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- jasdf, on 03/15/2009, -29/+237"Microsoft has released its own tests..."
Enough said. - roxgod666, on 03/15/2009, -12/+153IE 8 would have been amazing...if it came out 3 years ago.
- rd3k, on 03/15/2009, -2/+63Link to actual article: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/03/micr ...
- CoreyTamas, on 03/15/2009, -11/+69My first question would be "Is IE8 secure?" After that, we can talk about speed.
- JasonCox, on 03/15/2009, -9/+59IE8 is a good browser. Now granted I use and will continue to use Firefox, but IE8 is a good browser and is a step in the right direction by Microsoft. Yeah, it's popular to rail on Microsoft, but seriously give the IE team a break, they're trying to make up for past mistakes by management at Microsoft.
- Kbiscu1t, on 03/15/2009, -18/+62Stupid biased diggers. You make up about 95% of comments. You can't accept that IE8 may be faster than the other browsers because it's made by Microsoft, and it isn't Firefox. Sure, I would use Firefox over any other browser, but I wouldn't say IE is an awful browser. It's laughable how comments like these:
"Internet Explorer sucks." Are getting dugg up, and honest comments like these:
"Yeah I tried IE8 already and it's fast. :d" Are getting dugg down.
Grow some balls and stop being dumbass fanboys. - SSUK, on 03/15/2009, -1/+44An artistic rendition of a story through song.
- Me1000, on 03/15/2009, -16/+56Three years ago Firefox rendered pages better than IE8 does today!
- weasler7, on 03/15/2009, -23/+58Too bad IE8 takes 5 seconds to load and another 3 seconds to be functional compared to the 1 second that chrome takes to load. That's more noticeable and annoying to me.
- inactive, on 03/15/2009, -1/+34"IE loads mozilla.com faster than Firefox, and Firefox loads microsoft.com faster than IE"
- frodirk, on 03/15/2009, -2/+31All browser release their own performance testsuites. And incidenially all browser are fastest.
Microsoft/IE is not alone here. - taibo, on 03/15/2009, -7/+31Well they did outline exactly how they did it, and in the results it's not like IE8 beat out both browsers all the time. I'd say it's semi-reliable.
- inactive, on 03/15/2009, -12/+33I call *****.
- inactive, on 03/15/2009, -6/+26but in all honesty. Firefox 2.0 was a ram hog and 3 years back IE8 would have been the *****. But now among FF 3, Chrome, Safari 4, Opera its worse then a joke.
- HyperJack, on 03/15/2009, -0/+17Ask is. Jeeves got the sack.
- VyRuZ, on 03/15/2009, -2/+18Macintoshreader is:
a) fanboy
b) boy
c) fan of
d) mac fanboy - sirmasterboy, on 03/15/2009, -7/+23Yes IE7 and IE8 do have extensions...
Enhance Internet Explorer's Tabbed Browsing Capabilities
1. Double click to close tab.
2. Open new tab from address bar.
3. Enable/disable tab browse history manager.
4. Enable/disable crash recovery
5. Move the IE menu bar above the address bar
6. Hide search bar.
7. Modify the maxium number of parallel connections to the web server.
8. Select the external program to view page source
Super Drag and Drop
With Super Drag and Drop enabled, you can open new links by simply dragging and dropping the link on the page. You can also Drag and Drop to search selected words with the default search engine or save the selected photo when Shift is held down.
Mouse Gesture
Mouse Gesture allow the user to execute commonly performed tasks (open/close a tab, go back, go forward , print , scrolling page etc.) by drawing a simple symbol on the screen.
Crash Recovery
Crash Recovery automatically restores all opened pages after a crash happened.
Save Page to Image
Flexible and easy-to-use tool that converts html page from any URL to image. It captures the whole web page's content into JPG, BMP , GIF , PNG or TIFF on the fly.
Quick Proxy Switcher
Different internet connections do often require completely different proxy server settings and it's a real pain to change them manually.
AD Blocker
Blocks all forms of advertising, including Flash ads, rich media, fly-ins, slide-ins, pop-ups, pop-unders, spyware and adware ads, and messenger ads.
Greasy monkey alike User Script
IE7Pro Script is to Internet Explorer7 as Greasemonkey is to Firefox. It lets you remix the Web via scripts.
Inline Search
Adds the inline search bar like firefox has, finds as you type, use the F3 and Enter Key to cycle between multiple results, highlight all results.
Spell Check
IE7Pro Spell Check will check any text you enter and alert you to possible errors by adding a red underline to any potentially misspelled words.
Grab&Drag
Grab & Drag mode permits you to "grab" the web page and move it within the pane by clicking and dragging the page. - abudhu, on 03/15/2009, -0/+14IE7 Pro -- IE7 Addon that brings a lot of wonderful functionality.
I am sure this will be updated for IE8.
Link:
http://www.ie7pro.com/
Text stolen from website:
IE7Pro includes Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker, Flash Block, Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform, User Plug-ins, MiniDM, Google sponsored search,IE Faster and many more power packed features. - matthekc, on 03/15/2009, -2/+16I'm running Opera on Linux Mint not because it's fast but because it plays nice with flash.
Rant on/
Flash sucks I hope theora in html 5 takes some marketshare and if a whole site is flash not just videos, I never come back.
Rant off/ - vegx, on 03/15/2009, -0/+13Browser wars are one of the worst parts of Digg.
- jakem1, on 03/15/2009, -0/+13There are ad blockers for IE out there. IE7pro has a built in ad blocker.
