Those of you who've been in touch with me may have been subjected to my piteous laments about the loss of my firefox browser... you'll be pleased to know that they will be no more, because firefox is back on this computer! Also I conceed to Derek that Netscape is from the d-e-v-i-hockeystick. Rawr. It was because of netscape that I could not install firefox. Don't know why but netscape seemed to override the installation program, trying to install itself again and thus messing up the progy to no end until it did nothing. Harumph. Netscape is now happily deleted and firefox running smoothly.
For those of you curious as to my findings for different browsers, here they are in top 4 order:
1) FIREFOX.
2) Opera
3) Internet Explorer
-350,284,958,493) Netscape.
*coughs*
So for those of you masochistic enough to actually be curious as to WHY I chose as I did... Read on! :D
Netscape: is by far the worst because although it out-preforms IE in speed (who knows why it's slower than IE on Derek's computer. His must be messed.) and tabbed browsing, it developed an odd, and very annoying, problem... on pages with log in names and passwords it tended to sign me out.. I tried doing things with cookies and such but no go... *shrugs* after I was presented with 4 straight log in pages I went berserk and hunted down a new browser. Find feature is as good/bad as IE's. Problem with preventing me from getting Firefox again for so long causes it to lose mondo points. Note: it does have a built-in search bar, but it's not a google, it's a random search engine that's not so hot. Definetly slower start-up speed than the others, but decent page-loading speed.
Internet Explorer: isn't great. It's duber slow. No tabbed browsing. Poor find feature. No built-in search bar. Magnet for viruses. Magnet for adware/spyware. Most popular isn't always best. At least it doesn't log in or try and come between my love and I! *clutches the fox dramatically* yep, it is 2 am for those wondering... 2:30 now...
Opera is not a bad browser at all... I had huge problems contending with the cache function... it's stupid having to refresh every page to see something new, when re-clicking on the link should be good enough. Tabbed browsing is nice, and the option to open it either on top or in the background was a plus. The banner ad at the top was slightly annoying but easy to tune out, and even better when I somehow managed to accidentally change the type of banner to a non-animated one. Find function: no better/worse than IE and netscape. A nice plus: some html tags that generally only work in IE, like coloured scrollbars, worked in Opera. Another plus, built-in google search bar. The start up of opera gave you the option to start on a blank page, the home page, or the page (or multiple pages) you were last on before it closed. (multi pages thingy happened after the browser crashed) On the negative side, like netscape and IE, Opera doesn't save (least not that I found in the couple of days I used it exclusively) form information... like general search boxes or log in boxes you might want to retype... A pity. Right clicking on a link has the first option as just opening the page. If it's all the same to you, when I take the trouble to right click, I want to do something *OTHER* than just click the link and go there. I want a new window, man! It also changed the size of some pop up flash game windows... for reasons unkown... and a few instances (reoccuring, so it's not just a glitch) that would not require a refresh on the other browsers required Opera to refresh. Also, form info was randomly (but not all the time) lost when using the back button. No obvious (at least to me) way to choose from a drop down list of pages in the history... eg, if you wanted to go back three pages, you can often click the little arrow by the back button and choose that page straight from there. Not so in opera. Although it does have the feature that appears to make it go back to the very page it started on? Queer, but not entirely sure it'd be that useful. Pages left open for a while sometimes stopped showing certain graphics for reasons unkown. It also had the odd habit of telling me there was a problem and I should send an error report every time I shut down the browser. ...I'm in error because I'm not using the browser perchance?
The end story? A good browser for most people, I just play a certain addicting site where these small things add up.
And last but in NO way least:
Firefox! is the bestest browser ever! Go get it
here... NOW. C'mon. It's free. What do you have to lose? (and oh so much you have to gain!)
Advantages: tabbed browsing, fast, little to no popups (usually only when you allow a site, never seen it otherwise), find as you type feature, built in google search bar, right click menu gets you new window first and new tab second, ignored by many spy/ad ware stuff, cool logo, cool name, some saved form info (usually the stuff that's useful, and not bothering with the stuff that's not -- how does it KNOW??) with user-friendly paths to erase stored info, no weird logging out, no weird form loss, no weird picture disappears, no weird running.
Disadvantages: graphics don't always work the same way on IE as firefox. But that's more or less the norm for most non-IE platforms. If the web developers can't be bothered to make it look at least decent in multi-platforms, I think twice about the product. 'o)
Aside from that... it can be 'dominated' by netscape? I dunno. Just don't bother with netscape and stick to fire and opera... hmmm fire and opera, that sounds musical....
Signing off at 2:54 am.
good morning?
