What's The best browser for Windows and why?

[Kim_Hyral]

I don't know if I can open a poll about software.
But I guess that's interesting to see the opinion of everyone about this matter.
It's about the best browser for Windows and why.

So, to me I think Google Chrome because it have nice loading speed pages.

[GamerKale]

I like firefox, but pretty much anything but Internet Explorer is good.

I can't really give a compelling argument because I haven't tried out anything else but iexplore. As for that though, firefox doesn't lose what I'm doing just because somebody comes up and clicks something on the screen or even when someone decides they absolute must have the computer right now...for two minutes, and then they decide to do a restart on the computer and then go "Oh, I hope you weren't working on anything. It was a little slow, so I did a restart." *twitch*

[Shin Amakiir]

I'm partial to Firefox due to the add-on support and I've been using it for years. Chrome, however, is apparently better.

[nobodyknows]

I'm partial to Firefox due to the add-on support and I've been using it for years. Chrome, however, is apparently better.

That's just what people who buy into google's 'internet privatization' scheme say, as well as people who do everything illegally.
Firefox is easily a better browser simply because of the addon capabilities-something all others lack.

[Shin Amakiir]

I'm partial to Firefox due to the add-on support and I've been using it for years. Chrome, however, is apparently better.

That's just what people who buy into google's 'internet privatization' scheme say, as well as people who do everything illegally.
Firefox is easily a better browser simply because of the addon capabilities-something all others lack.

Actually, Lifehacker did a series of benchmarks or something, and it came out on top (not TOO far ahead of Firefox) almost every time, iirc.

[Kuukai]

They all suck. I've managed to permanently break IE, Firefox, and Chrome, with nothing more special than casual usage of about a dozen tabs at work, maybe a few with flash or PDFs. How is this even possible? Not that much should even persist between sessions, how can you "break" the whole program? (Most of the time my problem was unexpected behavior, like the browser crashes and then suddenly and for the rest of your life the first tab you open won't work properly)

Firefox is the worst because it incorporates obnoxious design decisions like "our tabs should be like IE's", "anyone using your browser for a minute should be allowed to open a free window with all your passwords in plaintext because they could eventually decrypt them with a third-party program anyway" (...what?), "there is no conceivable reason for a user to modify a cookie so we'll store them all in a giant monolithic 100mb file and if you want to view the contents there's an app for that, but good luck editing them!" and "Well this is embarrassing." For some reason I still use it, probably because the alternatives aren't that much better, and the incessant version upgrading does prevent the kind of permanent stability issues the other two have.

What I'd want is a browser where the engine puts a priority on persistence, where you could crash but it's theoretically impossible for that to affect anything, and where the interface follows the damn "when in doubt, make it an option" paradigm open source people are supposed to love.

I like the process-per-tab design approach to Chrome and on paper it looks more stable and secure, but they shoved a half-complete version out the door to irk Microsoft, I downloaded at launch, it failed instantly, and they lost a fan. Not motivated enough to try it again.

I'm not trying to insult anyone's favorite browser, as far as I can tell I'm just unusually good at breaking them with tabs (I have like 6 open just for this site), but I am saying that, because there's a lot of room for improvement in almost every category, nothing has endeared itself to me.

[TheSorrow]

I'm happy enough with FireFox. I've had it crash it a couple of times, yes, but because of having like 30 tabs opened at once, or tried to open some PDF or Word document and then regretted it and cancelled it mid-loading, and even so it's quite "neat" on crashing down, usually closing on it's own after some little time, and giving me the option to reload my old session or just tabs i had opened at the time of crashing. It doesn't just stay there all dull and dead and forces me to invoke a Task Manager...which also fails at its job and then forces me a restart and losing all of my opened tabs >_>; (lolIE) I've never had it completely break down...if it crashes, any way it happens, it's all fine the next time i open it.
It's much more faster and less annoying than IE, and i LOVE my Add-Ons. Seriously, i couldn't live without them. Especially Echofon, allows me to have my favorite social network and everything i need for it into one little button no matter where i'm browsing, and Torbutton, because bypassing school blocks through one single click FTW. Yes, there is the problem with password and stuff...but if you're that concerned about security and privacy, you won't even allow Firefox (or any browser for that matter) to remember your accounts ;/ Not like it's any hard to delete your password and cookies either...and even less if you do scheduled cleanups with programs like CCleaner or something. Yes, i have to admit it's still quite obvious and stupid for your passwords to be ridiculously accessible like that...but i'm not going to stop using Firefox just for that.
I have Chrome too, and it seems faster indeed...However, i've had no real reason to use it as my main one. I haven't had any real problems with Firefox to make me decide to look for another browser, in fact it's the whole opposite, and i haven't seen anything in Chrome to make me instantly love it so much. But i'll totally use Chrome instead of Internet Explorer if i must change browsers for whatever reason.

[AZURE-KITE]

I like chrome, because with it, when your pages crashes, you close it, and you can open all what you've got open in one click, the viewable space it's bigger it is indeed faster, and if you have your pages to crash, and restart your computer you still can open all the pages you've got open =D

[TheSorrow]

I like chrome, because with it, when your pages crashes, you close it, and you can open all what you've got open in one click, the viewable space it's bigger it is indeed faster, and if you have your pages to crash, and restart your computer you still can open all the pages you've got open =D

Same with Firefox ;P lol

And yeah, the viewable space is bigger...But you can always just press F11 on FireFox and view the website in fullscreen without any tabs or anything...just the site itself. I do that alot while reading manga or playing Project Legacy.

