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On a regular basis, I use Firefox. It does require additional plug-ins just to be worth while, and it tends to absolutely screw up my system if left on for more than about 8 hours (does it ever release memory before it's closed?). I'd say any good will for Firefox has been pissed away over the last three years, because it's been on a relatively steep decline into code hell.
I have used IE, but the rather aggressive pushing of Bing soured me on that. It's a functional browser now, but MS has made me hate it.
Chrome is excellent, but I've been too lazy to switch. It functions like FF used to, and it has all of the "necessary" plugins baked into its core. If Google offered a stable release of Chrome in 64 bit I'd have ejected FF months ago. As it stands, a beta 64 bit doesn't show too much promise yet (anyone else ever tried FF 64 bit? That was one miserable failure).
What I've transitioned to using is Waterfox. Yes, you still need plug-ins to make it work, but I've yet to run into a problem. No issues with that accursed silverlight required by Netflix, no constant stream of minor updates that break everything on a regular basis, and the ability to have 20+ tabs open at once is absolutely amazing. I'd say Waterfox is all that FF was supposed to be, and it makes the 64 bit version of FF even more of a footnote in the 9 billion page update list to the FF story.
I have used IE, but the rather aggressive pushing of Bing soured me on that. It's a functional browser now, but MS has made me hate it.
Chrome is excellent, but I've been too lazy to switch. It functions like FF used to, and it has all of the "necessary" plugins baked into its core. If Google offered a stable release of Chrome in 64 bit I'd have ejected FF months ago. As it stands, a beta 64 bit doesn't show too much promise yet (anyone else ever tried FF 64 bit? That was one miserable failure).
What I've transitioned to using is Waterfox. Yes, you still need plug-ins to make it work, but I've yet to run into a problem. No issues with that accursed silverlight required by Netflix, no constant stream of minor updates that break everything on a regular basis, and the ability to have 20+ tabs open at once is absolutely amazing. I'd say Waterfox is all that FF was supposed to be, and it makes the 64 bit version of FF even more of a footnote in the 9 billion page update list to the FF story.
