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On 2009-03-21 01:00:07, Daedalus85 wrote:
On 2009-03-20 22:35:34, whizkidd wrote:
On 2009-03-20 22:33:23, Daedalus85 wrote:
Too slow? I don't understand why people have this problem with IE, the Internet is the Internet, it goes as fast as your connection. I've never had to wait 'too long' for a page to load in IE, so I can't see what the problem is.
Er.. you got it wrong my friend.. the connection is fine.. I am talking about the startup times and, the overall slackness of the browser -- compared to what I experience from Chrome right now.. And no, I do not have 100s of add-ons enabled.
Nope, still don't get it. IE loads up straight away for me, and I've never had an issue displaying anything or with any loading times.
Start up times though? Firefox always took forever to start for me, having tried all the browsers I really can't see what I'm missing compared to good old IE.
Well, it took around 8 seconds for IE to load on my PC. Chrome took about 3 seconds. Firefox, with the add-ons lies somewhere between that. Can't comment for Firefox as of now because I haven't used it for sometime. Now my laptop is not an ultra fast, cutting edge machine. But then , neither are the PCs on which IE8 might mostly run. As for the "slackness" I was referring to, its the overall behavior of the browser. Maybe it boils down to personal preferences. But, after being used to "lighter" browsers out there, using IE makes me feel its bloatware. I really liked the features IE8 offers, out of the box and I ain't complaining. But its features + the user experience that will get me hooked. I am not a Chrome fanboy, by a good measure. IN fact, given a choice, I would prefer to use Avant browser over Chrome, -- and it needs IE to work
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Posted: 2009-03-21 01:21:58
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AH ok Whizkidd, I've just ran an Acid3 test on Safari 4.0 and 100/100 first time....
J, you're missing a lot! IE in the past has never really been W3C compliant (google it) as a result as an IE user you will get formatting errors, text not displaying properly, colours not right etc etc, page loading time does vary, I can visit the same website in Safari and in Firefox and I can assure you Safari will gather data and display it quicker than firefox every time.
Chrome seems to be doing alright for it's self on Windows, download and have a bash with that and see just how different things look and feel etc etc...
There's a whole world out there
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Posted: 2009-03-21 01:22:44
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Reggie, tried Opera 10 Alpha??
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Posted: 2009-03-21 01:29:55
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Nope...
I love Safari too much and last time I tried Opera on my mac is was rubbish!
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Posted: 2009-03-21 01:35:55
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Ah.. Macs. The reason i mentioned Opera 10 is because, it too scores 100 with Acid3. I have Safari 4 installed as well.
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Posted: 2009-03-21 01:54:00
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I installed it but I really can't live without my firefox addons. For me it ended up the same place as google chrome, the recycle bin.
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Posted: 2009-03-21 07:49:24
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On 2009-03-21 01:22:44, fatreg wrote:
as a result as an IE user you will get formatting errors, text not displaying properly, colours not right etc etc, page loading time does vary, I can visit the same website in Safari and in Firefox and I can assure you Safari will gather data and display it quicker than firefox every time.
See, I had this argument with my degree lecturer when he insisted our web coursework had to be written to be compatible in Firefox, and when I refused, I wrote a written explination on said website. The vast majority of the world still uses IE, so the vast majority of websites are written for it.
I've never had 'formatting errors', 'text not displaying properly' or 'colours not right', so I wouldn't know what these apparent errors look like lol
If it 'aint broke, don't fix it, and IE has been fine for me since, well, forever. I'm very 'anti-firefox' and 'anti-apple' to most extents, because I can't see the point in alot of it lol, IE has always worked for me, I know my way around it quite welll and I know what to do if something goes wrong.
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Posted: 2009-03-21 09:40:41
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@Daedalus
You really do have a different perspective on things mate, the whole reason I struggle to build my website and give up from time to time is because of IE, what I can get to look absolutely perfect in Firefox, safari and chrome looks like crap in IE, then it gets above my head when I have to start writing exceptions in the script for IE to display it properly. For me the fact that it is the most popular browser MS should have addressed the issues years ago, I only use IE for online banking as my bank insist upon it, for anything else I use Firefox as IE is just way too slow!
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Posted: 2009-03-21 10:24:48
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apart from some interface differences this is still the same as IE6. both are just incredibly shitty.
IE feels like a huge crane moving while firefox is like a tiny sports car.
on pretty much every page i open, it says 'error on page' down at the bottom. this happened in IE6, 7 and 8 as well. because of this many a times there is some content that never loads. made for IE my ass!
[ This Message was edited by: QVGA on 2009-03-21 09:46 ]
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Posted: 2009-03-21 10:44:39
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Have you tried this this with Chrome?
http://www.chromeexperiments.com/
Cool stuff
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Posted: 2009-03-21 20:59:20
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