Wednesday, February 16, 2011

BROWSERS

Well, it's really hard to tell from the title. But I'm going to talk about browsers, especially which is best for whom.
These are the most popular.

  1. Mozilla Firefox
  2. Google Chrome
  3. Opera
  4. Apple Safari
  5. Internet Explorer

Firefox



Firefox is one of the most widely used web browsers in the world. It's for everybody. Whether you're a developer or a general user it has the right tools for you. Maybe for some, Firefox might not be good as a default browser. But every once in a while Firefox comes to help. Firefox supports almost everything whether if it is a font or a add-on or a tool. So if it's not the best, it's one of the best.




Chrome


Chrome is the best for me. It's simple, it's fast and also has a wide range of extensions to choose from. Since Chrome is installed into application data folder, if it's a shared computer, chrome is good for security as well. But chrome had a problem with some JavaScript, for example twitter is not that much friendly with Chrome. But I'll say for a internet connection of average speed, chrome is the best.

Opera


Well, it's the odd one in the family. Opera 9 was seems to be the slowest browser in it's time. Then Opera 10 was called the fastest browser on earth. Now we have Opera 11. It's actually fast, but with slower connections which I have it doesn't produced that much. But it's features are unmatched. First of all it has a built in mail manager. Without opening a new tab we get a fully functional mail browser. Then 'Opera Unite', a tool that can turn your machine into a file hosting machine. Using Opera Unite we can share any file in our computer with internet without having upload them into a different location (provided by file sharing sites). Then the extensions. They are unique. If you're into web developing or mathematics or something complex, search opera extensions they will have answers. And we can manually add extensions as well. As a way of speaking, I was able to set up Facebook chat as a extension in Opera, so I do not have to log into FB to chat. So when we combine it all,
After I open Opera,
  • My mail is online, I can send,receive and read mails without going to a different tab
  • My Facebook chat is online, I do not have to go to FB site to see whose online
  • My files can be shared with anyone, so I do not have mail them or upload into a sharing site to send my files to a friend.
  • And I forgot to mention above that it has turbo (theoretically this will enhance page viewing if your connection is slow, but doesn't seem to have that much effect).
So my conclusion is, if your connection is reliable ( very reliable), opera is the one.


Safari

Well, it's the Posh guys tool. Comes default with Mac OS, but also have a version for Windows. To tell you the truth it's damn slow. I tried with my Windows 7. It seems to have somewhat Ubuntu look. Then I realized that Ubuntu is the one who copied Mac. So there must have something in their browser, but couldn't find out what. It's simply not good enough. So I say if it's not Mac, don't use it.

Internet Explorer


One sentence, "DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT". It's slow, it's week and it doesn't support anything (anything doesn't support it). It's the worst browser I've ever seen. The problem is IE only designed for browsing web, you can't do anything else. I think most people will agree with this. It's security is very low. The Microsoft's Windows Live program gives out every password we save on it (save a password in Windows Live and run the software called SIW and point to passwords ->it's be able to decrypt Win live password but will be unable to decrypt passwords from most other softwares). So Internet Explorer shouldn't be far behind.



Personally I have installed Chrome, Firefox and Opera on my computer. Chrome is the default, Firefox is configured with IDM for all the downloading stuff, and Opera for developing and testing purposes.

4 comments:

  1. You're absolutely right about IE Akalanka. I recently installed Chrome just to have the feeling of it and used it to attach and send some files to a friend in my mail account. He doesn't know much about computers but he said that his virus guard does not allow him to open it saying it is infected. I tried downloading what I sent again. Gmail didn't find any viruses in attachments. Neither did Avast. Then I ran a full virus scan on my computer and Avast found only one file as the culprit - some kind of a javaScript in cache of Chrome.

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  2. yap, must be a saved Cookie. But except that, it's great.

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  3. This was very helpful to me and after reading this, I installed Opera in my PC too (Previously there were IE, Chrome & Firefox). Now I am enjoying all those advanced features you mentioned about.

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  4. he he... nice to hear that my blog has been of use to someone...!!!

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