unclick candidate recommendation and working draft and you see that opera has been following standards better then all the rest for quite some time. webkit browsers tend to sport the best support but they also tend to make shit look ugly and buggy imo.

Craton

United States17235 Posts

November 01 2010 01:36 GMT

#182

IE will never fall; it's the default browser of the U.S. government (and probably many others) and they are only obligated to stay within two generations of the latest version (so as government contractors we're stuck testing for IE6 compatibility until IE9 is released). In short, with regulations like that, don't ever expect a different browser to become the default.

Your whole premise is pretty dumb, though. Netscape was a pretty terrible browser in it's own right and the idea that Microsoft is the evil overlord of the world that needs to be slain is tired and beaten to death. IE9 actually is shaping up to be a decent browser, at that.

Fa1nT

United States3423 Posts

November 01 2010 01:42 GMT

#183

Been using Opera for years.

FireFox is a RAM whore

Chrome is not good enough (yet)

IE.... lol

FragKrag

United States11548 Posts

November 01 2010 01:47 GMT

#184

On September 30 2010 08:11 soultwister wrote:

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The article says Chrome was patched right before the competition, so no one even took a shot at it. It doesn't make for a fair point.

So were Safari and Firefox iirc. They usually do get patched right before Pwn2Own, but that didn't help Safari or Firefox did it?

And this is the second year in a row so clearly google is doing something correctly with Chrome.

Shiragaku

Hong Kong4308 Posts

November 01 2010 01:57 GMT

#185

If there is a adblock for Opera, I will forever be a loyal user of that browser. Help me TL!

ayababa

Australia347 Posts

November 01 2010 01:59 GMT

#186

On September 18 2010 15:30 SonuvBob wrote:

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It's not that people have switched browsers, just that there's so many more visitors now. Apparently SC2 players don't use Opera.

I'm kinda surprised IE didn't go up, actually. :p

don't be suprised... be happy

zergnewb

United States816 Posts

November 01 2010 02:03 GMT

#187

I use to have to use AOL when I had dial-up, then I switched to chrome obvious because of how godly fast it was compared to what I've had to use. A long time after that I found out about Opera and have been using it since. FF starts too slow for me and I don't need the extensions, though I need it for sites that aren't Opera-friendly. Chrome I still have but don't use it much.

sikyon

Canada1045 Posts

November 01 2010 02:55 GMT

#188

I actually havn't heard anything bad about IE for quite awhile. Infact, I'd give it another whirl if I wasn't so used to firefox by now.

Bosu

United States3247 Posts

November 01 2010 02:56 GMT

#189

I wish chrome had a good ad blocker. I was told it can't have and ad blocker as good as firefox because of the way it runs its extensions though. Kinda sad because I love everything else about it.

AndyBear

Canada132 Posts

November 01 2010 03:05 GMT

#190

Opera is my lover <3

. I used FF to download flv videos, thats it.

FabledIntegral

United States9232 Posts

November 01 2010 03:13 GMT

#191

Chrome at home, FF at work, IE when at the receptionist desk when covering phones for her lunch break. =P.

jstar

Canada568 Posts

November 01 2010 12:43 GMT

#192

IE9 is so far better than the current version of Chrome.

TMStarcraft

Australia686 Posts

November 01 2010 13:31 GMT

#193

+1 Opera

Can't live without mouse gestures once you get used to them. But I do use chrome and firefox occasionally. And besides, Opera can be so purrrdy.

+ Show Spoiler +

Tastespotting is an awesome website btw.

Ayush_SCtoss

India3050 Posts

November 01 2010 13:35 GMT

#194

+1 Firefox. I am using Chrome right now to see how it works and everything but my heart will always be with Mozilla Firefox!!

Hizzo

United States193 Posts

November 01 2010 13:41 GMT

#195

Chrome baby

rastaban

United States2294 Posts

November 01 2010 13:56 GMT

#196

On September 18 2010 20:36 Liquid`Tyler wrote:

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Awww, <3 Opera

Yay glad we have a pro-gamer on our side! Opera all the way, the speed and being less of a Ram hog are my favorite parts.

Azalie

New Zealand117 Posts

November 01 2010 14:42 GMT

#197

I wish any of them would make NZ internet faster >.> Chrome/FF for me

freelander

Hungary4707 Posts

November 01 2010 15:07 GMT

#198

I've been using Chrome for two weeks. I changed from FF, and I like really much except for the download bar.

us.insurgency

United States330 Posts

November 01 2010 15:07 GMT

#199

Chrome lets in too many cookies and viruses. Thats why i went with firefox even though I am a windows fanboy

Thezzy

Netherlands2117 Posts

November 01 2010 15:24 GMT

#200

Although I welcome the end of the IE supremacy, as a web developer a big all out war means Standards Complaince and W3C are going out the window.
Fancy features that only work on specific browsers are the things that are going to attract customers, not adhering to good standards.

As it is, any website I develop for my customers have to be viewable in IE6, IE7, IE8, FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari. IE6 is a necessity because like 50% of businesses still use that evil excrement of a browser (and there some big names that still use it).

Making a website appear equally good in all of them is impossible, some things just don't work in certain browsers. IE adds special margins to form fields, FF can't set the width of a file field and the list goes on.

Making it look acceptable in all browsers is already tricky and time consuming.
Whoever wins, I hope it's won fast or we may end up with sites that only 7 out of like 23 browsers can even view.