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Web browsers Updated: 12 Feb 2010

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Opera for me Posted by: Peter & Mrs Jo-Ann Prendergast 28 Feb 2010 9:43pm

I've used Opera for years. Its small, smart, fast, and very compliant. It is also very safe,1. Because it has a small share of the market and is not usually a target and 2.Any vulnerabilities are addressed very quickly, days, not weeks or months as with some other browsers. I have switched occasionally but always end up coming back to Opera.

Windows who? Posted by: Chris Birdling 25 Feb 2010 3:37pm

I gave up on internet explorer years ago, was a dog way back, used opera, firefox and chrome, got chrome on a low spec machine works very well, impressed with firefox but it does have its crashes, best browser, in my opinion, to date out of the ones tested is the one i'm using at present, Safari, very fast, ease of use once you get that major virus called windows out of your system. Resources not a problem on modern computers.

Masses of Detail Posted by: Elderlybloke 23 Feb 2010 6:59pm

Are available if you want it . Try Wikipedia and if you want more use Google .

Most people don't want detailed specs, they only want to know how well, and how easy they are to work - as with Washting
Machines.

As for me - I have used Firefox for years.
Might try Opera-it seems to have improved since I used it.

What's up Consumer? Posted by: David Moorhouse 23 Feb 2010 5:11pm

Yet another thin report, it seems that if it can't be summed up in two columns and a score 1-10 it's not worth including. What about compatability, security, support or users forums. People are paying real money for real information can we please have some?

Prefer IE8 Posted by: Anthony Last 23 Feb 2010 5:02pm

I don't like Firefox much mainly because of its interface. Chrome is ok. I think the best is IE8 with either google or bing as your home page.

If you use GMAIL - then swap to CHROME Posted by: johnnymac22 17 Feb 2010 9:06pm

If you use GMAIL then 100% get rid of your old browser and install CHROME. Its fast and has a very cool mail check plus addition which just links everything together nicely on the one page. Just makes life easier. Plus its soooo easy to install and will take all your book marks over with just one click.

Test Results Posted by: Storm 17 Feb 2010 5:59pm

Meaningless, next to useless, no details whatsoever. Ithink IE8 is ok, slightly faster than chrome.

Limited Information Posted by: Kane David 16 Feb 2010 6:59pm

This was a less than useful article other than that it reinforces what most tech people have known for years in that MS Internet Explorer is a dog. You'd think that the worlds largest software manufacturer would be able to do something more right than just make good mice.

But my gripe on this article is that it is very thin on information. Obviously apart from Internet Explorer being only for PC, there was no mention of the word Mac even though one of the browsers was from the Mac maker themselves. Was any testing done on any Macs?

As one user pointed out above, Flash is a dog. Apparently the reason that Apple have not included Flash support on the iPhone/iPod platform is because the vast majority of the user submitted crash logs of Safari crashes are due to Flash Player bugginess. But of course that then begs the question of what third party plug-ins were included on the test system? A crashing slow memory-intensive hog might not necessarily be the same without plug-ins such as Quicktime (PC), WMVPlayer (Mac), Flash (both), AcrobatReader (both) etc.