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Discussions => Talks and Yaks => Topic started by: Jarod "Brickwit" McBrickerton on January 27, 2015, 04:17:43 pm
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I'm just curious about what web browser people use and why. I personally prefer Chrome, mostly because I'm using more and more of Google's services and it's easier to also use their browser, but also because it's fast and has a nice minimalistic design without dropping necessary features or making them hard to locate. I also like Firefox to some degree and have found the latest versions of IE to be much better but I'm wondering what I might be missing. I'm an IT professional and I'm always trying to find better software both for me and for my end user clients.
So I've created this poll to find out if there's another browser (or two) that I should try out. Again, I use a lot of Google's stuff so it doesn't seem like I'll end up using anything other than Chrome, but I admit that it's possible that Opera or some other browser might also integrate things like Gmail and Google Drive. And I do have plenty of clients that don't use any Google services so I may change my standard recommendation away from Firefox if I try a new browser and find that it meets most people's needs.
So please vote and post a comment to tell me why you voted that way. I've set it so that you can pick all five options, but if you pick more than one please post your order of preference.
Thanks! :)
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I use Chrome Version 40.0.2214.91 m, but also use Explorer 11 for when sites are 'fussy' about which browser they can cope with! (Currently using Win 8.1: used to be pretty much the same with XP).
I've never had a problem with text size afaik, but Explorer frequently fails to re-open tabs from previous session.
Also, neither are very good for setting default browser preferences: I've given up trying :'(
(While I'm in grumble-mode ... Win 8.1 sometimes boots up with Num Lock on, and sometimes not. Great for passwords >:(
Explorer has many 'mystery' errors which I never had on XP).
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Thanks for the votes so far everyone! 8-)
It's always been true that some sites - especially enterprise services - only work well with Internet Explorer. So at least it has gotten a lot better, but it also has lots of catching up to do. I'm curious to see how the Spartan browser that will come with Windows 10 will handle sites designed for IE since Spartan has been built entirely from scratch according to reports.
Chrome always keeps itself up to date by silently installing updates in the background that are often not fully applied until it is closed and re-opened. But for a while now I've had two problems with Chrome:
- It often tells me that there are unread posts here that I've already read, even - and most frequently - when I've posted a reply, and
- While I'm editing posts here (I don't really post on any other forums anymore so I don't know if it's this site specifically or not) and I delete a section of text or an Enter that I don't need, the text after it will get dropped down to 8pt font. I used to fight with this each time it happened, but I later realized that I could just do Ctrl+A, then pick font size 10pt to fix all of it at once.
The easiest way to get your preferences the way you like them in Chrome is to set it to sync your preferences to your account. That way all you have to do is log into your Google account within Chrome and all of your bookmarks, extensions, and settings are synced onto the current Windows profile! I don't think there's any real hope for IE though. 8-(
Num Lock was always set by the computer's BIOS/UEFI settings in my testing with all versions of Windows so far, including 7 and 8.1. Have you checked those settings to make sure that it's set to always turn on Num Lock?
What kinds of "mystery errors" are you getting with IE? It's been pretty stable and dependable in my limited experience and only really seems to give people trouble when they either install some junky extensions/add-ons/toolbars or when they're visiting web sites that don't support the particular version in use.
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I think I just found the official answer to some of my ponderings about Spartan vs IE: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/01/22/project-spartan-and-the-windows-10-january-preview-build.aspx. (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/01/22/project-spartan-and-the-windows-10-january-preview-build.aspx.) It certainly looks interesting.
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maxthon
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Hadn't ever heard of Maxthon, but it looks very interesting, thanks!