Sazar
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I have all 4 browsers on my system right now and have been dabbling with them a fair bit. The general consensus for me is ease of use, speed and rendering.
Thus far, I have to say that the latest builds of Chrome have been amazing. The engine is FAST and I love the default search in the address line. The look is clean and the browser does not have a lot of frivolous features that bog it down. I also love the way the bookmarks are handled. Clean, simple, out of the way. Chrome has been one of the fastest browsers for me on all websites. I am a little annoyed that I cannot change my default media player, but I am sure someone will share their pearls of wisdom with me.
Also, splitting up the tabs into individual processes helps immensely. I have had a tab freeze up on me and it's been as simple as going into task manager and closing the faulty process and all back to normal
FF3 is my 2nd most used browser and it remains my standard for a lot of sites. I like the way the extensions work for me but, I have found I don't need all those extensions It is also the slowest of the browsers for me in most of the sites I go to.
Opera is probably the bog standard fall-back for me. It is light, fast, simple and has low memory usage. I have noticed some rendering issues on a couple of sites but other than that, no complaints. Along with Chrome, the fastest browser of the lot for me going between the multitude of sites I visit.
IE8 is the newest addition to my stable and I am shocked at how fast it was compared to my old experiences. A lot of issues I had with IE7 have gone and it seems to have become even faster. It is a beta so there are still some issues and the first load of a page is still slower than Chrome or Opera, but it is definitely faster than FF3.
In conclusion. Chrome FTW
Thus far, I have to say that the latest builds of Chrome have been amazing. The engine is FAST and I love the default search in the address line. The look is clean and the browser does not have a lot of frivolous features that bog it down. I also love the way the bookmarks are handled. Clean, simple, out of the way. Chrome has been one of the fastest browsers for me on all websites. I am a little annoyed that I cannot change my default media player, but I am sure someone will share their pearls of wisdom with me.
Also, splitting up the tabs into individual processes helps immensely. I have had a tab freeze up on me and it's been as simple as going into task manager and closing the faulty process and all back to normal
FF3 is my 2nd most used browser and it remains my standard for a lot of sites. I like the way the extensions work for me but, I have found I don't need all those extensions It is also the slowest of the browsers for me in most of the sites I go to.
Opera is probably the bog standard fall-back for me. It is light, fast, simple and has low memory usage. I have noticed some rendering issues on a couple of sites but other than that, no complaints. Along with Chrome, the fastest browser of the lot for me going between the multitude of sites I visit.
IE8 is the newest addition to my stable and I am shocked at how fast it was compared to my old experiences. A lot of issues I had with IE7 have gone and it seems to have become even faster. It is a beta so there are still some issues and the first load of a page is still slower than Chrome or Opera, but it is definitely faster than FF3.
In conclusion. Chrome FTW