Browser Wars - who cares?

smile · Veteran Poster Joined: 27 Mar 2010 Posts: 192

More on this later but I have 3 browsers which I configured for use:

IE
Opera
Firefox

the good bad and ugly:

1) IE is amazingly quick at rendering web pages and is very light on resources according to my task manager - resource meter it requires less working memory than either of the other 2 Browsers by a wide margin.

firefox is the worst on this metric of memory use

Opera is not bad, but not as good as IE

2) Opera is my favorite of the 3 for running around, out of the box it is perfect for my use from speed dial to other features.

3) I still have Firefox - it was a pain in the arse to configure it with the speed dial - forget about importing your existing bookmarks from other browsers such as Opera = I spent a bit of time wondering what I could do to get it to import properly - never could perfect it ; IE had the same problem with Importing say Opera bookmarks

bottom line from above is my primary Browser is Opera, but when I want to run light for extended periods IE comes to play. I never use Firefox, but I spent so much time finding and configuring the speed dial addon, I figured I would keep it for a bit - just in case their latest iteration resolves the resource hog problem.

I have not tried chrome or other browsers - who cares?

My final thought is regarding Ballmer. This guy has been a disaster for MSFT. He has not increased shareholder value at all and needs to go. Where Ballmer failed is managing expectations...

example - Google is where it is - valuation wise because of its search - yet Bing is better than google in search - and is actually taking market share - who knew - certainly you would not know from Ballmer.

the discussion above re: IE and how light and fast it is - one would think Ballmer would be playing this up - naw... etc.

rffrydr · Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:52 pm Post subject:

Opera used to burn IE and a nice little secret for us travelers. Firefox seemed to pilfer most of the features, much later, but right in the sweet spot for the de-intinstitutionalizing public. Probably going the way of beta VCR but new stuff continues to impress: really like the widget feature allowing dimming surround in youtube among others.
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smile · Veteran Poster Joined: 27 Mar 2010 Posts: 192

rffrydr · Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 6:48 pm Post subject:

IE light to the touch?!

I'm on a laptop all the time....thus Opera is my choice and only use IE for forms.
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