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Title: Browser Wars: Episode 1 - The Short Attention Span Menace
Post by: max_cady on September 27, 2011, 04:30:23 pm

Well, I decided to make this little ol' topic for y'all to chat a bit about the current browsers in the marketplace.

We got Google Chrome currently at version 14, Opera, Firefox is now version 7 and Internet Explorer is still holding in at number 9.

Basically, Firefox has been pretty bad as of late. But Google Chrome is starting to get a little slow to me and IE, well, after what seemed like a good run, that browser is once again, an unusable memory eating machine. Your thought's on this?

Title: Re: Browser Wars: Episode 1 - The Short Attention Span Menace
Post by: Emmett The Crab on September 29, 2011, 10:50:27 am

Safari may not be the best browser, but I subscribe to MobileMe (formerly .Mac, soon to be iCloud) and it allows me to sync my bookmarks automatically between all my computers and mobile devices.  I use firefox when something doesn't work on Safari.

Title: Re: Browser Wars: Episode 1 - The Short Attention Span Menace
Post by: SOUP on September 29, 2011, 11:46:27 am

I used to be all about the Firefox until the most recent version had problems on a few of the pages I visit on a regular basis. I switched over to Chrome after that, and I've been enjoying it so far.

Title: Re: Browser Wars: Episode 1 - The Short Attention Span Menace
Post by: George on September 29, 2011, 10:23:42 pm

I'm with Soup. I used to use Firefox, now I just use Chrome.

Title: Re: Browser Wars: Episode 1 - The Short Attention Span Menace
Post by: Happy Cat on September 30, 2011, 03:26:46 am

I love FireFox 7, doesn't freeze on me like the older versions did.

Title: Re: Browser Wars: Episode 1 - The Short Attention Span Menace
Post by: max_cady on September 30, 2011, 03:39:57 am

To my shock, Firefox 7 really does seem to be a major improvement over the previous versions. Opera is also very good.

The latest findings on LifeHacker.com are surprising (http://lifehacker.com/5844150/browser-speed-tests-firefox-7-chrome-14-internet-explorer-9-and-more).

Title: Re: Browser Wars: Episode 1 - The Short Attention Span Menace
Post by: Happy Cat on September 30, 2011, 06:02:55 am

The only bad thing about FireFox 7 for me is its crashing when I try to open Gmail. So i got gmail open in chrome. lol

Title: Re: Browser Wars: Episode 1 - The Short Attention Span Menace
Post by: George on September 30, 2011, 06:05:40 am

When I click the 'Chrome icon' it loads up right away. Firefox, not so much. I going to give 7 a fair chance though.

Title: Re: Browser Wars: Episode 1 - The Short Attention Span Menace
Post by: max_cady on September 30, 2011, 08:09:10 am

Gmail, fortunately doesn't crash on me.

But then again, most of the time I just use Thunderbird to read and delete all my mail.

Title: Re: Browser Wars: Episode 1 - The Short Attention Span Menace
Post by: Barry the Nomad on September 30, 2011, 09:08:55 am

Used to use Firefox, but then it got Firefucked up and I moved to Flock. Then Flock stopped being supported, so I moved to Chrome and haven't moved. I hate to be under Google's thumb, but at least I know the browser will continue to be supported.