So, I got curious, what browsers do you gamers use? There was already a poll about this, but it was almost two years ago, so I decided to make a new one, because why not. So, if you have a moment (and you entered this topic, so I hope you have it) - please vote. If your favorite browser is not in the list - vote for "Other" and please comment what you use. Of course if you want to share your thoughts about your choice - I will be glad to read it too.
Thank you for your attention, here is a giveaway for you.

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What browser you use as your main on desktop?

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Chrome (this includes Chromium)
Firefox (this includes ESR and Dev Edition)
Internet Explorer
Edge
Opera (modern Chromium-based)
Opera (Presto)
Vivaldi
SRWare Iron
Brave
Yandex (I really hope you are from Russia at least)
Palemoon (or Basilisk)
SeaMonkey
Safari
UC Browser
Maxthon
Waterfox
Other (Chromium-based)
Other (not Chromium-based)
Steam built-in browser (as a main? really?)

i've been using firefox since it was called phoenix. i switched to chrome for a while when firefox started having perfomance problems, but after a few years they made it work better and i switched back.

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I mainly started using Edge because I had a Windows Phone and I liked to have everything synced. I ended liking it and I now use it on my PC and android phone.

At work I use Firefox tho because the computers have Windows 7

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I've heard there is an Edge for Windows 7 now (but maybe still in beta). Of course if you can chose what shell be installed at work.

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Firefox for life 🙌
Best browser for me, I can customize it the way I want it to be xD

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Opera (Chromium-based) forever!

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Right now I'm using Waterfox Classic and occasionally Chromium Ungoogled for certain sites.

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I've been using Firefox since it was still called Phoenix and haven't seen any reason to change to anything else since.

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Firefox. Chrome based ones eat too much on my Linux machines :(

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Happy cake day!

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Firefox at home, work doesn't allow FF so Chrome for Business at work (+ shitty IE/Edge for work apps).

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Firefox for ~14 years now.

I had a good enough reason to switch to Chrome and sacrifice some of the extensions I was running. By the time Chrome had equivalent extensions there wasn't any noticeable reason for me to switch - so I never did. That's not to say that I didn't try Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, and a few others over the years... I just didn't find a good reason to switch to any of them as a main browser.

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Firefox for life, been using it since 2.0

🦊

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Only browser that i use constantly is Firefox. Even when they change versions and half of my extensions stopped working i did not abandon it, really got used to that browser. Chrome never was good for me interface-wise and using too much memory on my rig. I use Chrome on phone only. Others like Opera i used just to spare but never had desire to use them all the time.

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I mainly use Chrome and sometimes modern Opera. I'd like to use Firefox, but it is very, very slow.

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That's funny, because on every PC I have tried (my PC, my Laptop, PC at work) Firefox is like... ten times faster than Chrome. And by "ten times" I mean literally. If I open many tabs, for example, 40, in Firefox, it becomes very slow. Exactly as slow as Chrome becomes when I open 4 tabs in it. I should specify, that all PCs in question are rather old, so this may be the reason why Firefox performance better on them. Maybe on fast modern PC with a lot of memory Chrome will be faster, I don't really know.

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I tested it on my old rig (i5 4460, 8 GB RAM, Win 7 and now on my actual PC (i7 8700, 16 GB RAM, Win 10). On both systems Firefox is slow, much slower than e. g. Chrome. Sure, if I open a lot of tabs, also Chrome gets slow, but I can't really work with Firefox. :/

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Try it on a Core2Duo then XD

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I could, I still have an E8400. ;)

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Your old rig is better than my new rig. On my old rig (E6550, 3GB RAM, Win XP) it'd be suicide to try using Chrome.

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Firefox is the one I like best

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Mainly Firefox for speed, sometimes Chrome (for compatibility).

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I've been using Palemoon both at home and at work since Firefox released version 29 and don't regret it.
It's a pain sometimes, because some sites are programmed a way that prevents me from using them, because use some kind of experimental features only Chrome supports or use User-Agent browser detection, so they think I am using a very old not up-to-date Firefox .
But all in all, I am fine with that and in most cases I can just skip those sites and use alternatives.
That being said, I am a web programmer myself. But I am one that respects freedom of choice, compatibility, accessibility and tests his works in all browsers. And considering how it's usually not a big deal to make your code usable in all browsers I just don't support those who ignore compatibility.

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I used to use Firefox for many years until my addons stopped working. FF became more and more a Chrome clone, so I figured "why shouldn't I use the original instead?"
I then switched over to Chromium and eventually fell in love with it. All my essential addons could be replaced with chrome counterparts and overall it runs significantly smoother than FF especially for video playback and streaming.

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Firefox, the last ESR version before they wrecked addons.

Also have Opera as a backup.

Used to use Chrome for a few years when it first came out and was more resource-efficient than Firefox. Nowadays it's off limits because I don't have enough terrabytes of RAM to satisfy its ravenous appetite.

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Edge + waterfox as main browsers and ie + chrome as backups for certain stuff...
I voted for waterfox , you shoulda put multiple choice answer's, just a suggestion. \m/

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I don't think SG has a multiple-choice polls ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Ya it's what i thought right after i wrote this.

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I've been using Firefox since the late 2000's, there has been a few versions that ran poorly but it's never been long untill an update fixes the issues so I stick with it. It's also my main on mobile.
I use Opera as secondary, I liked the old pre-chromium versions more but the current one is alright. Chrome is esentially a back-up browser for me, I have it installed but barelly use it.

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If only there was some browser that combined both the old customizable UI of Firefox with modern day tech under the hood. Firefox really started going down the hill when they refused to keep tabs where they should be just to imitate Chrome. Palemoon would be a great option if they devs wouldn't refuse to include basic web things like playing videos. No idea if that's still the case with HTML5 but been too lazy to find out.

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Brave on mobile seems like a good choice and also Firefox on desktop . Opera with build in VPN ( wich isn't a real VPN at all but just a proxy) is an option too .

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Bump!

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Primary at home is OperaGX
And then my Secondary at home is Opera, followed by Firefox

At work (I work with digital products so browsers are important) my primary is Chrome and my secondary is Firefox.

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you really included SRWare Iron? =P
well, I've always been using that one, and other Chrome-like browsers if that's the case, like on my gaming laptop I like to use the standard Chrome

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Why not? I've tried to give as much choices as possible, so I listed almost every browser I could remember. I didn't listed K-Meleon though, I wonder if it was a mistake, and one of those Other (not Chromium-based) people actually use it. Oh well.

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Closed 4 years ago by Rudokhvist.