Browser altermatives

[angels355]

I am giving opera a break for a while, it hasn't been functioning as well as I would like it. So for the time being I am going back to IE 8 as I can count on it for being stable. My second browser is of course Firefox. Firefox is without a doubt the very best browser I have ever come across. While IE 8 is not doing everything I would like it to with regards to tabs, at least I can count on it for stability when stability is really needed.

I'll keep trying out opera also but as the third browser for the time being.

[angels355]

Opera is still very nice. It's running now, fast, seemingly faster than IE8 or FF3.5.3. Any way thanks again for everyone's help.

[angels355]

I was using IE 8 plus speech recognition, IE 8 allows you to write text with speech recognition directly into an e-mail. I wrote a lot then the computer froze while running windows 7, I had no choice but to restart, nothing was working. I was very pleasantly surprised to learn that IE8 asked if I wanted to restore the session. Fire fox I believe will exactly restore a previous session right down to the text, however if I recall IE 8 and opera won't immediately exactly restore an e-mail session like hotmail. However I was relieved that the latest version of hotmail will save a draft while you are working, so nearly all of my text was saved by hotmail automation. What a relief.

Opera just had an update from 10.0 to 10.01, I have been trying it out, it's very nice and fast also. The problem I had with 10.0 was that the first tab kept crashing, I could rescue it by copying the web address and pasting it into another tab, however that was very annoying. It seems to crash less with 10.01 but I can't guarantee the problem has been fixed.

One problem with using IE 8 and speech recognition is that speech recognition controls many other functions on the page, so while creating text you may accidentally trigger some other command on the page. It may be better to use speech recognition to write text into notepad, word pad, or word, and press save often.

PS: Right when I pressed the submit button to submit this blog opera 10.01 crashed to the desktop. I restarted opera and selected to restore the session, my blog had been already successfully submitted, however I have to sign in again to hotmail. I believe fire fox is much better at restoring a session. Which reminds me I should install safari on this computer, I think it is a solid browser. Of course I think fire fox is number one.

[azur]

I've been using Chromium

Chromium is the open source project, from which Google takes the code, adds their own 'features' and brands Chrome. Chromium doesn't send anything to Google unless you configure it otherwise.

It's very fast, and very snappy.

[angels355]

Thanks, that's a common attribute of a good browser, fast. Opera is fast also, and one interesting feature is that the colors are more intense and there's greater contrast. Side by side w/ IE8 there's a noticeable difference across the entire page.

What is the opensource base of these browsers, can you get the plain vanilla base? Is it FIrefox? Or something else? I use 2 browsers so that i can independently access 2 accounts at the same website.

Thought I would share something funny with you guys. I've been having bad luck with power supplies, I found out my Internet computer had a power supply that was failing (antec 350, 2nd one). Took it out and had to replace it perhaps temporarily with my only good PSU, a 500/550 Max watt Enermax which are beefy PSU's. I thought this was a good time to try out my old big Geforce 6800 ultra agp card, it would not work on any other computer with an ordinary power supply. Lo and behold the Enermax brought that 6800 back to life, and I was running FS 9 fairly well, I could tell it had better shading, I think it was their first Shader 3 card. That 6800 however sucked so much wattage out of the system however that my dvd drives would not run, they disappeared. I had to take that out and replace it w/ an ati 9700 Pro 256 mb agp card. The 6800 looked good in heavy scenery but the 9700 still gets 30 fps in the same heavy scenery just slightly more fuzziness, plus got the DVD drives back. Just thought that was funny for an internet computer, usually my flight sim computers are separate and more specialized. Oh, had 2 gb of ram also. Use W7 for the internet, W2000 for FS9.

EDIT: PS: I pressed the submit button for this blog and opera 10.01 crashed to the desktop once again, third time today!

[azur]

Originally Posted by angels355

Thanks, that's a common attribute of a good browser, fast. Opera is fast also, and one interesting feature is that the colors are more intense and there's greater contrast. Side by side w/ IE8 there's a noticeable difference across the entire page.

What is the opensource base of these browsers, can you get the plain vanilla base? Is it FIrefox? Or something else? I use 2 browsers so that i can independently access 2 accounts at the same website.

Amongst the open source based browsers there's two main rendering engines:
Gecko - used by Firefox, Seamonkey
Webkit - used by Chromium, Chrome, Arora, Midori, Safari, Konqueror, iPhone, Palm Pre, Android and more I can't remember.

Closed source:
Presto - Opera only
Trident - Internet Explorer & some other IE based browsers

There's far more to a browser than the rendering engine though. There's cookie handling, popup blocker, the whole UI, javascript, network/proxy handling - a lot! So while some browsers use the same rendering engine, there's still many other ways they differentiate themselves.

Chromium is an open source browser, utilising webkit. Google, then take that browser, make their own modifications and then release their version of it as 'Chrome'. Chromium doesn't have the same privacy concerns that Chrome does, and obviously lacks the Google branding, not that it serves much purpose anyway...

[angels355]

Thanks that's cool. I have some reading to do.