If you visit quite a few forums, then you most likely already know about the FF issue of dragging, hanging up, and crashing on it's latest build ... It's becoming bloatware, just like IEX ... Turning off the default add-ons in IEX isn't anything at all like running FF w/o plugins. The browser still works fine, and loads faster than FF does without all of the plugins. I've never been into gadgets and eye-candy .. My browsers are tools .. low weight .. and work for me. Study up a bit on "backweb", and you'll understand what I'm saying when I refer to a browser as being "stripped down". The less you allow your equipment, browser or OS, to sit and yack all day to Microsoft or Mozilla, the faster and leaner feeling it will be. I'd use Chrome more if I could turn off it's keylogging features, but Google won't allow it to happen without breaking the browser .. I was never a fan of keyloggers. Never heard the term IEX (not to be confused with 'expose) used? It's a play on IE3, 4, or 5 (like Win2k is a play on Windows 2000 or how WinME is a play on Windows Millenium Edition, or how OS builds of Windows are refered to as Win9x ... and the term has been around since Microsoft first bundled Internet Explorer 3 with it's OS -- IEX covers all builds of the browser. We've used the term since 1996 I think.
To the contrary, I find this unusual, no one I know has such problems, nor do the 10 systems I maintain in-house plus those of friends/family have such issues and they all run the latest version. Now you're either making this up or lying or both. There is no such thing. Never heard of it. and I was on the 'net before the World Wide Web.
IE8 is good browser .. Firefox has few minor bugs of crashing ... Safari is Fast! But My Overall Rating Goes For Firefox!! The Best!!
Since development work on IE8 ended over a year ago, that's going to be hard to do. Microsoft is currently working on IE9. Their goals are to add some of the technical abilities to bring IE9 up to where Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera were a year or more ago. There is no release date yet for IE9. Currently IE8 is 11 years behind all other browsers in modern standards and practices.
Modern standards... like the 10 year old HTML 4.01 specifications? Or perhaps the 11 year old CSS2 ones? And all these browsers implemented them correctly 11 years ago and IE has been playing catch up the whole time? Oh, and it's 11 years behind ALL other browsers - someone better go call Netscape and tell them the good news! Here they were thinking they should use Firefox's engine because their own sucks, thankfully you know better!
No. You miss the point and you're being ridiculous if you think I'm comparing it to defunct browsers. I said it was behind current modern standards. IE8 can't hold a torch to any other browser in DOM support ( to start with ) and fails to pass anything above Level 1 which is from 1998. Test your browser here. And that's only one of the many standards it fails to support or supports poorly and, sometimes, incorrectly.
stop wasting your time arguing.. just look up his posting history , he seems to have joined the forum just to post bad things about MS I cant believe he is spending all his time posting like this http://forums.digitalpoint.com/search.php?do=finduser&u=152253
You don't know what you're talking about. Level 1 is the basics of the DOM. If you use javascript, the DOM has to work properly. This is why so many developers struggle getting IE to do things with it and why IE struggles with a lot of new standards when they come out. IE can't handle XHTML. IE can't handle SVG. IE can't handle....and you say I'm generalizing?
Hmm. Are you saying I'm posting lies? Am I posting anything that isn't in the news and headlined by news services? Do you not want to be aware? Do you prefer to be in the dark?
Better go rewrite history, they got it wrong! 11 years ago every browser in the entire world had the standards correct except IE. Yeah, righto. There are multiple things even the most standards complaint browsers are still correcting or implementing for the first time.
Again, I'm talking about browser support as of today, not 11 years ago. If you want to start your own thread about old, defunct browsers and what life was like 11 years ago, do so, but this post is about browser status as of today and IE8 does not support standards that are widely suppported by all of todays popular browsers.
have you tried ie8 chrome is rubbish, because when you open a new tab it starts a new process and chrome is only good for very simplistic stuff
I do much prefer Firefox, when designing a site it is clear to see how bad IE is and that test goes to show even more reasons to use chrome or firefox.