Peter Brawley
peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Tue Mar 12 12:02:10 CDT 2013
On 2013-03-12 11:50 AM, Jim Lawrence wrote: > Hi All: > > The browser choices are becoming more difficult. > > IE, according to what the pundits are saying is now stable, fast and > reliable but it only runs on the latest versions of Windows So it's out for me 'cept for sites that require it 9and fortunately there are fewer of those). > and is not > cross-platform. (Later this more month I will do a thorough test...if I ever > get out from under this damn project I am on.) > > Chrome is always fast as usual And sync across so many platforms is terrific. > but talk about bloat...I am sure the browser > gets performance via using as much memory as possible. Good news is that it > is fast and runs on all platforms. Bad news is I feel like a product when I > am using it...so many ads. Yep. > > Safari is a cute product; somewhere in the middle, not very innovative and > does what you want but does not run on Linux just like Opera and IE. > > That leaves FireFox. I have been using it more lately as it runs on > everything out there, comes with an extensive list of feature, the > application is very innovative...leading with latest and greatest (which is > even keeping Google running to keep up), loads a lot faster than before, > does not eat all the memory, has real protection and I don't have to feel > like a product when I am using it. FireFox's use of SQLite to store bookmarks & history makes for l-o-n-g delays. Not a nice way to waste time. PB ----- > > Someone else is feeling the same way and here is a link to their blog > article on the subject. > > http://www.campaul.net/blog/2013/03/10/why-im-switching-back-to-firefox/ > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >