Searching For The Best Web Browser
I’ve spent a lot of time lately going back and forth between web browsers to find the one that will best suit my needs. Up until 2006, I was a full-on Internet Explorer browser guy. Since my last three years working with developers and other tech-oriented people, the increasing amount of errors, incompatibility and mistakes IE would throw my way became too much to bear. I gave in to peer pressure and tried Mozilla Firefox.
I really liked the Firefox Web browser a lot, especially since I was just getting into Search Engine Marketing and found the droves of SEM-friendly add-ons to be extremely helpful. Over the years, however, I’ve noticed Firefox taking longer to open up, and when it does I am inundated with the updates for the ever-growing list of add-ons I simply cannot live without. Half of the Firefox-friendly tools that allegedly make my job easier only serve to drain my system of valuable resources. So, while these tools tend to save me some time theoretically, that saved time is lost in reduced system performance.
My latest excursion into finding the perfect web browser is Google Chrome. I read a recent post titled Why Updating your Web Browser is Important, and it really opened my eyes to exactly how insecure our many internet users are in the world today. Something like 24% of Opera users, for example, do not have the latest version of their browser. This number should increase in the future with Opera’s latest release which will make updates much less voluntary. Only 53% of Safari Web browser users have the most updated version and while IE boasts in the upper 70th percentile for updated browsers, Google Chrome came in at something like 98%.
I’m looking for a faster solution than Firefox, with more security than Internet Explorer. Google Chrome is pretty bare-bones although it can be customized to give you the options you need, but it automatically updates to the latest version of the software every 5 hours, where the next-best web browsers make their updates voluntary.
On the down side, there don’t seem to be any SEM-friendly add-ons out there for Chrome. Considering Google also owns AdSense, AdWords, Analytics, Blogger, YouTube and more, I would expect to see those add ons coming very soon. But will they include stats on Yahoo and other sites that aren’t under the Google Umbrella?
After using Google Chrome for the first couple weeks, I’m not sure I could go back to Firefox or any other web browser unless they make some serious improvements, AND regain my trust because they’ve been betraying it now for years.
To close, here are some quotes I came across for those testing out Google Chrome:
* “It’s so fast and nice browser” – Abdul Malick
* “I like browser but just missing a set of SEO Plugins”- GTWLabs
* “It’s exceptionally fast” – NyCxZeRo
* “Just get a feeling of Chrome because I have a feeling that it is going to be the next big browser thing” – vjlenin
