Laptop comparison of laptop browsers

Laptop comparison of laptop browsers

Although it may not at first seem
relevant, your choice of browser on your laptop may differ markedly
from your choice of browser on a desktop machine. Desktops, after
all, generally have sufficient memory and power to run without
restarting regularly; desktops are also usually shared among many in
a family, and they have different users over time. For this reason, the
browser you choose for a desktop machine need not run light nor
require less processing power.

However, on a laptop, it's much more
important to use a browser that can be closed regularly without
losing important data, and it's much less important for it to allow
easy usage by multiple people. That's why, among all current
browsers, the best overall for laptop use is Google's Chrome browser.

Of course, this doesn't mean Chrome
will be best for you. Many people confuse “best overall” as being
“best for everyone.” Yet, especially in the case of browsers, one's individual preferences are a strong determinant of which
browser would be best for him. Chrome may be the fastest and
lightest browser on the market today, but Firefox is still superior
in terms of specialized add-on applications.

Other specialized browsers include
Flock, which fully integrates social media like twitter and facebook
directly into the browser experience; or WebbIE, which is best
utilized by the visually impaired for use with screen readers. If you
use a very low-bandwidth internet connection, Lynx is an extremely
fast way to surf the web. Safari is a good choice if you're using a
Mac laptop; because it's coded specifically to the hardware, it tends
to perform better than the competition on Apple devices. Opera is
also a widely used browser, although it has most of its success in
mobile web browsing as opposed to laptops.

As you can see, which browser you
should use depends on what situation you are in. If all you care
about is speed or crash reliability, Chrome is your best option. If
you care about specialized applications built by third parties,
Firefox wins hands down. Other concerns may direct you toward many
other of the browsers currently available on the market.

It should be noted that in no case is
Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) a good choice for browsing. The
latest version of Internet Explorer 8 completely fails the Acid3 test
for browser compliance of web standards, but there is a rumor
that the still unreleased Internet Explorer 9 may finally attempt to
perform well on the Acid3 test. If you currently use Internet
Explorer 6 or earlier, it is strongly recommended that you switch to
a more recent browser, as version earlier than IE7 are extremely bad
at rendering any of the current web standards. If you use Internet
Explorer 7 or 8, your browsing experience could be improved if you
switched to a non-IE browser, although it is not nearly as urgent as
if you used an earlier version of IE.