Browser Wars : Firefox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer
Internet March 17th, 2008Internet is a place with full of choices
You may eat the same food with different dishes and of course presentation of food is very important and greatly changes the flavor of the food. My intention is web. You may use your default browser or you may seek for alternatives. I have tried all browsers that are available and if you wonder which one is right for you, I am willing to give you the details.
Firefox (IE Killer)
Firefox has many advantages over Internet Explorer. New Windows users are not likely to see a big difference, actually they will like the simple GUI of Internet Explorer. However surfing the Internet is not a simple thing to do in one window, you have to open many IE instances to dirty your taskbar, but thanks to the programmers, they have integrated tabs into Firefox. After this revolution, Microsoft has decided to put tabs to IE with the version 7, but again the look and feel of IE 7 was seem to pretty ugly. Another nice thing about Firefox is the wide range of extensions available for free. You may find extensions for any purpose. Feeds, News, Blogging, Themes, Popup Blockers etc.. Firefox has Google support in the background and all of this made the Firefox the most popular web browser market.
Safari (Much cry and little wool)
Not much than a fancy and simple mac GUI. When compared with the other browsers, Safari uses terribly more Memory than any browser and contains many bugs. You may observe this by yourself. Open a few web pages and press CTRL+alt+DEL. Do not get shocked, it is normal that Safari uses hundred megabytes of ram for few web pages. Completely inefficient for systems with less RAM and slower CPU. However Apple says that Safari is the fastest browser available. I have tried but believe me there is no difference. At least I couldn’t sense it if there is. Even if there is a few nano secs of less load time, I wouldn’t have sacrifice hundred megabytes of memory. I hope that they will try to optimize in the following versions. Safari doesn’t seem to be a revolutionary browser.
Opera (All in one)
Among these alternatives, maybe the best.
The best because, it has all advantages of them and plus new things. Firstly, Opera utilizes tabs like Firefox. Also it has a very nice smooth GUI (not too much fancy). Plus it has speed dial property, you may assign your favourite web sites to CTRL 1 , CTRL 2 etc.. Beside these advantages it consumes very little memory. I am sure you will enjoy surfing if you are using Opera. My choice for browsing the web.
Internet Explorer (the Old Boy)
There is not much thing to discuss with IE. Many of us had started browsing the internet with IE. Yes, IE is not the worst but needs more improvement than any others. Because it is a Microsoft product and it is in the front line.
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March 17th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Burak, have you tried Firefox 3, beta 4? It’s easy to find and downlaod from Mozilla though it’s not on general release. It’s an enormous advance on FF2. The aesthetics are brilliant, there are very intuitive and user friendly ways of book marking and it’s very easy to get a website that you’ve visited recently by typing one of the words into the url window, design leaves more space fur url window and the browser, already at least one very good add on designed for FF3 IE tab, so you can switch a tab to Explorer very easily while staying in Firefox.
March 17th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Hi Barry,
Thank you for this great suggestion, I haven’t tried FF3 Beta 4, but sure I will, and also switching to IE is a great option, never saw this on other browsers. Thanks !
July 15th, 2008 at 7:55 am
I hate Firefox.
It refuses to load or install on Windows Vista Ultimate, OR XP Professional.
I like Opera, but I cannot use Keyboard shortcuts like Alt+S or Alt+Shift+S to post on phpBB/vBulletin/IPB forums.
I love Internet Explorer 7.
I feel it is a really good browser.
July 15th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Vista Ultimate ?
Use XP…
And of course Internet Explorer 7 is the worst browser that anyone can agree
July 16th, 2008 at 4:22 am
What makes IE7 the worst?>
And Firefox the best?
Vista Ultimate is way better than XP.
July 16th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Lol u really ask this ?
IE7 is the worst just because, slowest rendering time among all browsers, most ram consuming browser,
such as mine consumes 120 mb with 10 tabs whereas firefox 3 75 mb of ram.
Vista itself is an amusement park
You have just bought some transparent GUIs and some fancy effects..
XP is the best by now, Vista removed backwards compatibility, so many apps won’t work with Vista, so if u paid for Ultimate
July 19th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Well, I am having ABSOULTELY NO compatibility problems whatsoever with Vista.
And IE7 consumes les RAM thatn Firefox.
July 19th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Well you are lucky then
You are the only person that I know, who has no compatibility problems with Vista, it is just because that you turn on Vista and immediately just shut down, it is the only way to have no problem.
Well again, you are claiming IE7 consumes less RAM, but there are facts you know
Firefox consumes less, I’m not saying this, authorities saying…