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The main reason I use Firefox is that I'm lazy. I switched from IE a while back because, well, it was IE. I now have it set up with a few addons so it does things I want, and I know where everything is and how to use it. To be honest, I just don't see enough difference between browsers to make it worth bothering looking at changing again. A few seconds here and there when loading certain pages just isn't a big deal.

I am rather amused by the current adverts for IE8 though. They seem to be terribly proud of incorporating features that every other browser has had for years.

Almo said:
Isn't that because Google is datamining your cache and history?
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Having said it's just because I'm lazy, there's also this as a reason I'm unlikely to use Chrome. I simply don't trust Google. Sure, they store all my personal data from searches and emails and such, but I could avoid those easily enough if I really wanted to. Giving them control over my whole browser, on the other hand, just doesn't seem like a sensible idea. Especially when they're planning things like this. Yeah, a company with a history of invading privacy as much as possible wants to make it possible to not only read everyone's browsing history, but actually edit it remotely. Always remember Google's motto - "Do no evil, unless it involves gathering personal data any way you can, I'm sure we'll be able to find a way to make money off it later, and if anyone complains, screw them, we're bigger than them".

And yes, I'm aware that other companies aren't exactly paragons of virtue. But I'm not aware of anyone who is quite so extensive and blatant about it. Apart from possibly BT.
 
Cuddles said:
The main reason I use Firefox is that I'm lazy. I switched from IE a while back because, well, it was IE. I now have it set up with a few addons so it does things I want, and I know where everything is and how to use it. To be honest, I just don't see enough difference between browsers to make it worth bothering looking at changing again. A few seconds here and there when loading certain pages just isn't a big deal.

I am rather amused by the current adverts for IE8 though. They seem to be terribly proud of incorporating features that every other browser has had for years.

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Yeah like the Firefox lot - always harping on about stuff we've had for donkey years.
 
Cuddles said:
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And yes, I'm aware that other companies aren't exactly paragons of virtue. But I'm not aware of anyone who is quite so extensive and blatant about it. Apart from possibly BT.
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I do - Apple, Apple & Google are the most ruthlessly "our way or no way" companies on the block at the moment.
 
Darat said:
I do - Apple, Apple & Google are the most ruthlessly "our way or no way" companies on the block at the moment.
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Well, Apple are just as bad in that sense. But I was meaning more in the "gather everyone's personal data and store it forever whether there's any reason to do so or not, just because we can" sense. Apple try to control what their customers do with Apple products, but as far as I'm aware they're less keen about watching what they're doing the rest of the time.

arthwollipot said:
Yeah. Problem is, I actually like Google's way.

Yes, I know. And yes, I KNOW. But there it is.
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Actually, I think that's the important point that anti-Apple fanboys particularly fail to understand. Apple may take the "our way or no way" approach, and deserve plenty of criticism for it. But the fact remains that their way is a way that an awful lot of people actually like. As long as Apple make things that lots of people like, they're going to carry on being popular. The fact that they go to an awful lot of effort to exclude other people for no apparent reason won't change that.
 
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Forgive me Google for I have sinned.

For too long I have used Firefox until this topic has shown me the light.

I accept Google into my internet as my personal browser.

Amen.
 
Cuddles said:
The main reason I use Firefox is that I'm lazy. I switched from IE a while back because, well, it was IE. I now have it set up with a few addons so it does things I want, and I know where everything is and how to use it. To be honest, I just don't see enough difference between browsers to make it worth bothering looking at changing again. A few seconds here and there when loading certain pages just isn't a big deal.
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Pretty much sums up my position, too. I tried Chrome, but missed some of the add-ons I use regularly on Firefox.

Darat said:
Yeah like the Firefox lot - always harping on about stuff we've had for donkey years.
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What, like having multiple windows? ;) (Yes, it is a long time since I last tried Opera, but the insistence on having all tabs or sub-windows inside a main one really put me off. I do use Opera mini daily on my phone, though there we have the issue that everything is proxied through the Opera servers.)
 
I quite like chrome. With its current list of extensions it's getting almost as useful as firefox.
But it's still not there yet: it has a couple of absolutely crippling bugs which make browsing annoying and development a pain, and its development environment isn't as flexible as firefox with firebug etc. anyway.
 
moopet said:
I quite like chrome. With its current list of extensions it's getting almost as useful as firefox.
But it's still not there yet: it has a couple of absolutely crippling bugs which make browsing annoying and development a pain, and its development environment isn't as flexible as firefox with firebug etc. anyway.
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Firebug is a developer/coder's best friend.
 
Bah. You kids and your graphical interfaces.

I do all my web surfing from a bash shell.

And yes, I do re-filter my porn movies to ascii text art.
 
Ducky said:
Bah. You kids and your graphical interfaces.

I do all my web surfing from a bash shell.

And yes, I do re-filter my porn movies to ascii text art.
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Soooo........Your 'puter is still an abacus then ;).

Seriously:
I only use firefox for my webprogramming these day and even then mostly only when dealing with css problems (Firebug rocks for that). For ordinary "I just send the server into a permanent loop" - things (yes, that actually happened 14 days ago), I use Safari in order to use it's webtool to check on resources (which files are being used) as well as activity.
Opera.......Haven't used it in a while.
Konqueror on the other hand, gets a regular workout when surfing since I'm on a Ubuntu box at home.
I've just discovered the Chrome for linux option thou, so that's about to change.
 
zooterkin said:
Pretty much sums up my position, too. I tried Chrome, but missed some of the add-ons I use regularly on Firefox.


What, like having multiple windows? ;) (Yes, it is a long time since I last tried Opera, but the insistence on having all tabs or sub-windows inside a main one really put me off. I do use Opera mini daily on my phone, though there we have the issue that everything is proxied through the Opera servers.)
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I've been using it for donkey years and as far as I am aware since they added tabs you've always had the option to open something in a new window and not just in a new tab.
 
Darat said:
I've been using it for donkey years and as far as I am aware since they added tabs you've always had the option to open something in a new window and not just in a new tab.
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Like I said, it was a long time ago. :) It was the case at one time that you could only have one Opera window, and this was a deliberate design decision.
 
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