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Are you still stuck with the buggy IE or have you shifted over to a new browser? Though there are a number of browsers available for the Windows platform including Safari, Opera, and Netscape, the main contenders, apart from IE, are Google Chrome & Firefox. It has been a long time and the battle of the browsers has never been as earnest as it is now. Till a few years back IE was the only kid on the block with Netscape having surrendered a long time back.
Whereas Firefox has been around for a long time and is slowly eating into the user base of IE, the latest entry on the block, Google Chrome is no pushover too. Most people who want to migrate from IE are shifting over to of one of these two. In case you too are one of them, you might be interested in the advantages of each so that you can select one that suits you the most.
Some of the major advantages from both the browsers
Google Chrome:
Remember when a badly coded web page used to crash down your browser. Chances are that you will hardly feel this problem with Chrome. It is quite reliable due to its multiprocessing architecture. Another major advantage of Chrome is its blazing speed… something that you will notice when surfing the net with it for the first time… it also loads faster that the competition. The same simple interface that one associates with Google is found in their browser too. No more need to type your search queries into a separate spot.
The omnibox feature of Chrome permits you to type both URL’s and your search queries in the same box. The special `Incognito’ mode permits you to surf without leaving any trace. One will however miss the add-ons in this browser. Apart from that there are still some online services that do not work properly with Chrome. There are a number of security related issues some of which have been addressed. Privacy too is another issue with this browser which is reputed to collection and monitoring of user data. The WebKit platform on which Chrome is developed is not so popular among developers.
Firefox 3.1
It has been quite some time since Firefox was released and over the years this browser has eroded the user base of IE. There are many advantages that this browser offers and the powerhouse feature lies in the plug-ins developed by third parties. This is what open source should be. According to Mozilla, their new JavaScript platform (TraceMonkey) will push Chrome far behind. This version of Firefox has additional support for “Web workers” that permits multiple scripts run like background processes. The bad side is its susceptibility to crash the entire environment when browsing a rogue site. This is where the separate environment of Chrome is the winner.
Who will be the ultimate winner of the future?
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