Author Topic: Best Internet Browser  (Read 10092 times)

Offline DanH

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Platinum Elite
  • *******
  • Join Date: Oct 2011
  • Posts: 2181
  • Total likes: 26
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 2
    • View Profile
Re: Best Internet Browser
« Reply #20 on: October 13, 2014, 01:11:11 PM »
Did you try resetting all firefox settings?  Does it happen in safe mode?

In regards to "best browser", if anyone here uses mulitple devices, Maxthon looks very cool. www.maxthon.com
For tech help feel free to Telegram me @DanTechSupp

Offline Yehuda25

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Presidential Platinum Elite
  • *********
  • Join Date: Dec 2013
  • Posts: 6069
  • Total likes: 78
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 9
    • View Profile
Re: Best Internet Browser
« Reply #21 on: October 23, 2014, 12:48:46 AM »
Chrome is the way to go! Just be prepared with a lot of Ram!!
“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”


― Aristotle

Offline sky121

  • Dansdeals Lifetime 10K Presidential Platinum Elite
  • *******
  • Join Date: May 2011
  • Posts: 11513
  • Total likes: 168
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 12
    • View Profile
"Not all who wander are lost"

Offline yesitsme

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Presidential Platinum Elite
  • *********
  • Join Date: Dec 2014
  • Posts: 5020
  • Total likes: 2237
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 4
  • Gender: Male
    • View Profile
Re: Best Internet Browser
« Reply #23 on: March 17, 2015, 01:43:03 PM »
Am I the only one in the world who likes IE?
wow i didn't know that someone likes it

Quote
If you read this blog, there is a 99% chance you've had a hair-pulling experience with IE.
<!--[if !IE]><!--><script src="welcome.js"></script><!--<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE]><script src="sorry.js"></script><![endif]-->
["-"]

Offline yitzf

  • Dansdeals Presidential Platinum Elite
  • ********
  • Join Date: Mar 2011
  • Posts: 2623
  • Total likes: 52
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 4
    • View Profile
Re: Best Internet Browser
« Reply #24 on: March 17, 2015, 03:20:59 PM »
Internet explorer RIP

Offline yesitsme

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Presidential Platinum Elite
  • *********
  • Join Date: Dec 2014
  • Posts: 5020
  • Total likes: 2237
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 4
  • Gender: Male
    • View Profile
Re: Best Internet Browser
« Reply #25 on: March 25, 2015, 04:00:41 PM »
History

For many years (2000 to 2008), IE market share was more than 80%. And IE v6 was considered as ade facto standard (80% to 97% market share in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 for IE6 only, more market share with all IE versions).

As IE6 was not respecting Web standards, developers had to test their website using IE6. That situation was great for Microsoft (MS) as web developers had to buy MS products (e.g. IE cannot be used without buying Windows), and it was more profit-making to stay non-compliant (i.e. Microsoft wanted to become the standard excluding other companies).

Therefore many many sites were IE6 compliant only, and as IE was not compliant with web standard, all these web sites was not well rendered on standards compliant browsers. Even worse, many sites required only IE.

However, at this time, Mozilla started Firefox development respecting as much as possible all the web standards (other browser were implemented to render pages as done by IE6). As more and more web developers wanted to use the new web standards features, more and more websites were more supported by Firefox than IE.

When IE market sharing was decreasing, MS realized staying standard incompatible was not a good idea. Therefore MS started to release new IE version (IE8/IE9/IE10) respecting more and more the web standards.
["-"]

Online etech0

  • Dansdeals Lifetime 10K Presidential Platinum Elite
  • *******
  • Join Date: Dec 2013
  • Posts: 12861
  • Total likes: 3316
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 1
    • View Profile
  • Location: not lakewood
  • Programs: DDF
Re: Best Internet Browser
« Reply #26 on: June 16, 2015, 11:48:40 PM »
Workflowy. You won't know what you're missing until you try it.

Offline DanH

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Platinum Elite
  • *******
  • Join Date: Oct 2011
  • Posts: 2181
  • Total likes: 26
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 2
    • View Profile
Re: Best Internet Browser
« Reply #27 on: June 17, 2015, 06:54:56 AM »
10 ways to integrate firefox and chrome
Funny, the first thing they mentioned LastPass, was just hacked... again.
For tech help feel free to Telegram me @DanTechSupp

Offline yuneeq

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Presidential Platinum Elite
  • *********
  • Join Date: Jan 2013
  • Posts: 8611
  • Total likes: 3999
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 10
  • Gender: Male
    • View Profile
  • Location: NJ
Re: Best Internet Browser
« Reply #28 on: June 17, 2015, 08:47:19 AM »
Funny, the first thing they mentioned LastPass, was just hacked... again.

Not that much of a big deal though.
Visibly Jewish

Offline ya

  • Dansdeals Platinum Elite + Lifetime Gold Elite
  • ******
  • Join Date: Jun 2010
  • Posts: 954
  • Total likes: 28
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
Re: Best Internet Browser
« Reply #29 on: June 17, 2015, 09:22:25 AM »
Chrome kills battery. If your on a laptop makes a big difference.

