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Even though Firefox is CoN's browser of choice, I'm just curious to see what browser everyone uses.

I actually have five different browsers installed on my computer: Stainless (my main browser), Safari (my primary alternative), Firefox, Camino, and Chrome. I have multiple Gmail/Blogger/YouTube/etc accounts, and it's easier to use a different browser for each set of accounts. Also, I like variety.

When I had my old computer (an HP), I used and loved Chrome (with Firefox as my backup browser), and I still love it. When I got my Macbook after my HP eventually died, I discovered Stainless, since Chrome wasn't, and still isn't, completely finished for Mac, according to Google.

Stainless originally started out as an experiment to create a program similar to Chrome exclusively for Mac, and Mesa Dynamics eventually decided to turn it into a full-fledged browser. Even though it's only at version 0.7.5, I like it a lot. I happen to love Stainless's unique (albeit still slightly buggy) bookmark system, and other features like Single Session tabs are really neat.

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I find that I have to have a lot of browsers installed for my job; my main machine at work is an XP box that has Firefox, IE7, Opera, and a virtual machine for IE6; my secondary machine for work has Opera, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, IE8, Minefield (the Firefox nightly builds), and virtual machines for IE6 and 7, all installed on Vista.

I see no reason to move away from Firefox, personally; Chrome's UI, while interesting, is too deviant from the standard for me; Safari for PC is still clumsy and has weird font rendering, last I checked; IE is, well, still IE. With Firefox getting, it seems, faster with each release, I'm not aching to do anything different.

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I started using chrome back in september when firefox started causing problems on my new computer. I don't know what exactly was wrong, but when I closed the window the process would continue anyways and continue using processing power so I had to manually close it in task manager every time.

Now that I'm used to chrome, though, I don't see myself going back, it's a really great browser. Another plus of it is that some of my friends have been complaining about how they're seeing chrome ads everywhere now, and I don't have to deal with them! The one drawback though is that there isn't a big library of useful plugins yet, and as far as I know the only way to permanently enable them in your browser anyway is through some registry edit, which is honestly a bit too much trouble for me. For that reason I still use firefox sometimes for the youtube downloader plugin.

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Contrary to my friends' hemming and hawing, I still use Internet Explorer 8, with Firefox for those websites that I only visit occasionally and don't bother to memorize the URL (saving tabs is great).

I maintain use of IE instead of switching to another browser simply because of my familiarity with it. "Go with what you know" is my philosophy.

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Chrome all the way. I like things on my computer to be light and speedy. Firefox is only a second or two slower, but it's still a bit wearing at times when I'm firing through a lot of pages quickly.

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I've been using Firefox pretty strictly for some time now. It's easy, simple and quick, which is basically all I expect from a web-browser. The fact that it can be tricked out as much as it can is an added benefit as well.

I know several people who like to switch back and forth between it and Chrome, or it and Safari, but I never saw the point of using multiple browsers.

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Chrome all the way! I used to use IE and for a short time FF, but Chrome is simply superior.

I also stick with IE for the fact I've used it my whole life. I'm sure if I was on a buddy's computer and they had a different browser and I tried it I would like it but I'm not so I don't. I have Opera on my phone but I only use it when I'm viewing a website that doesn't have a specific mobile version.

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"Go with what you know" is my philosophy.

Bingo. I've got IE too, and have never really experienced any need to not like it. When I'm at school though, where there's only macs, I use Firefox over Safari, which I find to be pretty slow in comparison.

This post has been edited by Death Penalty on 21st December 2009 00:49

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I switched over to Firefox a couple years ago and I haven't looked back.