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As you all may know, Safari 4, Chrome 2.0, Firefox 3.0.7,
and Internet Explorer 8 have all become available for download within the
last month.
After playing around with each, I’m going to summarize the best
points/changes for each and then award the titles of “Most Interactive”,
“Least Likely to Crash”, “Most Fashionable”, “Fastest Browser”, and
Reviewer’s Personal Favorite.

Please note that I am only one person, and I don’t have the capabilities to
do mass testing, but I spent one hour on each browser using them on various
types of entertainment, news, flash media, and social networking sites. For
more thorough reviews, I recommend visiting the website featured for each
browser.

Safari 4 Public Beta - Released February 24th
http://ping.fm/0Qf84
+ Very quick site loading.
+ You Tube Videos and other Flash applications hardly take any time to load.
+ Most Viewed and History have the delightful iTunesish showcase.
+ Click & Drag Bookmark Creation
- Tabs Can’t Be Reordered.
- No History or Reload Buttons on the main control bar.
- Crashes if you pause a Youtube video for more than five minutes.
- Crashes occasionally when attemptly to print or copy & paste into another
application.
- Bug Report button is on the browser itself and you have to remember what
happened to describe it to Apple when the browser reloads.

Firefox 3.0.7 - Released March 4th
http://ping.fm/BnBbS
+ They fixed several bugs that caused 3.0.3 to crash frequently like when
you would try to print something.
+ They increased some security issues.
- They are using this as a teaser product to entice us away from
downloading the other browsers while they continue working on their private
3.1 beta, that will eventually be released as Firefox 3.5.
+ No new cool features, they still rely heavily on third party add-ons, many
of which affect the speed of the browser.

Chrome 2.0 Public Beta - Released March 18th
http://ping.fm/91LXa
+ Second Fastest in browsing speed.
+ The only time it crashed, a Report Issue Window came up that offered to
take a screenshot of what happened right before the crash and the form was
simple and quick to fill out.
+ Incognito Windows - You may have no need to hide a site visit from your
surfing, but I can see where it may come in handy and the name is cool.
+ The most interactive tabs I’ve yet to see. You can reorder them, select
links and drag up to create new tabs, and you can drag tabs out of the tab
bar to create a new window. New windows, can also be dragged back into the
original tab bar.
+ No crashing when printing or when leaving a youtube video on pause
overnight.
+ A separate listing on history for recently closed tabs.
+ The ability to save profiles for home, work, and play (this can also be
done via an add-on in Firefox)
+ Click and Drag Bookmark creation.
+ If a Web site has an issue and causes the browser to crash, only the tab
that was viewing that Web site crashes, not all 11 tabs.
- Very Plain looking history page and no screenshot of the Web site in
question.
- It was the only browser that crashed upon startup during my tests.

Internet Explorer 8.0 - Released March 19th
http://ping.fm/lR4ER
+ You can now reorder the tabs, make them different colors, and open a new
tab by clicking a link and dragging up to the tab bar.
+ Improved security features.
- This was the slowest to load of all the browsers when visiting flash
sites, but still faster than IE 7.
- This crashed multiple times during testing, so many times, I forgot what
caused the issue in the first place at times.

Now for the Awards… (drum roll please)

Most Interactive = Chrome 2.0 Public Beta
Fastest Browser = Safari 4 Public Beta
Most Fashionable = Safari 4 Public Beta
Least Likely to Crash = Chrome 2.0 Public Beta
Reviewer’s Personal Favorite = Chrome 2.0 Public Beta

Congratulations to all the Winners and Happy Browsing!!!

Photo Two from first Fight Klub fight between myself and Fear. Fear was playing with the suggested Rambo deck and I was fighting with the suggested Hannibal deck.

If these pictures spark an interest, please click on the image and tell them Alvira sent you.

Photo One from first Fight Klub fight.  Gameplay, after knowing your cards of course, is quick and seamless. It’s a lot of fun to play.

Coolest Geek Tattoo Ever!!!

