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Has any one tried it yet??
I did a first look on the browser
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Still too slow for my linking.. nice feature additions though.
Thanks, but I'll stick to Chrome and Firefox for now.
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Posted: 2009-03-20 21:38:01
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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.
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Posted: 2009-03-20 22:33:23
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I have used RC1 since it came out. And I installed the final version earlier today. Can't say I noticed any difference. The RC1 never crash which is important for me. I am using Firefox, Chrome and IE8 side-by-side for developing reasons. All three have some useful tools for us web developers.
IE7 and IE8 is not that different. IE6 to IE7 was a much bigger evolution that from IE7 to IE8.
Browser share for Esato last 30 days are:
1. IE 44.78%
2. Firefox 38.41%
3. Opera 8.94%
4. Chrome 3.26%
5. Safari 2.86%
60-30 days ago, the numbers were:
1. IE 45.95%
2. Firefox 38.11%
3. Opera 8.75%
4. Chrome 2.98%
5. Safari 2.64%
NetFront (Sony Ericsson) has a share of 0.90%! These numbers represent visitors, not page views. Numbers are from Google Analytics
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Posted: 2009-03-20 22:35:22
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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.
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Posted: 2009-03-20 22:35:34
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I'd be interested to see some benchmark tests for IE8, something tells me it still won't be quick! Have MS conformed to W3C yet?
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Posted: 2009-03-21 00:06:54
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^^^
Initially, it looks like it's much more W3C complient than ever before, Reggie, if not fully! I've been playing with it tonight whilst putting a holding page for my bloggy type site together.
I was pleasantly suprised by IE8, truth be told. Let's hope the good vibes continue...
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Posted: 2009-03-21 00:27:40
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Blimey! W3C compliant!? What's come over MS? I've not got a windows machine to try this on, but will download it at wok on Monday and see how to wee thing performs!
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Posted: 2009-03-21 00:31:30
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I wouldn't put my life on it being fully compliant, but pages look uncannily like they do in firefox! I was shocked too!
Speed seems ok with both XP and Vista on my mid-end desktop and laptop. Nothing to shout about.
And so far, it's been stable on XP. None of that silly freezing like IE 7 does.
I still don't believe it yet, watch this space...
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Posted: 2009-03-21 00:39:21
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On 2009-03-21 00:06:54, fatreg wrote:
I'd be interested to see some benchmark tests for IE8, something tells me it still won't be quick! Have MS conformed to W3C yet?
Er.. Got 20 with Acid3.. and I did not run the webkit-optimized Sunspider anyway.. unfair!
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Posted: 2009-03-21 00:47:55
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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.
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Posted: 2009-03-21 01:00:07
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