
Total:280

I use chrome, I wanted to try it out one day. I was surprised at how great it was. Gave up FF for good. Showed it to my brother. And now he gave up FF as well.



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I use FF. Love the add ons and the speed. Tried chrome, didn't like it. It felt too empty and like it was lacking. I've tried opera but I didn't like the feel of it. FF isn't perfect, but it's the closest to it for me.



I use Firefox for the most part, with Chrome as a secondary browser (for watching videos and looking at GameDB Screenshots which don't seem to work with Firefox).



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90% of the time I use Firefox, about 8% of the time Safari, and the remaining 2% is for Chrome.

And then on some odd occasions Opera.



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jefforange89 said:
FKNetwork said:
TWRoO said:
Currently Firefox 3.5.... but I am considering changing to Opera because of this shitty memory leak.

Firefox no longer closes properly for me and stays running in the background until I shutdown and Windows closes it for me, or I have to use the task manager to end the process.

Delete your Firefox profile (save your bookmarks and passwords first using password exporter addon), it will then make a new profile and will work perfectly, I had the same problems a few times in the past and it fixes it everytime!

Firefox profile is in "C Drive-->Users-->your name--> AppData-->Roaming-->Mozilla-->Firefox"

 

That will fix the memory leak issue, the not closing correctly issue, slow loading and startup issue etc.

You might wanna try running Firefox in safe mode with extensions disabled first before doing something so drastic - almost every perceived issue with it is actually a result of end users bloating it up with shittastic extensions. =/

I have 3 extensions... No Script, Ghostery and Tabberwocky. (well also the Microsoft NET framework assistant but that seemed to install itself from the beginning)



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I mostly use firefox but I have to use IE for school websites and some programs. Used to use netscape a while back. Does that still exist? Might try chrome one day though.



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Safari is fast and i like it.



I'm pretty much strictly an IE person on my machines. I've tried Opera in the past, and I didn't really care for it. (It felt clunkier than IE, and how it manages favorites is not appealing to me.) Chrome I'm staying away from due to Google's privacy issues that have been cropping up. Safari is my browser of choice on a Mac, but I don't own one, nor do I prefer it to IE. So that leaves me with no other choice.

Oh, yeah, there's that crap called Firefox. I will never use that program, ever. First of all, I do not like having to install plugin after plugin to make it work how I want it to. Each plugin will just take up more and more resources. Couple this with the memory leak present in it, and it would require me to restart my computer more often than I do with IE. And it has some of the most arrogant users I have ever seen. It is those users that have made me swear off it entirely. They try to say that because I use IE, that I'm the problem with the internet. Sorry, but no. MS has been going more standards-compliant since IE6 for the web developers, but my using it isn't why MS has their own set of codes. If those users think that the only way to get someone to switch is to whine about how broken IE is, and how it's this huge problem, then no, I will never switch. I do not experience the problems that they claim exist; trying to say that they are a universal problem doesn't make matters better either. (Sure, some people have some of the problems, but it's not everyone.)

So yeah, I use IE. It works for me, and it lets me customize just those few things I need to. And, through smart browsing, I've never had a virus on my computer. (Yes, I do scan on a weekly basis.) So, from my perspective, I use the old saying, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." I don't see that IE is broke, so don't try to tell me that it is. Your words then will only fall onto unreceptive ears (or eyes on the internet).



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TWRoO said:
jefforange89 said:
FKNetwork said:

Delete your Firefox profile (save your bookmarks and passwords first using password exporter addon), it will then make a new profile and will work perfectly, I had the same problems a few times in the past and it fixes it everytime!

Firefox profile is in "C Drive-->Users-->your name--> AppData-->Roaming-->Mozilla-->Firefox"


That will fix the memory leak issue, the not closing correctly issue, slow loading and startup issue etc.

You might wanna try running Firefox in safe mode with extensions disabled first before doing something so drastic - almost every perceived issue with it is actually a result of end users bloating it up with shittastic extensions. =/

I have 3 extensions... No Script, Ghostery and Tabberwocky. (well also the Microsoft NET framework assistant but that seemed to install itself from the beginning)

I'd try what I said up there^

Honestly, I was pulling my hair out when mine kept playing up, I did loads of research and testing and deleting the profile (saving your bookmarks and passwords first) is the only way to get it working again without having to uninstall delete all registry/program/profile files and reinstalling etc.