J.A.F. Team

You like Internet Exploder?

Yes.

 

Opera has some cool features, but I don't know of anyone who's actually willing to take the time to investigate them. =P

 

Also, I totally mad, bro. Man, I hatin.

How much did Swert pay you to write this?

Didn't pay a thing. He legit has three browsers running at once (we're both in agreement Safari is garbage. If it works on Chrome, it'll work on Safari.)

 

That's all I'll say for now I could rant all day.

Internet Explorer is a perfectly acceptable web browser. I agree with you about the superiority complex and believe that's much of the cause of the baseless criticisms.

 

Oh, and:

 

Opera - use this for easy torrents.

 

Edit: For some reason my comment was blanked??

This blog entry offends me and is evil. >

I use IE9 at my job due to some crucial operations sites that still rely on mid-2000s ActiveX plugins (I mean, seriously?). When I'm not using those IE-only sites, I tend to run into a lot of weird compatibility and layout issues (whether or not I'm using "Compatibility Mode"). Tabs tend to randomly crash and reopen at least once a workday. This is all on a brand new PC running completely vanilla Windows 7 x64 and no abnormal browser plugins / toolbars.

 

*shrug*

I don't actually hate IE9 (It's not a bad web browser, at least compared to IE6/7), but from experience (I use all three browsers heavily), Firefox and Chrome tend to come out on top in terms of reliability and performance. It's still personal preference, though, and as long as someone's not using Safari (on Windows*) I'm not gonna hate.

 

*(I swear, it's like Apple PLANNED to make iTunes and Safari terrible on Windows, but great on Mac.)

I'm using Chrome with Bing as default search engine and homepage. whatnow

 

Agree, Safari is pretty bad, or at least it was a couple years ago (same with Chrome, I'm glad I gave it another go).

 

As far as IE goes, I don't get the hate. I thought it was perfectly serviceable, and until just a few months ago I used it exclusively because I admired its stability. Then I switched to Chrome because Google got their stuff in order and it stopped crashing all the time and it's much more customizable than IE.

 

IE was definitely the best functioning browser I've used, or it was for a few months. After a while it started getting really slow and crashed on me every time I opened more than a dozen tabs (which is something I do all the time, right now I've got probably around 30 open and Chrome is handling it) so I gave up on it. Still, I think it was at least okay. Worked better than Safari and Firefox (and for a while, Chrome), anyway.

 

I'd say Dolphin is the true best browser but that's only for mobile.

I've used Safari for 8 years and never had a problem. Also love chrome, but it can be glitchy at times. IE flat out sucks, and Firefox I agree with cmopletely.

I find Firefox very reliable in terms of recalling crashed windows/tabs...but other than that it seems the same as IE to me.

I was always a fan of Netscape Navigator.

 

However, I currently use Firefox, with the occasional use of IE and Chrome.

 

Arguing over what internet browser you use is about as worthwhile as arguing over what type of plate you eat you dinner off IMO.

 

(btw plastic sucks)

Arguing over what internet browser you use is about as worthwhile as arguing over what type of plate you eat you dinner off IMO.(btw plastic sucks)

Except it's not the same thing at all. They all have legitimately different pros and cons, and it is not a debate that IE is behind the times in HTML development and implementation, etc. It's not a superiority complex, IE is less stable than Firefox or Chrome, it has a slower startup time, it does not parse HTML or Javascript the way modern webpages are designed to be read, and it takes up more memory resources than the other two major browsers. Those are facts, not opinion.

 

Now, which one you prefer to use is all fine and dandy, and they are all legitimate browsers, and they all pretty much get the job done. But if you want to experience webpages the way they have been designed to be seen, you don't use IE. Because it is still lacking in HTML5 output, and renders pages differently than designed.

 

I used Chrome for awhile, but each tab being a different process is great if one freezes, because I can just switch to a different one and keep going, but it becomes a huge memory bloat, and I don't like the way having thirty tabs open on Chrome slows my computer down (because it means I have 30 Chrome processes open). Chrome's startup speed is faster than any other browser's, but I need my browser to handle a ton of tabs while also saving enough memory and resources for Skype, Photoshop and Bridge, etc. Chrome and IE don't do that, at least not well. (I also don't like how Chrome's adblock works)

 

Firefox has a slower startup time than Chrome, but it parses HTML5 better than other browsers, and is the default standard in modern webdesign. Modern sites are written to be viewed in Firefox, because web design "geeks" and the like prefer the way it utilizes cutting edge HTML technology before other browsers integrate properly. Chrome uses less memory than Firefox with a few tabs open, but when you get tens of tabs open at once, Firefox uses less memory and takes up less space than the other two major browsers.

 

Those aren't opinions or the like, they are actual tech-based facts. Which browser you use from there depends on what you do with browsers. There's a reason most offices still use IE, and that's because of Microsoft's tech support and the fact that IE was built for business use, like most MS products. That's why a lot of sites with encryption for businesses still require the user to use IE. If you want your browser to come to life faster than anything else, and only use a handful of tabs at a time, Chrome is fantastic. If you are a power user who has more than 30 tabs open at once, and you're constantly running through more modern pages and scripts, you'd want to be using Firefox. It all depends on what kind of Internet user you are.

Not even gonna bother reading all the walls of text. I'm just dropping this off for the entry's content.

 

 

DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT HAS BEEN SINCE I HANDED THIS OUT?! (granted the offline time didn't help, but still...)

I think the only issues with IE9 are some isolated coding compatability problems, generally with sites designed for older versions of IE. I've tried both Chrome and Firefox; Firefox's layout is rather clunky, and Chrome, while it matches IE's speed, lacks a toolbar for easy navigation.

Superiority complex? Well, as long as someone isn't using IE, I'm fine, but when Chrome users get on my case about using Firefox I'm annoyed. Chrome is great and I use it too, but Firefox has more extensions that I just couldn't function without, which Chrome does not.

 

But hey, anyone using an open-source browser gets my respect.

 

-CF