I wanted to try to use IE10 on my new Windows 8 upgrade, but it's looking less and less like that's a possibility. IE10 does seem to be correcting my simple spelling errors automatically, though, which is nice.

Anyway... Chrome's Omnibar is much better than IE10's. IE goes for a minimalist look, and while I will admit that I like all the straight lines and sharp corners, the functionality just seems off. Chrome's Omnibar is right below the tabs, so if I want to enter a new URL, I just have to go up and the bar is so long that I hit it before I hit the tabs. With IE, I have to go up and to the left. If I'm wanting to change tabs and enter a new URL in a tab that's already open I just have to go down in Chrome. In IE10 it's to the left, kind of annoying and isn't a quick natural reaction.

I use the refresh button quite a bit. I don't like how IE10 tucks it away in a very small space in the URL bar. I don't like how small that bar is in general. I don't like how cluttered the right side of it feels with the search icon (useless), compatibility view and refresh buttons stuck there. I at least need to see more of the URL to let me know where I am on a site if it isn't immediately apparent, usually whatever follows the .com/ is cut off.

The accelerators are confusing. I don't know what the fuck all of them do or why I should want any. From what I can tell, they add a context menu to right clicking highlighted text that allows you to search things. That's all fine and dandy, but the only thing I'm going to want to do is right click and search with Google (which you can set it to do) or highlight a URL that isn't clickable and have the browser open it - I don't see an accelerator for that. I don't want to add an eBay accelerator or an Amazon one or any other ones. It's all useless junk.

Tracking protection lists are OK. Webslices are more useless junk. Nothing to even say about them. Other add-ons are OK, but mostly useless junk. Well, I can't quite say that because there's no effective way to search for specific add-ons on the add-on site. You can view them by category, but beyond that there's no way to view all add-ons within a particular category. It's bullshit is what it is. If I click a category I can only filter them by 'Recommended', 'Most Popular', 'Most Recent', and 'By Type'. That would be OK if the categories defaulted to ALL and there was also a simple fucking god damn search function. I cannot tell you how angry that makes me. Why is there not a simple search button. If I want to see all the mother fucking add-ons for IE, I have to view ALL 861 of them across ALL categories and then sort through them one by fucking one, page by fucking page. It's bullshit. THEN, if I find one I want to take a closer look at and I end up not installing it, but opting to go back and continue looking, pressing the fucking back button resets me all the way back so I have to select 'All' again and then find what page I was on. What the fuck this was not acceptable in 2004 and damn sure not in 2012. This seriously boggles my fucking mind.

In Chrome, on the other hand, BOOM, I can search the add-ons so easily. I can find what I need in seconds.

IE10 also doesn't want to properly display some webpages. Imgur pictures and other pictures won't show up sometimes, it's 50/50, and it's not just an issue where I can reload or right click and tell it to click show picture and there they are, oh no. I have also found that it doesn't behave properly on some bank websites, for whatever reason. Specifically, ones where you can hover a circled question mark icon to get more info on a particular fee or charge or service. I found this out specifically on bank websites because I was looking to change banks and was researching a few of them, but I am assuming it will act this way across the board for sites that have that hoverable question mark icon. Sometimes it wouldn't display parts of the bank's site period (Ally Bank) without running in compatibility mode, and even then it wouldn't work properly. Chrome handles that fine, although Chrome does look butt ugly in the Metro interface or whatever it's supposed to be called now... but 90% of my time is spent in the desktop app anyway.

The only thing I do like about IE9 or 10 is the pinned sites. That's pretty sweet. You can pin websites' favicons to the taskbar and it's badass. On some websites, pinning them adds other functionality, too. Like if you were to pin Facebook or Outlook.com to the taskbar, the pinned icon would also act as a notifier, telling you when you got new messages or emails. I like that. I LIKE IT A LOT.

There's the whole speed thing too. Sure, Chrome is a bit snappier, but really there's not a whole hill of beans worth of difference between the two that I can see... so I don't care about that. Another big downside to IE is that there will be a bunch of customized website add-ons that you can't use... like the Reddit Enhancement Suite, for example. That sucks. Just like Microsoft sucks if they think this is acceptable.