Foo - What are you browsing with?

I've used IE, currently running Firefox, thinking about giving Opera a shot. What about you?

Chrome.

Fire Fox.

Main reason I'm using Firefox is the ability to use extensions like Adblock Plus and NoScript. This keeps unknown browser holes from resulting in bare metal restores from backups, reinstalls, or spyware snipe hunts on my machines.

Firefox.
Chrome offered nothing new the last time I looked at it.

It's Javascript engine is really freaking fast. That and the degrading performance of Firefox over the years is a deal-winner for me.

firefox

I just don't trust Chrome completely yet. Its a new browser, closed source (last time I checked), and it has yet to be time tested against malware writers.

Web browser security is just as important as the security of one's firewall because both are always in contact with untrusted and potentially hostile content.

Eventually, for real security, its going to take cooperation between the OS and the Web browser. Similar to how IE tries to run in a lower priv mode on Vista and Windows Server 2008, Web browsers will need to either run in a chrooted jail (with isolated memory space, process space, filesystem, and limited CPU ability), or in a virtual machine that is completely isolated from the main OS, and cannot put up transparent windows to catch keystrokes.

I would definitely be up for running my browser in a chrooted sandbox, if Windows supported that...

So I just checked out an application to sandbox stuff, and while Firefox works fine in it, Chrome does not.

I'm running both Firefox 3 and Opera. Though, if Opera were absent its "Fit to Width" feature, I wouldn't use it. The implementation of spell checking and ad blocking are my main gripes with Opera. Firefox's Live Bookmarks is a much better way of managing DSS feeds than Opera's simple text display.

FF3 w/ some add ons, the selling point of firefox for me.

I prefer Opera for its speed, but I've grown too comfortable with Firefox and its extensions to switch permanently. I use Adblock Plus, NoScript, NoSquint, and many others. On Opera, some annoying ad popups seem to be unstoppable.

FF3.0.5, IE7 (for checking sites for compatibility) and Opera Light on my Blackberry. I prefer the flexibility of FF with the various add-ons. Tried Chrome a while back and it didn't do anything for me that would cause me to switch from FF.


Aaron:)

Adblock plus is outstanding. Almost as outstanding are flashblock, IEtab, and Tab Mix. Also any sort of dictionary for spell checking.

Firefox, also with plugin's. foxytunes is wonderful, as is the weather plugin. answers.com plugin is also great for those tricky words you stumble onto..

Mostly Opera but also use Firefox because I'm so accustomed to it and the plugins.

Chrome all the way!

chrome for most of my stuff. firefox with an IE plugin for anything else.

firefox 3 with various plugins

Firefox 3 with some add-ons.

I just don't trust Chrome completely yet. Its a new browser, closed source (last time I checked), and it has yet to be time tested against malware writers.

Web browser security is just as important as the security of one's firewall because both are always in contact with untrusted and potentially hostile content.


Google Chrome is a free web browser developed by Google[1] and based on the WebKit layout engine and application framework. [...]

Chromium is the open source project behind Google Chrome, and is released under the BSD license.[3] It implements the same feature set, but has a slightly different logo.[4]

Come on man. Three seconds on wikipedia is too much research before you go spouting off? Spreading FUD does about as much to encourage good internet security practices as sweeping vulnerabilities under the carpet does to fix them.

[FYI: WebKit is the same engine underlying Safari and Konqueror, and has been around for a long time.]

Generally, I use IE6, but in Bike Forums I'm using Firefox 2. The main reason is my laziness...when I installed Firefox, and it picked up my list of favorites from IE, it put the link to Bike Forums in a more convenient position in the list than IE had it...and I've been too lazy to move things around in IE.

My beef with Opera is that it can get VERY memory intensive. Otherwise, it's the fastest browser that I've used.

FF2, FF3, Safari, Opera, Lynx, IE7 and an obsolete Netscape Browser. I use them all to test Forum rendering.

Come on man. Three seconds on wikipedia is too much research before you go spouting off? Spreading FUD does about as much to encourage good internet security practices as sweeping vulnerabilities under the carpet does to fix them.

