What Web Browser Do You Use?

What Web Browser Do You Use?

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I don't care about using synced extensions. But you don't have a chance now. You siply can not add 3rd party extensions. Its google appstore or nothing now. And they screwed the extention in the process.

okay. But I don't like seeing adds everywhere. Where there is adds, there are people stealing your money.
 
wolfeking said:
I don't care about using synced extensions. But you don't have a chance now. You siply can not add 3rd party extensions. Its google appstore or nothing now. And they screwed the extention in the process.

okay. But I don't like seeing adds everywhere. Where there is adds, there are people stealing your money.
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You can still load unpacked extensions by enabling developer mode on the extensions page. I think the decision to have everyone install their extensions from the web store is a good one, helps keep down the malicious extensions, and lets you sync them.

And another thing: You can just simply not click ads. I don't use adblock because I believe that we should support good websites, by allowing them to earn money to pay the bills with through ad impressions. To each their own though, that's just my philosophy since I run a few sites.
 
I get the thing about support the web sites. But I never need anything yet that is not supplied by sites I visit on a daily basis anyway. (like colt.com (or winchester), Walmart, Lowes, newegg, dell, or harbor freight). I don't need to see adds for them, because I spend time on their site, and support them buying things.

And for not visiting them, that does not keep them from giving you malware. There has been several times that I have gotten adware infections with only vising google,com/chome and computerforum on a fresh install. Simple enough to have adblock up and stop it from running at all.


And I get that it stops bad extentions. But they could have just added the extention to the app store with no changes. It is retarded to make you engage the definations yourself just because it is on the appstore.
Am I making sense? I don't have a issue with the appstore. I have a problem with making the extention more complicated.
 
wolfeking said:
I get the thing about support the web sites. But I never need anything yet that is not supplied by sites I visit on a daily basis anyway. (like colt.com (or winchester), Walmart, Lowes, newegg, dell, or harbor freight). I don't need to see adds for them, because I spend time on their site, and support them buying things.

And for not visiting them, that does not keep them from giving you malware. There has been several times that I have gotten adware infections with only vising google,com/chome and computerforum on a fresh install. Simple enough to have adblock up and stop it from running at all.


And I get that it stops bad extentions. But they could have just added the extention to the app store with no changes. It is retarded to make you engage the definations yourself just because it is on the appstore.
Am I making sense? I don't have a issue with the appstore. I have a problem with making the extention more complicated.
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I truthfully have never gotten any adware or malware while running no adblock, and my browsing habits are much more diverse.

I seem to remember ABP+ had a way to sync definitions.
 
It automatically synced and updated definitions when it was third party. From app store you have to manually chose the definitions to use before it will work. It will still automatically update the definitions once activated though.

I just find it stupid that you have to choose teh definitions now. It makes it more complicated, and easier to forget.
Though I have not synced to a new install since activated, so I don't know if it will need to be updated again. Give my a bit and I will see.
 
Lucas, you are going to want to say something, but DON'T.

Using seamonkey now. Seems to be based on Firefox, but for whatever reason it is the only browser left that supports old OSes. Slower than Opera, but less buggy in 2k. So using it now.
 
lucasbytegenius said:
But it's slower than other browsers.
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We get the message now... you don't like Firefox.

I'm still using Chrome and have been daily for about 2 years or so now, but I occasionally use Firefox and I quite like it. There was a period of about a week or two a year or so ago when I was using Firefox more than Chrome, so that must've been why I voted for Firefox in the poll.
 
Chrome for me, I prefer it, works fastest and smoothest on my computer and the extensions I use are great. Maxthon is also a good browser. I used to have firefox, just not a lover of it but still pretty good.
 
I am using SeaMonkey and Opera. No offense to chrome, but they all see about the same on my system after using them for about a week or so.
 
Yeah they all run the same speed for me too, I just 'so happen' to use Chrome though. I'm used to it now and there's no reason to use anything else really.
 
So is the OS I am using it on. It works though, so I can not complain.
For what it is worth, the browsers that were available for it are Seamonkey, Opera 11 (which does not work with any of the extentions available, and it crashed the system quite a bit), IE (6 I think it is), and FF (Don't remember the version). Of them, SeaMonkey is the only one that runs reliably and semi fast.
 
Yeah IE6 was the last version of IE available for 2000. I only time I use IE6 is to download Chrome or IE8 once I have installed XP. Abysmal browser these days. I do remember using it as a 5 year old though on Windows XP. :)
 
Time to start a new poll.
This one is way old and I don't think one or two of those browsers are even around anymore.
Plus some may not use the same browser from when the poll was started, maybe a new poll at the start of every year would be good.
 
I do think that there could be multi choice though. I don't use the same thing on my phone as I do on my lappy, and neither of my laptops run the same (although they may soon), and the desktop is in a complete nother catagory (due to the Internet being 4x faster (8Mb/s vs 35Mb/s) and being 64 bit.
There is no one size fits all browser, and I don't think we should be forced to vote only one.
 
wolfeking said:
I do think that there could be multi choice though. I don't use the same thing on my phone as I do on my lappy, and neither of my laptops run the same (although they may soon), and the desktop is in a complete nother catagory (due to the Internet being 4x faster (8Mb/s vs 35Mb/s) and being 64 bit.
There is no one size fits all browser, and I don't think we should be forced to vote only one.
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Yeah I agree, and when I voted in this poll I was using Opera.
 
HimanshuNegi said:
I like Opera but it's getting weird these days... it gets crash mostly and still have Internal communication error.

Mozilla doesn't work well with me and chrome makes my system slow and safari too

thinking to switch to old IE.
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Sounds like your computer sucks and so does your Internet.
 
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