A few thoughts on web browsers

Let's get the ball rolling, shall we?

A few things off the top of my head on web browsers. I've never liked Firefox and IE's for long been less than ideal, so I've gone around the less known browsers. Tried Opera and didn't like it back then, and I hear it's still a bit twitchy anyway. I used MyIE2, now known as Maxthon for quite a while simply because it was feature rich and much lighter on system resources than either IE or Firefox back then, and FF had it's quirks with losing user profile data and crashing randomly for no apparent reason. I did use Maxthon for very many years, in which time atleast FF caught up to it apparently, but I still can't bring myself to like FF. Not after Chrome atleast.

When I learned of Google Chrome some time on its beta there was no return. Chrome's been my browser of choice ever since, and even tho IE8 is shaping up real good, and I hear FF is decent nowdays too I'm not going anywhere from this neat little thing. Call me a fanboy all you want, but I just happen to like the Google ideology. The interface on Chrome is perfect for my liking: it's very minimal, but everything essential is there within reach. It's still missing some features I'd desire, like a built-in feed reader or a proper zoom feature. Such things have made it to IE8, but the interface in IE8 is somewhat trublesome, has way too much stuff on it for my taste.

On my XP installation I have Maxthon installed and its feed reader set up to the few RSS feeds I pretend to follow. With my Windows 7 installation I primarily use at present I'm falling a bit behind on following those, but oh well, missing nothing important anyway I believe. I tried the IE8 reader but as it wasn't as intuitive as Maxthon's had become to me I just let it be. Maybe I'll get back to it. Windows 7 has a gadget to show the feeds on the desktop too, I should maybe try to learn using that. I've skipped a Windows version pretty much so I don't know what's new in 7 and what's carried over from Vista, but so far 7 is looking all around awesome, and I'll be getting around to it thoroughly later.