A BROWSER FOR ALL SEASONS

It's entirely possible that nobody else on Steemit is trying to do this. Maybe I'm a freak. I hope not because that would be tragic.

The new perversion I'm talking about here is logging into five different accounts from the same computer. Well actually I'm repeating that from two different computers.

And my geek tip for the day is to use a different browser for each account. That way for whichever account I want to be logged in as, I can just click on the browser icon for that account.

All I'm looking for in a Steemit browser is that it needs to log straight back into it's own Steemit account and be open on the page I left it on. It also needs to not keep bugging me about updates, or have any annoying pop ups. And to be OK with copying and pasting images. Because I do a fair bit of that.

As I wrote recently HERE I'm a big fan of Firefox so that is my default browser and the one I use for this account. But what about the others? I ended up trying out a bunch of browsers, and I'm not going to get into full length reveries here or anything, but eventually I did find five I liked.

This is a photo of a Hebe - a NZ native plant

Here are the five browsers that worked:

FIREFOX

The new Firefox kicks arse - all other browsers bow before Firefox, so that is what I use for @sift666 which is my main Steemit account

DOWNLOAD - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

OPERA

This was my default browser for a year before the new Firefox upgrades (I've been using Firefox since it very first came out, but it went through a bad phase recently) and Opera is a very good browser. I use it for @frot

DOWNLOAD - https://www.opera.com/

TORCH

After several other browsers pissed me off with various issues (See below for browser fails) I started using Torch which I'd never heard of until recently. And it's been pretty good. I'm using it for @mg-nz

DOWNLOAD - https://torchbrowser.com/

CHROME

I don't trust google an inch, I don't use their bullshit search engine, and have never liked their browser much either. It does work OK though so I use it for my secret account, because I like the irony of using the browser that spies on me for my "secret" account. So I'm using it for @xxx

DOWNLOAD -https://www.google.com/chrome/

VIVALDI

This browser was new to me as well, and it's actually pretty good. This one is set up to log into Deb's account @kiwideb so it's not exactly getting a work out on my computers, but it seems to work fine

DOWNLOAD - https://vivaldi.com/

The five browsers that failed:

What a bunch of crap...

BRAVE

Sounds cool, looks cool, BUT it does constant updates and sometimes just wouldn't log into Steemit at all. So sadly it's a fail. Could certainly get better in the future though, it seems to have it's heart in the right place and in many ways it's pretty good

DOWNLOAD - https://brave.com/download/

MAXTHON

It wouldn't stay open on the page I left it on, it kept wanting to update, lots of pop up notifications, a real pig of a browser. A big thumbs down from me

DON'T DOWNLOAD (Just don't) - http://www.maxthon.com/

TOR

Geeks love this but I found it incomprehensible. And it was very slow. Steemit is not the dark web, and Tor is just not for me

DOWNLOAD - https://www.torproject.org/

SAFARI

People seriously use this? I don't want to disturb any Apple fans by saying things like "Apple is utter bullshit", but honestly, Safari on a PC is utter bullshit...

DOWNLOAD - https://www.apple.com/safari/

INTERNET EXPLORER

I stopped using this 15 years ago when Firefox came out because it totally sucked. It still totally sucks. Yes, I do use Windows 7, but I'm no Microscum fanboy

DOWNLOAD (Why?) -https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17621/internet-explorer-downloads

So that is my pervy secret. And yes I can have conversations with myself from different browsers.

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