Now that everyone has wireless high speed connections to the Internet, the performance of your browser is more visible than ever before. With dial up, you couldn’t tell whether the wait was because of the slow connection, the browser, or both. But now the problem, if you have a wait while opening up pages online, is probably traceable right to what browser you are using.
I have used Internet Explorer, Safari, Google Chrome, and Firefox and my pattern seems to be that I switch from one to another if the one I’m using becomes slow. Speed is what I’m after and what I expect.
When I began starting to figure out how to make money online, I read a lot about how great Firefox was. It seems to be the overwhelming favorite of Internet marketers because of all the stats you can get and I do appreciate and use some of them. However, when SEOquake is turned on, my surfing speed slows down dramatically. All the bells and whistles that are available for Firefox are great but they come at a cost of a reduction of speed and for me, they are just not worth it.
Once you get used to having truly high speed Internet, it is hard to go back to anything that is slower. Right now, even though I might occasionally be able to get an added benefit from the statistics I can get from Firefox, I still choose the one that is performing the fastest. If one slows down, I switch to another one. Once you know how fast things should be, it is tough to go backwards.