IE vs. ff

[YoYoYo]

I would just like everyone to know that his statements are not fact but his oppinions, I have outlined these in red.

It is infact true, look at people advanced statistics if they have one, it'll show browsers viewed. I bet you, the majority of site, the top browser will be IE.

 

[MiloFoxburr]

It is infact true, look at people advanced statistics if they have one, it'll show browsers viewed. I bet you, the majority of site, the top browser will be IE.

Because its packaged with the os people normally use whats there if they dont know of the alternatives

 

[Far]

IE looks cleaner than FF which i like, dont like bar upon bar at the top tbh.
Tabbed feature is good on FF which i really like.
Popup feature on FF is good
activex on IE is good
Sometimes FF deletes my favourites for no reason which i hate
I usually get popups on IE which is annoying
.

All in all, i think FF for teh win, only just because of the tabbed feature.

 

[LeoCrasher]

IE with tabbed browsing, activex, popupblocker and god knows what else:

:P
/Leo

 

[Ragnar]

IE with tabbed browsing, activex, popupblocker and god knows what else:

:P
/Leo

Tht aint IE tho :P

 

[YoYoYo]

Tht aint IE tho :P

It uses the same engine thou.

 

[Far]

with add-on upon add-on lol. may add tabbed feature to IE to see if its any good. but i think ill keep using FF on this pc.

 

[Martyn]

isnt firefox ment to be faster or summit? leo?

where ya download that? and is it faster? or not any difference?

 

[thebigguy]

firefox all the way stops most/all adware and spyware and get less crap on pc because off it

 

[LeoCrasher]

@Martyn:
The IE and Mozilla engines have different ways of rendering pages. I prefer IE's way, but Gecko's is more configurable. Default settings, I can read things on a page using the IE engine faster than they appear using Gecko. However, in Gecko I could change the time things appear etc so it could be faster. You have to actually know what your doing though, and I don't really.

Maxthon doesn't seem to be any faster than either of them, its just convienance. Its a hell of a memory hog though ^^, especially when many tabs are open. http://www.maxthon.com/

/Leo

 

[Ash]

I prefer to use IE. but i have both on comp. Not sure why but IE seems better for browsing, like on lomcn, if you use the glow font you can see it how it should be seen, where as with FireFox you only see it in white

 

[Martyn]

@Martyn:
The IE and Mozilla engines have different ways of rendering pages. I prefer IE's way, but Gecko's is more configurable. Default settings, I can read things on a page using the IE engine faster than they appear using Gecko. However, in Gecko I could change the time things appear etc so it could be faster. You have to actually know what your doing though, and I don't really.

Maxthon doesn't seem to be any faster than either of them, its just convienance. Its a hell of a memory hog though ^^, especially when many tabs are open. http://www.maxthon.com/

/Leo

not really good then, which one is best for not taking up as much CPU/RAM?

 

[Ash]

Hmm tht is one main thing with IE, it seems to uses alot of my CPU/RAM. not sure if is just me or it happens with every1 as well. But i still prefer IE :P

 

[Martyn]

Hmm tht is one main thing with IE, it seems to uses alot of my CPU/RAM. not sure if is just me or it happens with every1 as well. But i still prefer IE :P

well it doesnt use much for me.. o.0 how much it use for you?? i'd rather have a web browser that uses less rescourses

 

[Ash]

wen i open Windows task manager, mir uses around 40,00o - 50,000 k of memory, IE uses around 20,000k, which i think is a bit much for wat it does. FireFox uses around 10k, which i think is ok. But i only hav 224 MB RAM on this comp, so tht could be why.

 

[Martyn]

wen i open Windows task manager, mir uses around 40,00o - 50,000 k of memory, IE uses around 20,000k, which i think is a bit much for wat it does. FireFox uses around 10k, which i think is ok. But i only hav 224 MB RAM on this comp, so tht could be why.

ermm you know it go's up more if you have more IE open??

 

[Ash]

ye, i only hav 1 open usually. only hav more than 1 if i wish to view differnet pages at the same time :P

 

[LeoCrasher]

I tested Maxthon and firefox for mem usage. Both have eBay and this page open.
Firefox: 26.07mb RAM, 16.82mb VM
Maxthon: 23.62mb RAM, 25.81mb VM

So not that much difference. However I've had Maxthon open for this session for days ... cos I hibernate rather than restart. Also have to consider a lot of IE's memory storage is distributed through different processes.

/Leo

 

[Ash]

hmm, i see, may have a try with that maxthon one, see how it goes

 

[Martyn]

hmm, i see, may have a try with that maxthon one, see how it goes

hmm yer i might have ago. what other internet service options are there? there must be mainly one for gaming, low resources n stuff...

@ash
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