Browser preference and why?

[Max746]

I took some criticism from my friends for using safari on my computer rather than Chrome or Firefox. 

[Senzelian]

I don't have a Mac but had to click something to vote. So I picked Chrome there aswell.

 

I only use Chrome because it makes things easy within the Google ecosystem.

[pythonmegapixel]

You really ought to turn off the poll options being required, as people tend to choose one of a PC or a Mac, and not own both.

[Max746]

1 minute ago, pythonmegapixel said:

You really ought to turn off the poll options being required, as people tend to choose one of a PC or a Mac, and not own both.

sorry im still pretty recent with the forums. not sure how it works 

[pythonmegapixel]

3 minutes ago, Max746 said:

sorry im still pretty recent with the forums. not sure how it works 

You're quite right; the required question option seems to have vanished! Not sure what that's about.

Maybe you could add an option saying "I don't have a Mac" and "I don't have a PC" instead?

[jaslion]

Firefox. Completely add free internet with ublock origin even avoiding the slip in google adds on chromium based browsers. Also it's lighter on the computer which is a nice to have.

[duncannah]

Chrome on both (plus mobile). Works quite well and fastest in my opinion.

 

Just now, jaslion said:

avoiding the slip in google adds on chromium based browsers

 

Could you elaborate please? I've never encountered this in Chrome with uBlock Origin.

[SansVarnic]

@Max746fixed your poll for you. Also, I added edge.... there are edge users here.

[sub68]

I switch to firefox because it broke on my laptop and I actually prefer faster for me and it's much easier for me

 

if you want a good comic series here is a recommendation

https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/internet-explorer/ep-1-install-google-chrome/viewer?title_no=219164&episode_no=1

[jaslion]

2 minutes ago, duncannah said:

Chrome on both (plus mobile). Works quite well and fastest in my opinion.

 

 

Could you elaborate please? I've never encountered this in Chrome with uBlock Origin.

Google often circumvents adds in ways on their chrome browser as it hates adblockers (they tried to remove them from chrome before a couple times but the backlash was huge and they decided to not do it yet). Ublock tends to circumvent the ads that google gets past normal adblockers but there are often holes that they do get through. Plenty of people experience have experienced this often.

 

Also pretty nice bonus but firefox doesn't sell your data they are just a non profit actually acting like one

[Max746]

4 minutes ago, SansVarnic said:

@Max746fixed your poll for you. Also, I added edge.... there are edge users here.

Thanks! Gotta love the mods

[Crosseyed Sniper]

Vivaldi and Opera. 

[GDRRiley]

Firefox. I got tired of chrome and it being such a memory hog. with just a few tabs open FF is worse but once you hit the 20-60 tabs at a time that I often have open its so much better

[nbrowser]

Started on Internet Exploder in the late '90s...lived with it til it became a disappointment then switched to Firefox in the '10...then came 2017 and the transition to Chrome...easy sync across devices including my iPhone! Just works and with the amount of RAM I equip my PCs with...not too worried about how much it may or may not use.

[TempestCatto]

I think you mean Windows vs Mac. Not PC vs Mac. PC is not an operating system, it just stands for personal computer. If you own your Macbook Air, then it's a PC.

 

Just came here to say that. It really grinds my gears.

[JZStudios]

1 minute ago, TempestCatto said:

I think you mean Windows vs Mac. Not PC vs Mac. PC is not an operating system, it just stands for personal computer. If you own your Macbook Air, then it's a PC.

 

Just came here to say that. It really grinds my gears.

[pythonmegapixel]

Just now, TempestCatto said:

I think you mean Windows vs Mac. Not PC vs Mac. PC is not an operating system, it just stands for personal computer. If you own your Macbook Air, then it's a PC.

 

Just came here to say that. It really grinds my gears.

I would argue that you are wrong.

 

The reason PCs are called PCs is because that is what IBM called theirs. IBM PCs and PC-compatibles had their main competitor as Apple Macs. Macs were not PCs. Apple has never called Macs PCs, because that's what their main competitor was called for the longest time.

 

Plus a PC can run any operating system. Doesn't have to be Windows. It just has to not be Mac OS.

