This leave Chrome as a last choice, but since i don’t appreciate ANYONE installing stuff on my computer without asking me, so I’m using srware iron instead (same engine, no EULA).

I wonder if Google analytics even bothers to separate chrome from srware iron.

I like using Chrome for general browsing, but will also use Flock (good for Flickr, blogging etc), Opera (built in torrent client) and IE (well we have to check how it’s doing every so often)

Personally I just want my browser(s) to display my sites the same way – that’s the most important thing that’s missing from all browsers. After they’ve nailed that then they can try to sell me on the extra frills. AFAIC the next version of all browsers should display all sites the same and have a legacy mode that’ll allow them to display sites with their current (broken) rendering.

IE8: Mostly to run web apps that we develop (For last 4 I am into same project and we only support IE7/8). And to run web mail console and some sites that just don’t work nice with non IE8 like our intranet portal developed in sharepoint. After I ditched IE last month, I hardly open IE other than that.

Firefox, Opera, Safari: Just for checking different browser specific things such as ySlow, etc. They are always installed but I rarely run them.

@Yann
>>> Chrome equivalent just hides them
Oh, really? They have made me fool.

I typically use tabs as a ‘to-read’ list… i browse and just open interesting links in new tabs and i’ll read them when i get to them. Not being able to close a browser in fear of losing the tabs is pretty annoying, and making bookmarks out of the open tabs solely for the purpose of being able to reopen them in a new browser session is a bit silly.

I did install the beta of Chrome on OS X and used it once, but for some reason i didn’t make the switch… i guess i’m happy enough with Firefox on the mac

For development purposes (Firebug + it’s extensions, Web developer toolbar and etc) I use still Firefox.

And yes, IE8 is pretty OK, but I use it only when I definitely need to…

Chrome is ultra fast, and I would switch to it, but I’m not interested in ultra fast annoying or non-vouched for Javascript and ultra-fast ads.

As others have said, IE8 is not that bad (and its built-in firebug clone is surprisingly good) but its extensions are a joke (it’s super-easy! Implement these 12 COM interfaces (6 of which are undocumented) and you’re set! What could be simpler and less crash prone?).

Safari on the Mac is OK, on Windows it’s a trainwreck (along with the Windows port of iTunes, a despicable piece of trash which makes WMP look good in comparison).

The reasons I use Chrome? It just seems so fast, has a minimalist/elegant UI, nice WebKit rendering of focussed elements, and an incredibly smart location bar (YMMV). I find using FireFox quite painful now by comparison and generally avoid it.

As an aside, I think the Chrome extensions are worthwhile looking at. I recommend RSS Subscription Extension and Type-ahead-find (which allows incremental search of links like in FF). They’re lightweight and very handy.

But when web developing for the web on Windows (ASP.Net) I still use Firefox in combination with Firebug for Javascript and CSS development.

1. Developer tools (I find Firebug the most useful, thus Firefox is my primary browser).
2. Usability (including startup time) – Chrome is very easy to use (so I use it just with the purpose: search & browse) while Firefox is just pretty slow (as for v3.5).
3. Cross-platform with same features set in different OSs (Win+Linux at least).

For now, because of the reasons above, I use mostly Firefox in Ubuntu (Will try Chrome of course too) and Firefox+Chrome in Windows.

And yes, IE. IE 8 is Ok, Not too bad; but again for the reasons above I switch to other browsers.

One more thing, I try to abstract from extensions for any browser that I would not be able to live without. For now I am tight to RoboForm (has not yet good support in Chrome and NA for Linux). So will just have to get rid of it ASAP.

Cheers.