So browsers, everyone has at least one. First the good browsers!
Chrome
I feel this is the best browser personally, it may not allow you to equip as many add ons as it's popular cousin Firefox, but what it lacks with that it makes up for in pure out-of-the-box brilliance. It's resilient to destruction, being able to close parts of the browser that crash without losing your pages. It's fast, it's not a massive resource hog (although there are better programs). Finally it's improving quickly as it is rather a new browser. And most importantly it displays the web efficiently without needing as much code as some other browsers.
Firefox
The big brand name that everyone trusts! Firefox is a decent browser by anyone's standards. It is very adaptable program, you can easily add spell checkers and add blockers without a problem. It has improved over the years to be sure! There are just two problems I have with this browser. The first exists in the 'Frontmotion' edition, this edition is often used by admins as it's easier to lock down, but it has a tendency to fracture parts of web pages making them ugly or slowing them down. The second exists in the code needed for firefox. On each page you may need one or two lines of code to make things run. When you add these up there is a significant drag on the internet on lines that aren't particularly needed.
Opera
Opera doesn't have the most features. Opera doesn't exactly display things perfectly every time. But one thing opera does is run incredibly fast on nothing. This means if you have a slow computer, or a tiny laptop, this browser can make you feel like your running something much faster. So it's definitely not the best but it has its uses.
The devil (Internet Explorer)
The standard one that you expect that comes with windows is the infamous "Internet Explorer". Now this particular browser (in all its current incarnations, although 6 is the worst of them all) is evil, just evil. When a web developer makes a webpage they often need to make a completely separate page of code just for dealing with people who want to use Internet Explorer. Please, please never use this browser. When you use this browser certain groups on the internet take notice and write down a use. These people are big, they control how the internet is meant to flow. If they notice a certain percentage of people use internet explorer they decree that web pages must be able to show content in this browser. If less people use IE it means the designers will have to work harder to make it a good browser. Either that or I will never have to bother with it again (thank god).
So that's the browser I personally have experience with and can happily state anything about. Of course there are many more browser out there, but these one's mentioned (plus safari) account for a whopping 99.2% of all browsers out there (according to W3, magical overlords of internet standards). So the big three browsers (chrome, firefox, opera) are all good to use, but never....
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use Internet Explorer with current day's practices (please =P).
Thank you, and goodnight ^^
- Fae
Still can't convince my mum to use Chrome instead of IE, but then again she also plays every second Zynga Facebook game and opens chain emails...
ReplyDeleteWooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo that was my first comment =P Ta Jodie ^^ Parents will be like that unfortunately. Such is the way of life.
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