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Bob All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Mar 20 2010 : 7:00PM
Here's another article from Tom's Hardware.com that may be of general interest to techno-geeks. The feedback from readers in the comment section is also interesting.
"Web Browser Grand Prix: The Top Five Tested And Ranked"
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Posted - Mar 23 2010 : 11:01PM
Yup, I should stop using IE as it crashes all the time. I just use IE out of habit and because I know where to click.
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Posted - Mar 25 2010 : 5:24PM
^^^
Firefox is as easy to use as IE, and more customizable. I really like how it renders pages. Recently, though, I've found it to be buggy, especially when I'm using it to download stuff. And the "Down-them-All" add-on to Firefox has been buggy, too.
Opera is really fast generally and is a stable downloading tool. It also has a unique optional mode called "turbo" which, when enabled, compresses page information to further increase speed in navigation. It allows you to trade off between the quickness with which pages load and the detail/quality in which pages are rendered, which can sometimes be useful.
I don't care for the look and feel of Google at all.
These days I'm using a combination of Firefox and Opera, each for the tasks that I think they do best.
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Posted - Mar 26 2010 : 11:16AM
The kind of speed benchmarking you see in those tests seems a bit meaningless to me, especially when you're talking about a desktop browser and modern internet connections. Reminds me of gamer benchmarks where people get excited about getting their frame rate up from 147.5 to 149.1 after 3 days of tweaking. I guess if you're using a specific online app that really benefits from speedy Java Script* then there'll be a noticeable difference, but not for typical everyday browsing.
I'm still using Opera 10.10 as my main browser, mainly because of some nice user interface features. For all its speed, Opera 10.5x still has too many bugs, annoyances and stability issues to replace it. I keep Chrome installed for the occasional site that doesn't load properly in Opera.
*Has anyone ever noticed that you can't write Jav*Script in this forum? The word gets removed from the post when it's published. Weird.
Edited by - Dave_K99 on 3/26/2010 11:20:05 AM
Bob All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Mar 26 2010 : 9:11PM
These benchmarks were meaningful to me because they bore out my subjective impressions from using the various browsers. Your mileage may vary.
 
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Posted - Mar 27 2010 : 3:30PM
I used to love Opera, but it seems like it's less well-behaved than in the past.
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Posted - Mar 30 2010 : 3:21AM
I've been using google chrome for the past year or so, and I'm very happy with it. When I have a lot of tabs open, I use Firefox because at high tab volumes, chrome tends to be crash happy.



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