Chrome for browsing, Firefox for development, IE (mainly 6 and 7) to see how many things I need to redo after my Firefox development is finished.
Poll: Which web browser do you use?
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#22Perhaps instead of this poll, pg could simply toss some page analytics onto hackernews? To be honest, I was surprised when I didn't see any trackers in the page source.
If pg did post analytics like these, I wouldn't have made this poll. But the thing is that he did not for whatever reason, and I felt that a lot of users (including me) would like to see the data ourselves. Unless pg decides to post it, I see this as the only way for HN users to find out.
Re: Poll: Which web browser do you use?
#23Firefox 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
I agree that the Chrome inspector is missing some things that Firebug has (primarily, it is unable to render the HTML returned in XHR requests - this is a big deal for me, since I use Django which returns debug pages in HTML, and I do a ton of XHR in my applications) but I use it when I can simply because it hangs less, crashes less and is faster overall for me. You should know though that there's a Firebug Lite bookmarklet available for Chrome - that's what I use when I need to examine XHR responses. There's probably a plugin for it too.
Also how recently have you tried the Chrome inspector? It's been getting a lot of attention lately from the dev team.
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#24For a browser that dominates the market share, Internet Explorer has a very small presence among HN users. This just goes to show that most of those IE users are simply folks with less of a technical background.
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#25Mondays: Chrome;
Tuesdays: Frustrated with WebKit inspector, switch to latest Firefox 4 beta;
Wednesdays: Annoyed with sluggish performance, switch to Safari;
Thursdays: Feel like I'm not on the cutting edge, switch to Chromium;
Fridays: Realize I'm a front-end developer and need Firebug, switch back to latest Firefox 4 beta and hope Firebug's been updated since Tuesday
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#26Thank you for running this poll I am working a greasemonkey script for HN and I will definitely be adding Chrome support before I release it.
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#27chromium.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I’m a Safari user primarily, and while I generally use the webkit inspector as a last ditch when Firebug is being stupid, Firebug is much better at listing css styles. Webkit’s styles have way too much in the way of per-selector headers.
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#29Wow, I'm surprised to see Chrome so high! And maybe even more to see that Safari is catching Firefox.
There’s a lot of dev’s here that use OS X as their primary dev environment. (Yes, Android dev’s too.) Safari simply has the best chrome on Mac. The other ones use a lot of cross-platform widget placement, which feels wrong.
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#30Firefox, because vimperator for Chrome is still buggy and, after much learning, browsing with a mouse sucks now.