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Way Off Topic...best Web Browser? - VF 31 - 02-21-2010

im liking google chrome so far


Way Off Topic...best Web Browser? - johnp - 02-22-2010

<!--quoteo(post=350527:date=Feb 21 2010, 01:18 PM:name=Threat)<div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE (Threat @ Feb 21 2010, 01:18 PM) <a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=350527\"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class=\'quotemain\'><!--quotec<b>I still use IE6. Everything after completely blows!</b><!--QuoteEnd</div><!--QuoteEEndYea, nothing like the good old days of unsupported features and slow, buggy rendering of pages... <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whistling.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":whistling:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"whistling.gif\" />Though if you meant "Everything after from Microsoft", I agree. IE7 and IE8 almost equally blow. Why anybody still uses IE outside of a corporate mandate, I will never understand...


Way Off Topic...best Web Browser? - b47 - 02-22-2010

<!--quoteo(post=350571:date=Feb 22 2010, 01:13 AM:name=john p)<div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE (john p @ Feb 22 2010, 01:13 AM) <a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=350571\"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class=\'quotemain\'><!--quotecYea, nothing like the good old days of unsupported features and slow, buggy rendering of pages... <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whistling.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":whistling:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"whistling.gif\" />Though if you meant "Everything after from Microsoft", I agree. IE7 and IE8 almost equally blow. Why anybody still uses IE outside of a corporate mandate, I will never understand...<!--QuoteEnd</div><!--QuoteEEndIE8 is way better than IE7... I can say that because I design and program web sites... IE8 is getting very close to Firefox (standard) "web" rules... Sometimes IE7 needed a complete different site to work <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":confused:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"confused.gif\" /> I use IE8 because I didn't had any problems to date. Not a single site was buggy. Anyway, I have firefox and Google Chrome near is something happens. Maybe IE9 will integrate the standards rules correctly ...


Way Off Topic...best Web Browser? - johnp - 02-22-2010

<!--quoteo(post=350575:date=Feb 21 2010, 10:26 PM:name=B47)<div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE (B47 @ Feb 21 2010, 10:26 PM) <a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=350575\"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class=\'quotemain\'><!--quotecIE8 is way better than IE7... I can say that because I design and program web sites... IE8 is getting very close to Firefox (standard) "web" rules... Sometimes IE7 needed a complete different site to work <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":confused:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"confused.gif\" /> I use IE8 because I didn't had any problems to date. Not a single site was buggy. Anyway, I have firefox and Google Chrome near is something happens. Maybe IE9 will integrate the standards rules correctly ...<!--QuoteEnd</div><!--QuoteEEndI don't disagree that IE8 was a much needed improvement over IE6 and IE7 in terms of standards compliance, but there are still issues, and standards compliance is not the only dimension. For example, IE8's JavaScript engine is still horrendously slow compared to that of any other browser on the market currently, and is still subject to the same memory leaks and problems that existed in previous versions. This dramatically impacts performance of any non-trivial JavaScript application (which is the majority web sites, now). Let's also not forget other dimensions like number of critical security holes found per second, being a hotbed for malware/spyware, etc.Yes, hopefully IE9 will address some of this. The sad part is that most IE users are still using IE7 or lower (almost 60%), and will probably continue doing so for some time...


Way Off Topic...best Web Browser? - knewby - 02-22-2010

John P...what do you use?.......Larry


Way Off Topic...best Web Browser? - LeatherfaceFan07 - 02-22-2010

I'm with some other guys. I never EVER use IE8 unless I have to for compatibility purposes but other than that it's mainly Google Chrome or Firefox. Chrome has improved itself already from the beta. It used to not run some stuff but recently I haven't come across anything that it doesn't run. I'd say go for Chrome it does everything you'd want a browser to do for your run of the mill web activity. If you're doing more crazy things online, Firefox is your best option.


Way Off Topic...best Web Browser? - b47 - 02-22-2010

<!--quoteo(post=350581:date=Feb 22 2010, 02:12 AM:name=john p)<div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE (john p @ Feb 22 2010, 02:12 AM) <a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=350581\"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class=\'quotemain\'><!--quotecI don't disagree that IE8 was a much needed improvement over IE6 and IE7 in terms of standards compliance, but there are still issues, and standards compliance is not the only dimension. For example, IE8's JavaScript engine is still horrendously slow compared to that of any other browser on the market currently, and is still subject to the same memory leaks and problems that existed in previous versions. This dramatically impacts performance of any non-trivial JavaScript application (which is the majority web sites, now). Let's also not forget other dimensions like number of critical security holes found per second, being a hotbed for malware/spyware, etc.Yes, hopefully IE9 will address some of this. The sad part is that most IE users are still using IE7 or lower (almost 60%), and will probably continue doing so for some time...<!--QuoteEnd</div><!--QuoteEEndYeah IE8 has major issues with JavaScript... I have a sliding menu script that run perfectly on other browser, but on IE8 its slow as hell <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":confused:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"confused.gif\" /> At least it can work at 30%... its better than 5% or 0% (wich is the case of IE7) ahahhhah I prefer to develop for IE users in the first time since they have a huge % in the makert.... We cannot just ignore them and place a message on our sites saying : "Hey, your browser is a turd, do download Firefox". When it works with IE8, it will work mostly everywhere.


Way Off Topic...best Web Browser? - SideshowFreak - 02-22-2010

I have been using Firefox for the last 5 years and never looked back! They have great plugins for the browser also. IE= internet exploder <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":tongue:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"tongue.gif\" /> -Jared


Way Off Topic...best Web Browser? - JDF - 02-22-2010

Firefox is pretty much the best you can get. Most web designers make their websites with that browser in mind actually, which makes sense since 70% of all internet users are using it.-Jeff


Way Off Topic...best Web Browser? - addison.morarre - 02-23-2010

google chrome! I am enjoying it. i am no super computer wiz or anything, but i like chrome a good bit. works a lot better with windows vista than anything else i have used.