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I'm sure IE is not bad nowadays, but almost every single feature that IE boasts appeared on FF or Chrome earlier. I used to be a big fan of FF for it's customization abilities, but over time I found it slower than Chrome and it piles up memory into a single exe instance which makes it harder for the PC to balance it's resources. Not too big of a deal with todays hardware though. When Chrome became customizable, it's integrated features and quick load/startup times won me over.
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I use IE almost exclusively. Most web development I do is internal and we're happy with IE. Therefore, I don't even need to install every browser.
I'm happy with IE for personal browsing. I feel the same way mikepwilson does about Google. I tried FireFox years ago, and I didn't see the point of switching based on what I experienced.
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I have IE11, Chrome 30, Firefox 24, and Safari 5 (for good measure  ) all installed.
I use IE almost exclusively. Firefox is way too slow, Chrome... well, we won't go there  , and Safari is an old dog now that Apple dropped us Windows users.
IE has given me some trouble since going up to 11 but, overall, I'm enjoying it.
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I was using IE until maybe 2009? Where I started using Chrome.
With IE11 in W8.1 I am, kind of tentatively, going back to IE
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I use FF almost exclusively. I have Comodo Dragon for my Chrome browsing needs, and have to use IE for SharePoint. I have never really been able to tell if one is faster than the other, but IE is a finicky little snot most of the time. Anyone that even does a little bit of web design has been bitten by the compatibility mode. FF has it moments, but I have found IceDragon (Comodo) to be pretty stable. And sorry, but I am paranoid and assume anything Chrome is reporting everything I do back to Google. Personally it is none of their business. I have also used opera some and liked it but keep going back to FF.
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Maxthon as my "personal" browser, because:
-- It's got the best networking features, e.g. cloud push lets me send the open page to any of my other machines (you don't realise how invaluable that is until you start using it).
-- Being able to quickly switch between Webkit and Trident means that no pages don't work.
Opera for work, because it lets you save as many sessions as you like (that's an absolutely killer workplace feature, IMO), and because they're always the first to come up with new features -- which the other browser makers later copy, and act like they invented them.
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IE here for work (we have a typicall IBM (now Lenovo)/Microsoft configuration policy.
At home IE11 for Windows 8.1 + Chrome..
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My primary browser is FF. I think it's compatible with most of the sites (don't know if there's any site that it doesn't support) and is also quite swift. Another browser that I sometime use is Opera. Rest of them, I only use to test my web application's performance.
Piyush K Singh
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Reading the other answers, I am both surprised at how much people are actually using IE and not using Chrome at all.
I am a Chrome user, because it does the job. I used to be a FF evangelist, even managed to get it as the standard browser in a 100,000+ employees company, but they definitely lost me a couple of years ago with all the bugs and getting slow and release every other week.
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Last used IE for any extended period about 6 years ago.
Went to FF, which I used for about 3 years then Chrome which seems fine.
At home I use Safari and Chrome on the Mac. Tried may others especially when distro hopping on an old laptop (Midori, Ice Weasel etc) but Chrome seems so ubiquitous now and I have an Android phone and tablet so it forms a common theme.
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I switched to FF from IE because I like the wide range of add-ons (mainly AdBlock+ and Download Helper). A bit slow to open but otherwise I have no complaints.
XAlan Burkhart
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As a general rule, I dislike tools that try to stand out by blantantly ignoring UI standards and conventions, such as the main menu being located in the LEFT upper corner of the window. Chrome tries to be different by being different, disrespecting both standards/conventions and its users. In spite of Chrome requiring me to "unlearn" a lot of UI habits, slowing down my work, it so much faster on very many web pages that I had that as my primary browser for a year.
Then, after some update, the Back button off my Logitech MX Performance mouse stopped working on about two thirds of the web pages I visit regularly. Not only the mouse button, but the back arrow in the upper left as well. The only way to get back to the previous page is to pull down the stack of recently visited pages and select the one I want - usually below 3-4 duplicate top entries.
