Comments on: The Top 5 Web Browsers

By: xolroc

xolroc — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:40:03 +0000

What about Chrome?

By: roberto

roberto — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:27:03 +0000

dear old-dong.com, what the flock indeed

By: Monkeyboy

Monkeyboy — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:24:15 +0000

“Tabbed browsing was one of the most amazing features introduced by Firefox;”

I believe this was present in Opera long before I ever heard of Firefox… but I might be mistaken.

By: Google Chrome |

Google Chrome | — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:16:25 +0000

[...] on the west coast decided to release this new software the day after Labor Day. After reviewing the top five web browsers, we didn’t think anything could top the sleek and ferociously fast Firefox, but within hours [...]

By: toolboy

toolboy — Sun, 18 May 2008 18:33:42 +0000

I like Firefox but i love Opera. I use them both for different purposes. But i must admit Opera has been a little buggy the last couple updates. I love the mouse gesture feature,session saving especially if you crash, widgets are kind of cool, skins are also nice if you want to change the look, the wand for passworded sites, truly customizable toolbar, and alot of other features but the speed for fast web surfing is the main reason i use it, and mouse gestures. I know the others have mouse gestures but its all built in to Operea. No looking for plugins.

By: Tristan

Tristan — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:11:37 +0000

I guess the “your mileage may vary” caveat applies.

Then again, the “pioneering” criterion doesn’t matter to me, as what I am evaluating is the current piece of software, not the history of it. Why? Because claims about IE7 copying Firefox are irrelevant to the performance of the software. It’s shallow of me to base my decision to use Firefox on who did tabs first.

By: Bug

Bug — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:43:20 +0000

I too work in tech support for a living, firefox launches much quicker than IE7, on several computers for me. It is more secure and much more lightweight than IE7. Plus they pioneered the tabbed browsing, which IE7 just copied to keep up with the development of Firefox…

By: Tristan

Tristan — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:06:24 +0000

As hard as it was to leave the bandwagon, I now favor IE7 over Firefox. The main reason for this is that IE7 gives me a much more lightweight browsing experience. I work in tech support, and if I need to quickly open a browser to test a particular website or online feature, IE7 saves me time over Firefox.

This is an argument from practicality, and I can’t see how a Firefox user can dismiss IE on these grounds. IE5/6 certainly sucked, so there was a massive gap in quality between those programs and Firefox. But now, with IE7, the direction and size of the gap is just a matter of preference.

By: Famardy

Famardy — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:47:25 +0000

Yeah Firefox FTW!

By: YUDO

YUDO — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:09:22 +0000

Internet explorer should be on the worst browser list