The Browsers in my Notebook’s Life…

The accounts I’m going to share are wholly experienced by my notebook running Windows Vista…

Internet Explorer – I dont usually use this one but as a browser bundled by the OS, nothing much I can do but keep it under Programs and Features. Sometimes I got dilemmas whether to uninstall but no… I dont think it would be a good idea. So it stays as a silent resident on my disk. Even though I dont use it more often, there comes a moment when there is no choice but I have to open some sites to this browser. IE is helpful…

Google Chrome – it was then a flavor of the month(?) or season (?)… I dont really know. After I saw an ad showing a colorful circular icon created by Google developers, I said oh, finally a browser that is interesting… For once I made it my default browser, surfing the net, tracking friends at social sites, watching videos on the other side just by dragging and dropping the tabs. There are instances though that some sites are not loading/displaying beautifully… Though a very fast browser which consumes a tiny amount of memory but seeing on how it renders those pages made me frowned… Click uninstall…

Apple’s Safari – this came to my attention when an update of my Quicktime prog popped up, it offers a download to Safari and iTunes(…) I wow’ed the moment I saw it, downloaded and let it run, made it my default browser. I never thought my notebook will have a taste of Safari, an Apple product. Days passed by and saw on how it gobbled up my memory… 300k and sometimes more, I said wow (again) but this time with disgust. Some pages wont display very good too and how it renders gifs, a sore to my eye… goes flashing on and on… But dont get me wrong, I always have the respect to Apple and Steve Jobs my idol, I always wanted to have a Mac … But for Safari… click uninstall…

Mozilla Firefox – before Chrome and Safari, Firefox was my fave. Though I want to experience different browsers thats why we have an on and off relationship with this browser. I am using Firefox now and if there are no other browsers out there worth of checking out, this browser will stay as my default. Considerably fast and small amount of memory is used (< 100k), fast rendering of pages and gifs, watching movies are also fine… a great browser worth of commendation…
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update: just downloaded firefox 3.5