Safari or Opera?

[tacogirl]

Curious what which browser people prefer.

Firefox of course is # 1 for me but I am looking for a secondary and wondering I might like Opera better than Safari s checking in to see what people have to say.

[deadserious]

I would check out chrome over safari.  Much more mature on Windows.

[BettyJ]

I use Safari, but not sure why?

[tacogirl]

Chrome not sure if I have heard of that DS is it a big resource hog?

I find Safari sluggish and slow so trying to research better before downloading a second browser. Wish I could get rid of explorer or that they would at least get spell check happening. The version that came in my mini does not even have new tab options how dated ha ha.

[deadserious]

Chrome is Google's browser.  I recommend running the beta version as it's very stable and most up to date.

Chrome actually uses WebKit, which is the same html/css rendering engine that Safari uses, but has a much faster javascript engine and completely different network stack.  It's currently the fastest browser by far.

The best feature of Chrome is that each tab is running in it's own windows process.  For the non-techies, that basically means that it can't talk to any other browser tab or window which makes any problems caused by that web page to only effect that web page.  If a page causes a crash, only that browser tab crashes.  The rest of chrome is alive and well.

As far as resource usage goes, it is a little more of a memory hog than Opera for the same pages open at the same time, but the benefit of single process tabs offsets that issue by a long mile.

As I think I've told you before, I use both Opera and Chrome (and Firefox and rarely IE and Safari).  Chrome has become my default browser on both windows and mac.  It's really become quite stable.

You can download it here:
http://www.google.com/chrome

If you want to use the beta version, make sure to click the beta link on that page instead of the download link.

[tacogirl]

I am downloading chrome on old machine and will likely delete Safari as I type this DS if I like it will add to this one too.

Thanks for the info.

[tacogirl]

Download done fast and easy - DS you are on the money with this one not played around with it a lot but already I can tell I will like it better. Chrome even imported all my firefox data for me automatically.

[Gela]

Laurie, at first, I thought - yeah - I loved both. But then I realized you were talking about browsers. For a few seconds you brought me back to the Savannah in Tanzania and La Boeheme 

[tacogirl]

Too funny Gela that thought crossed my mind when I was making post that it might fool a few when it is really is geek talk lol

Thanks to DS I am so pleased with your recommendation I have put it on the mini as well and I am wondering if this may not soon become a fav over firefox.


 

[Moose in Belize]

At the risk of being verbally assaulted, what is so bad about Explorer? Is it just that some people always want to try the newest thing? Explorer serves my purposes just fine.

[tacogirl]

For starters explorer (at least the last version I had of it) does not have spell check and that is a must have for this dyslexic taco who never passed typing class back in high school.

Explorer is not a good browser to blog from as it did things like make the text minuscule dots when forgot the golden rule not to copy and past from anything but notepad.

I also find that other browsers are more up to date in adding new features to make surfing the net easier while explorer is dated like stone-wash jeans ha ha.

tacoboy when doing web design has to check that his work looks good in all browsers and explorer is the one that always seems to give him grief and make his job harder.

[Phil]

I'd go on Safari as the animals would be quite interesting and Italian singing wears a bit thin after a while...............

[deadserious]

At the risk of being verbally assaulted, what is so bad about Explorer? Is it just that some people always want to try the newest thing? Explorer serves my purposes just fine.

In addition to what Tacogirl stated, IE has traditionally been a huge open door for viruses and other malware to find their way into your system.  All browsers run that risk, but Microsoft is traditionally very slow in plugging any holes when they are found... sometimes years go by.  Firefox, Opera and Chrome are all updated very frequently and rarely are there security holes that go unfixed for more than a few days from the time they are found.  Safari has a better track record than IE, but not as good as the others.

IE is also feature lacking when compared to the others and spies a lot on your browsing activity.

[Moose in Belize]

Okay thanks Taco and DS. Maybe if I blogged or did web design I would be more in tune. Good discussion.

[klcman]

For those who want to use IE, there is a plug-in spell checker that works really well.   

http://www.iespell.com/

Perhaps I should clue in Pug??
and BTW, I've used IE in all it's incarnations for yeasts and not once ever had a virus/spyware implant, etc.  Lucky or cautious?