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- vajra918, on 07/20/2009, -2/+67Rating everything 4/5 isn't exactally helpful..
- iamabootdisk, on 07/20/2009, -3/+40awww man... i thought it said "Battle of the Bowsers".
- gamepr0, on 07/20/2009, -3/+36How the hell did that happen btw?
IE is better than chrome and as good as opera and safari? no way. - Alabaster1234, on 07/20/2009, -0/+27Wait... they all got about the same grade?
- gamepr0, on 07/20/2009, -3/+24Instead of saying that you could just as well tell us why you think it IS customizable.
- megaton, on 07/20/2009, -9/+28I have, and unless you have some rather unique needs (need some MS toolbars, need very low footprint browser, need absolute perfect rendering of fringe HTML specs) Firefox beats them all in everyday use. Period.
(Unless you wanted to back up what you said with something substantive? "Nuh uh," isn't an argument in my book...) - JustinNoland, on 07/20/2009, -1/+19IE6 is great for going to www.getfirefox.com when you first reformat a PC.
- AquaOSX, on 07/20/2009, -2/+17I guess it's time to argue about browsers yet again.
- dixhuit, on 07/20/2009, -1/+16Possibly the most useless article I have ever read. There's more insight in the Digg comments. Who the ***** is digging this *****?
Buried. - TheBigBad, on 07/20/2009, -5/+19Chrome is like driving a Ferrari with no radio, a/c, wipers, horn, defrost, odometer.....
- crackedlogic, on 07/20/2009, -13/+26so just because Chrome isn't a bloated program overloaded with useless add-ons, its not customizeable?
- Paranoidmarvin, on 07/20/2009, -9/+22There are some great browsers now, there is so much choice. They are all fast, compatible and secure.
...apart from IE8 - TBBucs, on 07/20/2009, -2/+15Your kind is stifling the web development industry.
- MAGZine, on 07/20/2009, -2/+15Chrome is rated 3.5.
- searchfirst, on 07/20/2009, -0/+11Even Microsoft is ashamed people are still using it
- Giever, on 07/21/2009, -1/+10Is it just me or can anyone else not really notice any speed difference between Chrome and Firefox? I have around 20+ extensions, I think. So unless you need, like, HUNDREDS to slow Firefox down to a crawl, I just don't get how Chrome's INSANE SPEED YO is noticeable, really. It feels the same to me.
- LucifersDad, on 07/20/2009, -2/+11IE8 advantages:
1) Comes with windows
2) Allows you to download other browsers. - Tripacer9999, on 07/20/2009, -1/+10IE8 gets a 4/5, but Chrome gets 3.5/5?
Really?
REALLY? - Spamorama, on 07/20/2009, -0/+9Are you joking?
Back, Forward, Stop, Refresh, Favourites...History? - SilentBobSC, on 07/20/2009, -1/+9Yay, so glad someone dragged this dead horse out. Wonderful review by the author as well, I wish my job was as easy as half-assing the 'review' and giving everything a 4/5.
- dragossh, on 07/20/2009, -4/+12Safari was slim and fast. Safari is getting old and bloated.
Firefox was slim and fast. Firefox is getting old and bloated.
Chome is slim and fast. It will get old and bloated.
IE… was, is and will be a sorry excuse for a browser. - FredFredrickson, on 07/20/2009, -0/+8Back when I switched to Firefox, I had the same problem. I liked all the features FF provided, but didn't want to lose the familiarity.
You'll be happy to know that Firefox lets you customize the placement of each button, so you can position them exactly as IE is set up, and then you don't have to worry about this again. It makes the transition pretty easy. - MAGZine, on 07/20/2009, -5/+12it has Extensions? It's skinable? You can change whether it runs as a bunch of separate processes or as 1 process?
Do a search. You might have to use a dev build of Chrome, but they're all 100% possible. Extensions and skins can be found with a quick Google Search, and Google even has examples of extensions on their website.
Adsweep has the Chrome extension packages on it's site, too. - crackedlogic, on 07/20/2009, -13/+20seriously? Have you even tried anything else?
- AeroZeppelin, on 07/20/2009, -2/+9Um, you guys aren't getting the point...
- Schweppesale, on 07/20/2009, -1/+7i actually felt the exact same way until FF 3.5. They def. got it right this time.
- kopiwrite, on 07/21/2009, -0/+6I don't get why Google doesn't make it obvious where to get these extensions as Mozilla has done for the firefox add ons. It's like they don't want people to know or something. Weird IMO
- Moopstick, on 07/20/2009, -1/+7Wikipedia has a much more in depth article with side by side comparisons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_bro ... - richirwin, on 07/20/2009, -1/+7Opera is my browser of choice for surfing porn.