• FEAR is reformatting back to Vista 64 on his new laptop...Windows 7 killed my cd/dvd drive, so back to Vista I go. *shrug* : ). 4:33pm - Comment - Like
• ALVIRA at 4: 38pm March 10
• I told myself I was over commenting today, but before the same thing happens to me, I must ask the cause.
• I'm no where near as good with computers as you and I'd hate to be calling you at the end of the week asking, "What did I do wrong?"
• My dad wouldn't be able to help me because he doesn't have Vista on any of his computers, just XP, and Linux on a couple.
• Was Windows 7 not compatible with your CD/DVD drive driver?
• FEAR at 4: 43pm March 10
• So the specific situation goes something like this:
• My new Asus laptop uses windows vista 64 bit native drivers for the CD/DVD RW drive. Asus does NOT supply ANY drivers whatsoever for the DVDRW drive.
• So, when I installed windows 7 as the operating system, it decided to WTFPWN all of Vista's native drivers and decidedly put my DVDRW drive on the S.S. Failboat to Failtown USA.
• Windows 7 looks nice and runs VERY smoothly with very little RAM usage as well, so I can't wait for a full retail version. Should be a decided upgrade over Vista for performance. : )
• Anyways for now, back to Vista for me. I'm going to try 7 on my desktop hooked up to my TV and see how that goes, but I'll probably go to that a little bit later this week. I've got a million other things to do still. I was just installing 7 while I was typing my Gen. Psych paper. ;-)
• Overall install took approximately 30 min.
• Hope that helps!
• - 01000110 01000101 01000001 01010010 (fear in binary code)
• ALVIRA at 4: 57pm March 10
• So word of warning is... make sure I have the capabilities of reinstalling drivers to any and all hardware I have hooked up to my current system since some drivers aren't available online for download.
• That does help. Thanks.
• I'm debating if it is worth the effort, but with me doing our Fight Klub animated commercial on Flash and Illustrator, I'd like access to more of my RAM so that the process is faster.
• Or I may just cheat and import stuff over from Alice, it isn't as moody as Flash, but it also doesn't have all the cool features.
• Good Luck on the Gen. Psych paper and have fun at RCIA tonigh!
• ALLY of FEAR at 5: 53pm March 10
• I recommend OS X "Leopard" and two aspirin will cure that cramp
• FEAR at 5: 56pm March 10
• LMAO ALLY! : D
• You know I'm a Mac guy through and through anyways...but I was curious to see what kind of improvements MS was making in their OS.
• The more I've seen of leopard and what I say of 7...well, I will continue to say that MS is still playing catch up to Apple.
• Btw, you're wit is NEVER wasted on me.
• Perhaps I should refer to you as "Dr. ALLY" from now on? ;)
• ALVIRA at 6: 00pm March 10
• LMAO, I attempted to buy a Mac, I just couldn't afford one and now Steve Jobs is sick and I'm feeling guilty for not giving him my money.
• *cries wimpy girl tears*
• You Mac people always strike us PC people when we're down, which has been since January 30th, 2007. : - P
• FEAR at 6: 06pm March 10
• Lol! You "PC People" were down previously from approximately September of 1999 (Testing of Windows ME began) until October 25th, 2001 (Release of Windows XP).
• Now we're getting a 2nd taste of it with Vista (which has definitely been WAAAAAAYYYYY better than ME EVER was...)
• and will be "redeemed" by windows 7. : P
• Seriously though, no worries. Everyone will end up using apple at some point in their life. Hell, look at the market penetration with Ipods. : D
• Cheer up dear, you do have an AWESOME pc. : D
• FEAR at 6: 23pm March 10
• Oh My, I'm in tears from laughter, luckily I never suffered from ME, I went straight from 2000 to XP. I would've stayed with XP, but Vista was forced upon me because of the hardware I wanted.
• You're right though, we'll all either get Macs, or the PC world will become more ecologically efficient. Too bad Ozymandias never fixed the world in 1985.
• I am saving up for a Mac Book Pro though instead of beefing up my five year old Compaq laptop. Plus, there are rumors of an iTablet which would rock my world if it includes a Wacom interface and abilities to run Illustrator, which it may. I'm writing the company to tell them how much I want one of these rumored devices.

My One kilo of Fight Klub cards arrived in the mail on Friday. Woot, Woot.

Haven’t had a chance to scan any, take pictures, or play a round yet, but once I do, I’ll make sure to post a review.

In other news, despite being a tad late, I just finished watching a great movie. Obi Wan and Logan teamed up together for a marvelous Sexual Thriller. If you’re looking to see something that is stimulating to the eyes and brain, I recommend renting Deception.

Artistic Impression of Alvira, my handle for Fight Klub.