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A Cheat Sheet To All the Browser Betas
Harry writes "I can't remember another time when there were so many Web browsers in prerelease form — 2009 should be a really, really good year for final browser versions. I have posted a quick recap of the state of the upcoming versions of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari." It is nice to see a healthy market of competition driving innovation in a market that has been largely stagnant in recent history. What do other folks see on the scorecard?
I judge all my browsers on Acid; my scorecard is a a blur of dinosaurs dancing, blue e's laughing, and JZW laughing at me. And I'm eating a lot of delicious delicacies.
Reasons not to download it: ...you can't get the Google Toolbar for it.
Surely this should have been in the "Reasons to download it" it section!
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
Depends on your tastes. If you like minimalism, try Chrome. If you like tons of features and don't mind a heavy footprint, get firefox + plugins. If you like apple, try Safari. If you like leather and ball gags, try IE.
Yet still galeon is my favorite browser. I have like 200 tabs in it, while in opera I have just about 30 tabs...
If you like tabs, you may be interested in another feature a lot of browsers have. Depending on the browser, it goes by various names -- "bookmarks," "favorites," et al. Check it out sometime!
"If you like leather and ball gags, try IE."
They added a newsreader?
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
Isn't the acid test a test for how well you cope with broken and non-standard code?
There's plenty of free extensions to IE! I can add smiley faces to my email with a simple IE extension, and I can get a nice search bar from 1800search. That little gorilla search buddy makes my day. The only downside is it makes the browser so small it's hard to view websites.
Bookmarks come from the same school of thought that says you should quit applications. They are a work around for the fact that your operating system can't handle resources properly and that your browser doesn't handler persistence properly.
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