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Priyatam · 05-09-2008, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by StarryKnight

And the best part with ie is that i dont NEED to install so many plugins to achieve the usefulness... there's a plugin called iepro and it satisfies all my needs.

I compared the speed of ff and ie8 and don't see any difference in the page load times.

I don't see why people have a certain kind of feeling that 'ok its from microsoft then it just sux'.... the lack of speed, security holes and the functionality loss were all of ie6 days... i know ie7 was not good enuff so i used ff. but ie8 b2 is the best yet imo better than ff and nothing is gonna change that.

Yea...IE 8 Beta 2 is good!

StarryKnight · 05-09-2008, 01:11 PM

Yes Priyatam... and its still beta.. the final product is gonna be awesome i'm sure. FINALLY microsoft has put out a competitive browser in this war....

smoothvibes · 06-09-2008, 05:11 AM

yaa IE 8 Beta is good browser and after a very long time microsoft is coming up with something good..
vista was a big problem and failure for microsoft on first go..

StarryKnight · 13-09-2008, 10:20 AM

and the latest news.... i've switched to ff again...

its just so light on the graphics memory. the pages look clean... once i installed all the addons (speacially greasemonkey) that give me the functionality of iepro i just can't look back to ie. microsoft has to redesign the rendering engine if it wants to make it better than ff.

smoothvibes · 14-09-2008, 02:34 AM

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Originally Posted by StarryKnight

and the latest news.... i've switched to ff again...

its just so light on the graphics memory. the pages look clean... once i installed all the addons (speacially greasemonkey) that give me the functionality of iepro i just can't look back to ie. microsoft has to redesign the rendering engine if it wants to make it better than ff.

try google chrome too that is also very light browser, i just installed it few mins back and loving it

StarryKnight · 14-09-2008, 02:41 AM

i did install chrome 2 days back... but was just turned off by the blue color and the googleupdate.exe process that kept running in the background (have 1.2 gigs of ram but hate to see processes run without my permission).... otherwise yes the browser is quite good. after all its google...

also u can't get a new tab with the double click shortcut on ff n ie... which i'm very much used to by now... so just stickin to ff for now... will give chrome another shot once the final comes out.

smoothvibes · 14-09-2008, 03:04 AM

ya i understand that googleupdate.exe starts up when you open chrome but thats a service which comes up even if you use google toolbar and there is nothing to worry about that service coz it never puts any load on your processor

StarryKnight · 15-09-2008, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by smoothvibes

ya i understand that googleupdate.exe starts up when you open chrome but thats a service which comes up even if you use google toolbar and there is nothing to worry about that service coz it never puts any load on your processor

Actually this process is there even if you restart your computer.... and keeps n running in the background.

The problem does not lie in processor or ram usage (at any time i've got 800mb free... using 1.2 gig on xp.. overkill

my last post)... its this behavior that i dislike... running in the background without the consent of the user, and if it does not use the processor then uselessly??

i do not use google or any toolbar.

I even stopped using adobe reader (that massive resource hog) because of its startup processes. started using foxit reader instead.

06-09-2008, 05:11 AM	#23
smoothvibes Moderator Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: New Delhi/ London Posts: 4,398 Rep Power: 6	yaa IE 8 Beta is good browser and after a very long time microsoft is coming up with something good.. vista was a big problem and failure for microsoft on first go.. __________________ ϯ Peace... May God Bless All The Victims Of 26-Nov-08.

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05-09-2008, 01:11 PM	#22
StarryKnight Gold Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Shuttling between Hell, New Delhi n Lucknow Age: 21 Posts: 713 Rep Power: 1	Yes Priyatam... and its still beta.. the final product is gonna be awesome i'm sure. FINALLY microsoft has put out a competitive browser in this war....

13-09-2008, 10:20 AM	#24
StarryKnight Gold Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Shuttling between Hell, New Delhi n Lucknow Age: 21 Posts: 713 Rep Power: 1	and the latest news.... i've switched to ff again... its just so light on the graphics memory. the pages look clean... once i installed all the addons (speacially greasemonkey) that give me the functionality of iepro i just can't look back to ie. microsoft has to redesign the rendering engine if it wants to make it better than ff.

14-09-2008, 02:41 AM	#26
StarryKnight Gold Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Shuttling between Hell, New Delhi n Lucknow Age: 21 Posts: 713 Rep Power: 1	i did install chrome 2 days back... but was just turned off by the blue color and the googleupdate.exe process that kept running in the background (have 1.2 gigs of ram but hate to see processes run without my permission).... otherwise yes the browser is quite good. after all its google... also u can't get a new tab with the double click shortcut on ff n ie... which i'm very much used to by now... so just stickin to ff for now... will give chrome another shot once the final comes out.

14-09-2008, 03:04 AM	#27
smoothvibes Moderator Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: New Delhi/ London Posts: 4,398 Rep Power: 6	ya i understand that googleupdate.exe starts up when you open chrome but thats a service which comes up even if you use google toolbar and there is nothing to worry about that service coz it never puts any load on your processor