Shiny new Browsers +

So now we have Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Google Chrome along with some mashup browsers competing for their marketshare of Wíndows users.

I’m running Firefox 3 for a few months now, and so far I like that they finally decided to ditch the Bookmark.htm after nearly 15 years. But it’s still clogging my machines memory and keeps crashing down if there is no free RAM left. Remember when we all switched from Netscape Navigator to Firefox, because it was a small minimalistic browser with a tiny footprint both in size an memory consumption?

Last weeks big news was the release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta2. After using it for a few days I found some quirks, like crashing when processing some JavaScripts or that it’s painfully slow at some points. And Why did they separate The Favorites Bar from the favorites Menu? And why can’t I place them both left of the page tabs? I guess I just have to wait for the next release.

And now it’s Google’s surprise browser. And at first look it reminded me of something I liked several years ago. Firefox 0.9x. It’s again small, fast, and doesn’t come with a bunch of useless features. It’s still Beta, so I won’t be expecting too much, but for the time it serves it’s purpose of reminding everybody else, that a small fast browser is possible and will be used by the masses.