[JZStudios]

Just now, pythonmegapixel said:

I would argue that you are wrong.

 

The reason PCs are called PCs is because that is what IBM called theirs. IBM PCs and PC-compatibles had their main competitor as Apple Macs. Macs were not PCs. Apple has never called Macs PCs, because that's what their main competitor was called for the longest time.

 

Plus a PC can run any operating system. Doesn't have to be Windows. It just has to not be Mac OS.

Mac has insistently called their competition "PC." There's nothing personal about Apple products. You use it their way and that's it.

[TempestCatto]

13 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

I would argue that you are wrong.

 

The reason PCs are called PCs is because that is what IBM called theirs. IBM PCs and PC-compatibles had their main competitor as Apple Macs. Macs were not PCs. Apple has never called Macs PCs, because that's what their main competitor was called for the longest time.

 

Plus a PC can run any operating system. Doesn't have to be Windows. It just has to not be Mac OS.

 

11 minutes ago, JZStudios said:

Mac has insistently called their competition "PC." There's nothing personal about Apple products. You use it their way and that's it.

This always comes up when I make my argument. PC stands for personal computer, a Mac is still a PC regardless of marketing. It just pisses me off to no end when people use the term that way. It's the same thing when people refer to an engine as a "motor" a motor is powered by electricity of some kind, where an engine is powered by something combustible. I hate the way things are perceived mostly, it's just wrong to me.

[pythonmegapixel]

2 minutes ago, TempestCatto said:

This always comes up when I make my argument. PC stands for personal computer, a Mac is still a PC regardless of marketing. It just pisses me off to no end when people use the term that way.

By that logic:

IBM stands for International Business Machines.

Toshiba is another international company which sells machines intended for use by businesses.

Therefore, Toshiba is IBM.

??

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

 

I'm using Edge because it works for me and during the pre-chromium days, I did find the Set Aside feature rather useful when researching for term papers. Sometimes I just want to put things on the back burner on a while and come back with a more open mind. I know Microsoft introduced collections in the current version of Edge; but for me, it's not an acceptable replacement. Being able to stash all of my current tabs aside for later is much more useful than having to go to each individual tab and add them to a collection. To me, that's no different than settings favorites where I would have to perform multiple clicks to open them all back up again at a later time. With Set Aside, I basically was stashing my entire session away for later.

 

When I do use macOS, I just stick to Safari. I haven't used it long enough to find any major annoyances so it just works well for me. 

 

Prior to Chromium Edge, I did have Google Chrome installed as well just because back in the Windows 8 and earlier days, IE was well... IE. And in the pre-chromium Edge days, Google was actively making YouTube un-usable on Edge and to some degree, Firefox as well. Web elements took seconds to load and video playback was jerky and unresponsive. Thankfully these issues are no longer present in the Chromium version of Edge so neither my laptop or desktop now have Chrome installed.

[it_dont_work]

I've been using chrome since I had some bugs/crashes with firefox a few years back and haven't bothered changing back 

[TempestCatto]

17 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

By that logic:

IBM stands for International Business Machines.

Toshiba is another international company which sells machines intended for use by businesses.

Therefore, Toshiba is IBM.

??

No you're just twisting it. It's not complex like that, it's not an iceberg. It's simple, PC stands for personal computer and isn't meant to reference any-one particular operating system - as is usually insinuated in most situations (this one included). That's all, that's it, it's done. I'm out. Peace.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

11 minutes ago, Arika S said:

Desktop: Firefox

Anything with touchscreen: Edge

 

I used to use brave on my desktop until I noticed it starting to hog resources. 

 

I've still yet to find a browser as smooth as Edge when it comes to touchscreen navigation. I wish they kept the old edge, because it actually performed better in this regard

Yea I didn't understand why they couldn't keep the UI and features of the original Edge while using the Blink and V8 engines. It just feels like... well Chrome now. I preferred the sharper corners on the old Edge. It also lost some of the Fluent design elements they were trying to make universal in Windows, an odd decision for sure. My tabs bar is just my system colour rather than being translucent like it was in the original Edge. 

 

[p51mustang23]

Chrome, to justify all of the ram I downloaded.