{"id":75042,"date":"2026-10-22T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=75042"},"modified":"2026-10-21T20:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T10:22:26","slug":"web-browser-brand-roles-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/web-browser-brand-roles-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Browser Brand Roles Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Web Browser Brand Roles Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

With a job, the day to day organization can be important, and is likely to be crucial to achieving goals.<\/p>\n

We spend a lot of time around web browser applications, being into I.T.<\/a><\/span> and creating web applications, in particular.<\/p>\n

We’ve organized macOS<\/a> MacBook Air<\/a> usage mainly, around one major disk folder and four brands of web browser, the folder being, for us is …<\/p>\n


\n\/Applications\/MAMP\/htdocs
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Huh?! Well, being into PHP<\/a> as our “all things server” programming language, and having installed (many versions) of MAMP<\/a>, as our Apache<\/a>\/PHP\/MySql<\/a> local web server brand of choice, and by default \/Applications\/MAMP\/htdocs<\/i> is MAMP’s Document Root<\/a> (and defaulting to port 8888) corresponding to URL …<\/p>\n


\nhttp<\/font>:\/\/localhost:8888
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Even with compiling language work, we’ll often use subfolders off \/Applications\/MAMP\/htdocs<\/i> … working to a KISS<\/font> principle!<\/p>\n

Turning to web browsers<\/a>, the four we tabulate below are all very good products, and can all work well for you, especially on macOS, but a consideration to do with how you organize work, there is the consideration of what work life will be like if you have to, say, clear all web browser cookies and data, for instance. As such, in the list below, we’ve organized Google Chrome and\/or Firefox as the two web browsers we can tolerate that with (but prefer to just clear Last Hour or Last 15 Minutes or Last 24 Hours usually)<\/font>, in our (web browser) Organization Table below …<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Opera<\/a><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
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  • RJM Programming website email … opened as this web browser’s home page<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Safari<\/a><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
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Firefox<\/a><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
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  • Web application testing for tests that need to ignore Google Chrome<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Google Chrome<\/a><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
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