Poll: Which web browser do you use?

[+] jjcm|15 years ago|reply

Perhaps 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|15 years ago|reply

He 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.

[+] solipsist|15 years ago|reply

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.

[+] johnswamps|15 years ago|reply

Perhaps you missed the "Analytics by Mixpanel" logo at the bottom of the page? :)

(Yes I realize it's not actually being used)

[+] nicksergeant|15 years ago|reply

Mondays: 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|15 years ago|reply

Pretty much my cycle minus Safari. Although some CSS demos only works on Safari so I have it installed.

[+] ews|15 years ago|reply

I use uzbl (http://www.uzbl.org/) (tabbed) on my arch linux as primary browser.

[+] solipsist|15 years ago|reply

For 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.

[+] MountainDrew|15 years ago|reply

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.

[+] pan69|15 years ago|reply

Same here. Except I use Chromium instead of Chrome.

[+] olalonde|15 years ago|reply

Chrome for browsing, Firefox for web development.

[+] s_m|15 years ago|reply

Me too.

[+] yousuffauzan|15 years ago|reply

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[+] wahnfrieden|15 years ago|reply

Firefox 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|15 years ago|reply

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

[+] ernestipark|15 years ago|reply

I used Firefox for the same reason, the awesome-bar takes me places so much faster than in Chrome. But Firefox feels so clunky and slow that I had to make the switch to Chrome a few weeks ago. Everything is snappier, no lag.

[+] lukevdp|15 years ago|reply

I'm the opposite - Chrome for browsing, Firefox for development. I havent found anything on Chrome to match the usefulness of Firebug

[+] aquinn|15 years ago|reply

Firefox feels prehistoric in many ways compared to chrome but I won't switch until they copy the awesomebar verbatim. It's perfect.

[+] barrydahlberg|15 years ago|reply

I guess I'll just reuse this comment from another thread...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2091539

[+] ambirex|15 years ago|reply

Thank 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.

[+] ZeroGravitas|15 years ago|reply

Vimperator.

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/

[+] cpeterso|15 years ago|reply

Camino because neither Firefox nor Chrome are "Mac enough". :)

A new Camino alpha (Camino 2.1a1) will be released very soon.

[+] watmough|15 years ago|reply

Wow, I'm surprised to see Chrome so high!

And maybe even more to see that Safari is catching Firefox.

[+] sudont|15 years ago|reply

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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