Switching back to Internet Explorer
After using Google Chrome as my daily Web browser for the last few years, I'm now switching back to Internet Explorer, at least for a while.
Chrome is a fantastic Web browser, but as of the past few versions, something is wrong.
I always keep many tabs open, because during the day I constantly need to switch to various Web pages. It's part of my work stream.
The problem is that Chrome seems to have developed some memory problems -- or something like that. I have gotten to the point where I need to restart the browser at least once a day, just to "clear out the gunk". I restart the browser and all of those dozen tabs or so are running snappily again. And then they start slowing down until I need to restart again.
So it's back to IE. I'm now using IE 11 running on Windows 8.1.
IE11 has most of the features that I love about Google Chrome. Mainly the ability to automatically syncronize bookmarks, settings, and tabs between computers. Plus at this point it's just as fast as Chrome, and it supports most of the same modern Web standards -- so you won't have to be left in the stone ages anymore.
And now that I mention syncing bookmarks and such, I should mention that's one great feature about Windows 8.1: complete intergration of SkyDrive (which has recently been renamed to OneDrive). What a great service.
Everything is setup to be able to automatically save to the "cloud", which is like an extra hard drive attached to your computer, except it's stored on the Internet. So you never need to worry about losing your documents in SkyDrive, because Microsoft automatically backs everything up. And because it's stored in the "cloud" you can access all of your files on any computer instantly. The IE11 Web browser uses SkyDrive (OneDrive) behind the scenes to automatically syncronize all your bookmarks, settings, tabs, etc.
So I guess we'll see how this works out. Who knows, maybe I'll be back on IE for a few years.
