Tonight in class, I learned that I have browser options that I could potentially download and use on my Mac OS. Until tonight, I thought that I had to use Safari because that is the browser that came with my Notebook. Most of my experience with web browsers is with Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari. Tonight I explored many browser alternatives including Google Chrome, Sea Monkey, Sunrise, Camino. The two browsers that I liked the best were Google Chrome and Sunrise.
I liked Google Chrome as an alternative to my current use of Safari because its menu and tool bars are very streamlined and uncluttered. I also liked that new tabs were ready and waiting to be clicked, and I was impressed by Chrome's claim that one independent tab could crash without bringing down the whole browser.
As of now after my brief exploration, Sunrise is by far my favorite of the browsers I looked at this evening. As an avid fan of bookmarks, I really like the way Sunrise organizes the bookmarks so that you can view all of them in a separate window to the side for easy viewing and selection. I also appreciated the user-friendly tool bar options such as the screen capturing/snap shot of the current page, the "select user agent" where you can easily switch to a different browser, and the zooming options. Another feature I liked about Google Chrome and Sunrise was that both browsers allow you to type in a web address or a search term in the same URL field.
I appreciate the opportunity this evening to explore alternative browsers, and I plan to download Sunrise to my personal computer soon.
Well done!
ReplyDeleteUpdate: After making Sunrise my primary browser for the last week, I have modified my original opinion. I still love Sunrise's unique approach to bookmarks and other user-friendly features; however, in my experience, Sunrise is not stable or reliable. Almost every time I use Sunrise, my pages crash and Sunrise quits unexpectedly. When one page goes down, they all go down, which is very inconvenient considering I usually have three or four tabs in use at a time. Because of this disappointing discovery, I am now going to make Google Chrome my primary browser.
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