[FYI: WebKit is the same engine underlying Safari and Konqueror, and has been around for a long time.]

I thought Chromium was the open-source branch and Google Chrome is their closed-source variation of that...?

Either way, Chrome has a little way to go before it's more seriously considered.

Safari.

Firefox.

A computer.

And a connection to the so-called "internet".

Come on man. Three seconds on wikipedia is too much research before you go spouting off? Spreading FUD does about as much to encourage good internet security practices as sweeping vulnerabilities under the carpet does to fix them.

[FYI: WebKit is the same engine underlying Safari and Konqueror, and has been around for a long time.]

Chromium != Chrome. Not as many people pull the BSD licensed source code as grab the Google Pack and have it install Chrome.

Until the browser has been around the block a while and weathered the slings and arrows of malware authors, I'm staying away from it, other than using it to test HTML code to see how well it renders.

Things like Web browsers, firewalls, mail servers, or other tools that are on the front line of security, you don't want to be running "v 1.0" code of anything, even if its made by the most reliable software development houses. You want to wait a generation or two. There is always something that gets caught even in the most well thought out security architecture. Even if it uses the same rendering engine as other software (WebKit, Gecko, or others.)

mlts22,

I thought that Chrome and Chromium shared the same codebase?

Firefox with the spell checking thingie...

I used lynx a lot @ the office through ssh sessions because most forum sites do look like a regular manpage on it.

mlts22,

I thought that Chrome and Chromium shared the same codebase?

They do pretty much. There are some minor differences, but differences nonetheless. My assertion of not using it not based on the Chrome/Chromium differences (which are slight, mainly the Google code to send usage feedback, if I recall right). I avoid using it because of a security principle -- avoid using nascent software on your front lines of your security setup.

Firefox has been around for a while and not just its codebase has seen continual hammering and security patches, the Netscape/Mozilla (and Gecko renderer) that it is based on has also withstood the slings and arrows of various assaults since the days of the mid 90s and it branching off from Mosaic. Opera as well has stood the continual attacks and has been patched over the years. Even IE is fairly solid, provided you completely disable ActiveX and keep your patches current. Especially on Vista where it runs in a low privilege mode (though this is has been reported to be gotten around.)

Give Chrome some time out in the real world, have it get patched and updated because it gets hit by unforeseen vulnerabilities (especially un-thought of combinations of operating systems and applications), and it will be ready for prime time.

Yeah, I know, this one has been asleep for awhile. I just thought that since some of the contributors to this thread have apparently moved on, and there are new blood around now, I decided to break out the paddles.

That, and to say that I'm playing with Safari for Windows right now.

Opera, Firefox, and Safari.

I use opera the most, mostly because of mouse gestures and other sundry pointing device shortcuts they have.

Opera 10.10 Beta. Its the best i've had so far

What's it to you?

Opera

I usually use OmniWeb for forums because I like the way the tabs are displayed as a vertical stack. For most other browsing I use Opera; I especially like the extensive customization of toolbars that is possible. Most ads get blocked at the router so the computers (11 of them!) don't have to deal with ad blocking.

Safari 4.0.4

Mozilla. I had to look up and it told me. It reads " What are Browsing with?" - Mozilla Firefox. Thanks computer!

I would definitely be up for running my browser in a chrooted sandbox, if Windows supported that...
at home, I've got windows 7 Pro with the built-in "XP mode" virtual machine, seems to work well. I use firefox everywhere.

I have a chip in my head that lets me browse from anywhere, anytime.

Now that Chrome 4.0 is out, and there are extensions for it, I have been running it for the last several days. I may very well switch from FF 3.7 to this. FF has been getting slower the last few versions, it seems.

Been using Opera since 3.62

Firefox and Opera Mini.

Firefox on Mac.

Depends on the machine. Mostly FF3.5, but sometimes Safari, Konqueror, or Epiphany. Even though it stinks, I use Blazer on my Palm sometimes. And once in a while, I use wget to test various web server and firewall configurations. :)

'browserd' or whatever it's called on Maemo OS2008.

Chrome 4.0- best I've seen so far.