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Poll: Which web browser do you use?

21 pointssolipsist35 comments

Choose all that apply if you use more than one browser on a regular basis.

Perhaps instead of this poll, pg could simply toss some page analytics onto hackernews? To be honest, I was surprised when I didn't see any trackers in the page source.

He doesn't need a js tracker if he just looks at logs. While analytics adds a lot of cool features, it is often to the users detriment.

I block analytics with AdBlockPlus because it often adds multi-second delays to page loading.

IMO you should respect the site you like and often use. If they want analytics, let them have it, it's the least you can do.

Perhaps you missed the "Analytics by Mixpanel" logo at the bottom of the page? :)

(Yes I realize it's not actually being used)

If pg did post analytics like these, I wouldn't have made this poll. But the thing is that he did not for whatever reason, and I felt that a lot of users (including me) would like to see the data ourselves. Unless pg decides to post it, I see this as the only way for HN users to find out.

Mondays: Chrome; Tuesdays: Frustrated with WebKit inspector, switch to latest Firefox 4 beta; Wednesdays: Annoyed with sluggish performance, switch to Safari; Thursdays: Feel like I'm not on the cutting edge, switch to Chromium; Fridays: Realize I'm a front-end developer and need Firebug, switch back to latest Firefox 4 beta and hope Firebug's been updated since Tuesday

Pretty much my cycle minus Safari. Although some CSS demos only works on Safari so I have it installed.

I use uzbl (http://www.uzbl.org/) (tabbed) on my arch linux as primary browser.

For a browser that dominates the market share, Internet Explorer has a very small presence among HN users. This just goes to show that most of those IE users are simply folks with less of a technical background.

Chrome for browsing, Firefox for development, IE (mainly 6 and 7) to see how many things I need to redo after my Firefox development is finished.

Same here. Except I use Chromium instead of Chrome.

Chrome for browsing, Firefox for web development.

Me too.

Firefox for browsing (because the awesomebar is still way better at finding things in my history/bookmarks than Chrome for me, and because of bookmark tags). Chrome for development.

wow thats strange

I occasionally find myself using chrome for browsing because I find it that much more reactive and stable than firefox.

but I couldnt leave firefox for developing, as much as I have tried I just always find the web inspector lacking compared to firebug

Out of curiosity, what do you like better about Firebug? I've been using the Chrome web inspector for awhile now and loving it. Maybe there's some feature in Firebug that's useful that I don't know about yet though.

I’m a Safari user primarily, and while I generally use the webkit inspector as a last ditch when Firebug is being stupid, Firebug is much better at listing css styles. Webkit’s styles have way too much in the way of per-selector headers.

I agree that the Chrome inspector is missing some things that Firebug has (primarily, it is unable to render the HTML returned in XHR requests - this is a big deal for me, since I use Django which returns debug pages in HTML, and I do a ton of XHR in my applications) but I use it when I can simply because it hangs less, crashes less and is faster overall for me. You should know though that there's a Firebug Lite bookmarklet available for Chrome - that's what I use when I need to examine XHR responses. There's probably a plugin for it too.

Also how recently have you tried the Chrome inspector? It's been getting a lot of attention lately from the dev team.

I'm the opposite - Chrome for browsing, Firefox for development. I havent found anything on Chrome to match the usefulness of Firebug

Firefox feels prehistoric in many ways compared to chrome but I won't switch until they copy the awesomebar verbatim. It's perfect.

I used Firefox for the same reason, the awesome-bar takes me places so much faster than in Chrome. But Firefox feels so clunky and slow that I had to make the switch to Chrome a few weeks ago. Everything is snappier, no lag.

I guess I'll just reuse this comment from another thread...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2091539

Thank you for running this poll I am working a greasemonkey script for HN and I will definitely be adding Chrome support before I release it.

Vimperator.

Though a comment here informed that there's a fork called Pentadactyl, so I'm going to try that out:

http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/

Camino because neither Firefox nor Chrome are "Mac enough". :)

A new Camino alpha (Camino 2.1a1) will be released very soon.

Wow, I'm surprised to see Chrome so high!

And maybe even more to see that Safari is catching Firefox.

There’s a lot of dev’s here that use OS X as their primary dev environment. (Yes, Android dev’s too.) Safari simply has the best chrome on Mac. The other ones use a lot of cross-platform widget placement, which feels wrong.

Chrome for browsing. Firefox just when I need plugins like SpeedTest.

OmniWeb on Mac, mobile OperaMini, Firefox at work.

GNU Icecat Beta, so I voted for Other and Firefox.

Opera on Windows and Webkit on WebOS.

Vote for Chrome, but Chromium

mosaic

chromium.

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