So Shoot Me I Like Internet Explorer 9!

[takemehomegrandma]

Well its hard to believe. After all the years of getting friends and family using Firefox, Opera, Chrome, anything other than IE for a browser... I like IE9.

Its fast, lots of nice touches, both graphical and practical. I like the controls on the url bar, the color coding of tabs and pages. The built in "security" and perfect integration with Windows 7 (my laptop is a dell dual core 2ghz w/ Win 7 and another partition for OSX)
 
I have latest FF, Chrome and IE and now i'm using IE all the time. Amazing...

:whack:

:quickdraw:

:uzi: :python:

So. There!

That browser alone are responsible for at least 50% of all world misery (yes it even tops Greece, who only comes in on 2nd place), it's bad, it's bloated, it can't do CSS3 properly, and it's generally evil. It must die, dammit!

:rant:

[takemehomegrandma]

Too bad Firefox crashes so often I had to stop using it.

Firefox sucks badly! Slow, bulky and crash prone. Of course, everything feels slow and bulky compared to the webkit browsers, especially Chrome (and Chromium a bit less so).

I guess there is a reason to the web browser trends I highlighted here a few months back; and if you look at the same sources of info today, you will see that since I made that post:

http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?year=2012&month=4
...that Chrome *alone* has beaten Firefox by a big margin (25.9% vs. 24.1%)
...that Webkit (Chrome + Safari) even beats IE by a big margin (32.4% vs. 28.9%)

http://gs.statcounter.com/
...that Chrome *easily* beats Firefox by a huge margin (31.23% vs. 24.87%)
...that Webkit (Chrome + Safari) beats IE by a huge margin as well (38.36% vs. 34.07%)

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp (stats from web-dev people)
...that Chrome alone *easily* beats everything else (Chrome: 38.3%, Firefox 35.8%, IE 18.3%), and Webkit truly dominates (42.8%).

So the trends I predicted in January (above) definitely came true, Webkit is da sh!t, it's what most people is using, and more and more are constantly adds themselves to this group.

I don't know which of Firefox or IE9 I hate the most, they both feels completely bulky, slow, and gives a very poor browser experience compared to webkit browsers.

Which of course brings me to this:

http://html5test.com/results/desktop.html

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Chrome 18:  400 points, 13 bonus
Firefox 12: 345 points, 9 bonus
IE 9:       138 points, 5 bonus
Webkit rules, and so does Odyssey for MorphOS! :drink:

[takemehomegrandma]

Remember the Moog Synthesizer doodle? Didn't work on Google Chrome

What, this?

http://www.google.com/doodles/robert-moogs-78th-birthday

Worked perfectly in all Chrome versions I have tried...

:confused:

[takemehomegrandma]

Yeah, that's beginning to piss me off too.
Why do they insist I update if the new software is less reliable then what it replaces?

Simple solution, you *don't* do that, you simply replaces it with Chrome and feel the releif (or run Odyssey on MorphOS of course .

[takemehomegrandma]

the problems I have with it are the crashes on some websites and when it tries to stream stuff (bbc.co.uk/iplayer for example)

That site works like a charm here on Chrome 19.

I can't recall I have ever experienced a Chrome crash during the many years I have been using it (and I have really been using it *a lot*), but you seem have crashes all the time, so I'd say there might be some other problem with your system configuration...

[takemehomegrandma]

LOL!

I just happen to have crashes with Chrome which I don't experience with IE on some sites.
And streaming seems better on IE that's all.

Just saying that both examples you put forward works like a charm in Chrome, no crashes, no glitches, nothing such, and if you are experience as many problems with Chrome as you say you do, then there might be something else causing it, that's all. Could be a lot of things ranging from weird SW Firewalls or anti spyware SW you hare running, misconfiguration of privileges or some other misconfiguration somewhere else in your system, whatever. Release versions of Chrome is very stable, top notch in all aspects, and if you can't even play that simple radio stream or that Moog doodle (they *are both* working in Chrome), then you *do* have a problem, and the way I see it, it's not a problem directly tied to Chrome...

[takemehomegrandma]

Sure feel the "relief" of Google increasing their file on you. At least FF and IE dont record your information.

Sure Chrome is fast as hell and nice looking but not worth it to give up your liberty to use it!

Use Chromium if you are that paranoid; that one has those accelerators (that I personally happens to like, as they learn my preferences and presents (and foresee) info according to this) removed AFAIK (or maybe I'm wrong in that). It's not like your surfing anonymously anyway (unless you take active steps to do so), President Bush Jr's legacy has brought us the perfect Orwellian society, not only in the US; they have enforced many kinds of repulsove legislation to all western countries, that in practice puts a wire tap on *all* Interenet (and telecommunication) traffic, *everywhere*, treating *everyone* as a potential terrorist. *That's* the big integrity problem with the Internet today, not that google tries to foresee and present me the info I want in a convenient way, by learning about my preferences, I'd call that a *service*. Google doesn't really know who I really am, as a real person, but the government(s) do (or could learn it quite quickly by some rudimentary database querys).

That's the way I see it anyway. But of course, feel free to use Microsofts products, if you really trust they are some angels in this context, and differs that much from Google. I think they are not, though. They are taking their "bing"-thing to a whole new level now, and walks in Google's footsteps in more than one way.

[takemehomegrandma]

@ TheDaddy

OK, you have problems with Chrome, even with simple sites/things as streaming audio, and have had it for a long time obviously, while I have *never* had a  single problem like that (been using Chrome for many, many years), rather the opposite actually, it just works, with everything, everywhere, faster than anything else. If you think your problems and inabilities (like streaming audio from that BBC site, for example, which simply *works*) lies in the Chrome software and not in your own, local system configuration, then I digress...

[takemehomegrandma]

In a way I can totally understand your opinion, your personality is to find faults, compare the thing that has a fault and in public informing, sorry, screaming out to everyone how great you are because you know that thing is crap and you wont use it.

You say it is bad. IE6 was bad, IE7 is bad also, IE8 is maybe bad also but IE 9 is not bad. It loads fast, is nicely integrated in the best multitasking operating system in the world: Win 7.

You say it is bloated? Are you serious?! LOL someone bought the FF hype.

It is evil?! LOL, spinning the age old myth that MS is evil. I would bet IE is less evil than MorphOS is. At least there is not much IE fanboys needing to wave their e-penos in public seeking confirmation.

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