Perpetual Ruminations

Sunday

In here a lot earlier today, and still trying different browsers. This time I'm in here with Apple's Safari, and it seems to work pretty well. It supports some of the add-ins I use, but it also falls short in some areas. One plus is it allows me to use LastPass, which I depend on all the time. On the down side, the browser does not support drag and drop in here.

I could just use Internet Explorer, it does what I want and need, but it tends to get bogged down and it constantly wants to disable my plug-ins. Sure, they may slow it down some, but come on people, if I didn't want them active, I wouldn't have installed them. It just kind of irks me when it flashes the message on the bottom to disable the plug-ins because they are making the program open slower. Yeah, but a second or two, and all combined, it may cost me a whopping six seconds to load them. But, they are there because I use them, and want the active. If I'm going to disable them, why in the hell would I even want to keep them?

Oh well, just needed to scream that out, I guess. It's not so bad, it's just frustrating. I used Firefox for quite some time, but then all at once it began to have issues. Then, it was a switch over to Chrome. That was a great move, it was fast secure, and worked like a charm. But, I reckon all good things must end, and so it was with Chrome. Some things just didn't work anymore in certain sites.

So, it was back to Internet Explorer. They had a new version out and it worked pretty good. I really didn't have any complaints, but it wasn't as fast as some of the other browsers had been, and it did not have the options and plug-ins available that the other's did. Even so, it worked and I found other ways to use the items I liked, often from desktop programs or through links.

But, in time, Internet Explorer updated to a very unfriendly browser, it began to freeze, it wouldn't let me make many of the choices I wanted to, and it just bogged down my system. Once again I found myself trying different browsers. I had the new versions of Firefox and Chrome downloaded, and tried them both out. Again, Firefox was nice, but Chrome was faster and more reliable. So, I used Chrome, for a long time.

Just recently, after an upgrade, Chrome stopped working with my bank site. It also began to have a lot of issues with freezing. I was always getting messages like, the program has become unresponsive. It could take anywhere from a half a minute, to a couple minutes to get the program to respond again. On top of this, I would also get messages stating the web page was unresponsive and given a choice to wait or kill the page. Again, it was a long wait, either way.

I found myself waiting more than browsing, and I also found problems with some content working right. So, I turned back to Mozilla. It worked fine with the bank, and everything seemed to be good. But, it updated and then I was waiting for pages to open, I was stuck with frozen pages, and shit just did not work.

So, now I'm looking at some less popular browsers, and finding some that are lightning quick, and have a lot of benefits. But, they also have drawbacks, like no plug-in support. The one I like best has some plug-in support, but very limited, and only the ones they support. Like Roboform instead of LastPass. Or, like Safari, it supports the plug-ins, but it's slower and doesn't do as much of the other things.