Cant defend Internet Explorer anymore

[Kamahl]

Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7 doesn't give me much hell.

Other than the crap UI yes, it works quite well. Can't say the same about the Win 8 version though, it has that shitty text rendering like Firefox with hardware acceleration. Except there it stays crap even if you disable hardware accel, while in FF disabling it fixes the problem.

[Obviously]

But IE has a magical girl anime mascot!:

Isn't that a prerequisite for every product in Japan?

[negative chill]

Isn't that a prerequisite for every product in Japan?

Windows has a loli mascot for every single OS it's ever produced
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-tan

[Gogogadget]

And here I thought Microsoft's mascot was that annoying fucking paperclip that is like "O WAS THAT A LETTER?"

[Devil N]

I do wish Clippy would still appear in Visual Studio whenever you're pressing Ctrl + C followed by Ctrl + V.

"Hi, I see you're trying to copy some program code. DON'T FUCKING DO THAT."

[legomyego]

Went with Pale Moon...just cuz I like to try new browsers...youtube loads VERY fast now was having thumbnails not load in IE and loading videos slow- now very quick

also was nice to get a download where they're not trying to sneak in bloat where in there to get payed by their sponsors...that crap pisses me off

I'm still having this wierd problem with youtube...must be my slow internet =/ or the new flash update or google screwing around -.-

[Chibisteven]

I'm still having this wierd problem with youtube...must be my slow internet =/ or the new flash update or google screwing around -.-

Update/Install Adobe FLASH if you want to watch streaming videos on the internet. Hate on flash if you want, but that's just how it works. Try 240p in cases involving slow internet connections. How many people use this connection, is someone taking the rest of bandwidth away? Is someone torenting crap (that will screw with most super slow connections)? Is the computer just really old? Have the latest audio and video drivers installed (not generic Windows crap, but OEM drivers)? Try a different browser (have a back-up browser if a web page decides to give you Hell in another). Finally, is your browser up to date?

[negative chill]

I'm still having this wierd problem with youtube...must be my slow internet =/ or the new flash update or google screwing around -.-

Yeah, I've had that problem as well. First I thought it was bandwith throttling, but now I'm not so sure

[DarkDragon]

Im back to Firefox now. I have no idea why IE (whichever version I use) cant display web pages correctly. Cant figure it out.

[negative chill]

I have no idea why IE (whichever version I use) cant display web pages correctly. Cant figure it out.

Blame Balmer, it's the "in" thing to do

[Chibisteven]

Blame Balmer, it's the "in" thing to do
STEVE BALMER PEACE IMAGE

Well he is an idiot, it is also the team's and division's fault responsible for various Microsoft products as well. Microsoft isn't exactly listening to what it's costumers want and releasing products that are crap. Being the guy in charge of the company, he is not very good at managing it.

[tz101]

Surprised no one mentioned Opera by now. It is a little slow at times, but stable as all get out.

As for IE, there are certain sites that are optimized for IE and you have to use it to access those. IRS site for downloadable tax forms comes to mind. Last time I tried, I could not even view IRS forms in Mozilla.

[Blades]

Opera is Chrome now, they switched engines a while ago. Prompting me to switch to FF.

Honestly, I don't understand why everyone hates IE. All browsers do 99% of the time is display text. How can IE mess it up so badly?

[TmEE]

Opera is one thing I can say I can no longer defend.

Switch to Webkit engine ? Sure why not... but totally ditch the Opera UI that makes the program what it is ? They signed their death certificate with that...
I'll be sticking to the old versions as long as they still work.

You cannot do that in other browsers though (310 tabs):

Firefox would crash at some 150 mark, and Chrome would start exclaiming out of memory. IE would become pretty much unresponsive...
But with Opera (11.64) it would suffer in no way as far as performance goes, and I still had 600MB RAM left from 2GB total, and all got nicely released as I closed the tabs. Each tab featured unique image files.

[retrospiel]

Opera here.

Yes it is sad to see the old UI go (where are my mouse driven log-ins?!?!?!), but I just switched to the webkit version and I doubt I will get back to the old version now. It's still better than Firefox and Chrome.