News - Internet Explorer 9 tops first official HTML5 conformance test

[dangel]

Oh god no i couldn't do that!i have like 4-5 tabs open permanently and that's about it. My housemate is terrible, he has like a million tabs open, every time he wants to change website he will open a new tab.

I'm a closer - when I need to come back to stuff I just save the session (it's dead easy in Opera), or look in the trash can, or history etc.
But then this brings us to wider questions - like has FF ever been known for memory efficiency ?

[TheAnimus]

Also this is not about current state.

This is more about direction and velocity, and those FF is doing badly, getting slower and more bloated, meanwhile everyone else is going in the other direction, and the velocity at which the IE team have replaced the turd is quite impressive.

[Biscuit]

In older versions i did every now and then, after leaving my mac on for a few days, notice it slowing me down. Other than that i haven't ever noticed it really being a problem. INFACT i found chrome to eat up more ram once the comparable number of plug ins where installed.

I havent used opera for a while because the once or twice i did (it was default browser on some uni systems for some barmy reason) it drove me mad and sites just didn't work. Maybe i should give it a go again.

[dangel]

Also this is not about current state.

This is more about direction and velocity, and those FF is doing badly, getting slower and more bloated, meanwhile everyone else is going in the other direction, and the velocity at which the IE team have replaced the turd is quite impressive.

Very good point - it does seem as though the FF team are getting as slow as their browser

I havent used opera for a while because the once or twice i did (it was default browser on some uni systems for some barmy reason) it drove me mad and sites just didn't work. Maybe i should give it a go again.

I'm an Opera user but I'm not invested in converting you (it's just a browser) but I have very few problems at all thesedays and the one thing I will say about it is that it does really shift between versions. It's worth a punt - and that's just my attitude to all things

You should, if you want to try it, use the adblocking (it's built in you just download a blocklist from: http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/) and autopagerize - which is simply a user script: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/os0x/searchdia...utoPagerize%5d which you place in your user scripts directory (you can configure it's location in the preferences).

Again, your choice

[usxhe190]

I need to try IE9 once it is off beta and it is official. I use all 4 browsers at the moment (IE8, Firefox, Opera and Chrome) due to different extensions I need.

But seriously, Firefox and IE8 are slow. But most sites like them the most (especially IE).

Opera is quick but it sometimes freezes on me which annoys me (especially on youtube videos). Chrome is quick too but I don't really like the lack of customizations.

I like Firefox (given it is the only open source browser) but it really needs to get its act together.

[Biscuit]

has anyone tried the beta for 4? Seems snappier to me, some nice visual enhancements aswell.

[aidanjt]

I like Firefox (given it is the only open source browser) but it really needs to get its act together.

Chrome is open-source as well. Google takes a Chromium release every so often and does whatever polishing it wants to do and pushes out a binary for public consumption. So if you want a change in Chrome, all you have to do is modify Chromium and submit the patches.

[3dcandy]

I'll agree that FF3.6 is quite slow and bloated, but FF4 is looking good, 64-bit version too! I just stick with it because a: I'm used to it now b: I've got it set up just right and c: it's not IE which I hate with a passion. Safari is just strange compared to other browsers at the moment, pushing their own features (Apple again!) but Chrome appears quite nippy, but on my 64-bit windows install sometimes just freezes. Opera is installed, but seems to just lack any zing or zap and is only really there to check out websites for compatability

[dangel]

64bit firefox: now it can use more than 2gb of your memory!

That's a feature folks!

[usxhe190]

I'll agree that FF3.6 is quite slow and bloated, but FF4 is looking good, 64-bit version too! I just stick with it because a: I'm used to it now b: I've got it set up just right and c: it's not IE which I hate with a passion. Safari is just strange compared to other browsers at the moment, pushing their own features (Apple again!) but Chrome appears quite nippy, but on my 64-bit windows install sometimes just freezes. Opera is installed, but seems to just lack any zing or zap and is only really there to check out websites for compatability

I like the fact that it is the first 64bit browswer (unless someone can tell me a full release 64bit version already out for other competitors!) but then like dangel said, FF is memory hog relative to the other better browsers. They really need to fix this stuff!

[Biscuit]

im sure IE has had a 64bit browser?

[usxhe190]

im sure IE has had a 64bit browser?

Ahh they do. I didn't realise. But it will be good if a non-Microsoft browser has a 64 bit version up and running

[dangel]

Ahh they do. I didn't realise. But it will be good if a non-Microsoft browser has a 64 bit version up and running

..because? Out of interest, what do you think you'll be gaining?

[usxhe190]

..because? Out of interest, what do you think you'll be gaining?

Just some competition I guess since, if I have a 64 bit Windows 7 system (which a lot of laptop is coming with 64 bit now), I guess I would want to run a 64 bit browser rather than convert back to 32bit?

[Biscuit]

wont make any difference tbh

[usxhe190]

Oh I didn't realise that. I am just into all this 64 bit thing. I always thought you should try 64 bit software on a 64 bit OS as its better than using 32 bit software in speed...

sorry off topic!...