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Poll: Which web browser do you use?
Choose all that apply if you use more than one browser on a regular basis.
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- jjcm 16y agoPerhaps 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.
- axiak 16y agoHe doesn't need a js tracker if he just looks at logs. While analytics adds a lot of cool features, it is often to the users detriment.
- johnswamps 16y agoPerhaps you missed the "Analytics by Mixpanel" logo at the bottom of the page? :) (Yes I realize it's not actually being used)
- solipsist 16y agoIf 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.
- wahnfrieden 16y agoFirefox 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.
- daleharvey 16y agowow 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
- zzzmarcus 16y agoOut 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.
- sudont 16y agoI’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.
- wahnfrieden 16y agoI 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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- trotsky 16y agomosaic
- SideSwipe 16y agoChrome for browsing. Firefox just when I need plugins like SpeedTest.
- Mithrandir 16y agoGNU Icecat Beta, so I voted for Other and Firefox.
- olalonde 16y agoChrome for browsing, Firefox for web development.
- yousuffauzan 16y agoDitto
- s_m 16y agoMe too.
- frogly 16y agoOpera on Windows and Webkit on WebOS.
- ews 16y agoI use uzbl (http://www.uzbl.org/ http://www.uzbl.org/) (tabbed) on my arch linux as primary browser.
- watmough 16y agoWow, I'm surprised to see Chrome so high! And maybe even more to see that Safari is catching Firefox.
- sudont 16y agoThere’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.
- makecheck 16y agoOmniWeb on Mac, mobile OperaMini, Firefox at work.
- barrydahlberg 16y agoI guess I'll just reuse this comment from another thread... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2091539 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2091539
- MountainDrew 16y agoChrome 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.
- pan69 16y agoSame here. Except I use Chromium instead of Chrome.
- solipsist 16y agoFor 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.
- nicksergeant 16y agoMondays: 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
- syaz1 16y agoPretty much my cycle minus Safari. Although some CSS demos only works on Safari so I have it installed.
- ambirex 16y agoThank 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.
- babeKnuth 16y agochromium.
- powellc 16y agoFirefox, because vimperator for Chrome is still buggy and, after much learning, browsing with a mouse sucks now.
- karakurt 16y agoVote for Chrome, but Chromium
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoVimperator. Though a comment here informed that there's a fork called Pentadactyl, so I'm going to try that out: http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/ http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/
- cpeterso 16y agoCamino because neither Firefox nor Chrome are "Mac enough". :) A new Camino alpha (Camino 2.1a1) will be released very soon.