Browser Choice

[Dr.X]

All about Chrome.
Any internet browser whose error messages sometimes include the phrase "Oh snap!" and nearly always includes a picture of a file with a frown-y face and x's over the eyes automatically wins.

[VERYDUMBNAME]

IE isn't as good as firefox just most people start with IE and never change it

[ElloXP]

I've tried the top five, and FireFox works best for me.

Personally, I think your computer likes to decide how fast it runs,
so everyone is gonna have diff. results. I would take IE, then Chrome if my FF ever failed me.

[Marrell]

And here I am using chrome saying the same thing about you chumps still using FF.

I use both Chrome and Firefox. I've found that sometimes I have issues with Chrome lagging the game when I've got multiple tabs open so I tend to use Firefox a bit more.

I ALSO LOVE GRAPHS

[medal12]

opera for me !! :D

[1 gandalf 55]

wow whats with all these names Ive never heard of before lol.
Ive only looked at 3 of the best and firefox pwns them all... (especially if you know how to get rid of all adds )

[tmusquiez]

[RockstarM]

Firefox FTW!

[ArJuna]

Of course IE has taken the lead. I used to use Firefox exclusively for FC on all my PC's and then all of a sudden it quit working in Firefox when the interface changed in FC. Don't tell me it was not a change in FC because it quit working on three machines simoultaneously. So now I am forced to use IE, but in actuality I simply quit playing FC since then. I hate IE.

[Not4you]

Just curious, does the game play the same on all browsers? If I create a solution on IE will it win on FF? I have come across a few of my own and some other players links that sometimes do not win, I was wondering if it was a browser thing ...

[1 gandalf 55]

no unfortunately that has to do with your computers floating point number memory not the browser but it is really irritating. because my comp has a diff than most many very complex solutions don't work on my computer ...

[weasel]

gandalf is on the right path there. The game uses Flash, so everyone with similar flash versions should get the same experience. That means on one machine, it shouldn't matter what browser you are using.

What can affect it is processor types. Different processors handle numbers differently - a number like this on a PC:
1000000000.000000000000001
might show up as:
1000000000.000000000000000
on a mac, and
1000000000.000000000001
on the iPhone.

In actual fact, the number SHOULD have been
1000000000.000000000000555555555555555555555555555555555555

but processors don't know how to handle such a big number.

(that is a super simplified version of the problem - look up Floating Point Problems in google if you want a more technical description)
When dealing with sensitive physics calculations, these small errors can start piling up more and more and more, and ultimately result in a contraption that wins on one machine, and doesn't win on another. Many contraptions will be behaving mathematically different, but not enough to actually cause a victory/no victory, but the more complex your contraption is the more likely it is to happen.

[Afronanny]

Apple keeps requesting to download safari and bonjour.....ugh
And it won't put me on the "Do not prompt" list. =(

[trite]

The only significant thing that Chrome has over Firefox is speed, yet the beta version of Firefox (3.1) is dominating Chrome in that area.


That said, I might switch to Chrome a couple months after the addon platform is released, and people have time to make some cool addons.

[orangequake]

FF3 all the way.

Been a user since the early Firebird days. The available extensions, like Adblock Plus, are awesome.

[1 gandalf 55]

The way i see it is; IE is way older then fire fox and is automatically loaded into computers yet fire Fox still has about the same amount of support goes to show that when people try firefox they stick to it.

[Stickywulf]

Looking for a more efficient browser I benchmarked Chrome, Firefox and IE. Chrome scored the highest benchmark but I still use Firefox because I like it better. Despite scoring higher in the benchmark, performance in Fantastic Contraption seems about the same to me.

If anyone is interested to benchmark their browsers' speed then try this page. http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/index.action

Choice of browser is easy for me, Chrome runs buggy on my computer and IE won't install Flash. Firefox is the only sane choice left.

[Breaku]

CHROMEEEE

[Iamnowme]

Firefox and Chrome are the best in my opinion. I'm on Firefox right now.

[mvezz]

As a web designer, I have to use all of the browsers on a regular basis for testing/debugging. I used to prefer Firefox until the release version of Chrome. I use Chrome for all of my normal internet browsing, but nothing can beat Firefox's Firebug plugin. That plugin is a godsend for web developers!! I know Chrome and IE have a similar tool, but they are not nearly as intuitive as Firebug.

For me, Chrome starts up faster, loads pages faster, and handles crashes better than any of the other browsers...for now at least =)