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Ask HN: What browsers do you use everyday? I use 2 simultaneously

2 points by esponapule ↗ HN
I just read an article on HN about how Chrome made an 8.5% gain last month. And had to wonder why. I was wondering if anyone else works like I do. While at work, all day long, I use 2 browsers all day long: minefield (firefox beta 8, latest trunk) and Chromium 9. Sometimes I am forced to use IE 8 for corporate stuff, but I really don't like that. I am stuck on windows XP because I work for a corp. But at home, I use Firefox and chrome on my Ubuntu.

When I do HTML coding I test in every browser I can, using variants of the big 3 engines, gecko, Trident, and Webkit.

So what does everyone else use?

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sdgszdg
Chrome (unless I really, really need to use firebug for something, in which case I'll escape as soon as possible).
WillyDmz
It's inconvenient (not to mention a resource hog) to have another browser open most of the time.

I use Chrome for development. Then I confirm that everything is similar in Firefox, which it usually is.

Then I fix IE's numerous errors in every single version. Immediately after that, I restrain the urge to cry myself to sleep.

ScottWhigham
Wish this was a poll so I could vote and then see others' voting as well. I use all four of the biggies daily - Firefox on my own computer, IE on my PC for sites that just don't do well in Firefox (there are three that I visit), Chrome on my wife's PC (so I can have my own sessions w/o affecting her Firefox sessions), and Safari on my iOS devices.