PBBGs - Browser discussion

[Falken]

I think they are all the same piece of crap

Firefox takes all my memory on the computer (Uses about 50%-100% more RAM than IE, just now with indie-resource.com in both, firefox uses 145MB or RAM while IE8 uses 35MB of ram....quite a difference huh? )

On the other hand Firefox gives me alot more plugins and styles. And that is their main advantage over IE, if IE start getting alot more plugins then Firefox will have a hard time.

Opera is also great, really quick. Memory usage is about the middle of IE (87MB for indie-resource.com). It lacks alot of plugins, but instead offers them built in from start, like adblock making it more stable and secure. But personally there is some few details about the browser that annoys me so much that I can't use it as everyday browser, can't put my finger on many of them though, just small things.

[hallsofvallhalla]

haha i can say I agree with that Falken. They could all use some work.

[Jackolantern]

If you never have, you should check out Safari for Windows. It is very lightweight, and while I have never actually checked out its memory usage, it doesn't give the same lock-downs, or runaway memory usage that Firefox sometimes causes. It is basically a fairly simple interface built on top of the WebKit with common modern features like tabs, etc. It also was the originator of the new tab page that has thumbnails of all your most-visited pages that IE8 now uses. It is also blisteringly fast.

[Falken]

If you never have, you should check out Safari for Windows. It is very lightweight, and while I have never actually checked out its memory usage, it doesn't give the same lock-downs, or runaway memory usage that Firefox sometimes causes. It is basically a fairly simple interface built on top of the WebKit with common modern features like tabs, etc. It also was the originator of the new tab page that has thumbnails of all your most-visited pages that IE8 now uses. It is also blisteringly fast.

Nah tried it and I don't normally like to talk bad about some specific software, but in my opinion safari is one of the worst web browsers. It is ok on a mac, but fails on PC.

[Jackolantern]

If you never have, you should check out Safari for Windows. It is very lightweight, and while I have never actually checked out its memory usage, it doesn't give the same lock-downs, or runaway memory usage that Firefox sometimes causes. It is basically a fairly simple interface built on top of the WebKit with common modern features like tabs, etc. It also was the originator of the new tab page that has thumbnails of all your most-visited pages that IE8 now uses. It is also blisteringly fast.

Nah tried it and I don't normally like to talk bad about some specific software, but in my opinion safari is one of the worst web browsers. It is ok on a mac, but fails on PC.

Why do you say that? I couldn't fault it for anything.

[Falken]

If you never have, you should check out Safari for Windows. It is very lightweight, and while I have never actually checked out its memory usage, it doesn't give the same lock-downs, or runaway memory usage that Firefox sometimes causes. It is basically a fairly simple interface built on top of the WebKit with common modern features like tabs, etc. It also was the originator of the new tab page that has thumbnails of all your most-visited pages that IE8 now uses. It is also blisteringly fast.

Nah tried it and I don't normally like to talk bad about some specific software, but in my opinion safari is one of the worst web browsers. It is ok on a mac, but fails on PC.

Why do you say that? I couldn't fault it for anything.

Bad performance (considering RAM), lacks all addons available to especially firefox, speed is average, ugly interface (my personal opinion).
Comapring them all makes it just an average browser, nothing special.

Opera: Worlds fastest browser. Built in ad-block and other sweet features.
Firefox: Damn many addons, customization
IE8: Uses almost no computer resources compared to other browsers. Also got my favorite "download manager"
Safari: Nothing that the other ones can't do...and slow on windows compared to on Mac.

If I had mac safari would be an option due to being much faster than firefox for mac.

Currently I mainly are using Firefox with customized interface and ad-block.

[Jackolantern]

Really? I have had great performance with it (up to 20% faster than Opera), but I use it on a PC with 8 gigs of RAM. So perhaps it does use a lot more memory. And yeah, there really is not a lot of addons for it, but I hardly use any addons anyway outside of ones for web development, and those types of features are built-in.

[Falken]

Really? I have had great performance with it (up to 20% faster than Opera), but I use it on a PC with 8 gigs of RAM. So perhaps it does use a lot more memory. And yeah, there really is not a lot of addons for it, but I hardly use any addons anyway outside of ones for web development, and those types of features are built-in.

I would have a hard time without Adblock, Google Redesigned, and a way to get rid of the ugly GUI in safari

[MAruz]

I hear the excuse about schools and work only having IE6 and that is just crap. IE6 has so many security flaws most have already upgraded or will allow you to upgrade.

Haha, my work is stuck with IE6 because a crucial web-based system is tailored to IE6, and does not work in any other browsers, and they have just put off the thought of re-doing it to upgrade, probably because of the cost. Still sucks...

Players who use old browsers and refuse to upgrade are NOT players you want anyways...plain and simple... Have you surfed the web on IE6 lately? Its bad! Like trying to game on Win 3.1

That I agree on, IE6 won't get supported in my game if something doesn't work in that (or other older) browsers. So far I haven't really found much differences between the newer browsers, they all look and work the same way when I test. Of course, I don't have that much functionality yet, but at least the JS and CSS works as intended.

I did find a difference in JS functionality when I did a school project, but I think that was because of a code bug, not how the browser handled the technology.

[hallsofvallhalla]

Your work won't at least install another browser for browsing? That does stink.

i am having all kinds of hell with IE7 right now. Option select, divs, Justify, GetDocument, GetElement, Ect... pain in the rear