I can remember being amazed at the performance boost that we got with IE5... showing my age here. They released early beta's of it and it was glorious. I tried Opera but it was too bloaty for my liking. Went to Firefox for a while and then eventually stuck with Chrome / Chromium.
Chrome for me even though it can be a memory hog for me (and my 50+ tabs, on a good day) is much more reliable than the other browsers around at the moment. Even though I wish that IE would go the way of Flash and other bad design decisions that have died off over the years, the latest versions of IE and their slow waltz back in line with the rest of the browser echo system have made me re-access the browser. If when the next iteration comes out, it has been fully isolated away from the core architecture of the OS, I might use it again as a browser, but as long as it still resides hand in hand with the core OS allowing exploits to cause mass destruction, I wouldn't touch it with a fully patched and totally isolated PC.
I can remember being amazed at the performance boost that we got with IE5... showing my age here. They released early beta's of it and it was glorious. I tried Opera but it was too bloaty for my liking. Went to Firefox for a while and then eventually stuck with Chrome / Chromium.
Chrome for me even though it can be a memory hog for me (and my 50+ tabs, on a good day) is much more reliable than the other browsers around at the moment. Even though I wish that IE would go the way of Flash and other bad design decisions that have died off over the years, the latest versions of IE and their slow waltz back in line with the rest of the browser echo system have made me re-access the browser. If when the next iteration comes out, it has been fully isolated away from the core architecture of the OS, I might use it again as a browser, but as long as it still resides hand in hand with the core OS allowing exploits to cause mass destruction, I wouldn't touch it with a fully patched and totally isolated PC.