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Weekend Open Forum: Your browser of choice
Without looking at any stats, I'm confident to say web browsers are in the top three most used applications by PC users. In fact, the relevance of the web browser is soon to surpass its original intent with Google developing an operating system revolving around Chrome. But without delving too deep into what the future may hold, today the browser is where many of us spend a majority of our time, be it for production, consumption or recreational purposes.
We've come a long way since the early days of Firefox, which reopened the door for the browser's evolution. Today the picture is more complete than ever, with five major browsers competing for our attention. There are the usual suspects: IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome, as well as a handful of alternatives worth trying.
With that level of competition, you can expect development to continue accelerating. A rampant new version of Chrome is released every few weeks, and Mozilla is planning something similar, but for now we have a new major revision of Firefox in beta. Opera has remained small on the desktop, but has made impressive strides in the mobile market and on embedded devices, while Apple has turned itself into a leader by driving WebKit and bringing it to the iPhone. IE still holds the largest market share and Microsoft is working hard on Internet Explorer 9, but this may be their last opportunity to redeem themselves with early adopters, having the last two builds widely regarded as laggards.
Without further ado, we want to hear about your preferred browser or combination of browsers.
Discuss and vote in our poll.
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Opera...It just works. There are some bugs but speed dial and multiple session saves keeps me coming back.Throw away your Ritalin, or try taking it as directed, instead of crushing it up and shorting it. Then you may be able to make some semblance of sense when you try communicating with the written word again. On second thought, never mind.
Use Chrome for compatibility issues with Opera on some sites and the sheer speed of it.
Explorer for Windows updates :P.
Firefox not used. It's nice but too tweakable for me. I get in and cannot stop until it's so secure that most sites I visit require me to allow the access manually and that's now ideal for my surfing. I know it's good but its like tweaking windows...blah blah blah.
Sooo Opera.
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Firefox baby
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