After over 30 years of using computers and working in the IT (Information Technology) Industry I am a little confused about why all the Tech websites seem to participate in what I refer to as the Marketing wars. I will occasionally comment on these things since I am only interested in what works well and makes using various things simpler.
All the browsers have their respective strengths and weaknesses. I have used Netscape (yeah the really old beginning days of the Internet one) and Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox and Opera and Chrome. They all have their features you love or don't love so much.
The speed of the browser is not really very important. The slowest one vs. the quickest one is a small period of time that most people won't even perceive. If various folks actually "test" the speed of pages loading in a browser window the results are more related to the server the page is coming from and the huge variability of the network speed. It changes constantly. That is why when you might be up at 4:00 in the morning and log into email and open up your home page it seem like everything goes so much faster then normal. That's because everyone else is sleeping and the network (yes, the Internet) is less saturated with everyone watching You-Tube and everything else.
The real issue to be focused on is the user interface. IE is pretty basic and works well for me. I like Opera as well. Lot's of features that you won't find anywhere else. Chrome is nice. Firefox is too. But, I have several plug-ins that I need and IE wins for me.
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