Almost 85% of the Internet population uses the top 3 browsers which are as different as they are similar. I do love and hate each of them in their own ways.
Internet Explorer
- Has improved since IE 6 which as a web designer is the worst thing that happened to the Internet
- IE 8 I like, its fast, however it provides no debugging features, error messages are cryptic. It seems standards compliant yet breaks without warning at each HTML or Javascript issue.
- The Inprivate browsing mode is great and is the default mode that I use on shared computers since “nothing” is kept when I close my session
- The development cycles are too long, we are waiting for IE 9 beta, not sure what changes are coming in just waiting to see
Chrome
- Nice, fast, speedy, uncluttered, can handle many tabs without crashing or consuming all the memory
- We are already at version 8, I think this development is too fast for me and a bit creepy
Firefox
- The swiss army knife which consumes so much memory that it always brings my computer to its knees
- The addons are to die for Brief, Firebug, Google Page Speed, Yslow, Web Developer
- Fix the memory and speed issue and you will be come my #1 browser, till then I will just use you for RSS Feeds and Development
Safari, and Opera I do not use you enough to have an opinion …
Till later
- Hey we are at version
