Mac Friday: Choosing a Web Browser

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Switching to Mac has had some challenges. Most of them are fairly minor.

For example, what web browser is the best one? That’s a question that can spark some heated debate depending on what circles you ask it. Wanna have fun at a tech-geek gathering? Ask it to a group of Mac users and then sit back and watch the fireworks.

It’s sorta like pulling the pin from a hand grenade, and tossing it into the middle of the room to see what will happen.

Anyway this whole thing started because FireFox was beginning to give me problems. Over time it seemed to be hanging up longer and more often. With my current severe scheduling challenges, sitting waiting while a web browser checks out for sometimes several minutes at a crack was getting frustrating to say the least.

I’ve been a FireFox fan for quite a while so when it started giving me fits I felt a little like I was starting over. Everyone’s got their own opinion. Every browser seems to claim they are the fastest. What follows is far from scientific. I’m not a full blown tech-head. So take it for whatever it’s worth. Read more

Problems with Internet Explorer

My friend Rick Cockrum was kind enough to let me know about a problem Internet Explorer is having applying the style sheets to SuccessCREEations here. It seems that sometimes IE chooses to forget to apply any formatting to pages here until after the refresh button is clicked. And sometimes pages are shown correctly the first time.

I haven’t been able to see any rhyme or reason to how IE is behaving or to detect a pattern. Go figure.

There is a work around but it is cumbersome and it will eliminate one of the nice features of this theme, which is its flexibility and ease to make changes. I’ve been in contact with the author of the theme to see if we can come up with a less labor intensive solution.

In the mean time Iet me suggest that this might be a good opportunity for all of you IE users out there to make the switch to Firefox for your browsing pleasure. I use FF and didn’t even realize there was a problem until Rick brought it to my attention.

I am a big fan of Firefox because of it is so customizable. It is an open source program which means that folks program all sorts of extensions and plugins which you can install with a click of the mouse to tailor your browser to fit your needs. The tabbed browsing feature of FF is something that I didn’t see value in until I started using it. Now I am lost without it!

Anyway I’ll go through the work required to make the IE tyrant happy again soon. Please bear with me until that is done.

And thanks Rick for the heads up.