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[Mr Skrunts]

Got Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Used Chrome, Opera and Safari.

No major issues with any of them but allways seem to settle using firefox as my main browser, for various reasons I use all of the above at the same time to have have different sites open as Firefox seems limited to the amount of sites it wants to keep open before it crashes. 

Safari doesnt seem to like playing games in facebook, so am looking round for a different browser to try, any recomendations?

TIA

[TheBoy]

Safari is simply shite under Windows, and leads to some quite "interesting" blended vulnerabilities, as such, I simply wouldn't recommend anyone use it under Windows.

Chrome is just completely broken. More holes that swiss cheese. Best avoided at all costs until Google decide to admit that it needs rebuilding from the ground up, with an eye on security.

Opera is slightly different, which makes it a bit niche. Not really that useful on a desktop, but certainly has uses on mobile devices.

Which leaves 2. IE10 and FF. Try 'em both, see how you get on. Day to day, I use IE10, due to superior speed, stability and rendering of pages.  Also seems to need less patching, as MS went through all that shite in the IE5/6 days, and learnt a good security lesson that both Firefox and Chrome developers are yet to grasp.  I do use FF as well, as it has some nice features for developers, but I *ALWAYS* check and update it first.

Not really much else useful out there for Windows. For Linux users, FF is the only viable choice.

[TheBoy]

That said, I'm using IE8 today, as I'm having to use a shitty old laptop with poxy XP on. Grrrr.

[viper357]

I'm a big fan of FF, although it loves to use up your RAM , everything else pretty much sucks in my opinion, although I use IE for a lot of testing.

[dbug]

As above, generally use FF.  Occasionally use IE10.

[omega3000]

Safari is simply shite under Windows, and leads to some quite "interesting" blended vulnerabilities, as such, I simply wouldn't recommend anyone use it under Windows.

Chrome is just completely broken. More holes that swiss cheese. Best avoided at all costs until Google decide to admit that it needs rebuilding from the ground up, with an eye on security.

Opera is slightly different, which makes it a bit niche. Not really that useful on a desktop, but certainly has uses on mobile devices.

Which leaves 2. IE10 and FF. Try 'em both, see how you get on. Day to day, I use IE10, due to superior speed, stability and rendering of pages.  Also seems to need less patching, as MS went through all that shite in the IE5/6 days, and learnt a good security lesson that both Firefox and Chrome developers are yet to grasp.  I do use FF as well, as it has some nice features for developers, but I *ALWAYS* check and update it first.

Not really much else useful out there for Windows. For Linux users, FF is the only viable choice.

I use chrome but i dont understand how you change it to what you recommend   

[Mr.OmegaMan]

Laptop Windows 7 - I mainly use FireFox, Secondary browser I've been using Google Chrome.

iPhone 5 iOS6 - Safari and Sometimes Google Chrome app.

No complaints from any of the above 

[Andy H]

Firefox with the 'Noscript' plug-in here (on Linux).

Noscript allows me to pick and choose which sites are allowed to run javascript. It also prevents "cross site scripting" (which is apparently a Very Bad Thing that no current browser should be guilty of).

[TheBoy]

Firefox with the 'Noscript' plug-in here (on Linux).

Noscript allows me to pick and choose which sites are allowed to run javascript. It also prevents "cross site scripting" (which is apparently a Very Bad Thing that no current browser should be guilty of).

Hmmm, I wouldn't bet you life on that, as its prone to similar flaws that affect the browsers themselves.  Not necessarily a big problem, but don't fall in to that false sense of security that a plugin is perfectly coded

Under Linux, as long as you're not daft enough to run as root (or other accounts with UID 0), that gives you an extra, quite robust, layer of security .  Windoze users, don't disable UAC, or turn it down, for the same reason.  Doing so is simply ego over brains.

[Andy H]

Firefox with the 'Noscript' plug-in here (on Linux).

Noscript allows me to pick and choose which sites are allowed to run javascript. It also prevents "cross site scripting" (which is apparently a Very Bad Thing that no current browser should be guilty of).

Hmmm, I wouldn't bet you life on that, as its prone to similar flaws that affect the browsers themselves.  Not necessarily a big problem, but don't fall in to that false sense of security that a plugin is perfectly coded

Under Linux, as long as you're not daft enough to run as root (or other accounts with UID 0), that gives you an extra, quite robust, layer of security .  Windoze users, don't disable UAC, or turn it down, for the same reason.  Doing so is simply ego over brains.

fair comment.  The most obvious benefit is that it doesn't waste time and bandwith downloading crap unless I ask it to.