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Web Browser Wars: A comparison of web browsers

This is a summary of one of the presentations I did at BarCamp Melaka 2009 at Multimedia University which took place on the 14th and 15th of November. The topic of my presentation is as stated above, I was quite lucky that my session got over 50+ people out of the 170 people who attended the BarCamp.

Basically I began by introducing myself and then introducing the top 5 web browsers (Base on Market share). I explained that I will not be going into above the top 5 as there will be too many to compare and I could not do all that in 1 hour. The web browsers that I choose to compare are as followed:- Mozilla FireFox 3.5, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, Google Chrome, Apple's Safari and last but not least Opera Software's Opera.

I started off by asking which web browsers most people use, the response I got was quite shocking, out of the 50+ people in the room, none of them even mentioned using Internet Explorer 8 or below. Some however did admit that they use Internet Explorer at work as their workstations didnt allow them to install additional softwares or that even the web application that they are using are only Internet Explorer compatible. (Worst still, it was only IE6 compatible.)

After that I went to introduce each of the web browsers one by one to the audience, I gave my take on each of them. I went though the pros and cons of each browser, without trying to be bias. The only browser I had a problem giving thumbs up was well again Internet Explorer 8. Seriously it got to be one of the hardest to praise, I only could think of disadvantages of using IE8.

Once I explained my take on all the top 5 web browsers. I went and gave my ranking of the browsers (this is just my opinion, if you have a different take, it is ok)

• 1st – Opera – Comes with almost everything out of the box without installing plugins. First to come up with features that other browsers follow.
  
• 2nd – Google Chrome – Simple and Clean, love the interface and the speed of browsing. Also love the ability to sandbox each of the tabs.
  
• 3rd – Mozilla Firefox – Tons of plugins, but giving a bit of memory leak problems. Still good in security sense.
  
• 4th – Apple's Safari – Nothing much since I dont own a Mac or use Windows a lot.
  
• 5th – Microsoft Internet Explorer – Nothing good to say (Also only for Windows).
  

I explained why I think Opera is one of the best web browsers between the 5. The main reason is that Opera is one of the first web browser to go into the cloud with both it's Opera Link and Opera Unite services. I explained Opera Link and Opera Unite in detailed and also mentioned some other features such as Speed Dial and Mouse Gestures.

After all that I took some questions and answers. One of the questions required me to explain how opera turbo functions which I gladly answered. Once all is done I gave away some Opera pens (Sponsored by Opera Software) to the audience.

Presentation Slides:- http://files.myopera.com/Zentarien/files/Web%20Browser%20Wars.pdf

Pictures can be found on my facebook profile, tons of people took pictures of this event and tagged me

5 December 2009 is a Happy day for us (OCC BSI Yogyakarta). I am Tri Wahyudi with other OCC colleague Pudji Widodo, Anik Andriyani have an activities for Lab Installation the latest version Opera 10.10 browser at AMIK BSI campus YOGYAKARTA. We got 2 laboratories instillated Opera which every laboratory has 20 computer units. This activities had been planning to do its about 1 month ago, and as procedural we have asking for permit to Mr. Supriyanta as Branch Coordinator BSI YOGYAKARTA and also BTI BSI at Jakarta. After we got a permit, we are doing our plan immediately. And also we just accepting delivery such as T-shirts, stiker and poster from Anisa Putri in Norwey for smoothing this activities. At the end our activities is running well without any trouble.
We are enjoying and taking pleasure in this Installation. And after finished this job we take a picture in both of the labs for documentation. we also did not forget to take
some pictures the student, assistance laboratorial, and BSI YOGYAKARTA Director.

This is the list of OCC that presented of this event :
-Tri Wahyudi ( BSI PURWOREJO)
-Pudji Widodo ( BSI YOGYAKARTA)
-Anik Andriani ( BSI YOGYAKARTA)

Hi guys,
This time I decided to install the Opera browser on the laptops and PCs of various students in my hostel block(with a capacity of around 1000)...Actually the bandwidth we get in the hostel here is too less that it comes difficult to open even our email accounts..
The other guys in the hostel were still using IE8 and therefore visited their rooms with the other opera campus crew members and asked them to switch over to Opera for a faster and safer browsing experience...

They could easily feel the difference between the other browsers and Opera...
We now regard Opera as the primary browser and we have also given it a tagline which goes as "Opera doesn't give up.." or in our language as "Opera haar nahi maanta"...and this has been given because of the fact that Opera takes time to open a site but it finally accomplishes..On the other hand,browsers like firefox and google chrome have comparable speeds but they give up easily and we have to refresh it again and again...

Through this installation process,we were able to persuade around 200 guys to actually install opera on their laptops and they were also happy with the way it was working....

We later explained them about the various features and widgets of Opera through which they could customise their browser....

Good Bye!!

hello.. Seminar at pakuan University was held in Auditorium Pakuan University on 30th November. Its held up because the cooperation Himakom Pakuan University and Gunadarma OCC. Its started around two month ago, when I and hiko rizky came to Pakuan University. We meet Asep the chairman of Himakom Pakuan University. He told us that he and all of crew Himakom will do an orentation for the new college student in computer science major there. So we try to make some seminar in the middle of orentation for the new student.


And the event started at 01.30 pm, although the schedule is 01.00 pm. It is because Gunadarma OCC have an exam for the middle semester in that day until 12.00 pm, so we are coming late to bogor from our campus in Depok. It takes 1 hour and 15 minute for us to get to Pakuan University. Although we are using motorcycle to get there. But that's Ok. When we arrived there, we take any preparation, such as cutting the sticker and prepare the camera for the documentaion.

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