Ra8
Chrome 10 came out last week, IE9 and Mozilla Firefox 4 were out officially this week.
I think Chrome is still the best.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382108,00.asp
dp0001
i agree,
to get the latest :
Chrome - Branding - data tracking - usage analysis + some crazy experimental stuff = Chromium 12 (11 is also pretty stable)
http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/snapshots/
xazbrat
Most definitely---Chrome is definitely the best. I think Firefox got too big and bogged down a bit, much like Norton Antivirus did when it became bloated in the AV arena. IE is, well IE.
When will companies learn they can't be everything to everyone?
Georges
It seems that everyone agrees that chrome became the best browser nowadays.
I switched to chrome long time ago. When it was in its early beginnigs. And like always, Google succeed in everything they do.
Another really good browser is Opera. But i still don't know why it's not that famous.
kareem_nasser
It has been a year since i started using chrome as my standard browser by default and obligated everyone who uses the PC to use it. Because i hid every IE icon i can find.
monkey-d-luffy
Google Chrome is the best :D
But when it come to download and stuff like this I automatically switch to Firefox (:
jsaade
I had a lot of issues with Chrome cache management.
But now Firefox seems to just freeze from time to time (or Crash a lot when a website has some Flash Content!).
I ll check the latest chrome.
rolf
As long as everyone is getting away from IE6 and IE7 I am happy, whether be it on Firefox, Chrome, Monkey, Gorilla, Flying turtle, Drowning dog... I don't care.
Georges
rolf wroteAs long as everyone is getting away from IE6 and IE7 I am happy, whether be it on Firefox, Chrome, Monkey, Gorilla, Flying turtle, Drowning dog... I don't care.
This places IE at the bottom of your list...
Perhaps you call it an exploding elephant ? or a gay shark ?
Ruroken
I pity the people who still use IE, and soon im gonna pity the ones who still use Firefox.
saeidw
I though IE9 was rather impressive actually, especially with regards to standards compliance.
FF4 should be out on the 22nd, I'll be switching to that soon.
MrClass
Well I had a look at IE 9. Umm, what's new? GUI? Pffft microsoft and it's bullshit about a "faster" browser. Microsoft, go suck it.
dp0001
as much as i don't like IE, it's really made to suit businesses. Microsoft knows it and it's where IE9 shows it's strenghts
rolf
dp0001 wroteas much as i don't like IE, it's really made to suit businesses. Microsoft knows it and it's where IE9 shows it's strenghts
Suit businesses? How's that?
samer
dp0001 wroteas much as i don't like IE, it's really made to suit businesses. Microsoft knows it and it's where IE9 shows it's strenghts
I second Rolf's comment. I really don't see how IE is providing any advantages to businesses. It's renowned to ignore web standards, which adds an overhead to web designers. This overhead is often translated into a decrease in productivity and is likely to hurt businesses as the designers' rates tend to be higher.
elie684
I am still using FF, and just tested the latest 4.0 RC on Ubuntu, it have nice features like pin to app, tab grouping ...
So i am still sticking to it !
Ra8
Check this out, before IE9 was officially released.
Why do so many geeks hate internet explorer?
IE9 made good improvements from IE8 but still isn't up to date with other browsers and web standards.
dp0001
well imo, deployment and management; as much as we all dislike ie, it's still the most widely used in enterprises because it's bundled; and (although i'm not saying it's right) the most efficient way
today to update and manage ie on 1000's of pcs is still wsus, wu,
group policy, ieak
even google used ie, anyone remembers this lol:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/187021/google_hacked_because_workers_used_microsoft_ie.html
i mean that's it, there's not much more to ie; my original post should've been more detailed
rolf
I thought about that :) Yeah it may be good, group policy, etc... but personally I don't see this as a significant advantage, I'm sure you can bundle Firefox in an MSI bundle and deploy it remotely without problem. If you refer to controlling IE through group policy, it's just against my beliefs to lock down someone's browser, but if that's what you mean, then yeah it has the advantage over others.
Regarding Google using it... 10 years ago IE was the smart choice, it was the best browser out there. Back then IE was to Netscape what Firefox is to IE today. And in this particular case, Google being a technology company and knowing their HR philosophy a bit I would imagine these users were left to install or use whatever they wanted on their machine.
MegaCool
For me, since I open 30+ tabs sometimes, I use multiple browsers at once, I like how fast and reliable is Google Chrome, I surf German, Japanese and non-English websites sometimes, therefore Chrome comes in handy here with the built-in translator.
Once it come to plug-ins and add-ons, here where Firefox is pure win for me - yes its heavy, slow, such a resource-hog and crashes a lot; but I really enjoy customizing the browser, with all of the extensive amount of add-ons and plug-ins featured.
As a back-up, I tend to use Safari, Opera and Chromium as well.
I don't really dig IE, but well, who does?
