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I don't think I'm ready for Maxthon yet. I cling to the good old single desktop PC for as long as I can 
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Maxthon 2 used to run off the IE ActiveX. Got much better performance than IE itself. Plus the number of (fast and useful) extensions...
It was my previous browser before they discontinued it for Maxthon 3, which I couldn't get into, and so moved to Chrome instead.
FTR, never had problem with YouTub. You can always opt into/out of the HTML5 beta for Youtube, since it's mostly designed for Chrome.
Seems like it's no longer in beta, or opty.[^]
I use it with Adblocker Plus and Ghostery extensions though. So that might get rid of buggy code as a side-effect.
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If you want a chromium based browser then use Torch (if you watch a lot of media, e.g. on YouTube) or the new Opera. If you want a non-chromium browser then go for IE (if Windows only) or Firefox (if mixed OS). Nowadays they're pretty much all good, but every browser has a quite strong side and a weak point.
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I used Opera on Win 7 desktop about 2 years ago. Then I started doing dev and started using Chrome, because the F12 tools are quite helpful. I was just considering going back to Opera to try it out again.
Two years ago there was a strange bug where Opera would double-post to facebook. The user (me) didn't know. very odd stuff.
Anyway, that's all fixed. I'm going to try Opera again too. It's quite fast itself at DOM rendering etc.
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How about a browser written entirely in Javascript[^]? If it goes wrong, you can fix it yourself! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: If it goes wrong, you can fix it yourself!
You're assuming I know JavaScript 
I know a bit, but not far enough to actually code anything useful in it though
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Their advertising banner runs off the side of the page (well, it's javascript; what do you expect?).
If you view the page source, it reads:
FREE --- MODULAR --- HACKABLE --- BUGGY --- SLOW AS ****
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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that is of course you are willing to accept that you are still using parts of Chrome.
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My first question is WHY?!?!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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When I can't use IE for incompatibility reasons, I use Pale Moon[^] ...it's a clone of FireFox optimized for PC/Windows. All the FireFox plugins work with it too including FireBug.
I agree with the poster above though...that anything that can render the dog's breakfast that is HTML/CSS/JavaScript is miraculous and the browser developers don't get much love or credit for it...
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You already mentions some of the pros and cons. You might try one of those almost 80 listed of browsers[^]. I never tried except few of them.
Wonde Tadesse
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Opera consumes lots of memory compared to firefox when you're working with many tabs. That's the one issue I have with them. Apart from that it's like any other browser. It's app store isn't as big as that of Chrome or FireFox. What I most liked about Opera was it bit torrent, which helped to pause/resume a download, which works even for a network drop. I think Chrome also offer this nowadays. Anyways, its not bad, I am using it on both my work environments, Win7 & Ubuntu 12.04 and its nice...
Piyush K Singh
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I use FireFox almost exclusively whether I'm on PC, phone, or tablet. It's not without its quirks, but it's the been the best of any of them for me.
Three things that really sold it to me:
(1) I DETEST webpages with small font sizes. I look at a computer all day long so my eyes get strained enough as it is, so the last thing I want is to make it worse by straining to read pages with small type. FireFox has a feature that allows you to zoom the text on a webpage without zooming the images so they aren't taking up ridiculous amounts of real estate on a page. I absolute love this feature and it would be very difficult to ever have to give it up.
(2) The bookmark syncing across devices in FireFox has worked far better for me than in Chrome. It seemed in Chrome I was having trouble getting bookmarks to show up.
(3) Addons. I love that I can install different addons to my android tablet that I cannot install using Chrome.
On the cons, FireFox can be a resource hog at times, although it seems to have gotten somewhat better. I'd suggest giving it another try.
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I was an avid Opera user for many years, but then they made some recent changes I was not cool with buy basically switching their original rendering engine over to chrome's, lost a lot of functionality and options. I've been using Torch for the last year and seem to be happy with it (still based on Chrome, but I like the interface better.)
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Windows: Life Without Walls[^] was, once upon a time, a marketing campaign of MicroShaft.
When I heard of this via a radio spot, I *immediately* conceived a parody commercial based upon this very marketing campaign statement, that being "Windows: Life Without Walls".
Here is that commercial, text-only version (yeah, ya gotta use yer imagination...):
Scene I
[Camera view: From 1000 feet, zooming in on a non-descript computer operating system company's office (non-descript logo on building's side) in a town not unlike that of, say, Redmond, Washington, USA]
A computer operating system employee (COSE) is getting off work, walking out to & getting into his eco-friendly car & driving off toward the nearby evergreen pine tree-laden mountains.
