Best browser
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Best browser
For anyone interested in a good comparison between browsers, check this chart
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You've got to me kidding me...
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Cheap marketing talk, and outright lies in some parts. Chromium (and Chrome) has private browsing capabilities and recovers from crashes nicely, but has zero customizability.
They omitted javascript speed issues too.
They omitted javascript speed issues too.
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alex.barylski
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It's a MS site of course they are going to be biased. However, no browser in my experience comes close to IE's performance while running under windows.
They all crash, don't really use chrome, but still...
Web standards, really the only people who care are developers/designers as it's makes our jobs easier.
They all crash, don't really use chrome, but still...
Web standards, really the only people who care are developers/designers as it's makes our jobs easier.
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Paul Arnold
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That is hilarious. How do they get away with spouting such rubbish?
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It's not funny. They are outright lying and should be held accountable.
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Hahahaha...
no, no... they are really funny!!! 
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Off with their heads!!!astions wrote:It's not funny. They are outright lying and should be held accountable.
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They did give me some inspiration. Look at the comparison table I'm going to put on my own website:
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some realignment of misinformation -
http://kilianvalkhof.com/ie8fun/
http://kilianvalkhof.com/ie8fun/
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I haven't tried IE8 yet (still IE7) but have consistently swapped between Opera, Firefox and Chrome. I only use MSIE because some sites only support that browser
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pytrin wrote:some realignment of misinformation -
http://kilianvalkhof.com/ie8fun/
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Re: Best browser
Not to defend Microsoft though they do have a couple points about tab crashing and there are lots of rendering (albeit bugs only someone like me...so uh, only I would find) bugs in Gecko (Firefox).
The idea of "best browser" is highly subjective...
XHTML - Gecko 0.9, Opera 7.0, and as far as I can tell all versions of WebKit have support for XHTML, IE on the other hand will ask you to save the file.
CSS3 - WebKit is hands down the best rendering engine as far as CSS3 support is concerned. Gecko scores a respectable second place. Firefox 3.5 will bring web fonts though we'll have to wait for Firefox 4.0 for multiple background-image support. Presto is further behind, read more about vesa, Opera's vector graphics library to debut with Presto 2.3. Trident only supports box-sizing which will only be found useful by web designers who have no comprehension of how CSS level one works.
JavaScript - Gecko 1.9+ has the fastest JavaScript engine as far as my site's editor is concerned with Presto and WebKit not too far behind. Trident simply lags...and let's not forget that IE8 still and only supports JavaScript 1.5 and has made only minimal progress as far as scripting is concerned.
Customization - Being able to move the stop and refresh buttons to the left of the address bar is not my idea of customization. This is what my idea of customizing Internet Explorer's GUI requires...

It's not hard trying to imagine the IE team sitting around trying to think what others don't have in order to keep people's attention from what all the other browsers have already had for a long time and what we're at best simply hoping to see in IE9. Then again I can't blame them...when you have a job you have to work with what you have so I'll blame Microsoft and it's monopolistic policies instead of the IE team who after all things considered have made (in my opinion at least) considerable effort to make IE as forward compatible as possible to reduce future headaches...though even with those efforts IE8 and Trident is still dead last if you consider the latest stable builds of all rendering engines...and pretty much the past several versions of each versus IE8's build of Trident.
The idea of "best browser" is highly subjective...
XHTML - Gecko 0.9, Opera 7.0, and as far as I can tell all versions of WebKit have support for XHTML, IE on the other hand will ask you to save the file.
CSS3 - WebKit is hands down the best rendering engine as far as CSS3 support is concerned. Gecko scores a respectable second place. Firefox 3.5 will bring web fonts though we'll have to wait for Firefox 4.0 for multiple background-image support. Presto is further behind, read more about vesa, Opera's vector graphics library to debut with Presto 2.3. Trident only supports box-sizing which will only be found useful by web designers who have no comprehension of how CSS level one works.
JavaScript - Gecko 1.9+ has the fastest JavaScript engine as far as my site's editor is concerned with Presto and WebKit not too far behind. Trident simply lags...and let's not forget that IE8 still and only supports JavaScript 1.5 and has made only minimal progress as far as scripting is concerned.
Customization - Being able to move the stop and refresh buttons to the left of the address bar is not my idea of customization. This is what my idea of customizing Internet Explorer's GUI requires...

It's not hard trying to imagine the IE team sitting around trying to think what others don't have in order to keep people's attention from what all the other browsers have already had for a long time and what we're at best simply hoping to see in IE9. Then again I can't blame them...when you have a job you have to work with what you have so I'll blame Microsoft and it's monopolistic policies instead of the IE team who after all things considered have made (in my opinion at least) considerable effort to make IE as forward compatible as possible to reduce future headaches...though even with those efforts IE8 and Trident is still dead last if you consider the latest stable builds of all rendering engines...and pretty much the past several versions of each versus IE8's build of Trident.
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Re: Best browser
Bwahahahaha. That is funny. "Performance"? "Compatibility"? "Plugins"? "Ease of Use"? "Web Standards"?
Nicely done, pytrin.
Nicely done, pytrin.
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It would most likely be firefox. I have been using it for about 4 years i think? It seems to be my most favorite, Internet Explorer doesnt seem anywhere close to it. Google chrome also seemed like it had potential around the time i tried it. (a year ago?)