- FutureGuy, on 03/15/2009, -0/+13"on multiple platforms"? really??
- Noloco, on 03/15/2009, -12/+25I say IE didn't work hard enough to be better when no one else was better..And now everyone else Is kicking IE down If It's true they're faster who cares ? FF and Chrome do wonderful speeds and I'm happy with them. No need for IE!
- zeebo, on 03/15/2009, -4/+17The thing is, in their video when IE finishes within a few tenths of a second they stress that IE isn't much slower, but when firefox does the same thing they declare IE the winner and mention how much slower the browser in third place was.
Also, interesting to see that they only talk about page load times, and not say, the speed of the javascript implementation, or the accuracy of page rendering. Where webkit and gecko still have a clear lead. - DeepFreezed, on 03/15/2009, -2/+14so most people take exception when MS releases their own performance test but willing to accept test by it's competitors?
- iliketurtles2, on 03/15/2009, -1/+13I must admit having read the article I fired up IE on Windows 7, and I was surprised at the speed of IE8 in comparison to Firefox (3.0.7). I tested a number of different websites and IE8 consistently loaded pages faster.
I hate Microsoft as much as the next person, but they've done some good work here. - FutureGuy, on 03/15/2009, -3/+15Please publish your results so we all can be up to speed.
- computershack, on 03/15/2009, -2/+14More secure than Firefox, Safari or Chrome on Windows due to the fact it runs completely in a sandbox.
- mattus, on 03/15/2009, -5/+17The future of the web is in web applications like GMail, not static web pages. Try those and you'll see that IE still has abysmal JavaScript performance next to Firefox, Chrome and particularly Safari 4.
- Hudon689, on 06/13/2009, -2/+13IE8 is fast, I use Chrome, FF, IE8 ... I like all three for their own reasons... but these tests Microsoft published were well conducted and correlate well with the results I've seen in my use of the three browsers... FF being the slowest of all three and Chrome being pretty much on par with IE8 (even though I prefer Chrome for its simplicity).
Bury me for being honest and open-minded -_- . Lay off the Microsoft hate-wagon fellows. - zanderw00t, on 03/15/2009, -3/+14Umm... what?
- zeebo, on 03/15/2009, -3/+14From my experience, the current browser rankings in terms of speed/accuracy goes like this:
FF3
Safari/Chrome (webkit)
IE 8
Opera
IE 7
IE 6
But thats just in testing the most recent project I've been working on. - taibo, on 03/15/2009, -2/+13These numbers always vary. Your computer is probably different from the one they used with different internet connections. And they both will get different numbers on different days. The only meaningful way to compare them is by using the same computer with different browsers, which is what Microsoft and Google and Mozilla all do.
Comments like 'oh noes I got diff numbers' are pretty meaningless unless you somehow have the exact computer they used. - Proz, on 03/15/2009, -8/+19Yes.
Protected mode (Wiki quote), CrossSite Scripting protection, ClickJacking Defenses, DEP/NT for all (including per-user Active X). Yes, IE8 is secure.
Wiki:
Protected Mode (Vista,7):browser runs in a sandbox with even lower rights than a limited user account. It can only write to the Temporary Internet Files folder and cannot install start-up programs or change any configuration of the operating system without communicating through a broker process. IE7 Protected Mode relies on the User Account Control technology. - jakem1, on 03/15/2009, -9/+20No browser is as secure as IE on Vista/7 running in protected mode.
- ammundsen, on 03/15/2009, -0/+11And web designers should be happy about IE8. Many people will simply not ever download a web browser. At best they will upgrade. IE6 is the bane of web designers.
- T8erT0T, on 03/15/2009, -2/+13Finkel is Einhorn.
- joe90210, on 03/15/2009, -8/+19IE8 on Win7 is blazing fast
- AmazingAndrex, on 03/15/2009, -7/+18Speed isn't everything, though it's a good start. Now work on standards, MS. IE8, once again, was a good start, but it can be greatly improved also.
- stacks14, on 03/15/2009, -6/+16@mrBitch you forgot to know what the hell you're talking about
- billricardi, on 03/15/2009, -5/+15Let's see some independent test results over the course of a few weeks, on multiple platforms. Then we can talk about bragging rights. But releasing your own internal benchmarks for your own products is the software house equivalent of: 'Of COURSE it's 10 inches long! Trust me!'
- Truth3, on 03/15/2009, -5/+14I use google and askjeeves to browse the internet, they are both faster through my independent study of ignorance.
- HardSide, on 03/15/2009, -1/+10IE can block ads. Same for FF. It's called addons.
- Y3T1, on 03/15/2009, -3/+12Same, IE8 honestly starts as soon as I click it on my machine, which; is running on a 2.0ghz dual core.
- jakem1, on 03/15/2009, -2/+11You don't understand how this works.
- ChristoFox, on 03/15/2009, -7/+16the most under rated browser out there.
- jakem1, on 03/15/2009, -1/+10Look at the timings in this article. You wouldn't notice even if IE was generally slower than the competition. We're talking fractions of a second here.
- marx2k, on 03/15/2009, -4/+131617M 975M 38624
Virtual, Resident, Shared
That's Firefox's footprint with 5 tabs open. Doesn't that seem like a bit much? - benitojuarez, on 03/15/2009, -0/+9i didnt have to switch any modes to pass when i tried the acid test with the old pre-beta pdc build. is this manual or browser controlled? i only ask because there was nothing to indicate either.
- m3arvk, on 03/15/2009, -5/+13Safari is a memory monster. 500+ megabytes on a single instance of a browser?
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