This is so annoying that I have reverted to Firefox, as long as it can handle the web site. But for some forms, Firefox is so slow that the web server times out, and some news sites use video formats that are not handled by Firefox, but Chrome tacle them well.
There is another funny reason for avoiding IE, although not relevant for too many people: One of the technical discusson foras that I visit regularly openly sabotage IE: You may use IE, but then you are limited to comments of about five lines of text. With all other browsers, the limit is 5000 chars. So IE users are recognized (and sometimes ridiculed by other debates) by having to split their discussion entries into a chain of small 1-2 paragraph entries.
Another thing: The history mechanism is much better in Firefox. When I ditched IE (way back in the XP days), I was very critical to the FF history list; IE had a much better solution. FF hasn't improved, but I have learnt to live with it. Stepping even further down, to the level of Chrome, is a little too much.
A decent ad filter and flash blocker is essential to me (that's why I ditched IE!). In that respect, FF and Chrome are about the same, except that Chrome won't activate the ad filter on the startup page until you refresh it.
For now, I need all three of them: FF for daily use, Chrome for some video and a few extremely JS-heavy webshops, and IE for a few web sites with pages that haven't been updated since IE6 and can't be read by any other browser.
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I balance between FF and IE. Indeed, there are some pages that only run on IE (www.bancodebogota.com.co ==>> Enterprise). I used to use Opera also, and this is a nice browser, but has some compatibility issues in specialized pages. And I don't see the point of using three or more browsers on the same computer. BTW, I do not like Google "looking-every-where-and-everybody"  policies so for me Chrome is absolutely out of mind.
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Firefox is great and for the worst websites I use the worst browser. Never liked Google Chrome due to fear of adding to monopolism.
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My choice is Avant browser - it has three (Chrome, IE, Firefox) rendering engines built in. You can switch between engines if a page does not display properly. Once you find the engine that works, you can designate that engine as the default for that page.
When I started using it several years ago, it was clearly faster. I have not noticed much speed difference lately, but I have not paid much attention either.
Lots of options, etc. All in all, I think it is the most flexible browser available.
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I use Internet Explorer for personal and development needs, because I find the built in developer tools handy and easy to use and by supporting IE first I ensure that the websites i create work everywhere else with little effort.
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I install all of the major browsers for testing. I was a huge Firefox fan until it bloated, back in the days before Windows 7. I switched to Chrome, mostly for browsing and developing. Firefox has since speeded up and I do use that more than I used too. IE is a slow start up and it's toolbar malware clean-up sometimes can be a real problem. Opera is becoming a nice browser, but is painfully slow in starting up and is grabby with file extension permissions. Safari on windows is not a favorite workflow of mine.
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Won't touch IE even if you hit me with a cattle prod. And don't like the look and feel of Chrome either..
So primarily it's Firefox for me, mainly because I got used to some of the add-ons, beside that Opera would be my second choice...
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Here is a strange one for you. Since I installed Chrome, it seems that IE and FF have become flaky. IE starts, but does not go to the page I want it to go to. FF now brings up so many ad-ware interruptions that I am at the point of uninstalling it. Could Chrome be poisoning the others?
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Of course it is.
BUT
They could have done almost anything as a publicity stunt, but chose that.
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Agreed. I'd much rather they do something like that than plop a huge XBox in Vancouver[^]
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It would be nice if they'd give free training and jobs to all the Silverlight developers they are putting out of business.
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1. Unfortunately, Silverlight developers have not given their lives for their country, nor put their lives on the line for their country. This is a great thanks for all of those who served and defended their countries. Many service personnel exiting the armed services do not have the skills to get a good paying job when they leave the military. This will help them along the way.
2. IT jobs may have very minor programming involved. Mostly, it will be fixing PCs and call center help. But, it's a start.
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So Windows 9 will lose the user-unfriendly aspects of Win 8, in favour of user hostile? No more *beep* when you press the wrong button, the OS calls in an air strike...
It's a good idea - but I suspect you're right about the publicity stunt aspect rather than real work for most of them. Would you want your code written by a developer with just a 16 week course behind him? 
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