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Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Released

kodlan

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If you have nothing constructive to say don't post. Consider this a warning.
Okay. I was just trying to tell my point of view, maybe I haven't done that properly.
 
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Well I ask my self, why I should convince so unsophisticated people that can't see what crap they are using and what other better posibilities exist?


Thats my choice if i use IE. Why is it so hard to comprehend that there are ppl who actually like IE. I realise there are otha options but as IE works fine for me i see reason to change.
 

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Why is it so hard to comprehend that there are ppl who actually like IE.
Well that's hard to undertand for me how can you like that =)
 

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That's the same thing that is said that ordinarry people use only 5% of their brain power. Well most people don't use their brain at all. You don't need much brain to eat and watch TV.
That wasn't offence for you personally. It's general idea..

i am not trying to convince you that IE is better than firefox. i am trying to tell you that for me, personally, IE is the better choice.
 
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Well that's hard to undertand for me how can you like that =)

In my point of view it's hard to understand why you like FF. I try it. Some times it is faster than IE, some times it open web sites better than IE and you need add-ons the size of the FF itself to make it work the way you want. In fact after i install FF3 i went on a day long hunt for add-ons so I can customize it to be as close as possible to the browser I am using (Maxthon2) and in the end some major functions can't be added to FF3. I know that Maxthon is basically a shell for IE, so what? It is way more functional and customizable then FF. The only down site I've seen is that the add-on page is crappy.

I really don't care which browser you are using, but I'm really pissed off by ppl like you.
 

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I'm not only use FF. FF mainly at work, at home I use Opera. The only thing I try to tell is that there plenty of other option instead of crappy IE...
 

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I'm not only use FF. FF mainly at work, at home I use Opera. The only thing I try to tell is that there plenty of other option instead of crappy IE...

Please make posts constructviely opinion based. IE is crappy in your opinion. but for some of us here (me included) we prefer IE to the other browsers available, so for us, its not crappy.

:toast:
 

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Tell me what browser you're using and I'll tell who you are. ;)
 

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http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9219&Itemid=38
Needs double Firefox's system memory

Internet Explorer 8 needs more than double the system memory of its main rival Firefox, and spawns nearly six times the number of processor threads.

Craig Barth, chief technology officer at Devil Mountain Software, a Florida-based maker of PC performance testing software, said that the Beta 2 version of IE8 consumes 52 per cent more memory than its predecessor, IE7, and uses almost three times as many threads.

He said that IE8 was more bloated than a three week corpse of a hippopotamus that had eaten Texas. Barth tested IE8 Beta 2, IE7 and Firefox 3.0.1 in a 10-site scenario that involved media-rich domains such as boston.com, channel9.com, cnet.com, infoworld.com, nytimes.com and others.

IE8 Beta 2 had grabbed 380MB of memory on the 2GB-equipped system running Windows Vista, while IE7 accounted for 250GB and Firefox 3.0.1, the most-recent version of the open-source browser, had taken 159MB. The browser did a little better when run under Windows XP, each browser consumed slightly less memory than in Vista; IE8 Beta 2, but not by much.

Barth points out that IE8 takes as much memory as Windows XP. He had the impression that he browser had been designed for those with multi-core systems rather than legacy systems with just one core.
 

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Wow, IE7 used 250GB. :eek:

shame its fud , anyone done their own testing?
 
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Well on my pc,ie8 is using about 33mb with one tab open.



All i need from a browser is the ablility to browse,nothing more.I do use the net a lot but ie is fine for that,i dont need add ons on my browser.Remember the k.i.s.s rule-keep it simple stupid.
 

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Does anyone know of a standalone way to run this yet? I want to try it out, but dont want to install it, if that makes sense.
 
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