|
|
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 6,802 Likes: 18
Retired Admin
|
OP
Retired Admin
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 6,802 Likes: 18 |
This is not a Browser War!
What is your opinion of IE9 ?
|
|
|
Visit Atcom to get started with your new business VoIP phone system ASAP
Turn up is quick, painless, and can often be done same day.
Let us show you how to do VoIP right, resulting in crystal clear call quality and easy-to-use features that make everyone happy!
Proudly serving Canada from coast to coast.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 9,285 Likes: 6
Admin
|
|
Admin
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 9,285 Likes: 6 |
I tried it and found to many problems with sites I use. It was quite a process trying to go back to IE8 I had to use Restore.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 410
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 410 |
My beef with IE is that MS keeps adding new places for the infomercial superhighway to hide things on your computer. First it was just the hidden "user data" folder [and all its sub-folders and index.dat file] which was completely separate from the user data subfolders under "Temporary Internet Files" that would be [appear to be] deleted on a purge. Then they added the "DOM" storage, and then with IE8 they added at least two more places for stuff to hide. I shudder to think what they have added with IE9.
Much of this can be turned off/suppressed/blocked, but how many people take the time to do this? It just feels like MS doesn't have the customer's best interests at heart, unless you consider the "customer" to be the hokey spammers/scammers/trackers/popper-uppers/etc.
Jim
**************************************************
Speaking from a secure undisclosed location.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 7,056
RIP Moderator-Mitel, Panasonic
|
|
RIP Moderator-Mitel, Panasonic
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 7,056 |
I have Mozilla (not 4 yet) and it's easy to use. I have IE8 and it's ok, but I like Mozilla better. I have Chrome for accessing Google Maps, at the suggestion of a friend, and it works fine, haven't tried it anywhere else and probably won't. As long as Mozilla keeps me happy, it'll probably remain my browser. 'Course I'm an ol' fuddy-duddy, and not very flexible, so...
When I was young, I was Liberal. As I aged and wised up, I became Conservative. Now that I'm old, I have settled on Curmudgeon.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 451
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 451 |
Originally posted by Lightninghorse:
I have Mozilla (not 4 yet) and it's easy to use. I have IE8 and it's ok, but I like Mozilla better. I have Chrome for accessing Google Maps, at the suggestion of a friend, and it works fine, haven't tried it anywhere else and probably won't. As long as Mozilla keeps me happy, it'll probably remain my browser. 'Course I'm an ol' fuddy-duddy, and not very flexible, so... Same here... Joe
Real comms took 200lb teletypes, hand keys, sounders, operators and cranked phones!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 3,630
Moderator-Avaya, Nortel
|
|
Moderator-Avaya, Nortel
Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 3,630 |
Running IE9 on Win7 with no issues. In fact, it seems to be the most stable on Win7 of all the browsers I have tried. Chrome is pretty good, but I have ran into issues with, of all things, Google Voice. I like the look and customization of Safari the best, but it freezes too. I haven't ran the latest Safari though, I will try that.
Downloaded Firefox 4 to an XP machine because I wanted tabbed browsing. Its crashed several times.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 9,424 Likes: 1
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 9,424 Likes: 1 |
I try not to use IE if I can get away with it...I use Firefox.
Jeff Moss
Moss Communications
Computer Repair-Networking-Cabling
MBSWWYPBX, JGAE
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 142
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 142 |
IE9 is fine. Major Browser releases don't really do anything for me. As stated it's just an excuse to pack more crap into what really should be a simple matter of rendering HTML. I mean there are after all standards in place and it seems like for all the 'chrome' they're packing in the true purpose of the browser gets lost.
Nothing wrong with FF4, IE8, Chrome, or Safari.
The question should be why would we need IE9 and is it structurally deserving of a full version update?
IE9 is clunky on XP but Vista/7 does well with it. The same inherent security flaws remain in IE9 that did with IE7(the first of the 'new' IE browsers) it's all fluff.
When I can do anything with my mobile android browser that I can with IE, with a fraction of the buttons or overhead...the browser wars should have long been considered over.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 588
Moderator-Mobil Phones, Computers
|
|
Moderator-Mobil Phones, Computers
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 588 |
What do you mean its clunky on XP? IE9 doesn't run on XP.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 142
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 142 |
sorry, too many versions that should've read, "IE9 is clunky on Vista but 7 does well with it." I don't know if Vista's poor memory management or what, but there's a difference on comparable machines running 7.
Windows Vista, it's the new XP.
Hell I still have a 2K advanced server that I'm afraid to decommision.
|
|
|
|
Forums84
Topics94,317
Posts638,933
Members49,775
| |
Most Online5,661
May 23rd, 2018
|
|
|
0 members (),
161
guests, and
42
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|
