Poll: Which web browser do you use? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: Which web browser do you use?

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Post by lukevdp » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 1:13 AM UTC

wahnfrieden wrote: post #6

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.

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

Re: Poll: Which web browser do you use?

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Post by olalonde » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 1:13 AM UTC

Chrome for browsing, Firefox for web development.

Re: Poll: Which web browser do you use?

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Post by frogly » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 1:13 AM UTC

Opera on Windows and Webkit on WebOS.

Re: Poll: Which web browser do you use?

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Post by ews » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 1:14 AM UTC

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

Re: Poll: Which web browser do you use?

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Post by watmough » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 1:16 AM UTC

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

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

Re: Poll: Which web browser do you use?

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Post by makecheck » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 1:17 AM UTC

OmniWeb on Mac, mobile OperaMini, Firefox at work.

Re: Poll: Which web browser do you use?

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Post by barrydahlberg » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 1:17 AM UTC

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

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

Re: Poll: Which web browser do you use?

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Post by aquinn » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 1:17 AM UTC

wahnfrieden wrote: post #6

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.

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

Re: Poll: Which web browser do you use?

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Post by zzzmarcus » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 1:18 AM UTC

daleharvey wrote: post #7

wahnfrieden wrote: post #6

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.

Re: Poll: Which web browser do you use?

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Post by ernestipark » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 1:19 AM UTC

wahnfrieden wrote: post #6

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.

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.