First of all, rapid release is a joke & in my opinion a failure. The reason I say that is the number of sites that don't support Firefox anymore. The reason for this is that they are set up to support Firefox 3-4. Which, let's be honest, Firefox 7 is actually 4.3, but the people at Mozilla are obsessed with catching up to Chrome in versions.
Anyway this morning I saw this so I updated. As usual you can't tell the difference because it isn't really a major version upgrade. It's a bug fix, speed upgrade. It's supposed to be much faster. We'll see. Lifehacker has browser speed tests on their site today. It uses five tests & at the end guess which Browser wins? That's right, the used-by-no-one Opera! Followed by Firefox. And the supposed speed demon Chrome comes in behind IE!!!
Opera winning is no surprise. it has always been the fastest to load, but because it has a tiny market share (2%), websites don't code for it, thus you can't use it. What happened to Chrome? It appears that it is becoming bloated. The only test it won was javascript performance. Again stick with Firefox. I was thinking of Chrome, but no more. Opera if ever got support from the public would be the champ. Integrates things that Firefox does through extensions, plus it has an integrated mail program (Thunderbird is NOT part of Firefox).
Anyway this morning I saw this so I updated. As usual you can't tell the difference because it isn't really a major version upgrade. It's a bug fix, speed upgrade. It's supposed to be much faster. We'll see. Lifehacker has browser speed tests on their site today. It uses five tests & at the end guess which Browser wins? That's right, the used-by-no-one Opera! Followed by Firefox. And the supposed speed demon Chrome comes in behind IE!!!
Opera winning is no surprise. it has always been the fastest to load, but because it has a tiny market share (2%), websites don't code for it, thus you can't use it. What happened to Chrome? It appears that it is becoming bloated. The only test it won was javascript performance. Again stick with Firefox. I was thinking of Chrome, but no more. Opera if ever got support from the public would be the champ. Integrates things that Firefox does through extensions, plus it has an integrated mail program (Thunderbird is NOT part of Firefox).
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