What internet browser are you using for Windows 7?

Which browser are you using with Win7?

  • Internet Explorer

    Votes: 38 18.2%

  • Firefox

    Votes: 127 60.8%

  • Minefield

    Votes: 3 1.4%

  • Opera

    Votes: 9 4.3%

  • Chrome

    Votes: 30 14.4%

  • Other (Flock, Maxthon, etc.)

    Votes: 2 1.0%
  • Total voters
    209
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Matthew1034

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I tried using Firefox 3.5 with all of my familiar goodies, but it sucks -- the program window freezes, content rendering time is horrible, and it just sucks. Internet Explorer hasn't been much faster content wise, but it hasn't shut down or frozen. I can't bring myself to install Chrome and wasn't thrilled with Opera 10.

However, I have found a temporary solution in Minefield, which is Firefox's beta. It has worked beautifully with my Windows 7 Pro RTM on my Dell Mini 9. Only 3 of the 9 add-ons I regularly use were compatible with Minefield, but the rendering speed and stability far outweigh QuickDrag, TACO, etc.

Thus, I'm curious where everyone else has found their niche in Windows 7 internet browsing. Please leave a comment as to which version or build of the browser you voted for and perhaps a review as you see fit.
 
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firefox works fine for me. I also use google chrome and internet explorer quite often
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IE is my primary browser but I do use FF, Chrome and Opera 10 now from time to time, depends on what I'm doing. They all run very smoothly on my main systems, the sig rig and an HP tx2z tablet.

Your system is plenty powerful to run any browser no sweat. Video driver issues perhaps?
 
Two people offering opinions but I'm the only one that voted on the poll? WTF man? :D

Firefox, without hesitation. Minefield offers nearly the same benchmark scores on this C2D that Firefox does so I saw/see no reason to mess around with it at this point until it's further along in development.
 
Apparently some Firefox users are having issues with (at least) the RC 7100 build. My video drivers are good to go, as well as my networking drivers, and Windows 7 is updated.

Are you running 3.5, heatlesssun?

If anything, it is probably the add-ons causing the problems.
 
1 7 x64 and 2 7 x86 and Firefox loaded with extensions runs perfectly fine on all 3. If it isn't for you then.. well.. your doing it wrong. lol
 
Firefox 3.5.2. Works just fine. x64, build 7600 (RTM). No crashes yet.
 
Right now it's just been IE for me. I was curious as to how it was in 7, and I just haven't taken the time to download and install any other browsers.
 
Yeah FF 3.5.2 runs just fine on my sig rig. Not too many add on, Xmarks and some themes.
 
Firefox here. I've been using Firefox on multiple OSes since version 0.7 and have had very little trouble with it in that time. The most problems I ever had were in the beta prior to version 1.0. I've had trouble with a couple of extensions over the years which were either fixed by uninstalling the extensions or disabling them until a new version of the extension was released.

I've also been using the same profile for a number of years. From what I remember, I've only had one problem with my profile throughout the years which was from either an alpha or beta version of the browser. As usual I had my profile backed up so it wasn't a problem.

I do understand that different people are going to have different experiences with software. However, I just don't understand how so many people seem to have constant problems with Firefox when so many others don't have a single problem. At least I haven't had any more problems with Firefox than any other browser and I've used a lot of them since the Netscape Navigator days.

 
SmokeRngs said:
I do understand that different people are going to have different experiences with software. However, I just don't understand how so many people seem to have constant problems with Firefox when so many others don't have a single problem. At least I haven't had any more problems with Firefox than any other browser and I've used a lot of them since the Netscape Navigator days.
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The joys of technology! Personally I look at all of the things that I do with my computers, and they pretty much work well really since XP. Windows XP WAS a great OS, it really was the first workhorse stable OS Microsoft released to the consumer market. Vista had its issues with drivers but then comes 7, refined, great driver support virtue of being nearly 100% compatible with Vista with that being three years of driver work and refinements. Just too cool.
 
No differentiation from IEx32 & IEx64?

I use FF by default, and sometimes IEx64 when I get tired of the slow FF start-up times. I think that is related to my in-place upgrade from Vista-W7. I'll fix it soon.
 
The primary thing still holding back 64 bit browsers is lack of a Flash plug-in. And I say this with all the truth I can muster: if Adobe is just full of moronic programmers that can't do it, so be it, turn over some code to the open source community and they'll have proper 64 bit plug-ins for all the major browsers in a few days.

After 3 years or so now and still no 64 bit Flash plug-in (and I could care less about the Linux one because Linux is simply irrelevant, although it is unbelievably odd that Adobe would create one for an OS that's free and pretty much nobody uses for Flash development/etc).

I mean really... what are you, Adobe, full of fucktards that can't write code? Probably so, as they continue to milk Photoshop for all it's worth day after day.

And yes, some blame lies with Microsoft as well and other developers as ActiveX stuff won't fly in IE 64 bit either, but obviously Flash is way way more widespread and almost a "necessity" to some degree.
 
Firefox here also.

I had some major stability issues when I first got win7 up and going. It turned out to be that Winfox add-on (that lets you use the pinning to taskbar win7 features w/ firefox). It completely destabilized my Firefox. Everything is working fine since I removed it.
 
I use IE about 75% of the time, the rest is whatever versions of FF are out at the time.
 
