What browser are you using?

pugh-the-special-one

pugh-the-special-one

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Tuesday February 8, 2011
A genral question for the TSR members, reason i ask i've switched browser over to Mozilla Firefox from Internet Explorer and the difference is incredible, now i've always had very constantly good broadband speed always around 14 Mb download and 0.9 Mb upload, but the speed this browser loads pages and opens is unbelievable compared to my old internet explorer.

Jamie.
 
Firefox is a great browser (most power efficient too in my observations - matters when you're on a battery), but unfortunately it doesn't process all the scripts correctly, so have to use Chrome mostly. Yeah, I'm on a Mac too. Used to use Opera almost exclusively, it's the fastest and most innovative browser, but again - some things just don't work on it. Safari's ok, but nothing exciting.
 
Firefox on my laptops, IE 8 at work (no option), Skyfire on my phone for everything except those forum, Tapatalk 2 for this forum.
Very happy with the whole setup (except IE which always seems to render pages with a little yellow exclaimed sign in the status bar and doesn't work properly with some of my Google Drive docs such as the blade review spreadsheet)
 
Opera Mobile, mostly. Firefox on the Linux box, the one a month I use an actual PC.

At work, IE, because that's all there is.
 
Firefox on my laptop and pc running in Ubuntu.
Firefox on SWMBO pc running on windoze xp
IE on pc at work.

Heres something for the firefox users that will boost the page loading as well. Courtesy of Forever Geek and will only work if you are on broadband. Be careful though! Check everything you are doing twice to make sure you get it right, I will not accept responsibillity if it goes wrong!


1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!

daz
 
Chrome on my PCs.

Dolphin browser on my IPad and One X. Doesn't really matter for the IPad though as whatever browser you have is essentially just a reskinned safari.
 
Maxthon...not the absolute fastest or most feature rich but I like it, simple and less bloated compared to the big boys.
 
Safari on my iPhone which I use 95% of the time. Safari on My apple lap. Explorer on my large computer.
My 11yr old daughter uses firefox. No idea why but I know she won't change because 90% of the time when she signs off Firefox it doesn't turn off the computer and I find it still running hours days latter!
 
Chrome for general use, then Firefox/IE9 about even as backup. Tor Browser if I have to go near Warez sites etc. Built in or Opera on my phone (Nokia E7).
 
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