best browser

[Pinhead]

As i understand it, it will keep all the cookies you are using until you close the session (window), which clears the cache.

 

Ah. Got it, cheers.

[stuartbert two hats]

Wouldn't Incognito affect cookies which the ticket session manager may utilise during the booking process...?

 

As i understand it, it will keep all the cookies you are using until you close the session (window), which clears the cache.

Yep, that's right.

[morph100]

One tab in each browser

[Zoo Music Girl]

It strange- each year I use 2-3 browsers and each year one of those performs better than the other two, but each year that best one is different. Probably something to do with cache or cookies or something (I know nothing about computers), but usually one will regularly get through to the holding page, while the other times-out much more frequently before it gets to that point (though occasionally gets through).

 

I usually use Chrome, Safari and Firefox, and see which two are working more promisingly on the day and stick with those (with a random visit to the third browser as a lucky dip!)

 

I think this perfectly illustrates that it really doesn't matter which you use. I've got the page up on all three already... eager? me?

[STEatT]

Safari on Mac usually does the trick for me, seems to refresh slightly smoother than Chrome

[sheffieldlady]

I think this perfectly illustrates that it really doesn't matter which you use. I've got the page up on all three already... eager? me?

I'm sat at work clock watching - it's not even 11am yet and I'm worried I will miss it!!! Ugh. So nervous, it's only tickets for a festival. It isn't like my life depends on getting tickets. 

[EamerRed]

Any differences between browsers would be negligible. Chrome tends to have the quickest page 'build' rate once the HTML is received but we're talking milliseconds. Literally any major browser will be fine, as long as you're not on an old-school version of Internet Explorer.

[T-Mouse]

I use internet explorer as i am trying from work and thats the only browser weve got. Its always been fine. Managed to get 19 friends tickets through nothing but persistence and luck last year.

[Room to sway]

does it really even matter which browser your using?

 

Any modern browser will be absolutely fine. I'll be using Chrome.

[wilson123]

TBH I've always set off using IE, firefox, chrome, safari and using multiple tabs open - using incognito or private browsing in each - and after 15 seconds I realise I'm not superman and so tend to just sit with chrome and holding F5 on one tab.

[Room to sway]

id say anything but microsoft edge.....love windows 10 HATE edge.....so many crashes and freezes definitly not going to trust it with my glasto 2016 chances! Ill be using firefox, old faithful

 

Yeah Edge has a really good rendering engine but as an actual browser you want to use... nope. Almost no useful features and far buggier than it should be.

[Pinhead]

Yep - not dependable enough yet for something as important as ticket day, and importantly not QA'ed by most web operators against their sites and web apps yet.

[sheffieldlady]

I tend to go with Chrome, cause it's my default. Will likely open Firefox and IE and have them just auto-refreshing on the countdown from SEETickets. We got them on the tablet last year which is connected to the same WiFi as the Desktop. We usually have two laptops on Internet sharing on our 4G.. I guess it's more devices on different networks so might increase chances.

I'm still in the camp of anything techy isn't worthwhile unless it is an error from SEE. I think the days of a backdoor link are well and truly over with festivals and tickets in general.

Just wear some lucky pants and hope for the best whilst pressing F5

[srb]

Chrome I usually go for but IE was successful one year. TBH, I just have an early swoop around the browsers, figure out which one is refreshing quicker and stick with it, one tab and hammer the shite out of F5. Switching about just slows you down I find, pick a horse and stick with it

[Pbird81]

Is there much benefit from leaving other window s automatically refreshing away while you hammer f5 on one tab?

[kaytee...]

I got tickets today and used chrome with my phone on 4g. Was successful with the same thing two years ago. Somehow never manage to get past the holding page on my laptop but it really is just luck of the draw I suppose

Edited October 1, 2015 by kaytee...

[Michaels denim shorts]

I had several devices, 2 wifi networks & a 3G hotspot. The only one to load the page was an iPad on the 3G hotspot. I spent a good amount of time to get all 6 details entered, and when I clicked next they'd already been bought by a friend (on her phone)

[Skier68]

Chrome was the winner for me tonight. Safari won it last year. Not sure any one browser is better than another. I use a single window each of IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari leaving the auto refresh on 2 and F5 the others. Just don't have more than one window of each browser going as that's what screws it.

No doubt by 10am Sunday there will be loads of people praising or bemoaning browsers and vowing to always / never use that one again.

Its all down to luck from what I can see.

[Michaels denim shorts]

Chrome was the winner for me tonight. Safari won it last year. Not sure any one browser is better than another. I use a single window each of IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari leaving the auto refresh on 2 and F5 the others. Just don't have more than one window of each browser going as that's what screws it.

No doubt by 10am Sunday there will be loads of people praising or bemoaning browsers and vowing to always / never use that one again.

Its all down to luck from what I can see.

True

Except for IE, obviously

Edited October 1, 2015 by Michaels denim shorts

[Swieve]

i used Edge tonight as it is miles quicker than chrome on Windows 10. got tickets 6 minutes in  

[tjamest]

True

Except for IE, obviously

Got mine tonight with IE at 7.07

[Michaels denim shorts]

Got mine tonight with IE at 7.07

Ha congrats it's still shite though

[scorp]

Is it a good idea to drop adblocker and ghostery for the duration of the attempt? I'd guess so!

[LondonTom]

Browser should make no tangible difference whatsoever. Unless you're using something really crap. Firefox/Internet Explorer/Chrome/Safari/Opera should all be fine.

 

Mmmm?

 

 

(Sorry couldn't help myself!)

 

Is there much benefit from leaving other window s automatically refreshing away while you hammer f5 on one tab?

I guess slightly more chances, that you hit the server when it has an "open slot"  but you could lose concentration if you have to many. (and as others said , one tab per browser/incognito window)

[verrymerry]

No. As long as its not Internet Explorer.

 Funny you say that but I had Crome, Firefox and IE running yesterday and it was IE I got through on!