just moved to Firefox yesterday... it's good, but I miss the good ol' IE6 interface... wishing IE a successful come back with IE8... will wait until it launches... I'm unable to find a good, working IE6 theme for the latest version of Firefox though... anyone that can help?
If you read the article, you would of found out that IE 8 passes the Acid 2 test, which means it either has almost 100% or has 100% css support, meaning if you have to pay your designer, it'll be for other browsers.... If that was the case, FF1 or FF2 would of been that way already, hopefully mozilla will inject some serious funding into the ff development now and get it up to full standards compliance. I'm starting to get sick of FF, i have been using it since 0.6... i have to restart the browser serveral times a day due to memory usage getting over 600mb, and tabs taking 2-3 seconds to load let along the lockups on page loads... I hope FF3 fixes it, otherwise i'm going to have to stop using FF
so they are claiming that they actually build a browser that works. wow - only 11 years after they started to support css in IE 3.0 (1996) they got it right. am i impressed? hell no! in fact im scared that i have to undo all this ie-hacks on my sites i did in the past so that it looked right with ie's broken css support. it dosnt matters in the near future anyway, it took 2 years for ie 7 to reach the ~20% marketshare it has right now. Even now, ie6 is still the most common browser on sites (less on sites with a techie audience, more on sites with a general audience).
The problem with every new IE release is you have to add more CSS hacks, and take care of the old ones. When IE8 comes out, we'll have hacks for IE6, IE7 and IE8 (or some other browser).
You mentioned a good point. Most general audience sites use IE as the standard. FF is more for DIGG users and DP members
only time will tell, though i'm sure microsoft is feeling the heat from the recent success of FF and the close relationship between Mozilla and Google, and have almost certainly sunk considerable resources into IE8, so I'll look for IE8 to be a large improvement over IE7 and FF2.
I've never had any major problem with any other browser. Minor problems with opera, but at least every single float didn't fly all over the place haphazardly. I've never had memory problems with FF. I usually have about 50+ tabs open, in 5 windows with photoshop open and the only thing that seems to drag me down in memory is after a week or so the windows xp memory leak gets me.
It takes FF 2-4 weeks for a new release that might get 100 bugs fixed but MS makes a new release every few years FF Will be always the winner.
I believe this is going to become another browser war thread The best thing you could do is, admit that each browser has its strong and weak points. Firefox uses more memory than Internet Explorer and sometimes has strange behaviours with floats and stuff; and Internet Explorer has lousy standards support, not much expansion possibilities (add-ins and themes) and not that frequent updates up to this moment. I'm currently using firefox, since I got used to that, but next to that, I use Internet Explorer too. It's okay to stick to 1 browser I think, but you should not immediatly say that the other browsers are dump. That's my opinion, at least.
I agree. Each has their own benefits and drawbacks, alike. Very interesting article though. But last time I checked, IE8 uses a lot more ram than Firefox. Twice as much to be exact. I have both on my system and use each for different things.
I didn't use IE7 to migrate to IE8 I used FF , but I fell it is hard to be comfortable with , maybe beacuse it is different
Yeaa ! Firefox is a revelation.. IE will never come close to what Firefox is. Well that's just my opinion !
Maybe something wrong with your installed extensions ? I usually have +10 tabs open and memory is always less than 60MB