ie8

[GQgeek]

It's pretty nice. It's streamlined, fast, and the accelerators are a cool new feature that are actually useful. It also allows you to search from the address bar like Chrome does. Of special importance to many of you, I'm sure, it has InPrivate browsing (like chrome's incognito) for all of you that like teh **** but don't want your SOs to find out.

Anyway, I'm switching to it from Chrome. I'm sick of chrome's fairly persistent issues with php and other scripts. Chrome is great but it's just too buggy still. Just today I was navigating the cisco site to download some software and do some pretty standard things and the damned thing gave me errors so I had to open IE.

With Windows 7 coming up as well and receiving all kinds of positive reports, I think this is going to be good year for Microsoft.

 

[bmulford]

Originally Posted by GQgeek

It's pretty nice. It's streamlined, fast, and the accelerators are a cool new feature that are actually useful. It also allows you to search from the address bar like Chrome does. Of special importance to many of you, I'm sure, it has InPrivate browsing (like chrome's incognito) for all of you that like teh **** but don't want your SOs to find out.

Anyway, I'm switching to it from Chrome. I'm sick of chrome's fairly persistent issues with php and other scripts. Chrome is great but it's just too buggy still. Just today I was navigating the cisco site to download some software and do some pretty standard things and the damned thing gave me errors so I had to open IE.

With Windows 7 coming up as well and receiving all kinds of positive reports, I think this is going to be good year for Microsoft.

Have you tried Safari for Windoz? I prefer it to Chrome

 

[milosh]

I like Chrome but I agree that it is still "not there yet". When something doesn't work in it I switch to Firefox.

I think they are both still faster than IE8. Especially while working with multiple tabs.

 

[unjung]

Chrome has the interface right, and there's no doubt everyone will copy it. Once FF does, I'll switch back. For now I do have issues with radio buttons and check boxes not appearing, and occasional crashes.

I'll continue to avoid IE as I'm sure as with previous versions, Microsoft has once again ignored agreed-upon code functionalities, and left a million security holes.

 

[dusty]

Out of curiosity, why not FF? Why ever IE over FF?

 

[milosh]

Originally Posted by unjung

I'll continue to avoid IE as I'm sure as with previous versions, Microsoft has once again ignored agreed-upon code functionalities, and left a million security holes.

This is not true. IE8 is a big step forward in standards compliance.

 

[The Snob]

Originally Posted by dusty

Out of curiosity, why not FF? Why ever IE over FF?

I think the incognito thing is pretty clutch (on Chrome, IE, Safari).. but I don't ever use the Firefox add-ons so perhaps I'm missing something there.

With that said, Safari FTW.

 

[Connemara]

I'm the only one who uses my computer, and thus Incognito is useless. If people are really touting that as Chrome's premier advantage over FF, I will gladly stay with FF.

 

[The Snob]

Originally Posted by Connemara

I'm the only one who uses my computer, and thus Incognito is useless. If people are really touting that as Chrome's premier advantage over FF, I will gladly stay with FF.

Well, Chrome is also less of a resource hog than FF BUT like another poster mentioned, it has serious issues reading some scripts and will randomly stop loading certain websites at which point a thorough cleaning and cache deleting are required. It's a pain **********.

FF is great--it's my backup whenever Safari has issues. But yeah.. no reason to go to IE! hehe

 

[jgold47]

I genereally like microsoft products because of the way they all flow into each other pretty easily, but I think its pretty hands down how much better firefox is. That said, until firefox can render every page that I visit, every java script, etc... I will still have to switch between them.

 

[GQgeek]

I've honestly never had a problem with any website on IE. I never liked FF enough to switch from IE. Chrome made me switch instantly, but the persistent issues got annoying and when I saw that IE8 RC1 had been released, i went for that and it's good.

 

[sonick]

Personally, FF is my #1, while IE is my #2 preferred browser. I have tried Chrome and Safari and didn't like it.

Chrome - Too simplistic and buggy. No Adblocker extension when I first installed it, don't know if there's one now.

Safari for Windows - Slow and laggy. Nice to use when reading long documents online (the anti-aliasing clear-type stuff makes it easy on the eyes), other than that never use it.

 

[Shoe City Thinker]

IE8 will be a good thing overall if it's able to force everyone to use W3C standards. The interop issues between IE6 and FF are one of the reasons why I'm no longer a web designer and under the care of a therapist.

 

[sonick]

Originally Posted by Shoe City Thinker

IE8 will be a good thing overall if it's able to force everyone to use W3C standards. The interop issues between IE6 and FF are one of the reasons why I'm no longer a web designer and under the care of a therapist.

Be thankful you don't do HTML-based emails.

 

[dtmt]

Maybe this is their big chance to win back browser share.... I haven't used IE in so long, but FF3 is such a steaming pile of shiat I might actually consider trying it.