Browsers, browsers and more browsers

No matter how many browsers are out there I still haven’t found the one true browser that rule ‘em all. This has the awkward situation where there has to be multiple browser instances running at any given time. All the memory that these fellows eats up is not much of a bigger deal because memory is not a problem these days.

For general browsing Firefox is ideal with Adblock Plus and Noscript. Safe and sound. For email (mostly Gmail and Gmail hosted these days) and other Google apps, Chrome fits nicely. Albeit you can’t use Google Chrome because of the annoying user tracking which cannot be turned off. Fixing that is easy, you just have to forget about Google Chrome and use Chromium nighty. Since I’m logged into Gmail no searching on Chrome. Can use the Firefox instance that’s there for general use. Next problem comes when opening up random links that include blogger and other sites with Google analytics. Gah, copy and paste those links to Firefox. My laziness prevent this from happening. Firefox is having Noscript so login to Gmail in that. Now have to use Opera for searching Google. This becomes irritating and I just use Firefox and search on Yahoo.

Using proprietary browsers is an unacceptable solution. You just don’t know what the hell is going on. There are other annoyances as well. A good candidate is Maxthon. Maxthon 3 interface looks like a step in the right direction but has a long way to go to become functional. For the life of me, I can’t figure out how to change Maxthon proxy settings without it being changing the IE proxy settings.

When you go beyond Firefox, searching for a better browser, quite frankly there is none.