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Try Windows updates, seeing as IE is part of the windows package they do put some level of upgrades in with that. Or.. if I dont know anything and they dont, there must be IE updates, check that out. And if that all fails... Mozilla Firefox pwnz all web browsers. Its just alittle bit slower than IE.

How can you people tell IE is slower than firefox or any other browser? I'm on a crappy ass computer and I see no difference.
The updates for IE are built into the windows updates.

Quote from: muert0 on September 01, 2004, 10:19 PM
How can you people tell IE is slower than firefox or any other browser? I'm on a crappy ass computer and I see no difference.
The updates for IE are built into the windows updates.

I'm on a good computer, and the difference between IE and Opera is huge. When going back a page, Opera is instant, IE takes a few seconds. When loading the next page, Opera loads in half the time (not completely, just the page content, it takes longer than IE for it to go to the correct post).

Quote from: j0k3r on September 02, 2004, 10:15 AM

Quote from: muert0 on September 01, 2004, 10:19 PM
How can you people tell IE is slower than firefox or any other browser? I'm on a crappy ass computer and I see no difference.
The updates for IE are built into the windows updates.

I'm on a good computer, and the difference between IE and Opera is huge. When going back a page, Opera is instant, IE takes a few seconds. When loading the next page, Opera loads in half the time (not completely, just the page content, it takes longer than IE for it to go to the correct post).

It's isntant for me on IE on a good computer...

We know everything is instant for you on any intel or microsoft product. BLah blah blah. What I was saying is it's instant on any of the major browsers as far as I see. And like I said I'm on a slow ass computer so I don't see how anyone who probably has double, triple, but most likely quadruple the processor speed I have can see any kind of pause in any of the three products.

Quote from: muert0 on September 02, 2004, 07:33 PM
We know everything is instant for you on any intel or microsoft product. BLah blah blah.

Nope.  There's some things from Microsoft that I don't really like/think needs to be improved.

There really isn't much of a speed difference, its just that other browsers have so many more features than IE.

On my work computer (2.8ghz) they all feel the same.  But on a slower computer, Opera is definately much faster (because of the way it does caching) and FireFox/ie are basically the same.

What I noticed about using a fast computer is that some Microsoft stuff (like hitting "reply" or "new message" in Outlook) still takes about 5 seconds.  I don't understand how brining up the send message form could take a long time.

Quote from: Falcon[anti-yL] on September 02, 2004, 11:54 PM
There really isn't much of a speed difference, its just that other browsers have so many more features than IE.

Features such as?  (other than download managers and built-in popup blockers).  I'm sure IE7 will have the features that are important though.  

My favourite feature is not getting viruses.

But I also like plugins.  I have a whole pile of plugins for Mozilla, and I have problems living without mouse gestures.  I also enjoy "nuke anything" for when assholes screw up the tables, looking up selected word in a dictionary, website previews in google, and always allowing rightclick, even on sites that disable it.  I have those and more on firefox on linux and windows.

Quote from: Sargera on September 03, 2004, 04:49 PM

Quote from: Falcon[anti-yL] on September 02, 2004, 11:54 PM
There really isn't much of a speed difference, its just that other browsers have so many more features than IE.

Features such as?  (other than download managers and built-in popup blockers).  I'm sure IE7 will have the features that are important though.  

Features such as tabbed browsing, popup blocker, plugins.

Quote from: Falcon[anti-yL] on September 03, 2004, 07:00 PM

Quote from: Sargera on September 03, 2004, 04:49 PM

Quote from: Falcon[anti-yL] on September 02, 2004, 11:54 PM
There really isn't much of a speed difference, its just that other browsers have so many more features than IE.

Features such as?  (other than download managers and built-in popup blockers).  I'm sure IE7 will have the features that are important though.  

Features such as tabbed browsing, popup blocker, plugins.

I totally missed tabbed browsing.  That's definately a plus.

The only thing I miss from IE is alt+d to get to URL bar.

Quote from: j0k3r on September 03, 2004, 07:04 PM
The only thing I miss from IE is alt+d to get to URL bar.

Firefox has it too .

http://texturizer.net/firefox/keyboard.html Good comparision of IE, Firefox and Opera keyboard shortcuts.  When I first heard about Firefox I was reluctant to change because of compatibility with sites and such and me believe tabbed browsing wasn't such a big deal.  Now that I have been using  a lot more, I really love tabbed browsing.