Google Chrome vs Microsoft Internet Explorer - Comments Page 2

1. Opera I just like the way it does things
2. Firefox REALLY close second because of mouse gestures and NoScript addons.
3. Chrome just never seems to do what I expect it to do
10. IE is it safe to use this week?

Bob,

So Safari and Chrome are increasing in market share while IE and Firefox are decreasing. And this trend coincides with the growth of smartphones and tablets running IOS and Android.

To me these statistics are less about people choosing browsers on their PCs and more about people simply using the default browsers on their devices.

My favorite browser is Opera since mid-90s. By the way, almost all browser innovations were brought by those Norwegian guys. You virtually no need any extensions - it has already everything you could want. But anyway it has extensions too. Some build-in features include ad blocking, mail client, bittorrent client. They never support ActiveX by security concerns, so you should have some other browser for such sites. It works under Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD. Unfortunately they dropped Solaris branch. As any program, it has issues, but I prefer this browser. At the second place is Chrome, then - Firefox. I have IE for compatibility only - some sites still designed specifically for this browser. By the way, Opera can pretend to be IE or Firefox and usually it works fine. No one could beat Opera by number of open tabs - I use to have over 400 open pages in four windows under FreeBSD. Now it is impossible, but 100 - easy. And the last good thing - it is almost unknown. So you rarely run into a malware that designed to use particularly this browser to sneak into your computer.

But they hold a big share in mobile world. So there is a big chance you already tried it.

Like Bob said, Chrome could be better for Google's services. When I used Google Voice in the very beginning of this service, it really worked better with Chrome. So - there is no such thing, as the best browser, but a couple would fulfill almost any your need.

I am not sure, but one guy told me that Chrome is US DOD recommended browser. But I am sure that in January head of the State Department Clinton announced that Chrome would be used in their offices worldwide.

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I've never been as happy with the print preview capability of any alternative browser better than IE. Although not perfect, the ability in IE to print preview "As selected" and adjust the scaling as I like before printing is not possible with the other browsers.

Chromium powered browsers are ALL better, by far, then IE9, in every aspect. For the Facebook social gaming addicts, nothing but Chrome will do. Pages with high graphic content, multiple pages, etc., are best handled by Chrome. Forget Firefox- way too heavy! Of course, with the advent of the HD graphics cores implemented in the latest Ivy Bridge Intel chips, things have changed. If you have an older system, running a P4 CPU, and say Windows XP x86, well then, for sure Chrome or Dragon. No doubt!!!

I am not a gamer, I like and use SeaMonkey v2.13.1 which has an easy to use e-mail application built in. I also have Firefox, IE, Chrome, and a couple of other browsers just in case, but have yet to use them. SeaMonkey gives me all I want.

Rather than your "Chrome shares a lot of your browsing data with other Google products, which may be a privacy concern," I agree with James's comment that Chrome "exists specifically to watch and detail your browser use, for the purpose of leveraging their marketing/advertising advantage." If you like Chrome, consider SRWare's Iron browser (https://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php), built from the Chrome source code but with all the tracking and phone home code removed and revised for improved security far beyond the options in Chrome. Also, Iron works with Chrome extensions.

Back in the USA I used Google Chrome most of the time. I was using a fast computer with lots of memory. Here in the Philippines it is a different story. I have a small Netbook with only 1 meg of memory. The only browser that works well for me is Opera. I first used Opera many moons ago using the BeOS. It was good then and I still like Opera today.

I usually have at least 3 browsers open. These days it's: Safari, Firefox (or Palemoon) and Chrome. This allows me to have multiple email accounts open at the same time. They also each have advantages and disadvantages. Firefox, in my opinion, is best for managing bookmarks. Chrome is good for quick searches.

When I design a website I test in all browsers that I can. This is much less of an issue than it was in the past, when the various parsing algorithms had wildly differing interpretations of HTML.

I often have so many tabs open at a time that using different browsers helps manage them, as well.

I default to Firefix, which I've tweaked with add-ons. However, FF chokes on videos embedded in websites. IE plays them with no problem, so I keep it on my taskbar.

Chrome works badly for me, and while I've tried it, I have no need for Opera,

IE has it problems but so do they all,Been using IE for a long time and i never experience anything that bad but maybe it is just me.

I have just deleted Chrome because it could not read a lot of sites and Java kept on crashing. I have now returned to firefox.

Firefox,like Rick with No-script - and with Ghostery, Adblock and Coolpreviews it is safe and effective. IE still creates difficulties on the rare occasions I use it, and Chrome is too unsafe and intrusive, and does not open some things properly.

I made the switch from IE long ago but have switched back for three reasons:
1. I always felt uneasy that Chrome/Google was compiling data on me. Just don't like that.
2. IE improved its speed and security immensley.
3. IE lets the user save all the pages/tabs of a research session to a named folder very quickly. Later, the user can quickly open all the pages/tabs saved in the folder to resume research on the topic. I just can't live without that feature (and though i haven't checked in a while) found that none of the other broswers had this ability at all. Saving "sessions" in other browsers was time consuming and frustrating.

to me chrome is none the better than ie9

Firefox.
Because Google keep putting good emails into the spam box, so you always have to look at your spam anyway. If Chrome is anything like gmail, no thank you.
If a company as wealthy as MS cannot be arsed to fix all the bugs in their OS's before rushing on to sell you a new version, am I going to use their other products?

Might give Seabird another go on a cloned drive - last time I installed it I lost my hard drive and had to re-install Windows from scratch. Now I have a clone of the OS hard drive on a flash drive, just in case.

Long ago, Firefox became my browser of choice. It is stable, gets the job done reliably, is reasonably secure and offers tons of add-ons for every conceivable purpose. Chrome, too, is a great browser, and does all things well. Guess I have just developed a special fondness for my reliable old Firefox.

Google = Spys = not secure. "I don't google nuthin!"

I'm on Firefox 14, stalled till they get the Plain Old Favourites extension working again and the bug out of 15 - or is 16 this week's flavour? I have IE7 on one computer, IE8 on two others, use Firefox by default on all, have tried many others. Won't touch Chrome, Google is too damn nosy. Didn't like Safari or Opera (some while ago). Lunascape has its virtues, as does Blackhawk. I shall watch the evdolution as upgrading Firefox eternally is wearing - it crashes and loses my profile too often.