2010-06-17, 23:00 | Link #28 |
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I used IE for a while but I switched to FF and was pleased with the results. Mainly cause I noticed I was browsing at a faster speed. I then switched to Crome but I noticed no major differences so I switched back to FF. I personally prefer FF over the three that I have tried so far.
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2010-06-18, 00:09 | Link #30 | |
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Or err- something enough for Safari?
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2010-06-18, 14:46 | Link #32 | |
Le fou, c'est moi
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2010-07-01, 02:40 | Link #34 |
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Well, looks like MS is trying to catch up with its competitors by making leaps and bounds. They just released the third technical preview for IE9 last week and...they've shown a good amount of progress. They're now at 83% ACID3 compliance (they intend to release the final build once they've hit the 100% mark) and...for the second time around, they've beat Firefox in speed.
Article 1 Article 2 Chart 1 Chart 2 It's a bit sad IE9 (the technical preview still lacks a GUI, since it's just a technology demonstrator meant to showcase the new Chakra engine and regain some consumer faith) is only available for Vista SP2 and higher (the hardware acceleration system uses the NT 6.0/6.1 kernel and the associated driver pool, which means it cannot be backported to the NT 5.1 XP architecture), I think some people would've appreciated having it available for the still venerable XP (who's edging closer to its end of life line) -- my mother being one of them. ;D Anyway, I only use IE to view local HTML files (and checking whether Javascript-equipped HTML files I'm working on do render well on all major browsers) and sites that DO require IE. I use Opera for the rest; I haven't used Firefox in, what...three months, and not once have I ever hazarded a look backwards?
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2010-07-01, 11:37 | Link #35 | |
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Pretty much anything besides IE is a Good Idea, the advantage to Fireforx is extensibility and the no-script. Chrome is fast .. but may be short-lived as the makers seem to be refocusing on Chrome OS. Safari isn't bad but suffers from support and update problems. Opera is good but some people find it visually annoying. And yes, Windows 7 lets you actually remove IE from your system. Websites that only work with IE tend to be in Korea (where IE and Windows are some national religion or something) or put together by someone who used an old "Frontpage" kind of obsolete tool. I've run into a few Korean MMO type games that use an IE-based launcher but you just have to ask yourself how badly did you really want to play the silly game if it insists on a particular browser to launch or wants to use ActiveX over a public network.
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2010-07-01, 14:48 | Link #36 | |
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2010-07-09, 08:18 | Link #38 |
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I'm trying the beta of Firefox 4.0 at the moment. My first reaction is that it seems to load graphics-heavy pages faster than its predecessor.
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2010-07-09, 10:48 | Link #39 | |
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Guess I'll wait for release. Any guess when its scheduled for on the project roadmap?
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2010-07-09, 15:17 | Link #40 | |
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... Not sure about you ellow Opera users, but 10.60 is horribly buggy for me. Dragonfly (which I use every once in a while) takes an eternity to load up and as a whole, 10.60 keeps crashing all the time (5-6 times today). If this keeps up, I'll be forced to roll back to 10.54...or wait for 10.70.
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