What Browser/OS do you use?

[JamesSD]

I'm just curious if we differ from overall internet trends. My curiosity has been raised by discussion in another thread about what certain browsers can and can't do.

I'm using Firefox 3.5 on Mac OS X.5 for my primary home machine. At work I don't usually log onto Lit, but if I do I'm going to be firefox, usually on a machine running XP or Vista.

 

[_Lynn_]

Firefox on both the PC and the Mac.

But since I'm computer illiterate, that's about all I know.

ETA: my PC has windows XP, I do know that part.

 

[LitRiter]

PC and Firefox here...

 

[Austin8]

I'm just curious if we differ from overall internet trends. My curiosity has been raised by discussion in another thread about what certain browsers can and can't do.

I'm using Firefox 3.5 on Mac OS X.5 for my primary home machine. At work I don't usually log onto Lit, but if I do I'm going to be firefox, usually on a machine running XP or Vista.

I'm running Safari 4.0 on Mac OS X 10.5

 

[driphoney]

I'm just curious if we differ from overall internet trends. My curiosity has been raised by discussion in another thread about what certain browsers can and can't do.

I'm using Firefox 3.5 on Mac OS X.5 for my primary home machine. At work I don't usually log onto Lit, but if I do I'm going to be firefox, usually on a machine running XP or Vista.

I don't know what all that means. I gotta Mac. Part of the reason i got it was because I'm computer illiterate (in spite of a so-called beginner computer class ) and I was told this is the machine for dummies.

Oh, and I wanted it to last more than two years.

 

[jomar]

Firefox 3.5, windows xp. I've tried chrome and safari, but they didn't seem to offer anything more compelling to make me move. Though maybe I'm just more comfortable with FF.

 

[Tzara]

I'm on Windows Various (systems running XP, Vista, and as soon as I can get a commercially released product, W7). While I have used IE 8, Safari, and Firefox, my preference is Google Chrome, a'cuz it is ultrafast. There are problems with it--some things just aren't rendered right--and some of its basic features are lame (bookmarks, anyone?), but it's fast. Really fast.

Did I say it's fast?

Sorry. It's fast. Why I use it. (Oh, and the "incognito" thingie too, though I think other browsers support that concept now as well.)

 

[driphoney]

I'm on Windows Various (systems running XP, Vista, and as soon as I can get a commercially released product, W7). While I have used IE 8, Safari, and Firefox, my preference is Google Chrome, a'cuz it is ultrafast. There are problems with it--some things just aren't rendered right--and some of its basic features are lame (bookmarks, anyone?), but it's fast. Really fast.

Did I say it's fast?

Sorry. It's fast. Why I use it. (Oh, and the "incognito" thingie too, though I think other browsers support that concept now as well.)

Wassat? I like the sound of "incognito".

 

[wonderingwhy]

Firefox on XP

 

[TE999]

I have Win XP Home on two 'puters, Win Vista Home Premium on the other. I use IE 8 sometimes, but I also have Firefox, GChrome, Safari and Opera loaded on all three. I like to experiment and see which have the fastest load times. Overall, Firefox does the best with my cable ISP and IE handles dial-up quite well when I'm in the boonies.

 

[Tzara]

Wassat? I like the sound of "incognito".

When you close the browser, it drifts your history. I think IE 8 has this option as well. Don't know about the current version of Firefox.

The problem is that you have to remember to open "sensitive" sites in incognito mode.

Sometimes you forget. Or I do. So same problem as always.

 

[glynndah]

Flock and XP; Flock and Vista.

 

[sadangel]

WinXP Home on PC with Firefox.

 

[Tx Tall Tales]

Chrome (incognito window) on Vista

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

FF on XP (laptop) and Vista (desktop)

 

[DesertPirate]

FF on Linux and sometimes XP

 

[DeeZire]

Safari on OSX 10.4. Firefox when Safari doesn't handle a website correctly.

 

[Liar]

Chrome and Firefox on Win Vista at home.

Firefox on Mac OS X at work. But I have to return this (borrowed) Macbook, so I'm switching to a PC with Win 7 soon.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Uh, lets see...

Chrome mostly, one computer with WinXP Pro the other two with Windows Vista whatever.

I also use FireFox and have Opera, Safari and IE7.

At work WinXP and IE7 - we are a Windows shop.

 

[Handley_Page]

Win XP pro and Firefox (with the incognito thingy)

 

[JamesSD]

So, basically, we're all different than the norm, since I don't think I saw a single IE.

Here's wikipedia's Sept 2009 Median list of browser share:

IE: 64.66 %
Firefox: 26.08 %
Safari:3.74 %
Chrome: 3.17 %
Opera: 1.53 %

Of course, IE's share has been plummeting for years as Firefox takes more of the market. I also wonder how much of IE's share comes from public PCs that don't have any other browsers installed and the user doesn't have admin permission to install anything.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Firefox on OS X5, Firefox on Windows XP, Firefox on Vista.

I t might not always be the fastest load but it gives me more control over what i do and don't see; with adblock plus I never see those stupid animated banners about giant screaming smilie faces, for instance. The internet is billboard-free!

And I use the webdev plugins a lot.

IE has become decoupled from the shell software but I just can't ever forget how vulnerable Windows was, using it... *shudder*