Internet Browsers

[fords8]

I use Edge, Chrome, and Firefox. Started to play around with Brave as well.

 

[Arantor]

I will be honest, I will never touch Brave. I dislike its encouragement of NFTs, I dliske its encouragement of cryptocurrency and I have reason to believe that had its CEO and founder not stepped down from the Mozilla Foundation over criticism of his personal donations to anti-same-sex marriage lobbyists, Brave might not even exist.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I only use Firefox, I have it installed on my desktop, laptop and phone. At work I have to use Edge since I'm not allowed to download anything, which is understandable since it's my work's computer. I used to use Chrome while playing DnD online with my friends, but I no longer play unfortunately...

 

[Cory]

At work I have to use Edge since I'm not allowed to download anything, which is understandable since it's my work's computer.

Almost reminds me of the days when Internet Explorer was installed in most business places due to being the default browser that came with the OS. I'm glad those days are over!

 

[Ferus]

I've always flip-flopped between Chrome and Firefox, but I think I'm ganna stick with Firefox ever since the adblock controversy on Chrome.

 

[Arantor]

adblock controversy on Chrome.

I think Manifest v3 is going to be very much the point where Chrome's dominance will begin to slow down as this affects more and more people over time.

 

[TwitchisMental]

I think Manifest v3 is going to be very much the point where Chrome's dominance will begin to slow down as this affects more and more people over time.

Agreed I think we are going to see a changing of the tide again.

Sometimes I wish for someone to build another browser from scratch to really shake up the market again. Sadly most new browsers are just based on chromium .

 

[Arantor]

The problem with building a browser from scratch is that it's a *mammoth* effort. Chrome came out of nowhere in 2008 or so with a hefty engineering team behind it and even then it wasn't from scratch; it lifted WebKit which was Apple building on top of Konqueror's KHTML engine. The rapid pace of Google's moving it forward had several consequences - one of which was to ensure the ladder you'd have to climb to compete got ever longer.

Consider: even Microsoft gave up and they'd been doing it since the 1990s.

 

[Debashis]

No matter what happens, I'll always stick to Chrome. Ever since the time chrome was released, I've been using it only. Somehow I feel other browsers are slow or are not able to give me the smooth experience that chrome gives.

 

[Empire]

I always use google chrome on my laptop and more so gets used more so than others, however, Edge has improved big time and I use edge on my desktop as it's less heavy on the system and I feel it's nice and better to have open when gaming. Chrome eats up too much.

Chrome I still use allot anyway.

 

[Liam]

I use Chrome on everything (laptop, iOS - phone and iPad)

 

[Tyrsson]

At one point or another I use them all for testing. Its required in dev, and not just the desktop versions. For 100% coverage it helps if you test with them all on each OS but its not as bad as it was when I first started in development. Back then they varied widely between OS's.

For casual browsing I use Chrome, but the only thing I develop in is FF Dev Edition.

 

[Cory]

I'm basically forced to use Google Chrome now that I have a Google Chromebook, which I don't mind since it's what I used on Windows anyway. I know there are some other browsers for download, but they're like "mini" versions of the browser.

 

[guyyanthony]

Google Chrome

 

[MrDawn]

I primarily only use Opera. I used to use Mozzila Firefox for years before I tried Opera and I felt Opera was a much better browser. I've been using it since.

 

[Excommunicado]

I use Safari on my Apple devices and Chrome on everything else.