Browsers, browsers, browsers
I've downloaded Opera and Mozilla in addition to IE6.0, and I find myself
in a peculiar situation that I'm wondering if other people have experienced:
I use all three browsers, depending on what type of site or task I'm going
to.
My favoriate browser is Mozilla, and my favorite feature besides tabbed
browsing is the form/password manager. In several sites I visit I have two
logins (i.e. http://www.openair.com), and Mozilla lets me pick from either.
IE prefills only one, and I have little control over when it does and when
it doesn't. Opera has no form prefilling that I could find.
Mozilla has good Javascript and DOM debugging, so I tend to use it for
development. Allowing simultaneous MDI/SDI (multiple separate windows
w/multiple tabs in each) is very useful for pseudo A-D-D (attention deficit
disorder) folks like myself.
Opera is however still faster, smaller etc., and the integrated search
engines (right click and taskbar meta-search) and gestures really rock.
It's bookmark management is painless, and it keeps them in your face with a
quick click. It has and still is the speed freak of web browsers, and
useful for someone who spends a lot of time there. I always have this vague
feeling of wading through molasses when I'm using a non-opera browser. It's
rendering of CSS etc. if terrible, however, which brings me to my last
browser.
IE 6.0 is the browser to use if the page won't render correctly in the
previous two. That, and regression testing for the clients who (yuck) only
want my web pages to support ie are the only reasons I use it. The risk of
viruses is two great, and the fact that I know I'm never going to use it
for my *nix work means it's not worth it.
Oh, honorable mention goes to emacs' w3 browser. For heavy text editing in
a web browser ( like, um, writing a web log entry ), it's pretty darn
slick. I can't claim to have mastered all the commands, and it's pretty
flakey in support of some standards, and the caching is annoying, and ...
well, let's just give it an honorable mention and leave it at that.
8:10:25 PM 
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