IE was the default browser in Windows, so it is not very surprising if everyone started off with IE. I started using Firefox in 2006. Before that, I was also using Internet Explorer. IE 6.0 was my favourite, until Firefox was introduced to me and the concept of tabbed browsing felt very helpful. IE 7.0 had tabs, but it was buggy (in my memory anyway). Plus for reasons, Internet Explorer seemed to be a consistent standard-breaker, so it really fell out of favour as I continue to learn about web development.
Firefox has gone to shit from what it was like a long time back. I moved to Opera as a result when I finally gave up on it It might respect my freedom, but it's changed since then. It demands too much memory, it's getting too slow even on good machines, recent administration ruining nice things on it (AD BLOCKING). The list can go on. I remember when I moved from IE to Firefox back in 2005. It was fantastic. Since then I learned what I missed out on, what I benefited from, what I lost on the move (virtually nothing) and much more. I never liked chrome, even though Opera is basically chrome. Eventually you may see the same stuff I did, but whether you'll go to a different browser I can't say.
Firefox has always been far too resource heavy for my liking.. Chrome is a bit better at managing that.
I think Firefox is the best. I've even heard people call Chrome the new IE, apparently it really sucks if you're a web developer.
I used to use Chrome, but then I got an SSD and it started acting up because of it. Swapped over to Sleipnir and I've been using that for almost 2 years now.
2017 and some people get emotional because of internet browsers hehe some of them draw an ugly cartoon of the "hated" browser in an attempt to make it look worse for others... well, I've noticed difference only in weak computers. IE is heavy. IE is a breeze in a fast computer and makes no difference to another browser. Opera doesn't work with some stuff claiming is chromium based and need whatever steps to configure so yeah, IE and firefox are the ones that work better overall.
Shit, it's been so long I've seen one of these threads I half expected Netscape to be mentioned somewhere. Chrome on big computers, Opera on my shitty old micro laptop. Chrome is a pig but whatever, it works fine enough otherwise.
I use Chrome now, FireFox before that, which was nice because it kept track of a million tabs when you closed it. So if you're doing mapping work or research it is excellent. But on my current, pretty crap but functional laptop I used IE for years, no prob. I don't get the hate really...
Netscape 9 (circa 07-08) was just Firefox 2.0 rebranded by AOL. It wasn't still based on the Netscape Navigator 4x suite that gave birth to the Mozilla Application Suite/Seamonkey.
I've always found it funny when people would load their modules, add-ons, search bars etc and then blame IE for their overloaded spyware infested problems surfing. I'll only use ". . . Open with Internet Explorer" when the site would need activex or java that Edge cannot and should not open. And then I'll always have Mozilla and Opera on older VMs, I use them all I guess.
Same thing here. I was using Firefox before, but a lot of things went wrong and now Chrome does everything right. Sometimes I open up Edge! lol There is no such thing as "browser fidelity", I use whatever is convenient.
