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Choose one multi-engine browser

Aug 17, 2013 5:23PM PDT

K-Meleon is (finally) expiring. I'm looking at either Avant or Lunascape, as I need the multi-engine feature. Some websites don't do too well in some engines Sad

So, any thoughts? W7HPx64 if it helps.

Gordon.

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Neat idea. But as you can imagine.
Aug 18, 2013 2:09AM PDT

Nightmarish to implement as you would be an integrator of such things. This means as security issues pop up in each engine you get to update your browser more often than if you used one engine.

I'm finding computer users to loathe such updates. How about you?
Bob

PS. I use more than one browser. That's my solution.

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Updates?
Aug 18, 2013 4:10PM PDT

I have to confess I'm one of those who switches off the auto-update feature ASAP in pretty well everything on my computer, including the OS. The virus-killer signatures are a notable exception. And Service Packs.

I've only once been infected, something slipped past a virus killer, as sometimes happens, and I wanted to have a look at it. However, my brain is my first line of defence, so the box was isolated, and no damage was done. It was a PIF file... Back in the late Nineties.

As far as updating multi-engine browsers, I would treat that as similar to a single-engine browser: if it works, don't fix it. That's why I kept K-Meleon for so long.

Multi-engine browsers simplify browser-swapping. You only have one instance, but three sites could all have different engines, in tabs.

Gordon.