Blame my superiors who would scold me to death if I'm not writing my reports in British English. I sometimes forgot, so I use it all the time now, making it as a habit.
Was ping ponging back and forth between Palemoon and FF. Was using Palemoon for years but switched to FF because of uBlock. I am back to using just the 3rd party filters and my filters in uBlock, they do work in Palemoon minus the icon. So am currently back with Palemoon as default with uBlock and noScript with an untrusted list. Also, going to the exact same web sites with Palemoon and FF, Palemoon seems to use less memory than FF and also Palemoon is less bloated, so for now Palemoon is my current default browser.
Right now I'm using Firefox 37 beta 64 bit. I like it, there's been no crashes, freezing, and it's pretty fast.
I've been using Qihoo's Chromium based 360 Extreme Explorer for about two months now, and it has replaced TheWorld for me. It is very fast and highly configurable. The website is in Chinese but the software has almost completely been translated to English. The only issue I have, is that when I open websites from the address bar, they open in a new tab at the end of all other tabs. I find this highly annoying, as I want them to open to the right of the current tab. But, I can live with that for now, as otherwise it is an excellent browser, and does everything I want without the need for any addons.
Many members tout the security of chrome and im surprised it isnt at the top of the poll.I have given chrome a try and didnt particularly like the what you see is what you get in terms of customising. Im sticking with firefox as it reigns supreme in terms of customising the user interface etc.
@The Red Moon In my opinion FireFox is also incredibly limited when it comes to customising it, which is why I've always avoided it.
Chrome derivates support all security features like Chrome, some even more, like mine includes Kaspersky scans on top, Epic browser deals with privacy issues, etc. Looks great, but still too much Chinese, hard to set it up as I want, but I like that it includes, what seems like a browser repair and its own sync cloud.
I can't in good conscience vote for any. Firefox has always been my go-to, but I despise the changes implemented with Australis, starting with v28. I wish so badly someone(s) could create a fork from v27.0.1 on. I don't trust Chrome. A shame too because it's the most secure & responsive on Win7 & 8. And with native sandboxing/low privileges. Though since I'm a devout Sandboxie user that's less of a selling point to me personally. But man does it ever fly on Win7 Pro & Ultimate x86 I've come to find. Almost as fast as you can get Firefox to run on a bare bones XP with maxed out specs, tweaked about:config, and just a few addons to block elements on pages (i.e. ABP/filters, NoScript, RequestPolicy). IE has always been a glitchy nightmare to my experience, but I haven't tried it in years. Perhaps it has improved? I may end up giving it a try because if I'm ever given a compelling reason not to use FF v27.0.1 anymore I have no idea what I'll do. IE will be one of the things I'll try out. I will say that Chrome is winning the browser wars right now. And they owe a large debt of gratitude to Firefox for the idiotic notion to introduce Australis. That (terrible) decision tipped the scales in their favor. Firefox's customer base/demographic were made up of people that liked the customization and granularity of the browser. But now with each passing version there's less and less of it.
I tried Chrome years ago. When I found that it had installed itself in a user folder that I don't allow executable files in and didn't give me the option to install it in the program files directory like a normal Windows app, it was instantly rejected. Since then I've only dealt with it when working on other peoples computers. I've found a lot of them don't really like it that much but use it anyway just because it's there. Most prefer Firefox but use Chrome for certain sites. I use a variety of browsers. I still use Opera presto as my main casual surfing and forum browser. Where it doesn't work, I use Seamonkey, Firefox 24esr, a customized and cloned install of Opera blink and a few others occasionally. I tried IE 11 recently. I tried to install adblock plus and the installer was a full .exe file and not the normal js based plugin so my feelings about IE being the least secure browser were once again confirmed.
I have been using pale moon for quite a while now and im most impressed.On my own computer system pale moon is visibly faster than chrome or firefox and its lighter as well. I care little for speed tests results etc as they were not performed on my own computer so why should i give them creedence.? Pale moon integrates wonderfully with linux and is stable and reliable.
Since the last post, I've started to use Chrome but in a very restricted way. I replaced Skype with Google Voice and the bloated MS version of Skype with Chrome which has Google Voice support built in. I'm using it as a Google Voice client, not a browser. I am using open source Chromium as well which is a nice alternative to Chrome. I voted for other but I would vote for Seamonkey if I voted now. The latest version has a lot of subtle but nice improvements, both visually and functionally. It still uses Gecko and it feels like a model of restraint in the mad rush to Chromium based browsers. It has been compatible with everything I've thrown at it and it has a lot of the power browser and customization features I like in Opera 12 while being supported and updated and the updates come every few months, not every few weeks which I find to be a much more reasonable schedule.
I'm still using 360 Extreme Explorer, and see no reason to switch, as has all the features I need included as standard, and is updated regulary. I use Chrome on my Android phone. @MisterB This is the first I've heard of Google Voice, which is suprising as Wikipedia says it's been around since 2009.
Originally I voted for Firefox and can't change my vote now but Cyberfox could quite easily become my 2016 favourite.
