What web browser do you primarily use on desktop?
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What a stupid poll (Score:5, Insightful)
You could just tally up your server logs and show the result here.
Re:What a stupid poll (Score:5, Funny)
LYNX && LINKS && wget/curl, yo (Score:1)
Re:LYNX && LINKS && wget/curl, yo (Score:1)
No Programming Languages (Score:2)
I want to hear how Rust is better than Go.
Re: What a stupid poll (Score:2, Insightful)
Also... Most of the listed browsers are based on chronium
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Also Safari does share some code with Chromium, did anyone mention that?
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That's why slashdot prefers to browse with Cowboy Neal.
Re: What a stupid poll (Score:2, Informative)
The Slashdot mobile site sucks big time.
Re: What a stupid poll (Score:1)
Not if most of their users are mobile users and not signed up or rarely visit /. From the desktop.
if most of the users are mobile users then they'll really only know what kind of browser mobile users use because the sample group for their desktop users will be skewed somehow from the general slashdot population.
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You could just tally up your server logs and show the result here.
Someone would just call it fake news to serve a narrative. Course we could all be lying.
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And compare the logs to the poll to expose all the closet IE users.
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The result would show what UA string the browser they use to browse Slashdot claims the browser to be. Not 1) what the user is actually using, and 2) if that browser is what they use mostly. For me, the answer to all three of those would still be Firefox, but this isn't the case for everyone. And also, the people answering the poll represents a different demographic than people using Slashdot. I'd assume that people who answer the poll are also the ones who care more about what browser they use, and perhaps
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I suspect far more people will lie on a poll than change their user agent string
Re: What a stupid poll (Score:2)
It would be interesting to see what the server log results look like compared to the poll.
My hunch is that Internet Explorer and Chrome will be a lot higher, and Firefox will be lower.
LINKS (Score:2, Informative)
is a pretty good browser and it blocks images, sounds, and videos.
Re: Not far enough! (Score:1)
Is something making you angry?
WebKit (Score:1)
When Safari first came out, KHTML became WebKit and it was so much better than the rest of them. In 2000 it was all about correct CSS-Rendering, but with Safari we got speed improvements and more privacy.
Today I don't see many technical reasons to switch browsers, but tracking protection and robustness against adware attacks is still a factor. That being said, at work we have some intranet services that refuse to run with Firefox, some have glitches with Chrome and Edge, while others complain about IE not b
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Re: Windows Explorer is the best (Score:1)
That's not what ironic means Mr neurons.
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It's like rain on your wedding day, or a free ride when you've already paid.
Firefox then Chrome (Score:1)
Firefox for goofing off and making sure I block as much crap as possible, Chrome for serious stuff where I just need everything to work and I block nothing.
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Same but replaced firefox with waterfox and tried to replace chrome with slimjet but slimjet went full retard and forgot everything, every bookmark, every setting so f*** that, back to chrome for some stuff.
Re: They already know this right? (Score:2)
Not useless at all. Almost everyone I know has switched to chrome except me so I find it very interesting that slashdot also still favors firefox.
Rigged? (Score:1)
I tried to fill in With Chrome, but I was not able to get down to the "Vote" knob. Had to swap to Firefox to vote.
NB (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:NB (Score:5, Funny)
Because if you're using either one, you have lost control of your life.
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Because nobody uses them.
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I used IE on my own PC once. I needed to download Chrome...
As someone that has done IT, engineering, and software development, for a number of different places over my career I find that if I refer to Internet Explorer as the "Chrome Downloader" that few people even ask what I mean, or if they do then they get the joke immediately.
I will still have to tell people that if X doesn't work then maybe they need to use a different browser. This is almost always in one direction, if they are using IE then use something else. If it wasn't working on something else then u
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NCSA Mosaic (Score:2)
Pale Moon (Score:2)
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SeaMonkey (Score:2)
I'm old school and still prefer the suite Mozilla's products as SeaMonkey [seamonkey-project.org]. Too bad it won't get the newer versions for a very long time since its web browser is still based on Firefox v52. :(
Re: SeaMonkey (Score:1)
Any web content broken by SeaMonkey with noscript mostly enabled probably is safe to ignore.