Joe Average said:
And yes, some blame lies with Microsoft as well and other developers as ActiveX stuff won't fly in IE 64 bit either, but obviously Flash is way way more widespread and almost a "necessity" to some degree.
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I talked to a Silverlight developer about when 64-bit IE will be the default browser on 64-bit Windows. The response I got was basically a case of chicken or the egg when it comes to Flash (and Silverlight to some extent) being first or IE being first.
 
IE8, protected mode sandboxing FTW. (chrome does sandboxing too, but last I checked you couldn't enable/disable flash on a site-by-site basis, and I'm not surfing with that walking security hole running on every site I visit...)
 
Firefox 3.5.2, currently running it on RC7100 x32. Runs very well on this netbook.
 
I must ask; why are people running IE 8?


I mean I understand it's lightyears better than IE 6 or 7, but still, it's IE. Honest question, not trying to start a flame war.
 
Am I the only one who uninstalled IE completely? Good riddance.
 
Jon55 said:
I must ask; why are people running IE 8?


I mean I understand it's lightyears better than IE 6 or 7, but still, it's IE. Honest question, not trying to start a flame war.
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Couple of reasons. One is that I have some IE add on that don't have FF equivalents, no protected mode and the tab thumbnails in Windows 7 is very cool.

Unless you have a lot of add ons, which isn't most people, browsers is browsers.
 
Jon55 said:
I must ask; why are people running IE 8?


I mean I understand it's lightyears better than IE 6 or 7, but still, it's IE. Honest question, not trying to start a flame war.
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I use IE8 (and IE7 before it) because FF STILL is not sandboxed (by default, there are hacks but they break things), over two years after IE7 shipped with sandboxing. I find that to be pitiful, supposively the FF Developers plan to add sandboxing by FF 4.0, last I heard, but for now, well no FF for me. I never cared for add-ons, most of them leak memory or cause stability issues, so I don't use them, so the main selling point of FF means nothing to me, besides IE has add-ons too, I never install them either. As far as standards support, well IE8 is pretty good there (with REAL standards, not standards that aren't standards yet..) For me sandboxing means much more than some new CSS element that's not even a standard yet and a bunch of buggy add-ons I'll never use.
 
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Jon55 said:
I must ask; why are people running IE 8?


I mean I understand it's lightyears better than IE 6 or 7, but still, it's IE. Honest question, not trying to start a flame war.
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If you want to start one, IE8 starts faster, runs faster, is just as quick in browsing, and is pretty much just as secure as Firefox.

I still use Firefox as my primary browser simply because of the Addons, but it is really pissing me off lately with all of a sudden lags and tons of hard drive activity (it is not all the time, but occasionally). I use IE8 for my webmail which is up all day long just about every day.

Frankly they are both great, no reason to bash IE any more. There are some sweet features in IE8 as well.
 
Grentz said:
If you want to start one, IE8 starts faster, runs faster, is just as quick in browsing, and is pretty much just as secure as Firefox.
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Well, as I said, I don't want to start one, but since you just made a huge claim stating IE is faster in pretty much every way over Firefox, let's see some evidence/sources to back that up.
 
I having great luck with Firefox 3.5.3 on Win 7 x64 RTM. 3.5.4 is being released in 3 days that has some cpu utilization fixes.

I will never use Chrome, not because it's by Google, but because I think the GUI sucks, same reason I won't use Opera.

On a side rant, the only thing Firefox is missing that I wish it had was the ability to set the default HTML editor. You could do that in XP with Folder options or in IE, but I can't find anything like it in 7. In the past I've just used the setting in IE to set it but it forces Microsoft components. In order to change it to something you want in 7, you have to edit the registry ...
 
Jon55 said:
Well, as I said, I don't want to start one, but since you just made a huge claim stating IE is faster in pretty much every way over Firefox, let's see some evidence/sources to back that up.
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My source is that I have both side by side all day long and IE8 never glitches with HDD reads and such like the latest Firefox version does for me despite all the suggestions and tweaks from others...I am waiting for them to release another version as the last ones never acted like the current one does.

They both are about the same in actual browsing speed.

As I said though, I use both and really dont have a favorite, both have pros and cons.
 
im using firefox for now......i dont remember if i put google chrome on my windows 7 machine or not.
 
Jon55 said:
I must ask; why are people running IE 8?


I mean I understand it's lightyears better than IE 6 or 7, but still, it's IE. Honest question, not trying to start a flame war.
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Because it displays my sites properly, starts and works quickly, and doesn't crash?

I stopped using Firefox at version 3 because it was too slow and crashed too much on my computers. Now that I'm using Win7, IE8 also has integration with the Taskbar in the form of jumplists and tab thumbnails. Firefox has neither, so that's a productivity loss for me.
 
At home i use chrome, and at work i generally use IE8 due to various MS management tools.
 
Jon55 said:
I must ask; why are people running IE 8?


I mean I understand it's lightyears better than IE 6 or 7, but still, it's IE. Honest question, not trying to start a flame war.
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why not? IE8 is just as good as any other browser at this point. Its preference. since IE7 i havent even bothered installing FF or chrome etc, just out of convenience. IE just works. I realize thats hard for many people to fathom these days.
 
I use IE8 & FF(Need more than 1 browser for work). I would like to find a faster/lighter alternative to FF these days....

BTW: RE^^ Posts -- I think IE8 is awesome and I really like FF. I just think FF has gotten a bit .. heavy these days.
 
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