Offline Dan

  • Administrator
  • Dansdeals Lifetime 50K Diamond Elite
  • **********
  • Join Date: May 2008
  • Posts: 67599
  • Total likes: 16910
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 16442
  • Gender: Male
    • View Profile
  • Location: CLE
  • Programs: UA GS, AA EXP, DL Dirt, Hyatt Glob, Fairmont Lifetime Plat, DD Diamond, Blocked By @NeriaKraus
Re: Best Internet Browser
« Reply #30 on: June 17, 2015, 09:45:56 AM »
Chrome stinks at predicting what webpage you want to go to.  Firefox is just miles ahead in that regard.
But Chrome is much faster in general.
Save your time, I don't answer PM. Post it in the forum and a dedicated DDF'er will get back to you as soon as possible.

Offline yuneeq

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Presidential Platinum Elite
  • *********
  • Join Date: Jan 2013
  • Posts: 8611
  • Total likes: 3999
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 10
  • Gender: Male
    • View Profile
  • Location: NJ
Re: Best Internet Browser
« Reply #31 on: June 17, 2015, 09:49:18 AM »
I like using Chrome, but when something doesn't work well,
I open  Firefox and everything works fine.
Visibly Jewish

Offline sammy n

  • Dansdeals Presidential Platinum Elite
  • ********
  • Join Date: Apr 2013
  • Posts: 2813
  • Total likes: 21
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
Re: Best Internet Browser
« Reply #32 on: June 17, 2015, 09:51:29 AM »
I like using Chrome, but when something doesn't work well,
I open  Firefox and everything works fine.
Same here.

Offline yesitsme

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Presidential Platinum Elite
  • *********
  • Join Date: Dec 2014
  • Posts: 5020
  • Total likes: 2237
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 4
  • Gender: Male
    • View Profile
Re: Best Internet Browser
« Reply #33 on: June 17, 2015, 09:53:58 AM »
Chrome kills battery. If your on a laptop makes a big difference.

And Firefox kills memory (open tabs), IE kills functionality (<10)
["-"]

Offline pcgeek

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Platinum Elite
  • *******
  • Join Date: Dec 2013
  • Posts: 1010
  • Total likes: 62
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 6
  • Gender: Male
    • View Profile
  • Location: פֹּה
Re: Best Internet Browser
« Reply #34 on: June 17, 2015, 12:36:18 PM »
Chrome is not the fast, lean browser it once was. It's still ahead of the others, but the gap is closing between chrome and firefox.

Offline AnonymousUser

  • Dansdeals Presidential Platinum Elite
  • ********
  • Join Date: Feb 2013
  • Posts: 3001
  • Total likes: 13
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
Re: Best Internet Browser
« Reply #35 on: June 17, 2015, 12:45:01 PM »
And Firefox kills memory (open tabs), IE kills functionality (<10)
IME Chrome uses much more memory than FF.

Offline pcgeek

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Platinum Elite
  • *******
  • Join Date: Dec 2013
  • Posts: 1010
  • Total likes: 62
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 6
  • Gender: Male
    • View Profile
  • Location: פֹּה
Re: Best Internet Browser
« Reply #36 on: June 17, 2015, 12:51:11 PM »
IME Chrome uses much more memory than FF.
Chrome uses a seperate process for each tab you have open, and every process has it's own ram usage associated with it. Firefox on the other hand doesn't, but the browser itself uses more memory. IOW, if you have many tabs open chrome uses more, but if you only have a couple of tabs open, firefox uses more (at least IME).

Offline AnonymousUser

  • Dansdeals Presidential Platinum Elite
  • ********
  • Join Date: Feb 2013
  • Posts: 3001
  • Total likes: 13
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
Re: Best Internet Browser
« Reply #37 on: June 17, 2015, 04:20:20 PM »
Chrome uses a seperate process for each tab you have open, and every process has it's own ram usage associated with it. Firefox on the other hand doesn't, but the browser itself uses more memory. IOW, if you have many tabs open chrome uses more, but if you only have a couple of tabs open, firefox uses more (at least IME).
IME, Chrome with a few tabs uses the same memory as FF with 75.

Offline avromie7

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Presidential Platinum Elite
  • *********
  • Join Date: Feb 2014
  • Posts: 8188
  • Total likes: 2713
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 6
    • View Profile
  • Location: Lakewood
Re: Best Internet Browser
« Reply #38 on: June 19, 2015, 12:14:49 AM »
I always use FF but it still has pretty bad memory leaks, I think it's better than it used to be be not the way it should be
I wonder what people who type "u" instead of "you" do with all their free time.

Offline stooges44

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Presidential Platinum Elite
  • *********
  • Join Date: Jan 2017
  • Posts: 6454
  • Total likes: 2746
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 269
    • View Profile
Re: Best Internet Browser
« Reply #39 on: May 08, 2019, 12:04:10 PM »
NOTE: There are countless threads about the pros/cons of the different browsers, I figured this was the best one to bump.

After using chrome for about a decade I finally downloaded firefox today and I was blown away literally!

Like everyone else, I ditched ff years ago because it would explode and crash your whole system. It seems now that chrome and ff have reversed places. Chrome is an absolute memory hog and so far ff is performing wonderfully. I always attributed the speed of chrome (or lack thereof) to the poor specs of my computer but now I see I was wrong, ff is flying and kicking dust in chromes face, rightfully so!

If it's not free shipping it's not worth it.