[Elecraft] HELLO

[Phil Hystad]

Actually, either Google Chrome or Opera is superior to Firefox as a browser.  Firefox has not kept up with changing times and performance.

On my Mac, the fastest browser is Apple Safari but Chrome comes in as a reasonably close second and then Opera.  And, all of these blow the doors off of Firefox.  And, obviously there is no IE on my Mac so that is a non-issue.

But, at work, corporate policy (which I violate every day) is to use IE and it is incredibly slow despite the fact that I have a very fast PC.

Both Chrome and Opera are available on a Windows PC too and they are much better then IE or Firefox.  My favorite for my at work computer is Opera.  Since we do a lot of HTML5 based web application development, IE is not even in the running as a test platform and we rely on Opera and Chrome.  Just go to the site:  html5test.com and measure your favorite browser's HTML5 support.

Oh, Safari is available on Windows but that is not a good choice.  Safari screams on a Mac but it is stuck in the slush on a Windows box.  Safari is a web-kit based browser and so is Chrome and I think possibly Opera and just about every other browser on the planet.  Firefox is of course based on Mozilla Gecko and IE is based on IE junk.

PEH


On Sep 23, 2012, at 1:25 PM, Jim Wiley <jwiley at gci.net> wrote:

> 
> Yet another reason to use a browser that is NOT Internet Explorer.  
> Firefox is one alternative.  It's not perfect by any means, but  it's 
> not IE either, and the user-based support is amazing.  I have IE on my 
> system, for those times when I am forced to use it, but fortunately 
> that's only 2 or 3  times a year.
> 
> 
> But perhaps I am just being a curmudgeon.
> 
> 
> - Jim, KL7CC
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/23/2012 12:04 PM, Gary wrote:
>> Another vulnerability in Internet Explorer has been discovered and patched
>> just this past week/weekend.
> 
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