Best Web Browser to play on chess.com?

What browser do you prefer for playing chess online in terms of practicality, easy of use and safety?

The big players are Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Firefox.

What is you choice?

Chrome and Firefox are the best browsers for everything. Internet Explorer should be avoided

I like Firefox as well.

Yeah Explorer up to the 10 version is not that great and has a bad reputation stuck to it, especially for plug-in management and the security updates are scarce but they seem to have made some improvements in that regard with IE 11. It is faster and safer.

Chrome and Firefox seems to be the best choices out there.

Chrome goes with a built-in flash player, sandbox and is incredibly fast. My only concern is privacy. Also, when a tab crash it won't bring the whole browser down like IE and FF. You can just shut it and keep doing what you do. Another great feature.

Firefox is as good as usual, but it seems to me that it has fallen behind. The major argument for using it as a main browser is that it is of open-source. Therefore you're contributing to a community that build a free and open browser and in terms of privacy it is the best choice you can make. The downside is that it is slower than IE 11 and chrome. There is no sandbox system to keep malwares from getting in your computer through the browser.

It seems that Google Chrome (or Chromium in Linux) has the upper hand. It is matter of choice, taste and privacy but Chrome do seem to offer what is best in terms of perfomance.

I've come to the conclusion that one wants to have the browser one doesn't normally use to be the one for live chess.  Over the course of time my regular browser has become crufted with extensions and every extension takes away some of the performance needed to play live at fast time controls.  So now, if engaging in an extended session, I shut down my regular browser and use one with no extensions or addons.  That browser is Chrome.

I was singularly impressed with how much more responsive it was than "that other browser".

Netscape.

Not so true. Chrome is based on the Chromium browser, an open-source project. So, it is not so much the best as one of the best. Google Chrome is a ''googlelized'' version of Chromium. The two are almost identical, at the exception that Chromium has no built-in flash player.

As for Internet Explorer, it is not terrible anymore. IE 10 is a decent browser and IE 11 catch up is opponents. It is faster, safer and slicker than it previously was.

The problem with Microsost Internet Explorer is that the updates are not frequent. You got them through Windows Update. Chrome and firefox on the other hand, fix bugs and issue updates daily and weekly.

Chrome is the official recommendation, and in my experience, everything in chess.com is slightly faster with chrome compared to firefox, but I use firefox more often because of other reasons without any particular problems. 

BTW, internet explorer? Is that thing still around? Sigh. 

Internet explorer.

Uhm, no. 

Not ever, not for anything.

Opera

No longer true since Firefox 29 Australis. It's a much faster and responsive browser for just about anything.

@Glorfindel_1

Opera I never tried but from what I've read it's pretty much a rebranding of Chrome. It's based on Chromium and so uses the same engine (webkit) than Chrome. Not sure what are the advantage of choosing Opera over Chrome, since Opera users have to rely on the same extensions than that of the Chrome Store.

The Norwegian enterprise Opera Software may be a bit more privacy conscious but their browser is still closed-source.

I have found the the Maxthon Cloud browser worked best for me, in fact it worked flawlessly, in Live Chess.  Firefox, Opera, Chrome and IE all gave me some problems when I tested them in Live Chess.

Lynx

That seems rather dubious. Do you have an old OS?

Internet Explorer 3 on Windows 3.1

As everybody knows ... uh, s-h-o-u-l-d know, FIREFOX is best because for different reasons, and come on, InternetExplorer ..!? Seriously, IE is b******it !

LOL

Maxthon Coud Browser is a rebranding of Chromium developped in China.

www.chromium.org

Chromium is the open-source project that serves as a basis for the developpement of Google Chrome. As the source code is free for anyone to use, anyone can use it to built their own browsers.

There are quite a few rebranding of Chromium, the most populars are:

-Google Chrome

-Opera

-Maxthon Cloud Browser

-Commodo Dragon

-CoolNovo

-SRWare Iron

-Torch Browser

- Epic Privacy Browser

-Yandex Browser

It comes down to your need but most importantly who you trust. As for Maxthon I must say I am uncomfortable in knowing that all my browsing data might end up in some server in China.

I'm uncomfortable and don't trust with Google.  Chrome is adware sending tracking information back to Google so they can cram AdWords up your nose 'til they come out your ears.