Cant defend Internet Explorer anymore

[TmEE]

Opera did all the tab stuff before...

[Kamahl]

Opera did all the tab stuff before...

Not as well, plus originally Opera had a really poor UI (i still remember it's dark days). By the time it really got good it was eclipsed by everyone else being good enough (and now it's turned into shit).

[Alexrd]

Anyway, at the end of the day, Netscape Navigator was the real deal back then.

[Dragonmaster Lou]

I tend to jump ship and don't have any real browser loyalty. I used Chrome for a while before some benchmarks indicated that Firefox had caught up with Chrome in the speed part. If Chrome again takes the speed crown, I'll jump back.

My main requirement is that any browser I use be multi-platform as I regularly use Windows, Mac, and Linux. That's why I can't use Palemoon, for example, as it only exists on Windows (though, admittedly, that's mitigated by it being mostly compatible with Firefox).

[FlackoWeasel]

I have no idea anymore which browser to use. I have all 4 (Opera, FF, Chrome, IE) And all of them have issues. Firefox still eats a lot and now Opera does too, once it ate like 1,2gb memory... Firefox seems to lag a lot or freeze lots of times where buttons don't work...

Lately all the programs eat so much memory from my pc, my PC goes so slow I have to force kill my programs to be able to use it normally.

[Chibisteven]

I have no idea anymore which browser to use. I have all 4 (Opera, FF, Chrome, IE) And all of them have issues. Firefox still eats a lot and now Opera does too, once it ate like 1,2gb memory... Firefox seems to lag a lot or freeze lots of times where buttons don't work...

Lately all the programs eat so much memory from my pc, my PC goes so slow I have to force kill my programs to be able to use it normally.

2 GB would be half of the RAM I have installed. Damn. My system usually is using around half (35% to 50%).

Get going on audio processing and I'm using 100% CPU.

Budget machine, anyone? LOL Stuck with it (no money for a machine).

I don't use Opera, but opening chrome and doing stuff with that with real time audio processing tasks (FM radio processing) and it's a buffer under run galore (the other two are just as bad in that department, but don't jack the CPU as much).

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Professional Grade FM Processing with a media player and an open browser (doesn't mix):
http://i41.tinypic.com/2wn1nc7.png

Normal listening with a media player and browsing the web:
http://i39.tinypic.com/kexab5.png

Idle (doing nothing):
http://i42.tinypic.com/2z4bj12.png

[Jesse813]

Oddly enough I've never had any problems with Firefox being slow. Though it did take a little bit of tweaking and a few Firefox plugins NoScript & Adblock Plus.

[DarkDragon]

It was really slow when I first installed it.

[Devil N]

Internet Explorer is great...

... as a tool for downloading a real browser.

[KitsuneNight]

Anyway, at the end of the day, Netscape Navigator was the real deal back then.

back then is 14 years ago
nowadays it lives on in seamonkey

[Pulstar]

I ran into a nasty bug with Palemoon, it ballooned up and ate all physical RAM, crashing the system with it. I guess they're all crap, but in varying measures.

[midnightrider]

http://cdn.alphacomedy.com/17/2014/0...76fa9de37f.jpg

ouch...

[KnightWarrior]

I don't know why people are complaining about Browser, If you like using it ..fine

I like Chrome, I'm just used to it. I got AdBlock, Timeline Remove, Video Downloader

Any Browser won't be pefect.. Being IE, Firefox, Chrome or even Opera

[EclecticGroove]

I don't know why people are complaining about Browser, If you like using it ..fine

I like Chrome, I'm just used to it. I got AdBlock, Timeline Remove, Video Downloader

Any Browser won't be pefect.. Being IE, Firefox, Chrome or even Opera

There are some very legit reasons to complain about a browser.

Lack of standards compliance is a big one... This is getting better, but when IE was basically "it" for browsers it did so many things different (or just wrong) that it crippled pages being viewed in other browsers. The internet should be like TV... it shouldn't matter what brand you have, it should display all the basics the same.

If you bought a TV and the manufacturer decided that everything looked better with a hideous green tint, I think you'd complain about it.

The second big reason is security. The sloppier or more poorly kept the browser is, the more you have to worry about what can use that to get into your computer. This one is a pretty big deal because those flaws may be something you would never see as a normal user. It can be fast, stable, adhering to all the standards needed (and then some), and do an awesome job of running everything you ever need it to do without fail.

But if it's a complete train wreck under the hood, it can be happily allowing your system to get completely overrun with malware of all types.