Which browser is best?

Chrome for here, Internet Explorer of videos

 

Brace browser. Blocks all trackers, even the ones from Google, it blocks almost all ads and it’s fast. It also has adobe flash support.

 

Dunno 'bout "best"... just know what I use... Firefox on laptop/notebook at home. Safari on iPod at work.

 

I use firefox and chrome, but growing increasingly weary of chrome. I have a lot of bookmarks and such saved and I am too lazy to properly move them since the import/export feature never works right. I also don't mind the newest version of edge, but like I said... too lazy to move bookmarks and such.

 

Only a few are gonna now about this one, but I use Tor brower, the onion router.

 

Well, according to Task Manager, there are roughly 873 instances of Chrome running, so I guess it is the strongest. In three weeks when I get a new PC and have to redo everything, I am going back to Firefox.

 

I never have any problems with Chrome. It’s great!

 

The best at resource management is Firefox, because it only loads the active tab into the ram. However, you'll have to wait for ram transfer (talking milliseconds) for moving between tabs. However, Firefox is a giant lumbering beast that is slow to get up and running by comparison to Chrome, and can easily get carried away with extensions to an insane degree to where you end up consuming a large amount of ram just for the basic shell. It's a bit clunky on rendering sometimes. However, if you're someone with a quad core gaming computer and lots of ram...you probably won't notice the speed hiccups all that often.

The best for speed, poised at the ready to pounce like a puma all over your internet is Chrome, but that comes at a cost of being like an Apple - that is, once you open a tab, it's always loaded into ram regardless if it's active or not, and the more tabs you open the more ram will be retained after you close them just in case you change your mind. So it's really fast, but you have to manage your process tasks, or install an extension to stop it from loading all tabs into ram, or just live with it...but if you're on a Mac, and doing heavy lifting like video or music editing, then it's a good idea to load the media software first and then your Chrome so you don't chew up ram that could have gone over to the media software and isn't actively being used by Chrome. Also...if you're on a Mac, if you close Chrome, make sure to force close it when you're done, otherwise the OS will keep the ram allocation reserved for Chrome that was the amount being used at close, and Chrome will have tallied up all tabs worth of data as the quantity.

I.E. is garbage, but useful at a corporate level because everyone will have it. Otherwise, it's pretty much garbage because MS doesn't abide by W3C HTML5 standards in the same way everyone else does so pages will render differently in IE overall in terms of spacial differences in table borders, and it recognizes less CSS syntax markup than the other two (Chrome and FF both use pretty much the same amount of W3C HTML5 and CSS recognition), and IE is a resource hog in the gui itself - it is very poorly and inefficiently designed so you have a higher chance of gui graphical artifacts.
It also has a tendency to flip itself automatically to "offline mode" if it has a time when it can't get an internet connection, and sometimes when the internet comes back the user has to be aware that they may need to go to the (often hidden) file menu and tell IE to go back to "online mode".
On the flip-side, IE on a windows OS is handy to flip back and forth between local directory browsing and internet browsing because they're both essentially the same gui shell and IE recognizes directory syntax and flips into explorer.exe mode on the fly...so that's...neat.
If you're thinking, "I've never noticed any internet page deficiencies before and I'm using IE..."
You're right. That's because all of the designers (not programmers...website creators are designers; not programmers) of websites have to actually make a separate little announcement in the syntax of their code which outlines how to package the content up JUST for IE.
If that's not enough, often times they have to spell out a difference for each version of IE they want to support because each version is pretty substantially different in terms of markup language recognition and rendering....because, you know... "Why make anything simple? Microsoft®"

Safari...I stand corrected. IE isn't garbage; it actually has a role to offer in the corporate world. Safari, on the other hand, is garbage. It recognizes the least amount of HTML and CSS markup, it has the lowest security setting control, logical flow of options is often inverted from the intuitive understanding of the terms, more often than not, technical support groups you call won't help, or won't help very well, with their product via Safari because no one cares about it or checks if anything works on it (except for Apple and Apple audience software), and the shell environment of Safari is not elegantly written so it doesn't move as smooth as it should (load times are lagged in Safari by clunky browser programming).
Safari is like being in 2017 and driving a car from 1999 when you have the money to afford a proper car with the basic functions of remote start, bluetooth and proper electronic dash systems instead of inserting tape converters into your 99 tape player so you can play your phone (or whatever) through the car...it's just a ...why? There's better options available. I think the only thing worse than Safari might be running IE on an OSX platform.

I'm saying these things as a guy who spent 10 years in a technical support call center, and - having grown up in the 90's - written a number of websites (and has to deal with website development and api's at my job).

In my opinion, pick either Firefox or Chrome - it's a toss between the two because what one does well, the other sucks at, and the inverse is true of yet a different feature.
It just comes down to Feature, Speed, and Bloat - it's up to you as to which matters.

If you want it fast and you don't need a lot of background apps going, and you don't really need to be able to add 50 lbs of extensions and completely reskin the browser like it's 2006 and we're on MySpace, then probably Chrome will do.

If you want to be specific with your resources use so that your other apps or gaming aren't taking a hit just because you choose to browse at the same time, or if you want to be able to tailor your browser like you're Bob Vila building a hose, then Firefox is for you.

Cheers,
Jayson

 

I've used Google Chrome for years, I know a lot of people were trying to get me to use Microsoft Edge when Windows 10 was released, but it looked to me like a renamed version of Internet Explorer, so.