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obsidian wrote:

HomerJ wrote:I know it's a noob question, but I honestly don't know. Is there any real benefit of one browser over the next for the casual web surfer? I use Safari cause it's already preloaded on my laptop, but I've never had like a "this sucks, I want to switch browsers" type of epiphany. Do browsers really effect speed? I figured they'd all be about the same, the internet connection being the main factor.

Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, they're all decent browsers that are frequently updated to maintain web standards and have decent interfaces which work well. The browser fanboys on various forums are analogous to fanboys of operating systems, video game consoles, smart phones, sci-fi shows, etc. etc. The morons who claim that browser X is 1^-Y milliseconds faster at loading a webpage because it "feels" faster are tiresome mouthbreathers who need to have their heads stomped in and then stabbed with their own skull fragments.

The only browser that sucks is Internet Explorer, because Microsoft hadn't bothered to stick to web standards and came up with a whole bunch of proprietary stuff and ways in which it reads markup differently. Microsoft plunged the internet into a web standards dark ages for almost a decade between the fall of Netscape and the beginnings of Firebird (now rebranded as Firefox). Safari and Chrome followed suit with Firefox in sticking with standards compliance and now Microsoft is trying to play catch-up.

The biggest problem for web developers are all the people who insist on running older, broken versions of IE with all its security holes, either because they are old people stuck on computers from the 90's, or because their retarded IT departments insist on sticking with older browsers because of some antiquated in-house software that depends on a stupid ActiveX feature which no one in IT understands how it works anymore but admitting it would probably mean they get fired.

Thank you for the informative post and keeping it simple for the lay person.

Eraser wrote:You probably never got involved in developing websites or webapps then?

Eraser wrote:

U4EA wrote:I wish I could get this worked up about what Internet browsers other people use.

You probably never got involved in developing websites or webapps then?

feedback wrote:Firefox made itself suck with a broken resource-hogging update that crippled performance AND made text unreadable. Haven't used it since, that's when I switched to Chrome.

GONNAFISTYA wrote:Ok...so lemme get this straight: you're on record of stating that you wish people would update their browsers to make your job easier...and yet you admit that your PC can't play some games because you haven't upgraded it in roughly 6000 years?

obsidian wrote:

feedback wrote:Firefox made itself suck with a broken resource-hogging update that crippled performance AND made text unreadable. Haven't used it since, that's when I switched to Chrome.

Works fine for me. I don't understand the performance argument when it comes to browsers, like you notice any memory footprint on your gaming PCs with 16GB of RAM as if your choice of browser will slow down your page loading by 1/10000000th of a second. Seems a recurring theme among Chrome users is that Firefox version way-back-when didn't work for me so I switched to Chrome and never looked back, even though Google will also occasionally produce a bad/buggy version. Don't get me wrong, if you happened to just like Chrome better because it suits you, that's cool. But I really don't get it when actual performance benchmarks have shown that resources and performance are pretty much even between the two. 99% of everything people view on their browser is pure HTML/CSS/Javascript anyway, it's not like it is any different than what computers used to do 10 years ago.

Memphis wrote:name one good software product by microsoft...

• System Center Operations Manager
  System Center Configuration Manager
  System Center Endpoint Protection
  Office 2010
  Visual Studio
  Exchange
  Server 2008 R2

obsidian wrote:

HomerJ wrote:
The biggest problem for web developers are all the people who insist on running older, broken versions of IE with all its security holes, either because they are old people stuck on computers from the 90's, or because their retarded IT departments insist on sticking with older browsers because of some antiquated in-house software that depends on a stupid ActiveX feature which no one in IT understands how it works anymore but admitting it would probably mean they get fired.

duffman91 wrote:Chrome has too many bugs with YouTube....