Favorite browsers history?

[ToroidalBoat]

I started with IE (didn't like Netscape 4 much). Switched to Netscape 6-7 after too many popup ads in IE.

The favorite browser then became Mozilla, which was just like Netscape 6-7, but less "corporate feeling".

Then Firefox came out, it became preferred browser, and it has remained the preferred browser since then.

 

[Chris_Stuckmann]

IE, Chrome, Brave. These days, I use Edge for work and Brave for everything else.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

Used Internet Explorer, because it came pre-installed with Windows. Never bothered with Netscape or anything.
After a while, I switched to Firefox and used that for a little while after hearing that it was way better than IE.
I used Firefox for a few years, until I became a very early adopter of Google Chrome. Back when it still had the 3D logo.

Nowadays, I mainly use Google Chrome and sometimes Firefox.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Back when it still had the 3D logo.

I forgot about that one. Looks like an odd pokeball.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

I forgot about that one. Looks like an odd pokeball.

I wish they kept it and didn't start using that flat design globohomo shit every other fucking company uses nowadays.

 

[The Backwards Man]

IE - Sometime in the early to mid 2000's
Chrome - Around 2009-ish
Firefox - 2010's
Pale Moon - 2015 (My old Core 2 Duo laptop was starting to show its age and I heard it was good with shit computers)
Brave - Current

 

[Slav Power]

Opera Presto from my first days on the web to the day it became a lousy Chrome clone.

Then I drifted between Chrome and Firefox trying to find a replacement before discovering Vivaldi which I've been using ever since.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

I miss the good old days when upgrading from Firefox 1.0 (Nov 2004) to 1.5 (Nov 2005) to 2.0 (Oct 2006) etc. was a big event with a bountiful changelog of interesting stuff.

 

[Magicicada_septendecula]

Started with Internet Explorer because it was preinstalled, didn't care that much, and it was the late 90s/early 2000s when there weren't as many options. I briefly used Firefox in the mid-2000s, but switching to Linux, ended up using Konqueror (usable back then, now it crashes unless I use the Chrome web engine). I started using Firefox at some point in the 2010s. I used it until some news extensions started disappearing from the add-on store, so I moved to Brave in 2017 and have used it since.

 

[DrNow]

Lynx, just to be different.

 

[Judge Dredd]

I didn't have a computer with the internet of my own until well into the days of Firefox supremacy. I used that until it started shitty the bed so hard I switched to Chrome, and then recently Brave (which seems to be just Chrome).

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

If you didn't have all the browsers installed at once what were you even trying to accomplish on the internet?

 

[GoysGoneWild]

Pretty sure it was IE on Mac OS as thats what the school had. Then Netscape on some of the older machines in shop class.
Then Firefox at home for a long time. Then alternated between Chromium and Firefox for a bit before being a fairly early adopter of Brave. Havn't switched since, but keep my eyes on new engine projects like Ladybird.