Ah, the Internet. It’s able to show the vast intelligence and seething stupidity of the strange beast known as man. Often accompanied by videos of dancing cats.

When it comes to web browsers, your boat and oar on the networked-information monsoon, there are a lot of options. First off, there are currently two big dogs when it comes to performance and security; Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

Google Chrome has the slight advantage when it comes to performance with faster page loads, according to an article on Lifehacker.com. Chrome also has the advantage of isolated processes that can keep one bad tab from crashing the browser, which users of Firefox frequently experience.

Firefox, on the other hand, has a huge library of add-ons that can let you do cool things with your browser.

Want to block all ads? There’s an add-on for that.

Some people steer clear of Chrome for the simple association with Google.

For a while now they’ve been rising in power and gaining access to the personal information of more Internet users.

Obviously, that makes them appear to be a James Bond style super villian coming to power, so some users avoid Google like the plague.

One last thing to consider is keeping a second browser handy for when your main one starts acting up or when a friend wants to use your computer. This goes double if you have Chrome, where your favorite websites are saved for all to see and it can be a bit of a pain to remove them.

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