This post was inspired by another recent post that I read. I will be quoting and sourcing it later on. I want t make direct my focus to a play on the original posts title. “Are you a casualty”. And, The last paragraph of the post which reads:

When you find what works for you, work with it to get all the kinks and oddities under control – all browsers have nits to pick. Once you get the choice tuned, stay with it unless something huge happens. You’ll be happier and much less cranky after long sessions. You’ll also be able to resist the click-happy exploits of the home benchmarking crowd.

The Browsers

These days everyone is familiar with at least the names of the most popular browsers, Internet Explorer, from Microsoft; Firefox, from the Mozilla Foundation; Chrome, from Google; Opera, from Opera Labs; and last on the list of well-known – Safari, from Apple.

All browsers have the good points and the bad points. This is will all software or anything else for that matter.

First we’ll mention IE. Paraphrasing what the other author stated, They have not been innovative and have not lead the way in the browser wars. In my experience, this is the slowest and least outstanding browser in existence.It is the largest target for exploits and most attacked browser. This could be because it still stands as the most used browser. Most used because it’s the default on the Windows OS.

And then there is Firefox. This happens to be the browser of choice for me. ‘m comfortable with it because I have used it for many years. I have only issue with some of the extensions not being maintained. At this point though, the extensions that I use, seem to stay in development. Firefox seems to be a bit of a memory hog but, I can live with that. Memory is cheap these days.

I have not tried Opera in quite some time. I know that there are many useful tools, either built in or, available for Opera. At one time it would have become my choice but, I’m just comfortable with the way Firefox works.

On my Mac, I use Safari quite often but still not on a day to day basis. I like that Safari will render a web page just as it is. It fixes nothing on the fly. It is compliant to the newest web standards and is good for page testing. That though, is all that I use it for.

The Bottom Line

So, the question that I posed in the beginning; Are you a casualty? Well, you don’t have to be. Pick the browser that fits your needs or suits your taste. The browser that performs the task at hand and provides that which you ned and go with it. Get comfortable with it and use it.

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