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Comment author: Rain 04 July 2012 02:43:09PM *  8 points [-]

Google Chrome (free web browser)

A web browser to replace Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, or Mozilla Firefox. Provides bookmark, password, extension and tab syncing across systems, is very fast and standards compliant, has built-in Flash and PDF readers, silent auto-updates, has lots of new technology and is pushing forward the boundaries of web browsing while staying more secure than the competition. I use this application more than anything else installed on my systems. Based on the open source Chromium.

Comment author: dbaupp 05 July 2012 02:41:07PM *  2 points [-]

Correspondingly, Mozilla Firefox.

Similar to Google Chrome/Chromium, and has many of the same features. Each of those two browsers will suit some people better than it suits others, e.g. I always have many many tabs open, and I find that having more than 10 tabs open in Chromium is hard to use (tabs get unreadably small) and eats all my memory, while Firefox is nicer on both of these aspects. (I'm sure other use-cases suit Chrome better.)

(On that note, Firefox has had a bit of a reputation as a slow memory hog compared to Chrome, but that's no longer true.)