Tag Archives: “web browser”
Why I Uninstalled Chrome After 15 Minutes
This is kind of a follow-up to my Google Chrome post. Well, as the title says, I uninstalled Chrome almost immediately after I installed it. Why? Several reasons:
Google Chrome
Well most techies know that last week Google released a new web browser called Chrome. It’s based on the Webkit rendering engine (also used in Safari) and from what I’ve seen and read, it’s very stripped down and simplified. As a web developer, it creates another browser I may need to test in, but considering it also uses Webkit like Safari, it’s going to adhere to standards very well. IE continues to be the biggest nuisance in my work.
IE8 Passes Acid2 Test
Many of us web designers/developers never thought we’d witness Internet Explorer pass the Acid2 rendering test but Microsoft announced yesterday via IEBlog that their internal version of IE8 has done just that. Now if they could push this browser out sooner, it’d be great because the sooner IE6 gets ditched, the better.
Safari on Windows
Apple released a new beta version of their Safari web browser yesterday. Normally this news wouldn’t be that important to me but this new version now works on Windows! As a web developer this is great news because now I don’t need to use/borrow/buy a Mac just to test my work in Safari. As I deal with larger projects it has increasingly become more important to test in Safari.
Internet Explorer 7
So I’ve been holding off installing IE7 mainly because with my work, I still need to do a lot of compatibility testing in IE6 and there really wasn’t any elegant solutions for running IE6 and IE7 side by side, at least not until recently. Microsoft made their Virtual PC 2004 software free which allows you to run other operating systems simultaneously. They also released a free image of Windows XP SP2 with IE6 that will last until April 2007. This allows web developers to run both IE6 and IE7 simultaneously and since I’ve slowly started receiving client requests for IE7 compatibility, I thought might as well take the plunge.
Firefox Rules Them All
Firefox is the best browser on Windows PC’s. I say PC’s because I’ve never used a Mac (and don’t plan on doing so in the future either) so I can’t comment on Safari. But Firefox is the best standards-based browser out there. The one flaw it has is the memory leaks, which they’ve been working on. If you’ve been using Firefox during a long session and opening a lot of tabs/windows, the memory usage starts going up and doesn’t come down unless you restart Firefox. But I have plenty of memory so it doesn’t matter.