Webkit now more popular than Firefox

[commodorejohn]

...huzzah? I dunno, I've never pledged my undying loyalty to a layout engine. Firefox does what I need, doesn't do anything else that would annoy me, and is available on every system I want it on short of my A1200. (I do wonder how things would stack up if you did Webkit browsers versus all Gecko browsers instead of just the most popular.)

[commodorejohn]

While Firefox 9 indeed shows HTML5/CSS3 better than IE9, it's almost just as slow. It takes forever to start and feels incredibly bulky.

Huh. As TenFourFox 9 it seems fairly snappy even on a 2x800MHz G4, and I never had any problems with it as IceWeasel, either. I use FF1.5 on my Eee, because 9 definitely is too much for a 1.6GHz Atom and a crappy Intel GMA chipset, but then that's true of any versions from 2 on up. On newer Windows systems I've never noticed any performance problems with it.

[commodorejohn]

I've never trusted the Klingons, and I never will. Therefore Chrome is for me almost as untouchable as IE. But then, I am just a silly user without deeper knowledge. Fashion comes and goes, and we Amigans know that not always the most popular is simultaneously the best.

I'm with you there. By all accounts Chrome is a solid piece of software, but I'm not going to do my bit in contributing to Google's ever-growing dominance of the Internet...

[commodorejohn]

Maybe because the flip-side is that it helps the browser/google to intelligently present you various suggestions in many shapes and forms which actually helps you and improves your browsing experience a lot, and people care more about this?

Wait, wait, all you have to do to justify spying now is claim you're doing it to help people? Well damn, have I got a new hobby!

[commodorejohn]

A supplier learning things about you isn't always bad per se. A barber learning how you would want your hair cut, can make you visit a little easier as you don't have to explain the same thing over and over again. A restaurant learning you would know that you you prefer meat with potato Gratin, and would open this page of the menu before handing it over. They would know that you prefer beer instead of wine, so they would hand over you the beer list opened and the wine list closed on the table, just in case you changed your mind.

Yeah, somehow I'm not so comfortable with letting a blindly all-consuming behemoth Internet company monitor everything I do on the Internet as I am with letting a restaranteur note my preferences within the bounds of his restaraunt. Maybe it's just that I'm part of the apparently rapidly-dwindling population that still consider privacy a thing to be valued and hung onto, silly me :/

I find Facebook being a far much bigger threat to my integrity, but I use that as well...

Well no kidding, but that's why I wouldn't touch Facebook or its ilk with a twenty-foot pole.