{"id":231,"date":"2010-11-04T02:49:54","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T07:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2010-11-03T23:22:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T04:22:22","slug":"tip-browsers-and-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/04\/tip-browsers-and-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip: browsers and stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox and Chrome – 4 browsers…each with different strengths and weaknesses<\/p>\n

Chrome is my current browser of choice, but I have IE and Firefox installed on my personal and work machines as well.<\/p>\n

Internet Explorer is still the de facto standard. Most websites will open and render OK with IE.<\/p>\n

Firefox has lots of cool extensions (tools) that make some tasks easier – like debugging a webpage. It is a pretty good alternative to IE.<\/p>\n

Safari is a browser that was developed for Apple that is available for Windows machines – but why?<\/p>\n

Chrome is the latest browser offering, released in 2008 by Google. It’s fast, secure, simple and stable. It’s appearance is very minimalistic – and that’s a good thing. This browser also checks against phishing and malware blacklists as a security measure. And it’s FAST – check out the October 2010 benchmarks<\/a>!!!<\/p>\n

A few reasons I use Chrome as my main browser:<\/p>\n

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  1. It’s FAST!<\/li>\n
  2. Tabs – Did you know that if you right-click on any tab you can pin it to the left of your tabs bar and it stays open??? Kewl!<\/li>\n
  3. Address\/Search bar – no need to separate address and search bars now! And you can put in simple calculations too. Try it! Put in 1492+345*3 and you’ll see a row drop down beneath the bar with the answer “=2527”. No need to keep that shortcut to the calculator as an icon on your desktop.<\/li>\n
  4. Application Shortcuts – create standalone apps from webpages for sites that you use frequently. Go to Tools \u00e2\u20ac\u201c> Create application shortcuts, choose one or more – Desktop, Start Menu, Taskbar.<\/li>\n
  5. The bookmarks sync feature backs up your browser bookmarks to your Google account and syncs\u00c2\u00a0when you are on Chrome on a different computer. Your favorites are saved with your Google settings and not just on your machine.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you haven’t given Chrome a try, what are you waiting for?<\/a> Installing a new browser is not hard – and the benefits you’ll see may be worth a change on your desktop. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Chrome – by Google. It’s fast, secure, simple and stable. It’s appearance is very minimalistic – and that’s a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,37],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-think","category-tips-work-2","tag-tips","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tips.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xumr-3J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pambhm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}