OT- Your favorite web browser is, and why?? -OT

lousubcap

I feel like a ping-pong ball with web browsers.  Every time I find one I think has fewer hip-cups than the last one, after a few months I am ticked off enough to go back.  Granted a neanderthal here but I have bounced among Safari, Firefox and Chrome ( left IE several years ago).  What am I missing??
Non technical posts requested and appreciated.  FWIW-

bgebrent

I’ve gone back to the card catalog Frank.  

GrillSgt

Things have really changed over the past couple of years. I too dropped IE a few years ago. Settled on Chrome and was satisfied. Lately I have had to run a couple of database sites on Firefox because Chrome was caching everything and wouldn’t refresh. Oddly enough I have that problem on iPad and iPhone on Safari but run on Chrome. Also found that a couple of sites runmuch smoother on Chrome. 

johnkitchens

I use Chrome the most.

Grillin_beers

Onion tor browser.  Good luck tracking me government.

TN_Egger

chrome

ColtsFan

Chrome. 

The hell with IE and Edge is even worse. 

RockyTopDW

im an apple homer.  safari

dmchicago

Krome

Theophan

I use Safari, Firefox and Chrome, but I use Safari by far the most because it's best integrated with the Mac environment and I'm used to it.  I also like Firefox and Chrome, though I am leery of Google's tendency to store my information so I use Chrome the least even though I don't know that Google's browser is any more likely to store stuff about me than the other browsers.

thetrim

Firefox on my iMac.  Chrome on my HP work laptop.  IE sux on there. 

thetrim

I call IE OU because Oklahoma sucks.  

EggNorth

Been using Chrome for casual browsing and Edge for banking, but a few months ago after a Windows update, Edge stopped downloading bank info, could not event open a PDF.  A search for a solution recommended changing the registry, no thanks, have not done that since the old days, so Chrome all the way now.

NorthPilot06

Chrome for lack of anything better

HeavyG

I'm 90% of the time a Mac user and I rarely use Safari, Chrome just sucks up too much memory (even tho I have 32gb on my iMac).

When they rewrote Firefox and it became Firefox Quantum about a year ago I gave it a try and it was incredibly fast and didn't seem to hold onto memory like Chrome does so I quit Chrome and started using Firefox as my main browser. However, at some point in one of the recent little updates a few web pages I need just won't work in Firefox for some reason (Costco pharmacy page for one) so I need to use a different browser and for those and a few other things I use Opera. Opera is a great overlooked browser that has been around for a couple decades.

On my iMac Firefox and Opera are running with multiple windows with multiple tabs all day long.

In Windows I'll use IE or Chrome but I don't usually use my Windows machines for web stuff so can't really say I have a Windows favorite browser. But since you were using IE I'll assume you are on a Windows machine so you might want to give a look at Opera (they make Windows/Linux/Mac versions) - https://www.opera.com/

Botch

These damn things are moving targets.

I use a Windoze machine at work (with all the guv'mint "safeguards") and Macs at home.
With every change in OS, security feature, infrastructure, etc the "best" changes; I swap between IE and Chrome at work (the only two allowed) and Safari and Firefox at home.  The Good thing about them is, (like Apple vs Windoze OS's) they seem to get closer and closer to each other over time, so its easy to switch between them.  

Eoin

Firefox. Opera seemed to get all crashy on me at one point, so I gave up. I avoid Chrome because it's Google. No idea if MS Edge is any good, IE was so bad I've not tried it.

etherdome

I just deal with whatever I am given. I have too many other problems than to worry about my web browser.  However , Since I have a MacBook it’s mostly safari. On my iPhone I use chrome sometimes . 

bubbajack

Opera....works good for me.

fishlessman

theres still a few sites i have to run aol on. i stick to firefox unless theres a problem

GoooDawgs

C'mon @lousubcap!   We need you for brisket threads to keep this place exciting!   If you say, "the friggin OS drives the web browser!" we're going to need to sick the buffaloes on you. 

littlerascal56

Corporate replaced our machines with Windows 10, so everyone is using EDGE. I still like my IE on my home machine, as I try to avoid Google.

Austin Egghead

Safari with DuckDuckGo. No tracking can be slow. Will try ones suggested. Google best for some of our professional and gov sites. 

Eoin

Austin Egghead said:

Safari with DuckDuckGo. No tracking can be slow. Will try ones suggested. Google best for some of our professional and gov sites. 

I find DuckDuckGo a bit poor in terms of search results. Used to like Scroogle when it was still up.

bluebird66

Firefox here.

GregW

Firefox with ublock origin extension.

I see no ad's or popup videos on the web. it makes for a much more peaceful surfing experience.