Use multiple browsers question

Legacy_user

For ages, I've always used one browser on each of my laptop, tablet and phone, which has been Google chrome. Of late, I've been trying out other browsers, not as a replacement, more as an extra, this means that if I notice a website continually appears sluggish using chrome, I'm able to try another and its surprising how loading times vary.

I wondered if anyone else does this.

JJ_Egan

Yes many use multiple browsers .
Just google the question .

Neil_Jones

You can have and use as many browsers as you like. Its not uncommon.

ballyblack

except on the Chromebook that you have ............which is unsurprisingly Chrome

Cisco001

I usually use opera and chrome
Opera is the default.

From my memory, Chrome use a lot of RAM.

dan958

As I work in website design, I have all major browsers installed for testing.

DoaM

ballyblack wrote: »

except on the Chromebook that you have ............which is unsurprisingly Chrome

You can install other browser apps from the Play store ... you're not restricted to Chrome. (AFAIK - don't have a Chromebook, but as it's basically Android then the browser type isn't restricted).

DoaM

dan958 wrote: »

As I work in website design, I have all major browsers installed for testing.

When I used to do that I also did the same ... even using VMs and mobile emulators to run older/other browsers to make sure the pages looked right in as many devices as possible. (Once you've got your master template right then you don't need to check every single page).

Neil_Jones

dan958 wrote: »

As I work in website design, I have all major browsers installed for testing.

DoaM wrote: »

When I used to do that I also did the same ... even using VMs and mobile emulators to run older/other browsers to make sure the pages looked right in as many devices as possible. (Once you've got your master template right then you don't need to check every single page).

Heh, the days of having to bodge website design code for Netscape 4 because it had unique quirks. Internet Explorer wasn't much better in that regard either in all honesty because IIRC if you bodged it for one browser it didn't work properly in the other... Great fun...

ballyblack

DoaM wrote: »

You can install other browser apps from the Play store ... you're not restricted to Chrome. (AFAIK - don't have a Chromebook, but as it's basically Android then the browser type isn't restricted).

You are correct!

Yes you can download from the Play store on the latest Chromebooks but NOT on the older non Android Chromebooks

EveryWhere

ballyblack wrote: »

You are correct!

Yes you can download from the Play store on the latest Chromebooks but NOT on the older non Android Chromebooks

But you are wrong...