| your mother said: Edit: In terms of standards compliance, Opera is the only browser that http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2/ http://www.webstandards.org/2006/07/20/acid2-and-opera-9-clarifications/ It is the most standards-compliant browser as it follows the W3C guidelines to a T. These are reasons that developers should embrace because IE's atrocious lack of standards compliance vs its browser domination means extra work for everyone who creates web applications because they are forced to write hacks and exception codes for IE. Therefore: Opera > Firefox > IE > Safari In terms of features, you can't beat Firefox with its extensive library of plugins that extend the functionalities of your browser (you can turn it into an FTP client, for example). Come on. Safari for Windows (and probably Mac as well when pitted against Opera or Firefox) a joke by modern browser standards: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1990850,00.asp http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2152777,00.asp /opinion |
I used Opera for a good 6 months starting back around July or so of 06, and I found it to be much slower than IE. I first noticed the slowdown when I started school at LSU, and I thought LSU's internet service was the culprit, until I downloaded IE7. It loaded pages much faster, and I haven't gone back since.
I also had Firefox for a while back in May of '06, but I had problems getting certain plug-ins to work. I've been meaning to try it again since I upgraded to Vista, but haven't actually bothered yet.
