Comments on: Anonymous Internet Surfing: Is Google Chrome or Internet Explorer 8 the Answer to Internet Privacy? http://www.identitycloaker.com/blog/16/anonymous-internet-surfing-is-google-chrome-or-internet-explorer-8-the-answer-to-internet-privacy/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:00:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: admin http://www.identitycloaker.com/blog/16/anonymous-internet-surfing-is-google-chrome-or-internet-explorer-8-the-answer-to-internet-privacy/#comment-23 admin Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:04:51 +0000 http://www.identitycloaker.com/blog/16/anonymous-internet-surfing-is-google-chrome-or-internet-explorer-8-the-answer-to-internet-privacy/#comment-23 I've been using Firefox for a long time myself and am quite happy with it. However, I am not a "common PC user" so my needs are somewhat different. I mean, who has 100+ tabs in 3-4 browser windows open most of the time... Well, I do ;) I've been testing the new IE 8 RC, not really tested it thoroughly yet but it seems to be much better than IE 7 indeed. The speed is amazing for a MS made web browser, very effective work with caching. The rendering is a bit painful sometimes though. A 100% W3C compliant page rendered perfectly or nearly perfectly in Firefox 3 and IE 7, sometimes looks different in IE 8 unless you switch it to the "compatibility mode". I am afraid IE 8 is attempting to set an html standard of its own, despite of the promises from Microsoft. Again... As for the web browser security - I have been using AVG antivirus which comes with a IE & Firefox plugin and so far it's been very efficient. Most of the time it's AVG that prevents anything bad to happen, not giving much chance to the web browser to catch the problem itself so it's hard to say if IE 8 made any progress in that field. Well, hopefully it's better now. And just some interesting statistical & marketing data... It seems that a very large part of the Identity Cloaker customer base is using Firefox. Although I have yet to make the stats, there are probably more Firefox users than Internet Explorer users among the Identity Cloaker customer base. I have to admit I did not predict this... Tomas I’ve been using Firefox for a long time myself and am quite happy with it. However, I am not a “common PC user” so my needs are somewhat different. I mean, who has 100+ tabs in 3-4 browser windows open most of the time… Well, I do ;)

I’ve been testing the new IE 8 RC, not really tested it thoroughly yet but it seems to be much better than IE 7 indeed. The speed is amazing for a MS made web browser, very effective work with caching. The rendering is a bit painful sometimes though. A 100% W3C compliant page rendered perfectly or nearly perfectly in Firefox 3 and IE 7, sometimes looks different in IE 8 unless you switch it to the “compatibility mode”.

I am afraid IE 8 is attempting to set an html standard of its own, despite of the promises from Microsoft. Again…

As for the web browser security - I have been using AVG antivirus which comes with a IE & Firefox plugin and so far it’s been very efficient. Most of the time it’s AVG that prevents anything bad to happen, not giving much chance to the web browser to catch the problem itself so it’s hard to say if IE 8 made any progress in that field. Well, hopefully it’s better now.

And just some interesting statistical & marketing data… It seems that a very large part of the Identity Cloaker customer base is using Firefox. Although I have yet to make the stats, there are probably more Firefox users than Internet Explorer users among the Identity Cloaker customer base. I have to admit I did not predict this…

Tomas

]]> By: Steven Lewis http://www.identitycloaker.com/blog/16/anonymous-internet-surfing-is-google-chrome-or-internet-explorer-8-the-answer-to-internet-privacy/#comment-21 Steven Lewis Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:52:59 +0000 http://www.identitycloaker.com/blog/16/anonymous-internet-surfing-is-google-chrome-or-internet-explorer-8-the-answer-to-internet-privacy/#comment-21 I recently wrote a blog myself about Explorer vs. Firefox. I have only used Chrome briefly, but could never really get comfortable with it. But as far as Explorer goes, I would never recommend it because of the lack of security and it's vulnerability... I use Firefox and will until someone more 'browser-educated' can change my mind. ;) I recently wrote a blog myself about Explorer vs. Firefox. I have only used Chrome briefly, but could never really get comfortable with it. But as far as Explorer goes, I would never recommend it because of the lack of security and it’s vulnerability… I use Firefox and will until someone more ‘browser-educated’ can change my mind. ;)

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