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Offline max_cady

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Browser Wars: Episode 1 - The Short Attention Span Menace
« 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?
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Offline Emmett The Crab

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Re: Browser Wars: Episode 1 - The Short Attention Span Menace
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: Browser Wars: Episode 1 - The Short Attention Span Menace
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: Browser Wars: Episode 1 - The Short Attention Span Menace
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2011, 10:23:42 pm »
I'm with Soup. I used to use Firefox, now I just use Chrome.
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Offline Happy Cat

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Re: Browser Wars: Episode 1 - The Short Attention Span Menace
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2011, 03:26:46 am »
I love FireFox 7, doesn't freeze on me like the older versions did.
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Offline max_cady

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Re: Browser Wars: Episode 1 - The Short Attention Span Menace
« Reply #5 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.
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Re: Browser Wars: Episode 1 - The Short Attention Span Menace
« Reply #6 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
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Re: Browser Wars: Episode 1 - The Short Attention Span Menace
« Reply #7 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.
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Re: Browser Wars: Episode 1 - The Short Attention Span Menace
« Reply #8 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.
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Offline Barry the Nomad

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Re: Browser Wars: Episode 1 - The Short Attention Span Menace
« Reply #9 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.
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