Top 10 Web Browsers. For Me.

I've seen a bunch of fights in the Youtube comments where 5 people post like every half hour and they are all fighting. Which is why the Internet Explorer YouTube channel blocks comments on most videos. So don't try to fight over this one. It's my opinion.

1. Opera

Blah blah blah. If you know me I babble on and on about Opera and its great features. Yeah but has anything noticed that I never talk about its bad features?

Overall it's great. Its HIGHEST score on the HTML5 Test (the scores vary between version and operating system) is 419 points and 9 bonus points out of 500 points and 15 bonus points, falling right into 5th place after Google Chrome 26, Maxthon 4, BlackBerry 10, and Tizen 2.

2. Google Chrome

Obviously Google's contender in the browser contest gets a spot in the top 3, if not first place. Google Chrome is widely used among the United States, and it's fast, quick, and nice. (So is Opera.) Google Chrome offers friendly options and it's just good.

3. Mozilla Firefox

Firefox 4 is a giant step backward from Firefox 20 (I use Firefox 4) but overall the Firefox browser is actually a good alternative. Google Chrome scaring you with its speed? Try Opera! Opera too crazy for you? Try Firefox. =)

4. Apple Safari

Safari for Mac is indeed an excellent browser. Haven't you heard on Mac clearing the history from the menu bar? HELLO! Safari also allows you to spoof user agents for some sites, which is great for testing. Opening it in another browser is allowed. This is just plain old awesome because awesome is good. But Safari is quite slow sometimes especially with Safari 5. But I have to use Safari for embedded Flash. My Google Chrome doesn't even HAVE Flash, Firefox is slow, Stainless is just wicked fast, and Opera doesn't display embedded Flash very well.

5. Internet Explorer

Microsoft's web browser comes in fifth. Internet Explorer is a quite reasonable, but rather insecure, browser. It's awesome with Internet Explorer 10 especially in the Metro style but in other words it's not much different from your ordinary browser. If you're using Internet Explorer on Windows unless it's Internet Explorer 10, then I recommend (no fighting now) that you switch to Firefox/Chrome/Opera.

6. Maxthon

This desktop king of HTML5 is just as good as you thought. Maxthon Dock = trouble? Maxthon is pretty good. It's now for Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android.

7. Stainless

This wicked fast browser for OS X was a response to Google Chrome. Stainless has its tabs run on totally different processes (go find out for yourself by opening a few tabs, going into Terminal, and typing "ps x (pipe) grep Stainless". It'll turn out into a few different processes. The processes that exclude "grep Stainless" are your current processes. Single session tabs allow parallel sessions which allows you to log in with different credentials on the same page at one time. It tricks Gmail, Yahoo, Microsoft, and pretty much every service. One thing I know it doesn't trick? Nothing.

8. Camino

Camino for OS X is a pretty cute browser minus all the giant back/forward/refresh/stop buttons. The only problem I ran into is when I accidentally (don't try this with Camino) entered an infinite loop of prompt boxes. Quit? Nope. Try to edit the code? Nope. So I had to open up terminal and start ps x. A trick that's worth knowing.

9. Lunarscape 6 "Orion"

Lunarscape, the triple engine browser with the other triple engine browser, Avant, looks pretty neat and is actually nicer than Lunarscape (the only problem: I really don't have a need for triple engines).

10. Avant

The equivalent of messy Lunarscape.