Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Browsers

In the past, I have familiarized myself with a number of browsers. I've used the standard Internet Explorer, the Mac-friendly Safari, my personal favorite (for now) Firefox, and the God-awful Netscape. Netscape is by far the worst. In my experience, Netscape has gotten corrupted so many times, I've wanted to smash the machine with a sledge-hammer on more than one occasion. At this current moment, I am using Firefox. I just tried to download 3b, the 3d browser, but my computer here at work does not have enough RAM! Frustration ensues! Apparently, the people who brought this computer in upgraded to Windows XP but neglected to upgrade the RAM. I'll have to try 3b at home later on. I also just downloaded Opera. The first thing I notice about the Opera browser is that in addition to the usual File, Edit, View, Bookmarks, and Tools drop-down menus on top, Opera has one for Widgets...very interesting. Another fascinating feature about Opera is as a page is loading, the browser shows how many images are on the page and how many are loaded right next to the web address. I will have to do some more searching around and report back later...

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