What is the better browser?
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What is the better browser?
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Re: What is the better browser?
I use Opera xDD
but...
but...
[color=#000000]* Voted Chrome[/color]RestInHell. - Team Leader
Re: What is the better browser?
Americans voted Chrome.
Germans voted Firefox.
etc.
etc.
Well, since this topic came up, why not write something more constructive? If anybody wants to correct or add something, feel free.
I'll talk biggest selling factor for each of the browsers. I'll talk about the latest versions (Chrome Canary, Firefox Nightly, etc.) and upcoming features.
Chrome has the best compatibility when it comes to variety, simply because it's the most popular browser, people tend to tailor their websites to Chrome. Not too long ago, there was a rather big gap between Chrome and the competition when it comes to web content compatibility (especially HTML5), but that gap is now almost non-existent. I think its biggest success came from its initial release of Flash compatibility, though now phasing out. I think people also liked Chrome because when you open Chrome, it comes up immediately because it runs in the background, booted up with the computer, as well as its seamless updates. It can also run (Android) apps. However, it takes up so much RAM (interestingly, CrOS takes less RAM) and your trust with Google (and how third parties can buy/demand data from Google) can be a turn off, but Chromium can be the alternative (which Chrome is based off of, and Chromium is actually open source).
Firefox takes very little RAM, so it's notebook friendly. It's completely caught up with compatibility and speed benchmarks and it doesn't run as a background service when you don't need it. It has huge flexibility on customizing the UI and it's open source. I guess the biggest turn off for Firefox could be the updates and its application start time, but that mostly depends on the speed of your computer (SSDs wouldn't make you wait longer than 3 seconds for updates). Though it's open source, none of the branched projects off of Firefox are so great. You might have general speed concerns with Firefox and still use Chrome, but soon, multi-process Firefox will arrive and it's 400-700% responsiveness improvement. This will probably be the call to ditch Chrome.
The only good thing about Edge is its javascript rendering. I remember there was a javascript version of Teeworlds, but I didn't test it too much. For years, IE has been the king of javascript by a big margin and that feature transferred over to Edge. Other features are slowly catching up to its competition, but it will still be a while. You might only see IE/Edge used in Japan/Korea.
Opera is just a lightweight browser with a cool feature of data compression from the Opera servers. If you just browse the Internet with data caps for your Internet, Opera is for you, especially good for mobile devices. You might not like its shallower compatibility to web content, but you probably won't use MP4/H264 on your browser anyway, because they're phasing out.
I just wanted to mention Brave, which is an up-and-coming (alpha) browser with an interesting concept, and probably the future. Though Firefox beats Chrome at very few speed benchmarks, Chrome and Brave go neck to neck even though Brave is based off of Chromium (which Chrome is also based from). Not only that, it has a built-in Bitcoin wallet system and has a twist on a built-in ad blocker. Basically, you can get paid to browse the Internet and you can pay the publishers/websites because you like their content/services. For paying the websites, it's pretty flexible. You can set a monthly limit (say 5€) and let's say you visit ddnet.org 80% of the time and teeworlds.com 20% of the time; monthly, 4€ will go to ddnet.org and 1€ to teeworlds.com. This revenue stream for the publishers can encourage more content from the less-fortunate who might not be able to afford to host. The ad blocker blocks those ads and replaces them with their self-proclaimed higher quality ads tailored and more relevant to your browsing history, but you can also just block those ads outright, but that's where you cut off your income to your Bitcoin wallet.
[mod=Index]Thanks for this detailed post, was interesting to read :3[/mod]
Germans voted Firefox.
etc.
etc.
Well, since this topic came up, why not write something more constructive? If anybody wants to correct or add something, feel free.
I'll talk biggest selling factor for each of the browsers. I'll talk about the latest versions (Chrome Canary, Firefox Nightly, etc.) and upcoming features.
Chrome has the best compatibility when it comes to variety, simply because it's the most popular browser, people tend to tailor their websites to Chrome. Not too long ago, there was a rather big gap between Chrome and the competition when it comes to web content compatibility (especially HTML5), but that gap is now almost non-existent. I think its biggest success came from its initial release of Flash compatibility, though now phasing out. I think people also liked Chrome because when you open Chrome, it comes up immediately because it runs in the background, booted up with the computer, as well as its seamless updates. It can also run (Android) apps. However, it takes up so much RAM (interestingly, CrOS takes less RAM) and your trust with Google (and how third parties can buy/demand data from Google) can be a turn off, but Chromium can be the alternative (which Chrome is based off of, and Chromium is actually open source).
Firefox takes very little RAM, so it's notebook friendly. It's completely caught up with compatibility and speed benchmarks and it doesn't run as a background service when you don't need it. It has huge flexibility on customizing the UI and it's open source. I guess the biggest turn off for Firefox could be the updates and its application start time, but that mostly depends on the speed of your computer (SSDs wouldn't make you wait longer than 3 seconds for updates). Though it's open source, none of the branched projects off of Firefox are so great. You might have general speed concerns with Firefox and still use Chrome, but soon, multi-process Firefox will arrive and it's 400-700% responsiveness improvement. This will probably be the call to ditch Chrome.
The only good thing about Edge is its javascript rendering. I remember there was a javascript version of Teeworlds, but I didn't test it too much. For years, IE has been the king of javascript by a big margin and that feature transferred over to Edge. Other features are slowly catching up to its competition, but it will still be a while. You might only see IE/Edge used in Japan/Korea.
Opera is just a lightweight browser with a cool feature of data compression from the Opera servers. If you just browse the Internet with data caps for your Internet, Opera is for you, especially good for mobile devices. You might not like its shallower compatibility to web content, but you probably won't use MP4/H264 on your browser anyway, because they're phasing out.
I just wanted to mention Brave, which is an up-and-coming (alpha) browser with an interesting concept, and probably the future. Though Firefox beats Chrome at very few speed benchmarks, Chrome and Brave go neck to neck even though Brave is based off of Chromium (which Chrome is also based from). Not only that, it has a built-in Bitcoin wallet system and has a twist on a built-in ad blocker. Basically, you can get paid to browse the Internet and you can pay the publishers/websites because you like their content/services. For paying the websites, it's pretty flexible. You can set a monthly limit (say 5€) and let's say you visit ddnet.org 80% of the time and teeworlds.com 20% of the time; monthly, 4€ will go to ddnet.org and 1€ to teeworlds.com. This revenue stream for the publishers can encourage more content from the less-fortunate who might not be able to afford to host. The ad blocker blocks those ads and replaces them with their self-proclaimed higher quality ads tailored and more relevant to your browsing history, but you can also just block those ads outright, but that's where you cut off your income to your Bitcoin wallet.
[mod=Index]Thanks for this detailed post, was interesting to read :3[/mod]
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