Poll: What's your favourite Browser • Hacker News Board

Opera for web browsing and Firefox 2 (with FireBug and Venkman, of course) for development tasks. Also, I have three virtual machines with FF3, IE6 and IE7 installed for testing.

But I am thinking about switching from second version of Firefox to the third for dev tasks. I just did not test FireBug there and have no idea about its reliability on that version.

And for sure, I will switch one of my virtual OSes from IE7 to IE8 after its next beta because it's IE7/IE8 rendering modes support will make possible to test webapps for both versions.

Re: Poll: What's your favourite Browser

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Post by mynameishere » Sun, Mar 09, 2008, 7:00 AM UTC

I voted for FireFox 2, but only because 1.5 wasn't there. Firefox 2, as well as 3, represent deterioration of the breed.

All of the operas after version 5 have gotten worse as well.

IE7 and IE8b are really bad--almost suprisingly bad.

+1 for Lynx (aka "other"), which hasn't gotten worse over the years, at least.

Re: Poll: What's your favourite Browser

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Post by SwellJoe » Sun, Mar 09, 2008, 7:34 AM UTC

Firefox 3 on my desktop and big lappy. Opera on my XO (memory consumption of the foxes is a problem...Firefox 3 is usable, but Opera uses about 20-30MB less on startup, and a wee bit less per open tab). I have the IEs4Linux installed for testing.

Re: Poll: What's your favourite Browser

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Post by choward93 » Sun, Mar 09, 2008, 8:23 AM UTC

Am I the only one running on Flock?