If I'm Being Honest

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If I'm being honest, I was using Internet Explorer when I first joined FP. Internet Explorer 8, to be more specific. Had never even heard of FireFox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, etc. I remember getting roasted on here a little bit for admitting to using IE, and then I decided to install every web browser known to man on my crappy Windows Vista desktop. I eventually began religiously using Firefox for quite a long time, though I've used Chrome these last couple of years.

Anyway, where do you stand on the web browser war? Anyone still using IE out there? Or I guess it's Edge now? 😛
 
I've used Firefox as my main browser for nearly 20 years and more recently Brave on my iMac. I do have other browsers on a second PC for testing purposes but none that I would use everyday instead of Firefox.
 
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I'm using Brave. It's a Chromium-based, privacy-focused browser.
 
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Cam said:
If I'm being honest, I was using Internet Explorer when I first joined FP. Internet Explorer 8, to be more specific. Had never even heard of FireFox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, etc. I remember getting roasted on here a little bit for admitting to using IE, and then I decided to install every web browser known to man on my crappy Windows Vista desktop. I eventually began religiously using Firefox for quite a long time, though I've used Chrome these last couple of years.

Anyway, where do you stand on the web browser war? Anyone still using IE out there? Or I guess it's Edge now? 😛
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Vista? What's Vista.
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Vista?

Ewww...
 
Chrome. Used to use FireFox but the last years have been using mainly Chrome.
 
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Carlos X said:
Vista? What's Vista.
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Vista?

Ewww...
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I believe I got a really low end Compaq desktop for Christmas that was using it. I really didn't know any better. 😛
 
Windows Vista would have been a fine operating system if it had been released a year or two after it actually was. It was overly ambitious for the hardware that was available at the time of its release. Windows Vista SP2 is basically Windows 7 with a different theme.
 
Progrumz said:
Windows Vista would have been a fine operating system if it had been released a year or two after it actually was. It was overly ambitious for the hardware that was available at the time of its release. Windows Vista SP2 is basically Windows 7 with a different theme.
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I like the design, but coding...? It... its like intentional, intentional coding mishaps. It was a coding nightmare. Like, it was exploited so bad, that if you ...don't... have a specific download, your machine is done. I vaguely remember that in order to have Vista installed, YOU would need a specific type of graphics unit (GPU/CPU), and a specific download... or your specific Vista download is corrupted or easily corrupted. My uncle had a similar laptop setup, Vista laptop... and i saw everything. I'm trying to do news from there, but goddamn ads are putting malware into your computer. I remember the laptop getting warm - its like crypto in 2012.

That laptop ended up "dying," I'm sure my uncle was mad at me. My aunt was mad at me. I am sure. But the thing is Vista is... exploitable.

Vista was garbage.
 
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Cam said:
If I'm being honest, I was using Internet Explorer when I first joined FP. Internet Explorer 8, to be more specific. Had never even heard of FireFox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, etc. I remember getting roasted on here a little bit for admitting to using IE, and then I decided to install every web browser known to man on my crappy Windows Vista desktop. I eventually began religiously using Firefox for quite a long time, though I've used Chrome these last couple of years.

Anyway, where do you stand on the web browser war? Anyone still using IE out there? Or I guess it's Edge now? 😛
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I used to use Internet Explorer, but once Chrome was released, I never went back to it. Chrome has been my favorite browser, and I use it on all my devices—PC, laptop, and smartphone. I believe I'll continue being loyal to it till my last breath. 😛
 
I only ever used Internet Explorer to download Firefox, and then IE got promptly uninstalled. I used Firefox for years, but then a lot of the devices I had used Chrome as their browser of choice, and I like being able to pull up what I have on one device on another if I need to. I mostly do it from my phone or tablet to my computer of things I see online that I want to purchase (we don't need to talk about how many tabs I have open on my PC Chrome), but the connectivity is nice.
 
Cam said:
on my crappy Windows Vista desktop
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No mainline browsers here, too many security and privacy concerns. No FireFox, no Chrome, no Opera and definitely no Edge.
 
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No mainline browsers here, too many security and privacy concerns. No FireFox, no Chrome, no Opera and definitely no Edge.
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Vista was horrible, especially when it first came out. It was practically a nightmare to use.
 
MrDawn said:
Vista was horrible, especially when it first came out. It was practically a nightmare to use.
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It sure was! It got better in time, in fairness, but what a wreck! At least we got 7 after that, which was decent...and then 8...ahem.
 
PGen98 said:
It sure was! It got better in time, in fairness, but what a wreck! At least we got 7 after that, which was decent...and then 8...ahem.
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lol yeah, Microsoft needs to quit trying to give people what they don't want.
 
MrDawn said:
lol yeah, Microsoft needs to quit trying to give people what they don't want.
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Coming Soon: Windows Windows! An all new operating system for smart windows. Look outside and stare at your neighbor's while watching cats on YouTube. Windows Windows -- Hide the Pane™
 
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Coming Soon: Windows Windows! An all new operating system for smart windows. Look outside and stare at your neighbor's while watching cats on YouTube. Windows Windows -- Hide the Pane™
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The next operating system...

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