On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Shao Xuan wrote: > I have a habbit of only using the native web browser in all my > systems/computers: IE7 in Windows (XP SP3 and Vista SP1, both > 32-bit), safari3 in Mac OS X Leopard, Firefox3 in Ubuntu and > OpenSolaris. But if your test reveals that one of the browsers is > superior than any others, I could consider of using this browser > instead of the native browser in some systems.
To me what matters is if pages render correctly and the browser does not crash. A couple of weeks ago, after a Solaris 10 Firefox patch, the browser would not even bring up Yahoo's main page without crashing. It seems better now after more patches. Browser stability is often quite pitiful. Software developers should be ashamed to deliver software which crashes. As a software developer, a browser which crashes due to loading a web page is like a car where the wheels fall off as you drive. I have not noticed any browser performance problems so I am not particularly worried about that. Even on SPARC performance was satisfactory and the remote sites were the bottleneck. Internet Explorer hardly ever crashes but I hardly ever use it due to its inherent security problems. Safari has been known to have serious security problems in the past as well. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
