Downloading more than one browser?

For anyone who designs websites, having more than one browser is a must because the page you are designing may appear different or work in one but not another. All browsers act independently, allowing you to run multiple browsers at the same time. Can I have more than one Internet browser installed? Additional information How to install or uninstall the Google Chrome browser. How to install or uninstall the Mozilla Firefox browser.

I currently use chrome as my default browser and for the most part, it is great. There is nothing wrong with having three browsers! Very often problems are caused by a browser cache problem — a quick way to check for that is to simply use a different browser.

I have 4 browsers installed and there is absolutely no conflict or slow down. I regularly use Chrome and Firefox and the other 2 to occasionally test how a website would work in different browsers. Hope it is okay to add to a discussion started so long back.

I unsynced in the options and even tried to change the firefox account name on one but it appeared the same on other one. I want one of them to be clean and the other one to have all my add ons and bookmarks. I get around that by using Firefox and Chrome if I want to have 2 separate logins to the same website, for example. That might work well in your situation as it is still compatible with lots of Firefox add-ins. Not possible. You can have only one copy of a specific browser installed in yoru system at a time.

I have Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Opera all installed and available, for example. Chrome is my default browser. I just installed Firefox. Used it once. Closed it. How do I open? Click on the Windows Start icon, start typing: firefox, and click on Firefox when it comes up on the search. You can open any installed program similarly. Reinstalling Firefox might not even work as reinstalling usually maintains the latest settings.

Hi Leo. Please excuse me for being somewhat computer illiterate. I have on my iPhone 5se both Google and Google Chrome. Do I need both of these, or does one do the same thing as the other? Which one would be preferable if I only need one of them? I ask because I assumed that I probably only need one of them, so I kept the chrome and deleted the regular google app.

Any recommendations? Thanks very much. I want to go back on the site and they have blocked me because I have too many engines that I have used in the past through this site so this site has blocked me and I can never have it back again how do I fix from not doing that again. Opera has some nice features and seems to be a bit faster than other browsers.

I alternate constantly between 3 browsers. Comments violating those rules will be removed. Comments that don't add value will be removed, including off-topic or content-free comments, or comments that look even a little bit like spam. All comments containing links and certain keywords will be moderated before publication. I want comments to be valuable for everyone, including those who come later and take the time to read. Search Ask Leo! When you combine them, things get geometrically more complex.

All three of the top browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome, are good, solid browsers, as are many others like Safari and Opera. Become a Patron of Ask Leo! I have no problem recommending that you use any one of them as your primary browsers. Pick whichever one feels best to you; the one whose interface you feel is the most intuitive; perhaps the one you feel performs the best on the sites that you typically visit.

Seriously, any of them will do just fine these days. Then install another one. If you use and like IE and then have either Firefox or Chrome installed as well, make sure that you leave the default browser set to the one you like the most. The site that works fantastic in Firefox just might not look good in IE.

Stuff happens. Internet Explorer had a reputation for a long time for not being standards-compliant. Websites that were written correctly would simply not display correctly in IE. And yet, it was the most popular browser by virtue of being included in Windows. IE itself has gotten a lot better in recent versions. All I can say is, that could be. The other problem though is that for a long time, many websites were actually written to work specifically with that non-standards-compliant Internet Explorer.

What that means is that even though IE was doing things wrong, websites wanted to work with the most popular browser, and thus they did things wrong as well in order to work with IE.

The practical, pragmatic solution for you as an average user is very, very simple. If the browser you use is not doing what you need it to, try a different one. It costs nothing to go back and forth. Subscribe to Confident Computing! Less frustration and more confidence, solutions, answers, and tips in your inbox every week. You also say that you have no problem with folks using any of the big 3 browsers. Maxthon has been around now for at least 10 years and you should have at least given it a try by now.

I, and many others, find it to be superior to any of the browsers you tout so why not give it a tumble and add it to your list of viable browsers? I only just discovered Maxthon as well. It has a version that is significantly faster to use to browse on Kindle Fire and iPad.

It does have some great features. Have heard of Maxthon, have never used it. Have used the others. Again, that could be outdated information. Recently moved from IE to Google Chrome which I find much quicker but does leave many tracking cookies. Tracking cookies come from the sites you visit, not the browser unless you mean that your previous browser has an add-on which blocks tracking cookies.