Do you use Internet Explorer?

[Icy Gull]

Yes ? Then you are not as bright as those who use other web browsers...

Is this geekism gone mad? I imagine most NSC users use something more highbrow

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/internet-explorer-users-have-lower-iqs-study-2328907.html

*thickoieuser*

 

[Titus]

Chrome for me. It's much faster.

 

[bhaexpress]

No, Chrome, Firefox has got bloated and is hardly any quicker than IE now.

 

[Andrew]

No way. Chrome is better. Also there is spell check when you make posts on forums

 

[Seagull27]

I prefer Opera to Chrome, though they are quite similar.

 

[Titus]

Chrome Iron is good for gaming.

 

[Another Berkshire Seagull]

I use it.

 

[BadFish]

was usng firefox but it kept crashing, was using chrome for a while but it doesn't like my work server settings. Changed to Safari a couple of days ago and am very impressed with it, like the way it cleans up facebook and youtube (i'm sure the others had extensions to do the same but i never found them).

Anyway it's good pracctice for when i get my mac soon.

 

[Superphil]

Interestingly, for the first time since I started my website, which has 100K visitors a month, during 2011 Firefox has become closer to the most popular browser used to view the site, previously it had always comfortably been IE. The stats for the 7 months of 2011 so far are:

IE 32.19%
Firefox 32.05%
Chrome 23.50%
Safari 8.61%
Opera 1.88%
Others making up the difference


For 2010 the stats were
IE 42.81%
Firefox 33.70%
Chrome 12.40%
Safari 7.62%
Opera 1.90%
Others making up the difference

 

[Max Paper]

Been using firefox, will look into Chrome

 

[Muzzy]

Chrome for me!

 

[beorhthelm]

i wonder how that study stripped out the effects of those using the internet from PCs they have no control over what browser is used?

 

[Mr Smggles]

I rather like chrome

 

[Grendel]

No, Chrome, Firefox has got bloated and is hardly any quicker than IE now.

Firefox has improved a lot over the last couple of releases, a lot of reviews and benchmarks have Firefox 5 at least comparable to Chrome in speed.

 

[Frutos]

Firefox for me.

 

[Superphil]

The thing is, it depends what report you read, some say FF is fastest/best, others say IE, others say Chrome. I imagine it has a lot to do with your computer, your OS, the state of the computer, and of course the type and performance of your web connection.

 

[surrey jim]

Chrome for me. It's much faster.

Agreed 100% have used for a couple of years now and wouldnt go back to IE.

 

[Southwick_Seagull]

Another vote for Chrome.

 

[bhaexpress]

Interestingly, for the first time since I started my website, which has 100K visitors a month, during 2011 Firefox has become closer to the most popular browser used to view the site, previously it had always comfortably been IE. The stats for the 7 months of 2011 so far are:

IE 32.19%
Firefox 32.05%
Chrome 23.50%
Safari 8.61%
Opera 1.88%
Others making up the difference


For 2010 the stats were
IE 42.81%
Firefox 33.70%
Chrome 12.40%
Safari 7.62%
Opera 1.90%
Others making up the difference

The reason for the popularity of Firefox is that it's almost identical graphically to IE. Most corporates use IE as a standard because all applications work with it. There are but a handful of applications that don't work with Firefox and the others. Amusingly there are a lot of legacy apps that won't work with IE 8 or 9. I've had this happen quite a lot recently and it's a factor as so many business applications are now web based. Some places do allow users to install an alternative browser and these days it tends to be Chrome rather than Firefox purely for it's speed.

 

[bhaexpress]

I've tried all of the better known browsers and although Apple say that Safari is the fastest (it may well be on a Mac) it's not on a PC, Chrome is clearly the quickest although maybe not the most user friendly. I think that IE 8 and 9 are not as user friendly as the previous versions though.