As a web developer what am I suppose to choose for MY browser?
Today Firefox 4 Beta was introduced, I can’t say that I’m totally impressed, but I think they’ve finally caught back up with Chrome after a long hiatus of updates. (After they implement the coming soon features of course.)
So I’ve downloaded Firefox 4 and I’ve read the feature list: Faster Loading, HTML5, CSS3, Sync (Coming Soon). First thing I did was the “Mississippi” test to see how fast it launched. This was the one (MAIN) thing that made me go to Chrome in the first place and now it has been my primary browser for the last 5+ months now. I was happily impressed to see that it is just as fast as Chrome now, and I wish they would have patched the slowness a long time ago.
After discovering that some of the core features that I love about Chrome are not yet available for FF4, I’ve decided to continue to use Chrome. Why? Although Firefox was there for me, when Internet Explorer was so rotten to me…Chrome has made my life easy. I now interact with over 5 computing devices daily (Work Computer, Home Computer, Cell Phone…etc). The biggest feature for me now in a browser is keeping my internet life in-sync, the bookmarks, the history, all of that gooey stuff.
The two major differences between Firefox and Chrome now are basically WebKit(KDE) and Gecko. Over the past 5+ months I’ve learned to love WebKit. Everything seems cleaner and faster. It also seems that Webkit development has lead to a better experience in mastering my standards as well as helped prevent me from coding anything that IE generally doesn’t like. There is some magic of WebKit that I just can’t put my finger on…
The Choice: As you may have guessed, I’m keeping chrome for now. However sometime in November, I want to do a proper head to head review of Firefox 4 VS Chrome.
Lets not forget, IE 9 is right around the corner? Would I ever switch to back IE…Heck no!