[AZURE-KITE]

But your tabs aren't upside

[Kuukai]

See, for some reason Firefox asks you if you want back what you were working on right before their program failed, and somewhat confusingly with a webpage instead of a dialog (I forget exactly what their solution used to be, but it was a lot better). Of course I don't want it back, it couldn't possibly be important! I would rather have a permanent setting somewhere rather than see "Well, this is embarrassing" every single time their code was inadequate. There's really no way to justify any problem that could have been solved with a checkbox. And I've also had crashes where it failed to save the session or every tab. It doesn't seem like rocket science to write a note to disk everytime the user opens a tab, so I don't know how this could happen. But they found a way. In their defense this can all be solved by using a plugin that does their job better, but if they're going to do sessions natively maybe they should... you know... incorporate this code?

And like I said I still use it, but again that's for lack of a better option... And I do appreciate it still having a real toolbar, which is probably the main difference between it and chrome when it comes to space usage...

[hidora]

As long as it's not IE, I don't care which browser I'm using.

I do tend to like Firefox better because of add-ons, though.

[Kim_Hyral]

As long as it's not IE, I don't care which browser I'm using.

Poor guys from Microsoft. Nobody yet have a little mercy to give one vote to THE BEST BROWSER FOR WINDOWS: INTERNET EXPLORER!!! xD

[hidora]

Poor guys from Micro$oft.

Fix'd.

[Erranty]

Well, I'll just sum it up really quick.

Google Chrome: If you really just use the net for news, youtube, forums, SNS (like facebook), and webcomics.

Mozilla Firefox: If you like porn or online manga, because while firefox is slow, its safe. But you will need the Adblock Plus add on though to keep it really safe. And with GreaseMonkey you can tune it up to load pages just as fast as Chrome.

Internet Explorer: If you like viruses, malware, spyware and wiping your Hard Drive every 3 weeks.

[zerokoolpsx]

What I'd want is a browser where the engine puts a priority on persistence, where you could crash but it's theoretically impossible for that to affect anything, and where the interface follows the damn "when in doubt, make it an option" paradigm open source people are supposed to love.

Chrome would be closest to what you want. I like how they have each process per tab. It one kicks the bucket, you can kill that process and still browse with the other. I wish Firefox was more like that. I've been using it for years, and they have this plugin-container.exe that runs Adobe’s Flash Player, Quicktime or Silverlight. A few times I had to kill it, because the flash game I was playing wasn't responding. Had to close and start Firefox to get that plugin to work again. I tried Safari, Opera and avoid IE like the plague.
I should give Chrome a try since it's still on my PC, but the UI is foreign to me.

Well, I'll just sum it up really quick.
Google Chrome: If you really just use the net for news, youtube, forums, SNS (like facebook), and webcomics.

Mozilla Firefox: If you like porn or online manga, because while firefox is slow, its safe. But you will need the Adblock Plus add on though to keep it really safe. And with GreaseMonkey you can tune it up to load pages just as fast as Chrome.

Internet Explorer: If you like viruses, malware, spyware and wiping your Hard Drive every 3 weeks.

Adblock Plus is one of my favorite add ons. I should check out GreaseMonkey.

[AZURE-KITE]

Well, I'll just sum it up really quick.

Google Chrome: If you really just use the net for news, youtube, forums, SNS (like facebook), and webcomics.

Mozilla Firefox: If you like porn or online manga, because while firefox is slow, its safe. But you will need the Adblock Plus add on though to keep it really safe. And with GreaseMonkey you can tune it up to load pages just as fast as Chrome.

Internet Explorer: If you like viruses, malware, spyware and wiping your Hard Drive every 3 weeks.

Best answer ever...

[zaseo]

I like Firefox, and it seems they're going to have one more beta before they release Firefox 4. Firefox with Adblock Plus, and Noscript equals security success.
I don't care for Chrome that much, but its far better than IE.
IE is just fail.

I can always back up my cpu due to disk and more than one hard drive so I ran a test. I knew I wasn't going to be at home so I knew family was going to use cpu. It took 2 days before the cpu had some type of malware infection, or having had the antivirus stop threats form taking over.

[Erranty]

I can always back up my cpu due to disk and more than one hard drive so I ran a test. I knew I wasn't going to be at home so I knew family was going to use cpu. It took 2 days before the cpu had some type of malware infection, or having had the antivirus stop threats form taking over.

I've actually found a way to keep idiots off my computer.

1. Download Spybot: Search & Destroy.
2. Activate Advanced mode, tools > startup.
3. Insert Windows Explorer into the list (C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe is the common location).

If you un-check it, the start menu bar, and all the desktop icons won't show up when the system starts.

If you hit CTRL+ALT+DEL, go to File > New Task (RUN) > and type in "explorer.exe" they'll load up like normal. This keeps idiots off your computer, and even some computer savvy people.

Or, you could just take a screenshot of your desktop with Print Screen, save it in paint, use that image as your desktop background, and remove the REAL icons that you don't want them messing with to a folder in My Documents.

[zaseo]

I know ways to block people, but the thing is my mom has to use the computer. I like opening the host files using notepad, or the command prompt to block websites but there is millions more with malware anyway. If mom didn't have to use the computer for important reasons than I would block everyone off. After she checks her email, and work stuff she starts to screw around with random websites. What makes it worse is she lets the other family, and her friends use it.

She does have some important reasons, but after that its downhill. I have to let her use it. The computer noobs in my family can even get malware with Firefox, and Zone Alarm. The cpu is in my room, but I can't wait to get get a laptop. I'm putting that laptop on lockdown. I'm tired of restoring my cpu just so I can safety do things like login to accounts on websites such as this one, Youtube, or Runescape.

I think I might start during this. Delete the programs from the start menu, or make Firefox and IE a pain in the ass to use like blocking all cookies, use noscript, no java, and no adobe flash.