And the composer in Seamonkey is good for cutting/pasting and even dragging/dropping web content to save locally. It preserves almost anything that matters, and strips out the bullshit that web 'designers' fester about.
many not one. (Score:2)
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I split my browsing so it's harder to profile. Log into google stuff using chrome, like AC, because they can track me anyway. But use Firefox for a lot of other stuff where tracking is likely to be attempted, especially from Google.
While it's not foolproof, I assume that tracking 99.9% of users is so easy that most companies are unlikely to spend resources on more creative and intensive tracking. When most people are logged into facebook and google all of the time and accept all cookies and block no scripts
Well... (Score:2)
And yeah, it's really, really big.
The memory foot print of modern browsers, I mean.
Gopher (Score:1)
When it comes to the internet I only use gopher, and occasionally finger.
Waterfox is my daily driver. (Score:2)
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Firefox and Chrome (Score:2)
At work Firefox doesn’t work at all past 36 on my Mac (Some issue with AD), and many of the work apps are chrome or IE specific.
At home, I mainly use Firefox because I’m used to the debugging tools mainly.
[John]
Firefox on Linux, but it is not snappy (Score:2)
People still use Firefox?! (Score:2)
I am very close to telling my users to use IE or Chrome as Firefox usage is starting to get to small to matter. I am surprised but I do remember there are a lot of gray hairs here too.
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I'm sure you remember the days of sites that only worked in IE6, and how 2 decades later we're still paying for that.
Firefox of course (Score:2)
I do use Chrome occasionally, mostly to avoid polluting my amazon search history, but Firefox does everything I need.
Dissenter Browser (Score:1)
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Both Firefox and Chrome (Score:1)
Vivaldi FTW! (Score:1)
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Yes, Vivaldi!
They're closest to what you used to get with the old Opera.
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Opera, but also Vivaldi and Firefox (Score:2)
i use a firefox alternative (Score:2)
Chrome no good (Score:2)
Why would anyone willingly use Spyware/Chrome? (Score:1)
My Browser Experience (Score:1)
digital ganesh (Score:1)
WebPositive (Score:1)
At home, Haiku is my daily driver.
Lynx (Score:2)
Kids these days with their HTML 5 fancy memes. When I was a lad we used lynx because it was the only browser on the VAX and we liked it. 25 years as a Lynx users and I've never been Cryptoed...
SD
Re: They are all bad (Score:2)
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I've been a long time Firefox user, but I'm using Edge now.
I want to use Firefox, but on my new PC (HP ZBook 15 G4) it hangs the machine for 30 seconds several times a day. I haven't been able to figure out why, so I'm using Edge just so I can get work done.
(Thank $deity for the AdBlock plus extension for Edge in the Microsoft Store.) ... Except YouTube videos. Those I watch in Chrome because the video quality is better for reasons I do not understand.
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I'm doing my best to work with the 'new' firefox, after they killed my beloved vimperator. Trying to use tridactyl now, but it's really in alpha state. Some things work okay, most things don't. That is, compared to vimperator. So if anyone has any experience with a better add-on that does the same as vimperator, please let me know.
But perhaps I should switch to Chrome instead. They have a variant of vimperator as well. Perhaps it's less broken than tridactyl.
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Pale Moon.
Actually, for a poll on a geek website I thought there'd be a decent range of options,
What part of "Firefox (or derivatives)" did you not understand?
plus a "mix" option since personally I use one of every kind and compartmentalize my browsing.
Agreed, I was also surprised there was not a "mixed" option. Or a "Cowboy Neal randomly chooses my browser" option.
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*not gp, but use PM mostl
Re: They are all bad (Score:1)
I mostly use SeaMonkey on desktop. And as anybody can tell you, Firefox is a stunted derivative of SeaMonkey.
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Then comes the Explorer.
Then comes the Konqueror.