Is Firefox the Best Browser for the Real World?
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FF is anything but perfect, I use it really heavily and it bloats and slows and has to be restarted or even typing becomes a problem (on an i7!!) But when fresh, it works really well.
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Outside of compatibility issues with a few web apps, and a general lack of extensions, I have been really enjoying Edge so far - it has been quick to load, and I appreciate the interface's simplicity.
With that said, I default to Firefox because it has all the extensions I like already set up, and outside of NoScript fiddling I don't need to mess with any compatibility options.
Chrome is okay, it's what I use at work, but it can be a bit too much of a memory hog if I'm trying to look something up while alt-tabbed out of a game or something.
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I enjoyed the spin off https://www.waterfoxproject.org/
Otherwise I'm pretty dedicated on chrome
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Hmmm... found it slow to load here. I mean everything is slow here, but it seemed slower.
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I want a chromium browser that auto-updates without the google bits in it. And also allows permeant exceptions for insecure/self signed SSL certs like firefox does. I also want temporary deleted downloads so it would have the ability to just run or open like IE does without keeping the download. Similar to Opendownload2 for firefox, except many times opendownload2 doesn't actually delete it it just saves to a hidden folder, would be nice if something would delete it after you closed it.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I didn't have IE issues really, not in the later or latest versions. It wasn't my favourite but it worked pretty well.
I use IE as my main daily driver at work - best experience for our app.
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@Minion-Queen said:
I E11 is horrible now and just crashes constantly
I'm guessing your IE 11 is broken somehow - a refresh of the install is probably in order.
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@DustinB3403 Coming back? You mean people actually quit using it? (Seriously... I know a guy, lol).
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@dafyre @DustinB3403 Netscape? In 2015? That's a paddlin
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@MattSpeller I finally managed to get my last holdout off of it... Sometime in 2010, lol... he had no choice... none of the websites he needed would work with his browser any more... Took me another year to get him off of Netscape Communicator.
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Posting from Edge now. I think that the font rendering is weird. It is actually a little.... fuzzy.
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Edge also had some trouble with antialiasing last time I tried it out, it made my avatar look like a janky jumble of pixels.
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My Edge instance has crashed. Just froze itself into nothingness. Not a big deal, but this is the first that I have had it totally lose it and not just be slow or glitchy. Total crash.
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Took about two minutes for the OS to be able to kill it too.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Took about two minutes for the OS to be able to kill it too.
This is my normal experience.
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@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Took about two minutes for the OS to be able to kill it too.
This is my normal experience.
Yep, generally when I use Edge I get this as well. Although I'm running on some oldish hardware.
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@Minion-Queen said:
I have issues with Edge crashing periodically on me and it's slow.
Somewhat surprisingly, I found myself quite liking Edge - in fact, it's now my main browser. I've had no crashes or performance issues at all. Yup, it has some minor irritations, but then so do all the other browsers.
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To me, Edge is the Duplo to Chrome and Firefox's Lego. Once you know what you're doing and want things in a particular way, you'll probably prefer the latter, but the former is great for people that would rather keep things simple without as many options for customization. At the very least they have similar compatibility, unlike IE which is definitely MegaBloks in this metaphor.
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One thing that I am finding with Edge is that often when I am trying to type something into the address bar and hesitate before finishing it freaks out and the address bar disappears so that I have to grab the mouse, open it again and start typing over again. Their desire to have that weird, jumping around address bar is a major negative. It is confusing and it makes it slow.
