Not real sold on any of them.
Microsoft keeps promising compliance and not delivering. On top of that, one has to deal with all the peculiar anomalies of IE, as well as specific programming for (at least) I#,6, IE7, IE8. My development time is doubled thanks to Microsoft.
FailFox seems to be degrading all the time. Initially an amazing product, there seems to be a real lack of adequate testing and quality. After finally somewhat fixing the memory leak problem, the version 3+ browsers (at the time of this writing, 3.5.1) are fairly unstable - at least, with my setup. Constant crashes that do not occur with other browsers.
Opera I like but it doesn't always display html the way I expect it to. Takes a little tweaking some times, but I can usually come up with a compromise that will work in other browsers as well. I really haven't analyzed whether the problem is a bad interpretation or whether Opera is doing it right and others are not. I would consider using this as my main browser, except that I miss some of the features I enjoy with FireFox.
Safari has really come into the real world. If my pages display right in FireFox, they also display right in Safari. Although I haven't really put it through the paces, seems like a great browser but, once again, missing some of the features of FireFox. (Sorry, can't go into mire detail. I only know that I have tried both Opera and Safari as default browsers, and I end up going back to FireFox, but part of the reason for that is that I have bookmarklets set up conveniently in the toolbar that I use constantly.
Google Chrome needs to grow up. But then, I don't like Google anyway.
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Hi
Just want to thank you for very informative post, regards Ed
Browser Smouser
Not real sold on any of them.
Microsoft keeps promising compliance and not delivering. On top of that, one has to deal with all the peculiar anomalies of IE, as well as specific programming for (at least) I#,6, IE7, IE8. My development time is doubled thanks to Microsoft.
FailFox seems to be degrading all the time. Initially an amazing product, there seems to be a real lack of adequate testing and quality. After finally somewhat fixing the memory leak problem, the version 3+ browsers (at the time of this writing, 3.5.1) are fairly unstable - at least, with my setup. Constant crashes that do not occur with other browsers.
Opera I like but it doesn't always display html the way I expect it to. Takes a little tweaking some times, but I can usually come up with a compromise that will work in other browsers as well. I really haven't analyzed whether the problem is a bad interpretation or whether Opera is doing it right and others are not. I would consider using this as my main browser, except that I miss some of the features I enjoy with FireFox.
Safari has really come into the real world. If my pages display right in FireFox, they also display right in Safari. Although I haven't really put it through the paces, seems like a great browser but, once again, missing some of the features of FireFox. (Sorry, can't go into mire detail. I only know that I have tried both Opera and Safari as default browsers, and I end up going back to FireFox, but part of the reason for that is that I have bookmarklets set up conveniently in the toolbar that I use constantly.
Google Chrome needs to grow up. But then, I don't like Google anyway.
Firefox all the way
and will like firefox even more when FF3 comes out.
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