EPTThere won't be annother "browser war", unless you want to slap this term onto anything because you like how it sounds.
Browser War Round II - Page 9
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soultwister
Poland80 Posts
There won't be annother "browser war", unless you want to slap this term onto anything because you like how it sounds. | ||
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soultwister
Poland80 Posts
On September 30 2010 07:40 FragKrag wrote: Just addressing, this security argument... http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Chrome-Proves-Un-Hackable-in-Pwn2Own-Competition-138672.shtml The article says Chrome was patched right before the competition, so no one even took a shot at it. It doesn't make for a fair point. | ||
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soultwister
Poland80 Posts
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hefty
Denmark555 Posts
On September 18 2010 15:24 SpiritoftheTunA wrote: Man, what's with this opera->other stuff shift? Opera for life, baby. Though realistically I use Opera, Firefox, and Chrome, in order of decreasing frequency. For me, it's because Opera doesn't let me use it anymore. One day it just startet claiming that another copy was already running for a different user - and wouldn't let me start it. Has been so ever since, and it doesn't even make sense as I have only one profile. | ||
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Subversion
South Africa3627 Posts
On September 18 2010 14:59 SonuvBob wrote: TL's numbers: Firefox: 51.94% Chrome: 25.72% Internet Explorer: 11.54% Safari: 6.29% Opera: 3.89% Chrome is growing pretty fast, or maybe just popular among the SC2 crowd. January (pre-beta) numbers: Firefox: 57.43% Internet Explorer: 17.29% Chrome: 14.68% Opera: 5.33% Safari: 4.56% those really low IE numbers just show that we're all nerds who know what we're doing when it comes to computers  also, im a chrome user | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
On September 30 2010 09:45 Subversion wrote: those really low IE numbers just show that we're all nerds who know what we're doing when it comes to computers also, im a chrome user Lol very low amount of people online know anything about what they are doing, they are just following recommendations from other users who basically got their info form the telephone game. | ||
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dybydx
Canada1764 Posts
On September 30 2010 08:01 soultwister wrote: Nobody is going to try doing what Microsoft did, no one even has the power or control to do it. And even if they did, they'd get sued so hard. There won't be annother "browser war", unless you want to slap this term onto anything because you like how it sounds. Microsoft wanted to have a monopoly, which was never Netscape or Firefox or Chrome's objective. Microsoft is known for their profit oriented business practices, often at the cost of screwing their business partners or customers. | ||
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Tdelamay
Canada548 Posts
What really convinced me to change browser was when I tried to watch a live stream back in Starcraft 2 beta. With Explorer 9, the page would stop responding and I had to force shut down the program with ctlr alt delete. It would do that every time. I tried firefox and it was just as bad if not worse. When I tried force shutting the page, it would not bulge at all. I had to shut down the computer to remove the firefox program. With Chrome, well, it worked :D | ||
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synapse
China13814 Posts
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dybydx
Canada1764 Posts
On September 30 2010 10:26 synapse wrote: IE9 is supposed to be "faster" than Chrome (according to some website)... load of buuuulll. Though they have given IE9 compatibility with a lot of new interwebs features there was some supposed claims about IE being faster than FF back then. it turns out that they did this by preloading IE as part of Windows just like any other startup programs you have running in the background. | ||
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vx70GTOJudgexv
United States3161 Posts
On September 30 2010 08:01 soultwister wrote: Nobody is going to try doing what Microsoft did, no one even has the power or control to do it. And even if they did, they'd get sued so hard. There won't be annother "browser war", unless you want to slap this term onto anything because you like how it sounds. I think it's more of a struggle between the remaining browsers as to who will gain IE's share of things. Once the support stops rolling, people are going to need a new browser, and something has to ship with the new computers. Personally, I've been using Chrome for a year now, and I have yet to find one thing that honestly bothers me. A few minor things bug me here and there (like not being able to change the links on my homepage to what I want, if I accidentally delete one), but other than that, I love it. | ||
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b3h47pte
United States1317 Posts
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synapse
China13814 Posts
On September 30 2010 10:58 vx70GTOJudgexv wrote: I think it's more of a struggle between the remaining browsers as to who will gain IE's share of things. Once the support stops rolling, people are going to need a new browser, and something has to ship with the new computers. Personally, I've been using Chrome for a year now, and I have yet to find one thing that honestly bothers me. A few minor things bug me here and there (like not being able to change the links on my homepage to what I want, if I accidentally delete one), but other than that, I love it. The ad blocking add-ons don't seem to work as well on Chrome... weird. I also wish there were more than 8 links when you open a new tab. (Though it means more time on TL, so... ) | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
On September 30 2010 10:52 dybydx wrote: there was some supposed claims about IE being faster than FF back then. it turns out that they did this by preloading IE as part of Windows just like any other startup programs you have running in the background. Well not the argument is benchmarks used to test the systems ususally only test Javascript and maybe one other thing. Which is not representative to how websites are designed. Few sites are largely javascript and quick javascript speed doesn't necessarily connote that it would fully show on screen faster. And So IE9 supposedly does this faster then any other browser. And so they made their own benchmarks which task a larger portion of everything basically. The only issue is that GPU acceleration quickly becomes the center piece of any of these test,which leads to people calling foul even though firefox gpu accelerated beta has very similar performance across those test - a few showing that the test do not really favor any browser, mainly because the browser actually has to render things now which usually involves images, even the ones that are not html5 such as the flying objects | ||
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ibutoss
Australia341 Posts
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semantics
10040 Posts
The only issue is updates Remember IE8 was considered competitive in speed all around compared to Firefox etc at the time of release. But then a few months after it started to show it's age. Same deal with compliance to standards as webstandards are fairly slow to actually become standards often spending years in draft and recommendations. So Microsoft needs to change the culture of only patching bugs and security holes with their tuesday updates. If they want IE9 to stay competitive past release date they need to update compatibility and performance along with closing security and bug problems. | ||
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soultwister
Poland80 Posts
On September 30 2010 13:04 synapse wrote: The ad blocking add-ons don't seem to work as well on Chrome... weird. I also wish there were more than 8 links when you open a new tab. (Though it means more time on TL, so... )It's because ALL of the adds on the internet are by Google, Chrome's existance is there to ensure you're seeing them IMHO. | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
http://caniuse.com Anyways interesting how official things and things people want conflict. | ||
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Clearout
Norway1060 Posts
On November 01 2010 08:32 semantics wrote: http://test.w3.org/html/tests/reporting/report.htm http://caniuse.com Anyways interesting how official things and things people want conflict. I like how Chrome is owning shit up in the summary of your second link. Makes me feel I've made a good choice | ||
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KinosJourney2
Sweden1811 Posts
I can't believe how people can like FireFox, i hate it so much. | ||
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