Firefox for the other 10% of what I do. - Moralogic, on 07/21/2009, -0/+6These guys are a joke. They rank IE8 higher than Chrome, IE8 which supports the least number of HTML5 and CSS3 features, while Chrome supports more HTML5 and CSS3 features, beyond a fast browser, and the first to have private mode.
IE8 is so worthless that Microsoft.com and Xbox.com both use: content="IE=EmulateIE7"
And they are the dumbasses that programmed the browser in the first place. Not the same team of people, but the same company. I am sorry, but if you are part of the same company, and have to use the emulate code for your own browser for a previous version, that tells me someone ***** up. So not only does it not support much HTML5, it sucks are rendering HTML. That is why IE8 gets 2 stars in my book.
Firefox - Overall best browser out there currently, the race will be tighter with Safari and Chrome in the future.
Safari - Overall the second best IMO.
Chrome - Fast as all mighty hell. It crashes a lot on me, but the speed alone puts it ahead of Opera for me.
Opera - Doesn't support newer versions of Flash, but does support many HTML5 tags that will make me user Flash a LOT less.
IE8 - Sucks, and explained above. With the advantage of making the OS it runs on, I would expect a crap load more out of a browser, which we will see from Google. Good improvements security wise, yes, but other than that is can suck my saggy balls. - tmyprod, on 07/20/2009, -3/+9I really like Camino as a back-up or quick use browser, but FF is still my main one.
- schoate09, on 07/20/2009, -1/+7IE8 is fully ACID 2 compliant. The stuff the ACID 3 test tests for is so far into the future on the internet, it really doesn't need to be compliant RIGHT NOW, although they definitely need to work toward it for IE 9.
- prettyawesome, on 07/20/2009, -5/+11Firefox is getting old and bloated. Chrome is slim and fast - but doesn't have 900000 addons and skins. In all honesty, every addon I use for Firefox (Greasmonkey, Adblock, etc) is out for Chrome now. I only use Firefox when something *doesn't* work in Chrome - which happens rarely.
- recruz, on 07/20/2009, -2/+7i use chrome for most of my browsing needs mostly due to the speed- if it ever screws up I basically do a failover to Firefox. IE is for when Firefox just happens to fail- most notably on Microsoft knowledge base or documentation websites. Go figure?
- nothinggoespast, on 07/20/2009, -0/+4FF is a bit slower than safari and chrome....a few tenths of a second that barely matter.
- nothinggoespast, on 07/20/2009, -0/+4I agree, FF 3.5 did slim down, and it recaptured the crown.
- nothinggoespast, on 07/20/2009, -1/+5IE8 is much better than previous versions. *I* wouldn't use it, but it has definitely improved. I would say it is about on par with chrome, but still behind opera and safari. This is just from my personal usage.
It is still slower, but security is far, far better.
Speed is it's biggest downfall. - sauron256, on 07/20/2009, -1/+5Um, you're disagreeing with the article that came to exactly the same conclusion. Did you even read it?
- gamepr0, on 07/20/2009, -1/+5why do you prefer camino over safari? :/
I've never understood what's the advantage of it. - gamepr0, on 07/20/2009, -0/+4@MAGZine: Thanks, I didn't know chrome's plugin system had developed that much since i last tried it.
- nytel, on 07/20/2009, -4/+8Chrome - built for speed.
- tmyprod, on 07/20/2009, -2/+6No huge advantage over Safari, but I like using products that the little guys put out to help their numbers and help drive competitive innovation between browsers.
That, and I'm building my interweb street-cred by using a browser most people haven't heard of. - rlvis, on 07/20/2009, -0/+4Next it will be time to argue about OS's.
- MAGZine, on 07/20/2009, -0/+3Also so that when Flash/a tab/an extension crashes, the whole browser doesn't come crashing down.
- nothinggoespast, on 07/20/2009, -2/+5My 87 year old grandma used AOL until a few weeks ago, when I convinced her to switch to firefox. After two hours, she figured it out.
- inactive, on 07/20/2009, -1/+4 Yeah,not much of a write up...Not telling us anything new.
- SquareWheel, on 07/20/2009, -0/+3IE5 for the win.
- megaton, on 07/20/2009, -2/+5Mad respect, @YourMaster, for a good and thoughtful argument!
My point was that Firefox is a healthy amalgam of performance, usability, portability, and expandability that benefits many folks, whereas the other browsers emphasize one or another of those traits. (Superiority in mediocrity?)
I think the more telling response is, if you were to introduce your grandma to a browser, which would it be? - SquareWheel, on 07/20/2009, -0/+3Sarcasm, methinks.
- Icebox3, on 07/20/2009, -1/+4Safari is the best browser on the Mac. Firefox is slower, and it really irritates me how poorly it renders text.
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