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A little opinion-poll here to see what browser(s) we are forced to use in the corporate/education/non-profit sector and/or at home.
~ Internet Explorer Classic (Version 6 or older)
~ Internet Explorer 8-11
~ Firefox / Pale-Moon / Sea-Monkey
~ Google Chrome
~ Opera
~ OTHER

Was running Firefox from "Documents" folder for over a year - with the I.T. tech's blessing... Well, that "blessing" was void this week - I ended with IE11 installed, aside from the UI (Which is terribly broken), it still runs like a beached Whale.
Apparently Firefox could 'breach the integrity, stability and security' of the network. So what is offered instead? Internet Exploder 8. Like that allows stability, security and integrity!
The I.T. tech uses Firefox on their work computer...
 
We use ...

Internet Explorer for our video-intensive applications.

For everything else we have both Firefox and Chrome installed.
 
 
I'm not forced to use anything specific at any given location.

Firefox is my choice at all locations.

There are very rare cases (countable on less than one hand) of a web site working only with IE.  Have also found one situation in which IE doesn't work and Firefox does work.

Chrome is used for one very specific business application (the remote management software for the digital projectors).  There's a glitch with IE (v10 on Win7) in that the pages/screens do not refresh unless forced with F5 or the reload button.  The installation/support tech reconfigured for Chrome, but Firefox probably would also work.
 
Safari 7.0.5 and Firefox 31 for me on OS X at work and also at home.

On Windows at work we mostly use a mix of latest versions of Firefox and IE, or IT policy is to ensure that browsers are kept as up to date as possible for security purposes.
 
At home I use Waterfox as I run a 64bit OS, basically it's the same as Firefox, except it's a 64 bit build.
At work IE for the intranet, Chrome (which I loathe with a passion) for internet.
 
We use IE8 at work, ugh from like years ago. But I like that because I can check issues with the site on old versions of IE that way. They do have a developers button in IE11 to see how older versions of IE render the page, but it does not always render the page the same way as the actual old version.

On my personal laptop I have no choice but to have IE, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari for testing the sites.

I usually browser in Chrome though.
 
I never touch IE if I don't have to. Unfortunately, at work, I have to. IE10 is the only approved browser. Our computers are extremely restricted -- we can hardly do anything other than run MS Office apps. We can't even get to a DOS prompt.

We're being told that next year we'll be switched over to a thin-client system, where there will be no customization and no placing things you want on the desktop. Every desktop and every application will look exactly the same for all users. May as well go back to the mainframe days. I suspect that soon we'll be punching cards again.
 

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