Monday, April 25, 2011

Informal and incomplete web browser comparison

Evaluations in progress:

ProsCons
Internet Explorer (ver 8.0.7600 ...)Flash media doesn't appear to crash browser
  • Slow to start up, slow when opening a new tab.  This is even more apparent on a computer with limited memory, as the OS will continuously page
  • Option to restore previous session is hidden away under Tools > Reopen Last Browsing Session and sometimes this session isn't saved properly (e.g. when Windows restarts computer after installing updates)
Mozilla Firefox (ver 3.6.6)
  • Selenium IDE is exclusive to Firefox
  • Delicious side-bar works great
Flash media can slow down or crash browser
Mozilla Firefox (ver 4 ...)N/AN/A
Opera (ver 11.01)
  • Like the way the "back button history" collapses to domains so that it is faster to retrace steps
  • Like graphical smoothness of how browser works (like an Apple interface)
Some web sites don't render well and functionality is hurt on others (e.g. Google Docs spreadsheets)
Chrome (ver )N/AN/A
Internet Explorer (ver 9.0.8112 ...)Didn't bother using furtherSometimes difficult (or impossible?) to restore last browsing session, that is, the open tabs and their loaded locations, after shutting down browser.  This is a show-stopper.

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