I spend most of my day using a web browser, for work, for fun, for learning.
I’d really like to find a browser that’s fast, not bloated, that doesn’t crash or eat up all my memory, and that respects my privacy.
Unfortunately such a browser doesn’t seem to exist yet – at least on a PC running Windows, I can’t say about other OS, well maybe Ubuntu linux, but I do’nt have the time to spend half a day on the forums copy and pasting terminal commands each time I want to install a program.
Chrome: by default, it doesn’t respect privacy. It means you have to tweak the settings. Who wants to do that?
http://www.howtogeek.com/100361/how-to-optimize-google-chrome-for-maximum-privacy/
Comodo Dragon : built on chromium, but said to be optimizezd for privacy. Unfortunately, I can’t access localhost for development, the DNS servers block random websites, zooming with the mouse doesn’t work…
SRWare Iron, also built on chromium – but you have to update manually to new versions as in download the new installation package when you remember to check if it’s the latest version. Also, it will crash on you randlomly.
Firefox : love the Firebug, but when your computer starts slowing down and you check memory usage to see it’s using 700Mb of RAM – more than Photoshop, well…
Also, extensions keep getting disabled because of the version compatibility check.
Safari for Windows: don’t like it.
Opera: pretty fast but doesn’t have all the extensions I need.
Internet explorer: yeah, right.
So, if you know of a browser that uses just enough memory, that has awesome extensions, and respects my privacy and web standards, let me know!
or maybe I’m just being too paranoid about Chrome?