Poll: Which web browser do you use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2105954

by solipsist • 16 years ago

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jjcm• 16 years ago

Perhaps instead of this poll, pg could simply toss some page analytics onto hackernews? To be honest, I was surprised when I didn't see any trackers in the page source.

axiak• 16 years ago

He doesn't need a js tracker if he just looks at logs. While analytics adds a lot of cool features, it is often to the users detriment.

Figs• 16 years ago

I block analytics with AdBlockPlus because it often adds multi-second delays to page loading.

johnswamps• 16 years ago

Perhaps you missed the "Analytics by Mixpanel" logo at the bottom of the page? :)

(Yes I realize it's not actually being used)

solipsist2• 16 years ago

If pg did post analytics like these, I wouldn't have made this poll. But the thing is that he did not for whatever reason, and I felt that a lot of users (including me) would like to see the data ourselves. Unless pg decides to post it, I see this as the only way for HN users to find out.

wahnfrieden2• 16 years ago

Firefox for browsing (because the awesomebar is still way better at finding things in my history/bookmarks than Chrome for me, and because of bookmark tags). Chrome for development.

daleharvey• 16 years ago

wow thats strange

I occasionally find myself using chrome for browsing because I find it that much more reactive and stable than firefox.

but I couldnt leave firefox for developing, as much as I have tried I just always find the web inspector lacking compared to firebug

zzzmarcus• 16 years ago

Out of curiosity, what do you like better about Firebug? I've been using the Chrome web inspector for awhile now and loving it. Maybe there's some feature in Firebug that's useful that I don't know about yet though.

wahnfrieden2• 16 years ago

I agree that the Chrome inspector is missing some things that Firebug has (primarily, it is unable to render the HTML returned in XHR requests - this is a big deal for me, since I use Django which returns debug pages in HTML, and I do a ton of XHR in my applications) but I use it when I can simply because it hangs less, crashes less and is faster overall for me. You should know though that there's a Firebug Lite bookmarklet available for Chrome - that's what I use when I need to examine XHR responses. There's probably a plugin for it too.

Also how recently have you tried the Chrome inspector? It's been getting a lot of attention lately from the dev team.

lukevdp• 16 years ago

I'm the opposite - Chrome for browsing, Firefox for development. I havent found anything on Chrome to match the usefulness of Firebug

aquinn• 16 years ago

Firefox feels prehistoric in many ways compared to chrome but I won't switch until they copy the awesomebar verbatim. It's perfect.

ernestipark• 16 years ago

I used Firefox for the same reason, the awesome-bar takes me places so much faster than in Chrome. But Firefox feels so clunky and slow that I had to make the switch to Chrome a few weeks ago. Everything is snappier, no lag.

trotsky• 16 years ago

mosaic

SideSwipe• 16 years ago

Chrome for browsing. Firefox just when I need plugins like SpeedTest.

Mithrandir• 16 years ago

GNU Icecat Beta, so I voted for Other and Firefox.

olalonde• 16 years ago

Chrome for browsing, Firefox for web development.

s_m• 16 years ago

Me too.

frogly• 16 years ago

Opera on Windows and Webkit on WebOS.

ews• 16 years ago

I use uzbl (http://www.uzbl.org/) (tabbed) on my arch linux as primary browser.

watmough• 16 years ago

Wow, I'm surprised to see Chrome so high!

And maybe even more to see that Safari is catching Firefox.

sudont2• 16 years ago

There’s a lot of dev’s here that use OS X as their primary dev environment. (Yes, Android dev’s too.) Safari simply has the best chrome on Mac. The other ones use a lot of cross-platform widget placement, which feels wrong.

makecheck• 16 years ago

OmniWeb on Mac, mobile OperaMini, Firefox at work.

barrydahlberg• 16 years ago

I guess I'll just reuse this comment from another thread...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2091539

MountainDrew• 16 years ago

Chrome for browsing, Firefox for development, IE (mainly 6 and 7) to see how many things I need to redo after my Firefox development is finished.

pan69• 16 years ago

Same here. Except I use Chromium instead of Chrome.

solipsist2• 16 years ago

For a browser that dominates the market share, Internet Explorer has a very small presence among HN users. This just goes to show that most of those IE users are simply folks with less of a technical background.

nicksergeant• 16 years ago

Mondays: Chrome; Tuesdays: Frustrated with WebKit inspector, switch to latest Firefox 4 beta; Wednesdays: Annoyed with sluggish performance, switch to Safari; Thursdays: Feel like I'm not on the cutting edge, switch to Chromium; Fridays: Realize I'm a front-end developer and need Firebug, switch back to latest Firefox 4 beta and hope Firebug's been updated since Tuesday

syaz12• 16 years ago

Pretty much my cycle minus Safari. Although some CSS demos only works on Safari so I have it installed.

ambirex• 16 years ago

Thank you for running this poll I am working a greasemonkey script for HN and I will definitely be adding Chrome support before I release it.

babeKnuth• 16 years ago

chromium.

karakurt• 16 years ago

Vote for Chrome, but Chromium

ZeroGravitas• 16 years ago

Vimperator.

Though a comment here informed that there's a fork called Pentadactyl, so I'm going to try that out:

http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/

cpeterso• 16 years ago

Camino because neither Firefox nor Chrome are "Mac enough". :)

A new Camino alpha (Camino 2.1a1) will be released very soon.

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