What's so great about Firefox?
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I used to be an Opera user, then for compatibility a Firefox user but Chrome is like the love child of both has the clean interface of Opera and most of the plugins from Firefox carried over. The only reason I don't used chrome more is that it for some reason crashes randomly and this makes me sad... the likely cause is probably the fact I still have all 4 web browsers installed. The only thing Chrome really needs to do is let you customise the interface more and copy Opera Turbo for the unfortunate situations when your internet slows to dial up speeds =]
As I see it, the scoop on the browsers.
Firefox is infinitely customize-able, but still loaded with more shit than you can shake a stick at. Also has that memory leak issue that seems to plague me and nobody else. Go FF. The problem with Open Source is that when you give EVERYONE a chance to fuck something up, 80% of them will, or they'll make some useless garbage.
Opera is pretty sturdy and secure, but good luck trying to render your website for online banking. In fact, half of the pages I go to that are just a little more complex than a chat forum or webcomic site isn't shown properly or has errors. AcidII is a lie.
Chrome is... Well, it's basic, and I like that. But I find that keeping it open half as long as I would Opera would also invoke the famous Firefox Memory leak. Although, Chrome is considerably slower in chewing my RAM. Also, any random Joe blow can see your stored passwords in basic, unmasked text from within Chrome. Fuck that.
Internet Explorer... It feels like it lags behind on everything. Plus I use it at work. It's been so long since I've done anything other than Support Ticketing, data entry, and downloading another browser with it. It's almost to the point where I'm considering going back to the latest version of it.
Aaand, Safari. I've never used it. But It probably follows the Mac's draconian development laws.
Also, if your a web developer. Have IE6 for compatibility reasons. There's a very good reason why a lot of people are still using it and I assure you, it's not by choice. I'll understand if you want to keep off Opera.
Firefox is infinitely customize-able, but still loaded with more shit than you can shake a stick at. Also has that memory leak issue that seems to plague me and nobody else. Go FF. The problem with Open Source is that when you give EVERYONE a chance to fuck something up, 80% of them will, or they'll make some useless garbage.
Opera is pretty sturdy and secure, but good luck trying to render your website for online banking. In fact, half of the pages I go to that are just a little more complex than a chat forum or webcomic site isn't shown properly or has errors. AcidII is a lie.
Chrome is... Well, it's basic, and I like that. But I find that keeping it open half as long as I would Opera would also invoke the famous Firefox Memory leak. Although, Chrome is considerably slower in chewing my RAM. Also, any random Joe blow can see your stored passwords in basic, unmasked text from within Chrome. Fuck that.
Internet Explorer... It feels like it lags behind on everything. Plus I use it at work. It's been so long since I've done anything other than Support Ticketing, data entry, and downloading another browser with it. It's almost to the point where I'm considering going back to the latest version of it.
Aaand, Safari. I've never used it. But It probably follows the Mac's draconian development laws.
Also, if your a web developer. Have IE6 for compatibility reasons. There's a very good reason why a lot of people are still using it and I assure you, it's not by choice. I'll understand if you want to keep off Opera.
Skins for Firefox browser. That is pretty much it for me, like the customization.
Otherwise, I use Chrome for searches and multi-tab activities.
Otherwise, I use Chrome for searches and multi-tab activities.
I never really liked it. Nathan Fillion always kind of bugged me and I'm not a big Josh Whedon fan. I liked Book and River though, and the Western feel was cool.
Oh, wait, Firefox? Nevermind...I don't really care about browsers, so I just use Chrome. Pretty simple.
Oh, wait, Firefox? Nevermind...I don't really care about browsers, so I just use Chrome. Pretty simple.