What browser do you use?

Edwin · Feb 5, 2023

That has got to take the prize for shortest membership!!! :zany:

Pirilampo2 · Feb 5, 2023

Only Firefox, since always, although I keep Edge installed.

James · Feb 6, 2023

FrancoDT said:
Vivaldi is my primary and Firefox my secondary but I also have Chrome and Edge installed. Can't have to many browsers right, lol.

Nope! I usually download a few but in the end just stick to one.

flashh4 said:
FireFox ....... seems like i have answered this many times ????

Yes, not just you. I just needed this along with my other survey (7zip vs winrar)

James · Feb 6, 2023

Edwin said:
That has got to take the prize for shortest membership!!!

View attachment 51950

2 posts on this thread and boom their banned!

James · Feb 6, 2023

I was sincerely hoping not one person would vote for internet explorer. A lot less likely here with it not being included in W11

A Guy · Feb 6, 2023

Vivaldi

Best browser?

Opinion: Chrome vs. Edge Vs. Firefox.

www.elevenforum.com

A Guy

barman58 · Feb 6, 2023

Nowhere near the shortest, @Edwin, You have to realise that Shawn @Brink is not Human - He's been known to issue the ban before the prospective user has finished creating the account :wink:

kado897 · Feb 6, 2023

Chrome mostly. Opera occasionally for it's built in VPN.

Try3 · Feb 6, 2023

James said:
I was sincerely hoping not one person would vote for internet explorer. A lot less likely here with it not being included in W11

Included.
But pointless.
And awkward to use. You can browse, you can paste addresses in its address bar to get to them & you can use, for example, the LesFerch vbs but Edge catches all my attempts to launch url shortcuts in it.
There's a discussion in
IE in Windows 11 using the LesFerch method - das10 #10 - TenForums

Denis

barman58 · Feb 6, 2023

I switched to using a seperate hardware VPN a couple of years ago - It's a specialist Router so If I need full security [Client confidentiality agreements Etc], I simply route through the specific router.

I also have a software VPN as part of my Bitdefender Pro setup that prompts me to use it's VPN if I visit anywhere potentially dangerous

kado897 · Feb 6, 2023

barman58 said:
I switched to using a seperate hardware VPN a couple of years ago - It's a specialist Router so If I need full security [Client confidentiality agreements Etc], I simply route through the specific router.

I also have a software VPN as part of my Bitdefender Pro setup that prompts me to use it's VPN if I visit anywhere potentially dangerous

My use of Opera is mainly to get around area restricted videos, not for any privacy reasons.

jesseinsf · Feb 6, 2023

Edge as it is Chromium based and it maximizes my Microsoft product experiences. I use Chrome sometimes too.

Edwin · Feb 6, 2023

James said:
I was sincerely hoping not one person would vote for internet explorer. A lot less likely here with it not being included in W11

I was sincerely wondering why you even made it a choice!

Try3 said:
And awkward to use.

You can barely navigate the web with it, but, oddly enough, tons of MS sites work just fine!!!

Steve311 · Feb 6, 2023

lol, missing the option for Microsoft Edge.

scorpioncherry · Feb 6, 2023

Chrome most of the time, but I started considering giving Brave a chance.

cereberus · Feb 6, 2023

James said:
2 posts on this thread and boom their banned!

One of his replies was "Hvis I ikke kan acceptere jeg skriver på mit modersmål, så er I ikke værdige til, at have mig, som bruger."

which basically means

"If you cannot accept that I write in my own language, then you are not worthy of having me as a user"

Fairly obvious why OP got banned LOL.

barman58 · Feb 6, 2023

All I can do is refer to our Rule 10 ...

"This is an English-based site. Please only post in English, or provide an English translation in your posts"

Edwin · Feb 6, 2023

cereberus said:
"If you cannot accept that I write in my own language, then you are not worthy of having me as a user"

Basically showed themselves right to the door!!!

cereberus · Feb 6, 2023

Well @James,

Please enlighten us with you conclusions - I bet they bear no reality with "real world use". This is estimated market share for Jan 2022 to Jan 2023

Desktop Browser Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats

This graph shows the market share of desktop browsers worldwide based on over 5 billion monthly page views.

gs.statcounter.com

It shows same as always - Chrome is still the major leader by a long way, Edge is ahead of the rest but still a long way to go.

If you go back a while, Firefox had a bigger share and IE was used. However Firefox is in decline and Edge will slowly increase as new users buy pcs and find built in Edge pretty much does all they need. Firefox will never get back to its peak.

Chrome will always be the leader - in part historical but also it syncs well with android devices (twice as many as Apples). The only reason I have it installed is now and then a site that was around in IE days refuses to play well with Edge (even in so called compatibility mode), and Chrome is usually fine.

The problem with polls like this on this type of forum, is you are asking a small but well informed section of the community who often try other things because they like to do so.

In the real world (ignoring Safari/Opera as not really Windows) the browser wars of a decade ago have long gone.

cereberus · Feb 6, 2023

barman58 said:
Nowhere near the shortest, @Edwin, You have to realise that Shawn @Brink is not Human - He's been known to issue the ban before the prospective user has finished creating the account

Not exactly true @Brink is non trinary - part human, part alien, part god.