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renovation
03-22-2011, 08:14 PM
have you upgraded to Firefox 4 or Internet Explorer 9 yet ?
Napoleon54
03-22-2011, 08:26 PM
Opera? Safari? Other?

I'm a hardcore Opera fanboi.
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Edit: I guess the correct response would be "No, I haven't upgraded to any of those". This isn't a usage poll. My bad. :nono:

FWIW, my Opera is current @ 11.01. :D
mcs328
03-23-2011, 10:20 AM
I'm slowly converting to Chrome.
cruelpupet
03-23-2011, 01:29 PM
Firefox 4 on one of my VMs. Probably will do that at home as well.
cruelpupet
03-24-2011, 05:12 AM
Just trying it out now...massive speed improvement!
bachviet
03-24-2011, 08:18 AM
Yes (FF4 on my XP desktop and FF4&IE9 on my Win7 laptop)
nate el bueno
03-24-2011, 10:26 AM
I've stuck with chrome since it came out. It *seems* faster too me. I also like their layout more.
Napoleon54
03-24-2011, 01:58 PM
I've stuck with chrome since it came out. It *seems* faster too me. I also like their layout more.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/firefox-chrome-opera,2558.html

Tom's Hardware Guide thought so too (though this is from a year ago). Chrome and Opera came in pretty much tied but they gave the nod to Chrome. It'd be good to see them do this again. I wonder how FF4 would stack up and if IE9 got microsoft out of the basement.

I would give Chrome a shot but Google is so huge and influential that it's scary, so I'm sticking with Opera for that reason alone. Plus Opera has a TON of innovative features.
Markel
03-24-2011, 06:36 PM
I just don't like the way Chrome reports back to Google every web site you visit. Too intrusive. So I stick with Firefox.
Napoleon54
03-24-2011, 08:17 PM
I just don't like the way Chrome reports back to Google every web site you visit. Too intrusive. So I stick with Firefox.

Are you serious?! That's absolutely ridiculous.

The privacy policy (http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/privacy.html) makes it sound like these "features" can be disabled but the language is a little fuzzy...
ArkiStan
03-26-2011, 06:20 PM
Opera? Safari? Other?

I'm a hardcore Opera fanboi.
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Edit: I guess the correct response would be "No, I haven't upgraded to any of those". This isn't a usage poll. My bad. :nono:

FWIW, my Opera is current @ 11.01. :D

Another hardcore Opera fan here. I always have two browsers open: firefox, just for my email and the every occasional site that opera can't open for some reason, and opera for all other surfing.