I am most familiar with Explorer, but have for the past two years used Firefox. As a past student of Liberty University, their preferred browser was Firefox and also Firefox is a preferred browser of my husband, so I find myself going to Firefox.
I chose to look at Chrome. I have a computer friend who knows all the latest and greatest, and he says Chrome is not a secure browser, and it is having issues. This peaked my curiosity, but I have no idea if the statements are true or false.
When Chrome first appears as the home page there are little mini pages of your most visited sites. This is strange looking and different to me, but then I remembered seeing the same set up on my son's MAC and one of the editions of Ubuntu my husband has. I figure this must be the way of the future. You just click on the one you would like to open or type a new address in the address bar. Chrome also had the address bar and the search bar integrated. The home page seemed cleaner looking with less clutter but somewhat plain. Chrome is suppose to be faster, but I could not really tell any difference.
I am a little more familiar with Safari than I was with Chrome, but that is not saying much. Safari seemed to look more like Firefox. The address bar and the search bars were separate, but the menu bar has an apple store icon on it. Overall I did not see many differences with Safari compared to Firefox.
Well, they all are browsers, so the differences (if any) are subtle.
ReplyDeleteI had not heard of any issues with Chrome on security, but could be, I suppose.
As to operational issues, I use Chrome constantly and have not observed operational issues. One of the features Chrome was first to offer is independent tab operation. That simply means that when one tab locks up the whole browser does not crash. While that generally is true, I have had times when one tab has taken down the whole browser. However, this is a far less frequent issue than with other browsers. Often one tab can crash on its own without taking the others out. Even so, it is rare for even one tab to crash, it seems to me. But then, maybe that is because I notice it less than with other browsers. A whole browser crash taking down other pages where things are running is very annoying. :-)