[BC] Bye Bye IE6

[David Kaye]

I do freelance tech support for a living.  This is my take on IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome:

Fastest loading:  Chrome and IE 8.0 in a tie using XP Professional; Chrome and IE 9.0 in a tie using Vista or Windows 7

Buggiest:  Any Firefox after 3.60.  Firefox has become a mess.  Also, it doesn't always unload when you try to exit it, leaving remnants behind.

Best Online Support: Opera

Least Likely to Run CPU at 100% when using a bad Java script: Opera, Safari, IE 8.0.

Most Likely to Load Pages Properly:  IE after 7.0, Safari, Opera.

Mose Likely to Display Funny With Overlapping Or In Wrong Sized Fonts:  Firefox after 3.6, Chrome

For myself I use Chrome by default, IE for email (I just think it's more secure than Chrome), and Opera if the other two don't display properly.  I have Safari and Firefox only because some of my customers do and I want to keep up on them.

--david kaye