Now reporting live from Long Beach, California, where it’s smokey (due to the fires), and I’m up on the 6th floor of a particular hotel with my $10 internet charge paid for, I continue my Tiger-to-Leopard blog series. Yesterday, I started out covering some of the Web 2.0 news, in particular focusing on the various Web 2.0 sites that have emerged on the internet. But what about some of the other phenomena that have emerged since Tiger’s release? The series continues…
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Tags: article, browsers, Firefox, Google, Mac OS X Leopard, podcasting, PodPress, TalkShoe, Tiger-to-Leopard, Web 2.0

People who have been following me for awhile know that until recent months, I was notorious for always moving all over the place, particularly in the realm of chat clients and web browsers. I’ve already viewed the chat client that I’ve settled on, and for this review, I want to focus on my web browser selection.

Now, web browsers are no easy topic to talk about. Essentially, web browsers are like politics. Just like most everyone has their own political beliefs, most everyone has their own favorite web browser. And of course there’s the group that just doesn’t like any of the politics but still picks a side for the heck of it, just like there’s the group that just doesn’t like any of the web browser selections out there but still picks a side for the heck of it. Either way, it’s a debate that can pit even the closest of friends up against each other.

For the longest time, I’ve been one of the latter group: someone who had something to complain about for every web browser, which is why I kept changing browsers every few months. Now, my colleagues Robert and Larry on PreviewCast are die-hard Safari fans, which has prompted some of our infamous browser wars on the show, and which also prompted a web browser bet around the 2006 Tour de Peninsula ride that I managed to survive. I’ve tried all the web browsers, haven given a few months of my life each to Safari, Firefox, OmniWeb, and also a few minutes each to Flock and Opera, until settling a few months ago with Camino, which I am still using today.
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Tags: browsers, Gecko, open source, review, Software, web browsing, WebKit