Which internet browser do you use and why?

definitely Chrome...although I have opera as a backup..

Google isn't a browser - it's a search engine...

I use Firefox but also have IE on as well.
I let my son advice on these sort of things he's the expert.

Chrome has worked well for me for several years now.

I was blissfully unaware of the choice - Internet Explorer seems to work ok so a bit like choice of fuel providers or insurance companies I'm wary to change if it's working ok, for now...

I use mainly Firefox but on my lap top I have Safari as the Bridge-Online likes Safari better. I don't know anybody who still uses AOL. I had troube with them over payments, but I suppose they have improved.

Internet Explorer has been the designer's nightmare, pretty much up until version 10, which is available with Windows 8.

The reason being that IE failed to support so many of the web standards, so that you created your nice web page, which would look more or less the same in Opera, Firefox, Safari, Chrome... and then you had to make it work in Internet Explorer, often by adding extra code, hacks and extra style files.

One can safely say that Internet Explorer held back the development of the Internet for years. Version 10 has caught up with most of it, not before time!

I use several but prefer Firefox and Chrome as they have the adblock plus addon which gets rid of most of the adverts. I would advise anyone who is running XP not to use IE as you are stuck on version 8 which is getting a bit old now.

I use Chrome and Adblock+. Adblock works perfectly for a few weeks and then the ads begin to creep back and I have to reinstall it. I don't know why.

Firefox and Safari.

MargaretX My brother is still with AOL (Ass----s On Line) despite my derisive laughter... They used to supply a crippled version of Internet Explorer - even more crippled than the usual version - I don't know if that's still the case.

My son gave me his computer as it's a bit faster than mine. Trouble is it's got Norton Security on it [which has expired] and I can't use iplayer as it says I need to install an updated Adobe flash; but the security won't let me do it. As iplayer is a main part of my internet use I'm flumoxed. Said son has disappeared off the radar screen after switching the pooters over as well .

If Norton's expired, I wonder why you can't install the updated Adobe flash? Have you got other security - I mean, you'd have to have some, surely?

Even when it expires it still seems to work [but doesn't update]. I just want to have one of the free ones but once Norton is installed it's difficult to get rid of [and slows the computer down big time as well]. It's so frustrating being a technophobe .

Oh dear - I thought all you had to do was uninstall it, but I've never tried! I have Norton and haven't had any problems with it, but then I don't use iplayer. I have got Adobe flash player 11 though.

Do you have to pay each year to update it? The internet connection in my village is renowned for being very slow which doesn't help.

Yes, I do have to pay every year - I think it was about £20 last time, so not bad really for a year's protection. I'm surprised you couldn't install the Adobe flash update, though - very odd!

Maybe if I paid my £20 they'd let me .

Good grief; my son's coming round to see me this afternoon and he's going to look at it [shock horror]. Am tempted to ask him who he is and have we met before when he arrives but will keep stum and find a few tasks for him to do .

I'm on Mozilla Firefox, and Norton, and the last Adobe flashplayer update has failed 3 times now, and I don't know why

Can you get iplayer?

I don't know, I've never tried!

I've just realised I have actually used BBC iplayer - just checked and I can still access it.

Yes, so have I, duh!