Poll: What browser do you see yourself using in the future?
Thursday September 4, 2008
And before someone jumps all over me about testing... No, I'm not talking about testing websites, we should be testing in as many browsers as we can. I'm just wondering what browser you use for general browsing.
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I’ve see a similar poll on another site, the percentage of people who say they’ll jump ship to Chrome is surprising to me, considering its only been a couple of days since the browsers release and its still a beta version, but I guess there’s a lot to be said for branding.
Yes, I was also surprised by the 23% vote for Chrome (well, this is a web dev site, so the audience is certainly hyper-aware of the new browser release)
I have seen reports that Chrome is already gaining several percentage points of the general audience.
I like its speed, not too sure about privacy, and have already found a development situation where I had to switch back to Firefox because the PHP/MySQL script did not work in Chrome (creating a Word doc with HTML content).
Also impressive is the 49% vote for Firefox 3 - which remains my primary browser, particularly for its excellent dev tools (Firebug, Web Developer, ColorZilla and MeasureIt - couldn’t work without them)
I also use Opera 9.52 for more social browsing. I found a weird bug with Opera 9.5x - when it is in a folder named “Opera” on my Vista machine, Yahoo Mail crashes in it - but rename the dir to “Opera95″ for example, and Yahoo Mail works….
If Chrome manages to get enough extensions with it, then that’d be my choice. But right now, it’s gotta be FF3.
I definitely have been using Chrome 100% of the time… (except for testing in the others) I see myself with it almost exclusively for the foreseeable future.
Truly a new generation for browsers and I’m loving it. Except, of course, on my MAC!!! aaarrrrgggg!
Sigh…Yet another one. I guess this should be no problem if it is consistent with at least the browsers we struggled with the last year(s).
I never get why there are changes (better known as improvements) that mess up a excisting website that was running smoothly before a new browser was used?!
I haven’t checked out ‘Chrome’ yet, but will do so a.s.a.p.. I am a bit afraid…
I use all of the browsers in the list for test purposes. My main browser is FF3 because of the web development extensions. I have tried chrome and may use it in the future for casual browsing.
I will use FF3 or whatever comes next from Firefox or Mozilla. I was a bit put off by FF3 when I first used it because it did things in a different way from FF2, but I definitely like the add-ons that help me avoid html errors. I looked at Chrome and I test my pages with IE, Opera, Safari, and now Chrome but FF3 is still the first choice.
Everyone here seems to be missing the point. It’s not what WE as dev people want to develop for. It’s what our audience is USING.
And that means, IE 6 & 7.
Sorry, only Fannie May & Freddie Mac execus have the luxury of ignoring (so far) the market place on such a gross scale
I’m no lover of Microsoft. But, get with it folks! Chrome and Fire Fox are still in the tiny minority by users. And most users see no reason whatsoever to switch from IE, despite all the esoteric “functions” of the other browsers.
Well, web Developers hate IE. Its a well known news. But when you see clients they are so used to IE browsing, they dont want to go to any other browsers. Since IE is from a long time, people are used to click on IE icon only when they need to do some browsing.
Well if you ask which browser is going to rule, then I would say no-one. There would be a tough competition between Chrome, Firefox and IE always when Chrome it comes live to market. Only time will answer.
But as compared to UI Look and Feel, Chrome has no toolbars and initially the users need to search for it
. When compared to FF, Chrome and IE, I liked Firefox due to its simplicity and rendering.
Stinger: Well, your comments are correct and valid. But the question was directed at what people here use for their own pleasure. Not whether we develop for that browser or all or some.
Just because I say that I prefer to use Firefox (or Chrome or Flock or Joe’sUsedBrowserSales) doesn’t mean I don’t test my pages in IE 6, 7 and so on. It just means that when I browse the Web for myself rather than for testing, I use Firefox (or Chrome or Flock or, well you get the point).
And if you only do testing in browsers and never browse for your own education and pleasure, then thanks for testing my site.
Chrome, yes its the new boy; yes its only a Beta - but its fast, reliable, and when you see the unhappy face because a tabs failed, you can just close that tab.
However, as soon as I start developing a website, Firefox gets used as well, for Firebug - obviously when it comes to the proper testing I as everyone test in as many as possible.
And… Hotmail using Chrome, always tells me to upgrade my browser, and gives me the option to continue with my current browser - this is annoying but still its faster - and I use the Application shortcut from my Start menu.