Miles Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 I am looking for a reliable replacement for Internet Explorer: Firefox or Google Chrome? Other? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldAndyAndTheSea Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 I like Firefox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewZed Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 You can download and install all three with no conflicts. Try them all. You can even have them all open at the same time. The only downside is in saving bookmarks. I think that Chrome and Firefox will convert IE's bookmarks, but IE pretends the others don't exist. Once you switch, you can't go back easily. Google is a dominant player these days though so odds are IE will add that feature eventually. I ended up with Chrome. IE was bad for a while, slow and error-prone, so I switched to Firefox. Then Firefox had a bad patch so I switched to Chrome. I used to avoid Chrome for the privacy concerns (on principle, not perviness) but it turns out that they all collect and sell/use browsing data anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rturbo 930 Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 +1 for Firefox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Donovan_ Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Chrome, all day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tecreatta Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Firefox or Opera on Windows and Mac. Konqueror, Midori or Firefox on linux. Just my personal choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metro Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 I prefer Firefox personally, but I would recommend Chrome to anyone else. Firefox is great for developers, but has problems with eating memory requiring a restart every day or so. Chrome doesn't have any of those issues. Granted, my computers are always running and I usually have 30 tabs open. Memory usage might not be a problem for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miles Posted November 21, 2014 Author Share Posted November 21, 2014 Looks like Chrome is the way I'll go. Any problems with censoring searches or privacy with Chrome? Thank you all for the input. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianZortiz Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Chrome is the best thing I've done for my computer's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dtsnlvrs Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socorob Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Firefox is really about trying to protect peoples privacy lately. They're against the who nsa, sopa, cipsa stuff and are for net neutrality (internet freedom is important). They just cut google from being their default search provider (google was paying them $300 million a year to be the default) and made yahoo default at yahoos promise to help people with their online privacy. Google tracks way too much personal information and sells it to everyone and they didn't like that. Each browser has their pluses and minuses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh280z Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 I like firefox personally! It's less resource hungry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beermanpete Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Another endorsement for Firefox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miles Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 7 Firefox 3 Chrome 1 IE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi303 Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 firefox here. the only use IE gets is downloading FF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony D Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Safari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miles Posted December 2, 2014 Author Share Posted December 2, 2014 Went with Firefox. Sites that used to hang up with IE load fast and are trouble free. No more IE service pacs etc to deal with. Thanks for the advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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