@f33dm3bits :-
TBH, it's one of those things, Maarten; all highly subjective, and all very much "in the eye of the beholder". Some people will wax highly lyrical.....and others will totally fail to see what all the fuss is about.
This has been happening with browsers as far back as I can remember; back to the mid-90s, anyway.....the time of Amaya, Netscape, the old Presto-based Opera.....even a UNIX-based build of Internet Exploder, intended for Solaris, IIRC. This was when M$ were just beginning the practice of "bundling" Internet Exploder with Windows, which is how they won the first major round of the 'browser wars'.
OK, I brought this one to the community's attention recently, yes.....but I'm not as overall thrilled as some seem to be. Because I'm constantly working with & re-packaging all sorts of different browsers for the Puppy community, it's hard for me to get quite as excited as some over what's essentially just another big, complex piece of software.
What caught my eye with Midori was its overall speed compared to some of the major browsers.....and in terms of functionality, it's catching up fast with the 'parent' it's based on. It's reasonably lightweight, too, though it still has a ways to go to catch up with Pale Moon (a long-standing favourite with the Puppy crowd). Compared to most 64-bit browsers, for lower-resource machines it 'sizzles'!
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I've always been a Chrome man, right from the very early days. Current Firefox is heading in the right direction again - it's finally becoming the browser it COULD have been so many years ago, were it not for the near-constant 'in-fighting' and back-stabbing that was for many years rife in the Mozilla camp. You only had to read some of their mailing lists from a few years back; the non-stop barrage of arguments and vitriolic verbal attacks between prominent members of their dev circle would've curled your hair..!
Talk about 'prima donnas'.....
To me, a browser is a browser. If it lets me access what URLs I'm interested in - or have need for - with the minimum of fuss, along with decent user privacy & security, that'll do me. I don't care about the badge; I'm not interested in a dev team's philosophy about WHY they felt the need to develop yet ANOTHER browser, etc, etc.
My current favourite has for a while been Opera. Much of this comes down to the 'workspaces' arrangement they developed for tab organisation; it's much like the Linux desktop workspaces.....I cannot get my head around 'tab-stacking' (to me, it's untidy & messy). But that is very much a 'personal' observation.
Those of us who've been involved with computing since the early days will observe, nod sagely, say a minimum and largely keep our own counsel. We will have had our confirmed favourites for a long time.....and, TBH, when you get to this stage it takes more & more to impress us. We've seen it all before; we've been there, done it all, bought the t-shirt, worn it out AND replaced it MORE than once. It's all a case of "same old, same old", y'know?
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Which brings us back around to the initial statement in my post.....about everything with these beasts being very much all about personal choice & preference. No two individuals are ever going to be happy with the same arrangement of function & facility.....
.....and THAT will never,
ever change.
Mike.
astian.org
