> But to just put up a big fuck you, to what is the second most popular or most popular browser as a whole isn't helpful.
I'm glad you said this. I think you're stepping out from a trend/trope, which is to make fun of IE, to recognize the more nuanced reality of the situation.
Over the last few months, I've encountered some surprises. One is that although Firefox seems to be a memory hog, it's very reliable at this point. I didn't set out to like Firefox, but now I trust it as much as the old Netscape.
Another is that while I like the idea of Opera and Chrome, each has failed me now in a number of situations where we're not looking at an isolated glitch, but major performance problems. In particular, complex scripts can lock these guys up like a flash freeze, and Chrome has periodic catastrophic crashes:
This leaves me looking at Firefox and IE as the two real contenders. And while I've never wanted to be an IE fan, as only the unpopular kids on the schoolyard like IE, I think as an application, it's pretty stable. Its only real problem is security and if MS fixes that, I think it's going to be a great competitor for FF now that it's standards-based in the newest version.
I'm glad you said this. I think you're stepping out from a trend/trope, which is to make fun of IE, to recognize the more nuanced reality of the situation.
Over the last few months, I've encountered some surprises. One is that although Firefox seems to be a memory hog, it's very reliable at this point. I didn't set out to like Firefox, but now I trust it as much as the old Netscape.
Another is that while I like the idea of Opera and Chrome, each has failed me now in a number of situations where we're not looking at an isolated glitch, but major performance problems. In particular, complex scripts can lock these guys up like a flash freeze, and Chrome has periodic catastrophic crashes:
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/7WtG_xY...
This leaves me looking at Firefox and IE as the two real contenders. And while I've never wanted to be an IE fan, as only the unpopular kids on the schoolyard like IE, I think as an application, it's pretty stable. Its only real problem is security and if MS fixes that, I think it's going to be a great competitor for FF now that it's standards-based in the newest version.