I'm a die hard Firefox fan b/c I love the extensions. Two of the ones I can't live without are Flashblock and Adblock Plus.

Whenever I'm at a friend's house and I have to hear "CONGRATULATIONS YOU'VE JUST BECOME OUR MILLIONTH VISITOR!!!" followed quickly by something that needs my credit card info I always stop what I'm doing, download firefox, adblock plus, and flashblock; and it keeps me from losing my mind. Until I read Throbbin's comments that is.

Firefox. The reason? Extensions, namely noscript, xmarks, adblock plus, and others.

Also memory consumption.

I do like Chrome though, and may switch to it someday.

Oh, and Opera should be an option on this poll.

Opera is an option on this poll, with seamonkey and all that other jazz.>> ^NetRunner:

Firefox. The reason? Extensions, namely noscript, xmarks, adblock plus, and others.
Also memory consumption.
I do like Chrome though, and may switch to it someday.
Oh, and Opera should be an option on this poll.

I was a Firefox for a long time and switched to Chrome some months ago. There were a few things that made me hold out, like the access of bookmarks, but Chrome has gotten up to speed and there are plenty of plugins for it too now. It's not quite as flexible as firefox, but it shows the pages fast and the design is better - I like minimalism.

The new firefox 4 beta is looking interesting though,

I'm a huge fan of firefox because my friends who fix my computer tell me to use it.

I use Firefox here - followed by Chrome on occasion. Firefox wins because of extensions and the awesome bar. Mainly using the latest beta version which falls apart sometimes but is generally solid.

might switch to chrome soon firefox is lagging.

Chrome, mainly because ripping off tabs, especially with playing videos in them and resizing them is damn useful! Also speed. I dunno about the new Firefox beta, but every version before that suffered from infuriatingly jerky videos. Chrome doesn't have this problem and also tends to slow down less when you pile on more tabs.

SeaMonkey v2 because I like the suite setup with its e-mails, newsgroup/usenet reader, Gecko engine like Firefox's and its extension support, like its GUI, etc.

Safari for most things. Camino for videosift.

Portable Opera 10.60

Camino, here. Opera is cool.

Hate Firefox, Safari....YMMV and I am sure it does.

Anyone else like Camino? (Somehow doubt it)

Chrome is nice and fast, simple, fast, lightweight, and fast.

Also, little things like the 'Open New Tab' option at the top when I right click something, rather than just below 'Open New Window'. I like that.

>> ^Throbbin:

Chrome is nice and fast, simple, fast, lightweight, and fast.
Also, little things like the 'Open New Tab' option at the top when I right click something, rather than just below 'Open New Window'. I like that.


By my testing and the testing of others, Chrome isn't particularly lightweight -- it uses more memory than any of the other 4 major browsers, especially when you have lots of tabs (and I'm crazy with tabs).

Depends on what you mean by that, by actual open tab memory usage Firefox does very well, but what Chrome seems to excel in is not acting as a memory sink after you've closed a lot of tabs, which means it virtually never gets chuggy like Firefox does after you use it for a while:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/opera-10.60-internet-explorer-9-safari-5,2680-10.html

Honestly, the only reason I ever go back to Firefox anymore is to download flash videos, since the Internet Download Manager plugin for Chrome is buggy but works fine for Firefox.

Just for shits and giggles, I've searched for Browser comparisons and reviews, and Firefox consistently comes in 1st place.

http://www.consumersearch.com/web-browser-reviews

I'm not big on extensions, and Chrome already has extensions that I use. 1 gmail checker extension, 1 wikipedia mini-window extension, 1 for blogging, 1 for screenshots, and one for facebook. Anything else would be uncivilized (TM).

I find it kind of hilarious that out of 41 votes so far, not a single person is admitting that they use IE. I mean, I know that browsers like Firefox and Chrome have made a significant dent in IE's market share, but I'm still pretty sure that if you looked at the Sift's server logs, they'd tell a slightly different story.

I was working tech support for cable internet when IE7 was released. Those were dark days and forced upgrades to IE7 made users cry.

Browser? I barely even met her!

Lynx is the only way to view the web properly.

http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.cgi?url=http://videosift.com

This is the average Firefox User.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Really, IE gets zero votes? Server stats beg to differ.

I've had my Chrome be detected as internet explorer on several sites, I wonder why. They probably don't recognize webkit.

It may be that folks are watching vids at work. I've worked in many offices (mostly Government) that only offered IE and didn't allow employees to install software. As soon as folks get home, I'm guessing they use their browser of choice.>> ^dag:

Really, IE gets zero votes? Server stats beg to differ.

Voting for this poll ended with the majority of users voting Firefox.

>> ^dag:

Really, IE gets zero votes? Server stats beg to differ.


I'd love to see a new piechart to see how/if things have changed over the last 15 months.

While server stats show that folks are using IE on the site, I wonder how many registered users are using IE,. Folks just floating by will count for hits, and statistically will be using IE, but the kind of geek that register at the sift, I would not be surprised if it were closer to the vote.

I didn't get her in time to vote, but I surf with chrome and use FF when I'm doing web-dev because firebug blows chromes devel tool out of the water.