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[#1]

I don't want to start a flame war here, but I have always used internet explorer (apart from Netscape many moons ago). The problem I am having is I have just gone to Win 8.1 and for some reason Battlelog (for BF4) needs a plug in, but the plug in will not work with IE 11 (security reasons). So I am thinking about another browser. Are there any pros and cons for say Chrome, FF or any other recommendations.
Thanks for reading.

[#2]

James, i have always Used Firefox  and never have problems with anything 

[#3]

I switched to Chrome for a variety of reasons, but one being the bloat of firefox.

[#4]

Chrome will feed you adverts based on your past history of sites visited.  If you don't mind that or you install the Adblock extension then it's fine.

[#5]

Yup, use adblock and and ghostery...

[#6]

I did a bit of reading, and read FF is the reincarnation of Netscape, so I gave it a try and BF4 is now working again.
Thanks for all your advice.

[#7]

must admit i wasnt impressed when i tried Chrome

[#8]

Quote from: dvorak

I switched to Chrome for a variety of reasons, but one being the bloat of firefox.

On Windows, Pale Moon is an FF alternative, built from the same source code, which can help with that...

[#9]

Switched from FF to Chrome a while back, no adverts with AaBlock installed, also remove all the flash from my PC`s as its aready in Chrome.

[#10]

The major problem with Firefox - at least the way it's set up on my XP machine with the extensions I want - is it's a real memory hog! Starts at around 250K but left open will rise to over 1GB. On a machine with 2GB of RAM (expanded from the original 256K) that's an unacceptable amount of space being used up.

[#11]

On my 16GB RAM PC (Windows 7 Pro 64bit) it usually starts very low then gradually creeps up to a little over 2GB. I notice that web browsing starts to become sluggish at around around 1.5GB as well as Explorer also seems to be affected.
Quitting FF solves the issue till the next time