You never know if a girl's gonna say 'yes', or if she's gonna laugh in your face and pull out your still-beating heart and crush it into the ground with her heel.

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Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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NoiseDesign - Oct 29, 2012 6:55:07 pm PDT #21367 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

I tend to use the browser that is built into the phone, both of my iOS and Android devices. There are only so many hours in the day and which browser is most efficient on the mobile OS doesn't make the cut on things to worry about. I figure if I don't really care and I'm a pretty tech savvy person then the average user definitely can't be bothered.


meara - Oct 29, 2012 7:22:30 pm PDT #21368 of 25501

I use safari on my iPad and iPhone. I just downloaded chrome, since that's what I use on my laptop, but haven't gotten it going yet or seen if I like it. Plus I use Firefox on my work and netbook (which I use when I'm home so I don't go here on the work compiter, it's set up next to it).


§ ita § - Oct 29, 2012 7:41:43 pm PDT #21369 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

How so?

They don't seem to come up in many browser discussions. I think (they're usually part of Other.

Opera on all the devices that let me share my bookmarks with the home laptop and desktop. The other I have are in case a page isn't rendering well, I try in it native, Dolpin, Chrome, and Firefox.

Chrome is definitely my second favourite on al platforms, but I haven't looked into nookmark sharing, since I tend to transfer good links to Opera and bookmark them there.

I thought I'd found an Android web clipping solution--Evernote Share (dolphin plugin) is supposed to fix that--in Dolphin, but I'm clearly doing something wrong because mine doesn't work yet.


Liese S. - Oct 29, 2012 8:09:05 pm PDT #21370 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I use Dolphin. I love it a lot.


§ ita § - Oct 30, 2012 5:07:39 am PDT #21371 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'd use Dolphin more if I could make the Evernote Share addon work. As it is, Opera has al my settings from my desktop and laptop, so it wins.


Consuela - Oct 30, 2012 5:21:21 am PDT #21372 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I use Dolphin on my phone.


Glamcookie - Oct 30, 2012 8:33:01 am PDT #21373 of 25501
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

I use Chrome on my phone. I like that I can access the tabs I have open in Chrome on various devices.


Jessica - Oct 30, 2012 10:05:59 am PDT #21374 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I use Safari on my phone because I prefer Gmail's mobile interface to the Mail app, and Safari is the only browser that will open web apps on the iPhone. If Apple allowed alternate default browsers, I'd probably switch to Chrome or Diigo.


§ ita § - Oct 30, 2012 10:24:42 am PDT #21375 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Because "what would it take" is on my mind--what would it take for you to consider Opera? Chrome is increasingly popular on the desktop, so the question isn't particularly about Opera v. Chrome. But why Diigo, which is a pretty small name on the landscape? What about it appeals to you?


Jessica - Oct 30, 2012 10:28:16 am PDT #21376 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I haven't looked at Opera in a while because the last time I looked at it on any platform, the toolbars were too busy and I didn't want to take the time to customize them. Diigo because it has a very clean interface and I like the way it handles tabs - it's actually more Chrome-like on the phone than Chrome in terms of appearance.

[eta - when I first installed Diigo, Chrome didn't have a mobile version and Diigo was called iChromy. So Chrome was really what I was looking for, and now I don't have a compelling reason to switch. Syncing across machines would be the killer feature for Chrome, but since I turned on two-factor authentication in Gmail the syncing doesn't work anyway.]