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Ask HN: What broswer do you use?

2 pointsby redxbloodover 8 years ago
Something that has been asked many times before, but as time passes I´m intrigued to hear new responses and points of view.<p>Firefox beta here.

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MikeTVover 8 years ago
Firefox Developer Edition, Chrome, and occasionally Edge.<p>Web development in Firefox, because I like the basic dev tools better. Performance testing in Chrome because I like its dev tools&#x27; network tab and profiler better.<p>Primary social media and store&#x2F;etc accounts in Firefox. Alternate &quot;junk mail&quot; social media accounts in Chrome. General browsing in Chrome because it&#x27;s faster than Firefox (less lag on JS-heavy pages), and to minimize tracking. For instance, if I do product comparison on Amazon logged into my account and decide not to buy it, I&#x27;ll keep seeing it recommended.<p>Also recently started doing some general browsing on Edge, now that there&#x27;s extension support and can sideload uBlock, to evaluate its performance, memory, and battery claims. So far it seems to be a bit more memory-efficient than Chrome, but also has a bit laggier UI and some annoying idiosyncrasies. Haven&#x27;t used it on the go enough to get a feel for battery savings.
jrnicholsover 8 years ago
I use Safari mostly. Firefox sometimes, and I&#x27;ll use Chrome when I need to something that has Flash. Safari has always been fast enough for me, I like the Firefox plugins&#x2F;greasemonkey, and really, I don&#x27;t have much of a need for Chrome because I tend to stay out of the Googleverse.