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Ask HN: Kicking off 2017, what’s your favourite browser?
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#12Firefox, solely for TreeStyleTabs. I really doubt I'll ever switch so long as it's the only browser that has it. The built in PDF viewer is also very nice. Ill occasionally use Chrome for its better support of Flash websites without having Flash installed.
Firefox for tabs on the left side (see the Test Pilot project).
Firefox for being fully open source with Mozilla as a non-profit behind it.
Firefox for having the awesomebar.
Chrome has some advantages: isolated tabs (one crashes or hangs and the rest can continue) and it feels quicker (not sure why, iirc they're similar in benchmarks). Firefox is also working towards isolated tabs, so that leaves speed, and Firefox is fast enough that I'm not annoyed by it. It might also be that Chrome feels quicker because I don't open fifty tabs in it (since I don't use it regularly) nor have a big history file or cookie jar.
Re: Ask HN: Kicking off 2017, what’s your favourite browser?
#13The browser I use and will be sticking with is Firefox, but as far as nostalgia and coolness factor goes, I really like Arachne http://www.glennmcc.org/
Unfortunately, since Arachne doesn't support any of the newer web standards, browsing the web with it has been getting increasingly broken. Another alternative that also runs under DOS is Dillo, which FreeDOS has a package for.
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#14I used Xombrero for long time and I love it, but it crashes often so I'm using Firefox nowadays. I sort-a kind-a like Firefox.
Re: Ask HN: Kicking off 2017, what’s your favourite browser?
#15Firefox, solely for TreeStyleTabs. I really doubt I'll ever switch so long as it's the only browser that has it. The built in PDF viewer is also very nice. Ill occasionally use Chrome for its better support of Flash websites without having Flash installed.
Another important feature of Firefox is tracking protection, which can be turned on globally via a flag in about:config. I use it in conjunction with an ad blocker, because I don’t trust the ad blocker fully (as no one should). On the other hand, I feel that I can trust Mozilla to a high degree.
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#16Firefox for the sole reason that I think that the addons on it are far superior than Chrome addons.
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#17Firefox because Mozilla cares about the web and its users like no other organization.
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#18Firefox and Seamonkey, sometimes the one, sometimes the other. In other words, the Gecko rendering engine due to the (IMnsHO) better font rendering (on Linux) compared to Webkit/Blink (and other, although it is getting harder and harder to find any other significant rendering engines out there...). A large part of the value of FF and SM comes from the add-ons that have been developed over the years as well as the flexible user interface which can be made to look and act like I want. I use Chromium when I need it, mostly for testing and Webkit/Blink-only sites.
One essential component of any browser I use is the ad blocker. No blocker means no browser for me.
Re: Ask HN: Kicking off 2017, what’s your favourite browser?
#19I like Firefox, but on my Mac I use Safari because every other browser sucks down battery at ridiculous levels in comparison. I don't need anything fancy, and I don't use any extensions (I do my ad blocking at my DNS server). So Safari is generally good enough.
The only thing I dislike about it is, when the developer tools are open, everything on the screen flashes red when you click or mouse over it. That's my only complaint.
Re: Ask HN: Kicking off 2017, what’s your favourite browser?
#20I'm probably in the minority (I know Chrome is the most popular browser; I mean a minority among HN users), but I really like Google Chrome. When you have a powerful desktop with lots of RAM, it's quite good. Plus, I like the Google integration a lot.
Phrases "I'm probably in the minority" or "unpopular opinion here" followed by a reasonable opinion just beg to be upvoted by everyone who thinks it's reasonable and suppress downvotes by making people think twice about it. In this case, loads of people here are positive about Chrome, or if they care about Google's monopoly, Chromium.