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Originally Posted by Ankh
The trouble is, those "browser wars" are pushed on us by web servers.
Microsoft never gave up on pushing web development tools that create content which requires IE on the user side. IE users, these days, face a growing number of (not so important) web pages that work better on any other browser. IE quirks and deviations from the standards (which varies for IE versions) are many and web developers are tired of all special handling that they have to build into their designs to support IE. Or a designer fails to test his page with all IE versions.
What was suggested on this topic, not to remove IE from Windows machine that already has it, makes sense. I have a virtual machine with WinXP as a backup solution for stubborn web pages or software solutions that exist only on Windows. It is rarely, if ever, used these days, Linux works very well. Cheap disk space and virtualization, I don't have to give up on anything.
Firefox, or Chrome, or something else? De gustibus non est disputandum.
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Ankh, I'm just starting to explore Linux as a platform for serious photography, so I'm something of a newbie, at least in terms of Linux for personal computing. I'm hoping you have enough experience to explain what appears to be an anomally for me.
I see, that there is an open source project called 'Chromium' available for Linux, and then the standard Google software called "Chrome". Aside from the slightly different screen icons, they appear to offer the same functionality and have the same User interface. What's up with that? Is one preferable to the other?
Once it slowly dawned on me that there was a difference, I opted for the Google version on the assumption that would always be the most viable. but I wonder if I'm missing some subtle difference.