Safari or IE?

[Saxophone]

I am having a hard time deciding.

[Ad Bot]

[Digmaster]

Firefox?

Well let me helpy uo with the safari/IE thing:

IE: Does not support open standards. Slow.
Safari: Supports open standards. Fast.

Its really kinda silly you have to think about this. I use firefox due to the amount of add-ons, the stability, and how its not owned by a big company, among other, smaller, reasons.

[adc90]

I like Safari much more than IE although I haven't really tired IE 8 beta yet so it might be getting better.  Personally I would use Firefox, Chrome, or Opera.

IE: Does not support open standards. Slow.

Yeah that too, I wonder if it's going to be any better in IE 8?

[Saxophone]

One thing that confuses the crap out me is:
Isn't safari for macs only?

[Sirrus]

I use Chrome, but Safari is definitely better than IE.

IE is kind like what netscape or AOL was at the turn of the millennium.

[adc90]

One thing that confuses the crap out me is:
Isn't safari for macs only?

No there's a Windows version it works fine for me (XP)

[Swholli]

Two words:

GOOGLE CHROME.

Even though I'm not using right now, It's still my favorite.

[Digmaster]

My experience with browsers. I've tried most:

IE: Slow, glitchy.
FireFox: reliable, fast enough, and add-on full
Chrome: Very glitchy for me, lack of features. I need more features. Much more.
Opera: SLOW. Also, very nice looking.
Safari: It feels odd. kinda like when you buy a new phone and space is the # key, not the * key like your used to.

[Sirrus]

All that

I actually love Chrome. I find most of the add-ons in Firefox to be annoying, because I used to have so many. However, I'm not even kidding when I say this, I could care less about themes and possibility for expansion in Chrome. It works, it looks nice, things just click better with me, it's pretty tight.

And one thing that's friggen sweet is that you can basically make a website into a program. Like I have a Gmail program on my desktop. You click on it, boom. Gmail, and nothing else.

Now, I don't really use this, because I find having everything in one spot is easier, but, yeah. Chrome is where it's at.

[Wedge]

It depends, do you want the browser that was cracked in 20 seconds or the one that was cracked in 20 minutes?

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/03/safari-successfully-exploited-in-seconds-in-pwn2own-contest.ars

Also chrome is awesome and one of these days I'll get around to ditching firefox and using chrome.

[Digmaster]

My ircs with Chrome:

• No ad-block plus
• On firefox I can make it so I, say, click on a .torrent, it will automatically, without asking, open up the torrent in utorrent. I've yet to find that option in chrome.
• slowness as more windows open. On my laptop this is a horrible thing.
• Does not start in maximized
• No WOT (Web of trust, very handy Add-on)
• home doesn't bring me to my router page :(
• Downloads are not shown at the bottom of the screen for all tabs (This can be done with an add-on). You have to open a new browser page to view downloads.
• no themes
• Also, really funky thing: There was a website that changed servers, thus the DNS had to propagate. I waited several days, and it kept leading me to an error site. However, when tried in Firefox, it returned the normal webpage. I tried clearing cookies exc, but nothing worked. Eventually chrome seemed to fix it itself about a week later. Just now, looking through the chrome settings, it seems to automaticly check the option to pre-fetch the DNS, which could be causing this.

[Sirrus]

My ircs with Chrome:

• No ad-block plus Knowing google, it probably is built in. Or at least something similar.
  
• On firefox I can make it so I, say, click on a .torrent, it will automatically, without asking, open up the torrent in utorrent. I've yet to find that option in chrome. You can probably set it for windows to not ask what program to use, I don't know if this is a browser issue.
  
• slowness as more windows open. On my laptop this is a horrible thing. Not a problem for me :)
  
• Does not start in maximized I'm pretty sure it does for me.
  
• No WOT (Web of trust, very handy Add-on) Don't know what that is.
  
• home doesn't bring me to my router page :( K
  
• Downloads are not shown at the bottom of the screen for all tabs (This can be done with an add-on). You have to open a new browser page to view downloads. Ctrl+J, although I will admit it is annoying having to switch tabs to see how my dls are doing.
  
• no themes Chrome is pretty slick. There's no room really for any theme anywhere.
  

Responses in bold.

[onyx6]

IE sucks

I love safari :d

[Wedge]

I use SiteAdvisor, I didn't like web of trust very much.

They've got some plugin for firefox. I never bothered with it, I just punch any website I have doubts about into the search.

[Sirrus]

They've got some plugin for firefox. I never bothered with it, I just punch any website I have doubts about into the search.

Same.

Chrome'll filter out bad sites with a very blatant 'this site might harm your computer' thing that you have to click 'okay, thanks chrome...' to keep browsing on it.