Poll: What browser do you personally use?

Which browser for your every day surfing?

[grahamstewart]

As we are all "web gurus" here (well.. self appointed web gurus at least) and we are all fully aware that there are other, possibly better, browsers than IE6 freely available, I thought it might be interesting to conduct a brief poll:

What browser do you personally use for your every day web surfing?

(e.g. not the browser(s) you use for development work, but the one you regularly use to check the news, read the funnies, buy stuff and do your banking etc etc)

[pageoneresults]

IE 6

I have no other choice. I need to see what 92.95% of my visitors are seeing. ;)

71.99% using IE 6.x
20.96% using IE 5.x

[richardb]

Opera

Can't see me ever going back to IE!

What banner :)

[Gorilla]

Firebird 0.7

I find Firebird much faster than Opera on my Windows 2000 desktop.

IE6 and older IE versions for testing.

Never paid for Opera.

[grahamstewart]

pageoneresults said:

IE6. I have no other choice. I need to see what 92.95% of my visitors are seeing.

Yeah, but the question was what browser do you personally use to surf the web in your leisure time, when you are not in development or testing?

[pageoneresults]

IE 6

I'm so ingrained in the MS way that is all I use for browsing. I do keep NN4.x, NN7.x, Moz and Opera (paid) on board for development purposes. Add me to the IE crowd! ;)

[seindal]

FireBird 0.7 under linux.

[TGecho]

Opera 7.23 (registered) and 7.5 (still in beta, but very nice).

BTW, the ad banner in 7.5 takes a lot less space than in earlier versions, so it might be worth another look if you were put off before.

[TomV]

I use Opera 7.23 and it is paid for. I keep IE6 around for a handful of snob sites that won't let me in with Opera.

[bull]

Firebird 0.7, love it - MSIE6 only for some carp sites I bookmarked there and for PR check.

[korkus2000]

IE6 most of the time just because I usally never stop developing so it is easy just to use it. I am starting to use Mozilla though a little at home. I am also an old mac user so Netscape has a special place in my heart, so Mozilla gives me that retro feel.

[ProfMoriarty]

Firebird 0.7 with some useful extensions.

If I only had "modern" theme for Thunderbird, I would completely switch from Mozilla 1.6 to the birds

[mep00]

I might pay for it eventually, but not for a while (too many bills).

<weeping>From the above posts, it looks like IE may be a favorite even here!</weeping>

I have a feeling this may change in the near future. With MSIE no longer being offered as a free stand alone, people will need to start making choices. Unless MS tows the mark and becomes standards compliant, it's market share should go down.

That being said, I think it was a good decision for MS: even a small precentage of something will always be more than all of nothing. In the end, if MSIE does become compliant, does it really matter if they're the favorite?

[mep00]

...for PR check.

This isn't surfing, so it doesn't count. If you're still running NS4.x for testing porpuses only, would you count that as surfing?

[Purple Martin]

IE 5.5 at home
IE 6 at work

[encyclo]

Dillo for everything! ;)

Actually, add me to the Firebird count!

[albert]

Surfing: mostly Opera 7.21

Business: MSIE diff versions and other

I need to see what 92.95% of my visitors are seeing. ;)

[Reflection]

Mozilla

[marcs]

Opera 6.12 (Registered)

[WeirdoPL]

At home: Opera 7.23
At work: IE 6 (I'll install Opera this week)
At scool: Mozilla / Lynx

I use IE rarely. My CPU is an antique (P90, 64MB RAM) and sometimes cannot stand me using Opera. ;)

Add me to Opera.

[Farix]

I use Mozilla 1.5 almost exclusively now. It was well over a year ago that I switched from IE. With a notable exception of Windows Update, I haven't found a site that requires the use of IE nor have I seen any webpages with major rendering bugs.

[isitreal]

Firebird 0.7 with extensions, when I use IE to browse at other people's houses I feel like I'm operating crippleware. No mousenavigation, no web developer tool bar, etc.

IE 5.5 for development.

If Opera cost less I'd use that, it's amazingly fast, superior engineering to Mozilla but Mozilla is catching up, have to give them credit.

[jatar_k]

moz 1.5

[Elijah]

I recently switched from Mozilla 1.5 to Mozilla Firebird 0.7, and I'm never going back! :)
I really like the features it has such as tabs and adblocking(an extension). Another feature I like is the ability to use alternate style sheets (if the webmaster has created them).
IE 6 just has too few features and options. ;)

[pageoneresults]

You know, its really nice to see a topic like this progress the way it has. No bashing, short and sweet responses, and an overall comraderie between the masses. Thanks everyone for keeping it on topic. I'm sure this one will get some mileage while presenting everyone with an overall view of browser statistics for the WebmasterWorld community. ;)

[bill]

Opera registered since 3.x

[WebDavelopment]

Firebird 0.71 (nightly builds) with Webdesigner extention and a few others.

I swear by it. I don't think that I could live without "Open in Tabs" bookmark groupings, and "type to find" anymore.

I have most of the other browsers in multiple versions and OSs. This seems to be the best for me on a PC.

[txbakers]

IE 6.0

no problems.

[Tomas]

Mozilla Firebird - default

[twist]

I'd like to see this discussion on a forum for the 'office depot/walmart' computer buying crowd. You know, the average computer user. First off, the forum wouldn't have any posts because most of them have no idea how to use a forum. Second, the most common reply would be, "Whats a browser?"

Sorry, spent 2 hours last night helping a lady fix her dial-up connection. Her friend installed a AOL disk and when they tried to fix it they deleted all of her account information. I kept asking her who her ISP was. She kept replying MSN. I told her that just because a MSN page appears when you get online doesn't mean you get your internet from MSN. So after a 30 minute conversation with MSN and calling 5 other ISP's I find her provider.

So, sadly enough, I use IE6 a lot because my website is for the 'office depot/walmart' crowd.

If I knew I didn't have to go back to IE6 I would uninstall it and go with Opera 7 :)

[jamesa]

I'm the oddball in your logs that uses Safari. :)