not likely

What happened at the end of last year that was so good for IE?

I care deeply about which program people are using.

Every time I try to use Firefox (which used to be my default browser), it is so slow and annoying that I shut it down. Then I open the task manager and shut down the process as well (because it keeps going for some reason).

I no longer have the patience to figure out what the problem is. Chrome works fine for me, for now.

I use IE9 primarily. I also use Firefox and Chrome from time to time. All the sites I go to look and work the same. Tell me why I'd care what browser I'm using nowadays?

Firefox is the only browser I've had crash on me in the last year...repeatedly. It is getting waaaay to clunky while trying to be cute. Fark 'em.

skinnycatullus: Every time I try to use Firefox (which used to be my default browser), it is so slow and annoying that I shut it down.

FF 3 was notorious for this. FF9 and 10 have given me few problems. Runs nice and slick. FF is *still* faster than IE, and you can load addons like NoScript.

I'll be sticking to FF for a while longer. Can Chrome run addons like Noscript? I should check...

xanadian: skinnycatullus: Every time I try to use Firefox (which used to be my default browser), it is so slow and annoying that I shut it down.

FF 3 was notorious for this. FF9 and 10 have given me few problems. Runs nice and slick. FF is *still* faster than IE, and you can load addons like NoScript.

I'll be sticking to FF for a while longer. Can Chrome run addons like Noscript? I should check...

I do get sick of all the updates though.

xanadian: FF is *still* faster than IE, and you can load addons like NoScript.

I'll never understand this. How is it "faster" for you? I have both, and have a rather fast business-DSL connection. I've never had any site (unless its poorly programmed or on a crappy server) load "slow".

Click on shortcut for totalfark.com/greenlit... boom, its up in a second. On any browser.

downstairs: I'll never understand this. How is it "faster" for you? I

Hey guys, what's the problem with the economy. I mean, I've got a trust fund but who cares if bread is one dollar or ten. I mean, I have more money.

In other words, your situation means you diddly and you shouldn't brag.

Firefox has been getting pretty bad recently. I switch to Chrome in the past year.

Firefox suffers because it's driven by engineers, not product managers that have a wider vision of use scenarios and skillsets on the spectrum of users. E.g. I grew tired of asking why ctrl-p/Print was removed for pop-up conext menus in frames. The answer I got was "people shoukd just know that ctrl-p means print". Usability fail.

I'm on bugzilla cc for bugs I filed OVER TEN YEARS ago that are still open.

There aren't enough adults working on guiding the product to be competitive. I'm now a chrome+adblock user and moved on. No one cares anymore. The war is over.

I finally tried chromium and surprisingly it does feel a little faster than Firefox, and lacks some Firefox glitches. I don't use Javascript and I don't care whether that part is faster. Option setting (once I found it the first time) is easier too.

I am worried about this part though:


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--- +chromium-12.0.742.122 -------------------
Your default datasize might not be enough for v8 so if you
experience the infamous "Aw, Snap!" error messages try to
raise your datasize limit to a higher value.
To set it to 715M you can do the following:

$ ulimit -d 716800

or modify /etc/login.conf.

And opening lots of tabs may necessitate higher fd limits,
crank that via ulimit/limits.

****

I hate resource hogs. My day job has me compressing microcode where we're counting words, not megabytes.

And this text entry thingee is annoying because it doesn't respect page up / page down. It has the "scrolls the opposite direction to the button you press" bug from Microsoft-land. That's where arrow and scroll keys don't adjust the viewing port, they adjust some location which may be off screen and then warp the viewport to that location. In firefox if I page down while in the text entry box, the text entry box pages down.

FishyFred: What happened at the end of last year that was so good for IE?

I wondered about that too. Did microsoft release a windows update for IE at that time? Updates sometimes magically revert default browsers to IE. I also noticed that, the same time of IE's spike, the other browsers dropped by the equivalent amount.

/anyone else got a better theory?

Was end of year when Microsoft released the IE6-killing autoupdate?

One more annoying thing about Chromium -- it grabs input focus when I don't want it to.

This is what happens when your lightweight alternative browser because as much of a bloated memory hog as the browser you were trying to replace.

//FF still has the best addons
//noscript ftw

I've got Chrome and FF installed on this comp. There is such a thing as too stripped down. That's Chrome.

FishyFred: What happened at the end of last year that was so good for IE?

A bunch of new computers for the holidays?

doyner: I do get sick of all the updates though.

SO MUCH THIS- I especially hate it when I hop on my computer to look something up and when I click on FF I get a "Please wait while firefox updates". Such BS. Oh yeah, then after it updates I get yet another popup about add-ons that may or may not work anymore. I'm using FF right now, but I am seriously thinking it's time for a change to Chrome.

Dinki: I get yet another popup about add-ons that may or may not work anymore

I do have to say, that is my least favorite part about FF.

doglover: downstairs: I'll never understand this. How is it "faster" for you? I

Hey guys, what's the problem with the economy. I mean, I've got a trust fund but who cares if bread is one dollar or ten. I mean, I have more money.

In other words, your situation means you diddly and you shouldn't brag.

That's about the most bizarre reply I've gotten to a comment about web browsers

skinnycatullus: Every time I try to use Firefox (which used to be my default browser), it is so slow and annoying that I shut it down. Then I open the task manager and shut down the process as well (because it keeps going for some reason).

I no longer have the patience to figure out what the problem is. Chrome works fine for me, for now.

Same here. Though I actually prefer Firefox in terms of everything else, the slowness was just killing it for me.

downstairs: doglover: downstairs: I'll never understand this. How is it "faster" for you? I

Hey guys, what's the problem with the economy. I mean, I've got a trust fund but who cares if bread is one dollar or ten. I mean, I have more money.

In other words, your situation means you diddly and you shouldn't brag.

That's about the most bizarre reply I've gotten to a comment about web browsers

Heh, now read it in Homer's overly sarcastic voice (Oooh, Lisa's too good for that camp etc. etc.).

I was biatching about FF being so damned slow (and crashes more than NASCAR) so my IT whiz cousin says "try Chrome" and I've been there since. No regrets.

I see that Adblock is available for Chrome, so I might have to give it a whirl.