Scene II
[Camera view: Somewhere in the nearby evergreen forest]
COSE drives into a "clearing" amongst the evergreens, gets out and meets with a home developer who then holds up plans for a home, pointing here & there. They both nod in concurrence.
Scene III
[Camera view: from a simple distance showing most, and sometimes all, of house in various construction stages; hammering and other construction sounds in the background]
COSE & developer 20 ~ 30 feet from house, off in the nearby-distance here & there watching progress, nodding in approval.
Scene IV
[Camera view: The nearby evergreen forest where the home is being developed]
COSE, in eco-friendly car, drives into once "clearing" where now a new, bright & shiny 2-story house exists.
He gets out, the developer hands him the keys, they shake hands, and developer drives off.
Scene V
[Camera view: Just outside front door, facing front door]
COSE enters home.
[Camera view: Now inside, from larger Great Room area, facing COSE]
COSE walks into the center of the Great Room, viewing the outside "nature" through the various large windows, some nearly the height of the 2 story home.
[Camera View: From COSE's point-of-view, showing grandiose outside views through 2-story windows.]
[Camera view: back inside on COSE, 10 feet away and 10 feet high]
Camera begins to pull back and up, going "through" larger 2-story windows to the outside, up to about 200 feet high; COSE can't be readily seen; hold camera for 3 ~ 5 seconds to allow the sounds of nature to set in.
All the walls suddenly disappear, leaving just the windows suspended in mid-air, with clear view of COSE standing in the middle of them all.
Scene VI
[Camera view: about 15 feet away from and 10 feet above COSE, with several of the larger 2-story windows in the background]
COSE has exceedingly startled look on his face as to where and why in the hell all the walls just up and disappeared.
[Hold camera for 2 ~ 4 seconds while...]
COSE looks around in stuttered & confused amazement.
[A sudden mildly rushing whoosh of wind is heard, then massive breaking of glass all around as windows fall to the ground quasi-violently shattering all over the place.]
COSE puts hands/arms over head to "protect" himself, ducking down to the ground (he's far enough away he's not hurt).
After a few seconds, COSE begins to look out from under his arms, slowly standing up, hands/arms coming to in front of him (hands facing outward a little as if to be readily available once again to protect himself) all the while still in utter confused astonishment. House keys can be seen dangling in one hand.
[Camera slowly pulls back and up to about 100 feet high, showing full area of the home's foundation, and then some, with scattered broken glass everywhere.]
COSE is standing in the middle of the chaos that just occurred, looking around.
[Fade in larger-print statement.]
A Life of Windows Without Walls.
Scene VII
Fade to white.
Fade in non-descript competitor operating system company logo.
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modified 21-Jul-14 13:50pm.
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You know you could have pitched that in forty words?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Employee of non-descript computer operating system company (non-descript logo on side of building) leaves work to head out to the evergreen forest of some Northwest state to build a new house.
First time in house, employee looks around, viewing grandiose view though large 2-story windows.
Then, all of a sudden, every wall disappears, leaving the windows suspended in mid-aire for a brief few seconds.
The windows come violently crashing down, all the while employee balls up to protect himself.
Sounds stop.
Employee slowly stands up in utter astonishment.
Camera pulls back and up, full foundation in view, shattered glass all over.
Fade in statement ~
A Life of Windows Without Walls
Fade to white.
Fade in non-descript competitor OS company logo...
=====================
Nah, I like my more detailed script way better!
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That's well over a hundred.
I'd like to introduce you to the concept of "halving":
1. Print the piece out.
2. With a pen, cross out every second word.
3. Read it, ignoring the crossed-out words.
It's a great way of spotting what's really needed, and what's not.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That's over hundred.
like introduce to concept "halving":
1. the out
2. a cross every word
3. it the words
It's a great way of spotting what's really needed, and what's not.
What's really needed? Most of the missing ones?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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NOBODY knows!
Bwah-hah-ha-ha-haaaa!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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blah - blah - blah
 Man craps pants. 
blah - blah - blah
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Commercial title: Fecal Focus Failure
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Great!
See Teddy for a budget!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That is typical. Everything is fine for a few seconds, then windows crashes!
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Someone with FAR too much hobby time seems to have pigeon-holed[^] every sub-genre of music, along with playable clips. So, you can search for someone you like, and find similar acts. Or just drill into ... melodic death metal?! Hungarian Hip Hop, vegan straight edge, welsh rock, and many, many more (even a few I recognize).
modified: OK, I stand corrected, it's algorithmic. I will now listen to Throbbing Gristle in penance.
TTFN - Kent
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