Second Life Viewer review

Those of you on Second Life know that in order to play the game, you have to have a special program. That is where viewers come in. Linden Labs the parent company that runs Second Life, has their own viewer. But, there are third party viewers available for free. I took a look at the main viewers this week. I tested four diffrent ones. When I first went onto Second life a year and a half ago, I was content on using the viewer that they provide through their website. It has everything needed to play including a home button and a button for your land marks. The only thing it doesn't do is view mesh items. Alot of things in Second Life is being switched over to mesh. Thats where Phenix Projects Firestorm comes in. Firestorm is the viewer most people use. It has everything. Only thing it doesnt have that would be nice to see, is a land marks button like the Second Life viewer has. Instead, you have to go into inventory and click land marks folder. Then there is Singularity. Singularity was interesting trying to navigate the diffrent feature's. It is difficult to chat with friends and no home button much less a land mark button. Cool VL viewer is far better then Singularity but it has it's faults too. It does have one touch button on bottum of the screen for friends and one touch flying button. its also less laggy of all the viewers I tried. Only issue I have with CoolVL is that the media is hard to use. Anyway, hope this is helpfull to anyone looking at Second Life viewers. By the way my main viewer is Firestorm because ease of use.