9 years ago from Nice Shoes, Art Director
I've been having a few issues with Chrome freezing on me recently and am looking to switch to Safari.
It's a difficult decision to make because as a designer, with a bit of front end developing, I love chrome for it's extensions and developer tools.
What browser do you use and why?
Netscape 4.0
Chrome, mainly because I can't get used to any other browser's dev tools.
Do you not of issues with Chrome freezing?
Give Firefox a try. I prefer it way more than Safari/Chrome, and not I can't get used to those.
Safari.
Mainly because I can make it look like this: http://i.imgur.com/ikYc0Ln.png
But its also about the trackpad previous page 'in motion preview' (I use it to sneak peak the previous page, without reloading the current one.) and the native iCloud sync of bookmarks/read-later/history over alla mac and iOS devices.
Whenever something is really bugging out I use Chrome to debug it though.
How do you make it look like that?
I'll write you a guide, one second!
Here you go :)
How thoughtful, thank you very much!
You can even use ⌘+L to show the location (address bar), it automatically hides again after you focus on the webpage.
On the topic of BetterTouchTool, I use it to have 3-finger up/down swipes switch tabs. I also use it for navigating forward and backward in Chrome. I use the rotate gesture to refresh a page.
I just followed your write-up. I've always had Safari looking quite minimal, but using BBT just made it that extra groovy.
Thanks :)
IE6 is nice
As a front end web developer I can confirm IE6 is a fantastic browser... For downloading other browsers.
I love Chrome for the speed, the dev tools and all the good extensions
and
I love Safari for the reading list, the reader, the text-rendering and the icloud sync.
Left Chrome for Firefox because Mozilla is nice.
good reason....
I started using breach. I already did some hacking on it and changed their theme around to make it more purdy. I think it'll be awesome in a year or so if folks keep developing for it.
Do you mind sharing the theme?
Safari, or Chrome when I need Flash or some dev tools.
Personally this would be too much effort for me. Isn't it very time-expensive when opening Chrome just for Flash or Dev Tools?
Nope. It’s pretty easy.
Develop → Open Page With → Google Chrome opens the page you’re on in Chrome.
Dreamweaver! (Don't look at me like that.)
F12 = open in primary browser Ctrl+F12 = open in secondary browser
(Seriously, stop looking at me like that. Dreamweaver is fine if you just type all your code yourself and don't let it do stuff for you!)
Dreamweaver!
Must... resist... defending...
I use Firefox Nightly, and I thoroughly suggest anyone who switched to Chrome for the Dev Tools a while back, as I did, to take a look at recent builds of Firefox just to see if the new tooling can make you think about switching.
Always Firefox :D
I use Safari and Chrome. Chrome for adblock and some plugins I can't get for Safari. And Safari for the Reading List, iCloud Sync, etc.
I would use Chrome only, if it had a "decent" plugin to handle reading list (not some shit you have to sign up for).
My hopes is that I can one day rely solely on Safari, but their Extension support and site is not very inspiring: https://extensions.apple.com/
Dev here. Left Chrome for Firefox recently, mainly because it was lagging and Apple Member Center was buggy. I was really nicely surprised of how much it improved over the last years, it's not the laggy cumbersome firefox I used to know.
tldr; Switch to Firefox, it's now better than ever!
Do you use firebug or the built-in dev tools?
I found out that firebug is quite redondant for my use now, thanks to the built-in debugger. It's as powerful as Chrome's, if not more.
I'm really wondering where and how it's lagging? Could you share any screen capture etc. I'm using it without any lag.
One of the main lagging website is FB, so I won't be able to provide captures for it. As for the member center of apple, you need to have an account, but it is really buggy as hell (cannot add devices, generate provisioning profiles...) .
Opera mini.
Since I installed Yosemite on my macbook pro I use Safari 8 everyday. Read Later and iOS Sync are basic for me. I have Chrome, Firefox and Opera for testing.
Chrome, always. I used to be a firefox user, but then firefox started to get chunkier and heavier. I have no problems with Chrome, and do most of my front-end dev work in the developer tools as well.
I switched to Chrome mainly because my Nexus 5 acquisition. I was brainless to go with Chrome and have at my hand all the URLs i visit, favourites, contacts, etc.
Google Chrome FTW.
Chrome, mostly because of the extensions and having the ability to have more than one account (profiles) synced up (one for work and one for personal use).
Safari all the way. I get a lot of shit from other developer friends for it, but I've been using it since it was in beta forever ago and I still love it.
Chromium 64bits (link) because speeeeeeed !
I use Chrome for normal stuff, and Chrome Canary for its awesome device emulator.
Opera Developer! And also, Aries (gotta use it to make it better!).
I greatly prefer chrome, but I develop both in Firefox and Chrome for a variety of reasons. Well, Firebug really. And I need to keep a browser with cache disabled to test in. So, ok, 2 reasons.
As a sidenote though, maybe there's something about the way you're using Chrome that's causing your issue? Check your plugins, Check the task Manager (Tools -> Task Manager), and you can even dig into see the memory usage by putting this in the address bar: chrome://memory-redirect/
A little testing can go a long way!
Chrome is a definite win on this. Although I have to say: Firefox has been doing a bangup job on it's integrated development tools recently. Plus it has all the extensibility of Chrome. But I definitely wouldn't use Safari.
Chrome kept annoying me so I went back to Safari and I have to say it was the best decision I have made in ages.
My first choice is Chrome because it has the best developer tools, but I hate when the media content starts automatically (example videos from YouTube) in not opened tabs, what does not happen on Safari.
Chromescape (Chrome + Netscape)
Safari, because it's awesome!
Safari. iCloud Sync, keychain sync, nicer design approach to fit in with Mac OS X.
And I love the Web Inspector and dev tools.
I use Chrome but I love Safari. It would be great if Apple adds Chrome like Element Inspector in Safari.
You actually can, you just have to activate it in your settings : 
I know that, but Safari's inspector isn't good at all.
It really is strange how Apple hasn't invested more in to their inspector. If you get Dev's to become evangelists, more users will follow.
Telnet then chrome
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