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[–]TheCodexx 24 points25 points ago

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Worth noting that Firefox will use a massive amount of memory for a few tabs, but it scales better. Chrome will use a ton of memory if you open a ton of tabs.

[–]I_work_too_much 3 points4 points ago

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This. I learned the hard way when it had consumed 3GB on my laptop...which has 4GB and is running 32-bit XP.

[–]TheCodexx 6 points7 points ago

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Yeah. Firefox will hover around 1 GB from opening until it's full of tabs. Chrome will continually scale per tab.

[–]otakucode 1 point2 points ago

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Chrome doesn't have vertical tabs, guaranteeing that you CAN'T open very many tabs without the whole browser becoming an unusable mess of shit.

[–]Dfube 2 points3 points ago

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I see a lot of people saying this but I can't say I've ever seen this. I usually have 2 windows of Chrome opened with ~20-30 tabs each(Don't ask) and I have never had it lag, crash or even act weird. Also closing those tabs one at a time is insanely quick.

[–]PotataChipz 1 point2 points ago

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I like to be able to read the titles of my tabs.

[–]Dfube 0 points1 point ago

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Chrome has an extension called Tab Glutton, it gives you a drop down of all your tabs and even has a search function!

[–]otakucode 0 points1 point ago

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Never seen what? Never seen that when you look at the tab bar in Chrome with 20 tabs open, you can't even see the first letter of each tab, let alone the pages actual title?

[–]Dfube 0 points1 point ago

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That has nothing to do with it being usable. If you cant see the names of the tabs any more get "Tab Glutton." It's an extension that has a drop down with a nice well formatted list of all your opened tab, it even has a search feature.

[–]BoredValet 96 points97 points ago

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I read conversation between Bowsers, thoroughly disappointed.

[–]cdelis 12 points13 points ago

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I was hoping for bowsers too!!

[–]AButtTuba 6 points7 points ago

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[–]Sheeeeeit 1 point2 points ago

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Your effort is appreciated.

[–]AButtTuba 0 points1 point ago

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I really do try my best.

[–]cybin 0 points1 point ago

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[–]misterpickles69 4 points5 points ago

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No one remembers Sha-Na-Na. They played Woodstock for god sake! Here's your upvote.

[–]cybin 1 point2 points ago

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Aw thanks... Honestly I wasn't expecting such negativity for Bowzer!

[–]Oh_Fishsticks 0 points1 point ago

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It is now?

[–]IE6_IS_SUPERIOR 171 points172 points ago

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I don't get it...

[–]celestialwolf 42 points43 points ago

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Man, I used to have a job that only had IE6 installed. I wanted to slit my wrists every time I used it.

[–]Le_Petit_Lapin 17 points18 points ago

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Cant you like, run another browser off a USB stick?

[–]moosemanca 16 points17 points ago

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That is often against IT policies.

[–]Le_Petit_Lapin 36 points37 points ago

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Oh of course, I should have thought of that.

...then again, IE6 should really be against most IT Policies too :P

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[–]cornfetish 1 point2 points ago

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Use Opera to mask or identify as IE. Works every time.

[–]velkyr 1 point2 points ago

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Any competent IT department would lobby management to install proper browsers. If their portal only works in IE6, then run firefox with IE Tabs.

[–]mnemoniker 0 points1 point ago

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IE is because of group policies. But IE6 is probably because of fear of change.

[–]MrFugu57 6 points7 points ago

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Yeah all my school has is IE 6 and some old firefox (not sure which) I run chrome off a flash drive every day.

[–]PinkySlayer 1 point2 points ago

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how does that work? wouldn't you have to install firefox on the computer anyway? or are you able to just put your flash in the port and click on firefox and it opens up a browser window? sorry im super fuckin computer illiterate compared to most redditors

[–]toiletseatsupman 3 points4 points ago

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When you're installing Chrome, you choose the flash drive as your install disk, then you can just open it and it will run from the drive, just like if that drive were a hard disk on the computer.

[–]MrFugu57 1 point2 points ago

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Ok so when you install something on your computer, the files are in the hard drive. A flash drive is just a smaller version of that. So if you install a program to the flash drive, then program can be run on whatever machine you use (although the speeds aren't always the best).

[–]celestialwolf 2 points3 points ago

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We couldn't even have cell phones on the floor, let alone a flash drive. That would have got me terminated for sure. Otherwise, yes you can.

[–]elebrin 1 point2 points ago

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Sadly you have to do that to make sure your IP or customer data doesn't walk out the door.

[–]Le_Petit_Lapin 0 points1 point ago

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I think I've just discovered what I'm going to fill my 50GB Box account with! :D

[–]celestialwolf 0 points1 point ago

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Oh, and every site that wasn't work-related (yes, including Google) was blocked. So glad I'm not there anymore.

[–]FalconOne 4 points5 points ago

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You know what I also hate about IT... Mcafee...

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[–]FalconOne 1 point2 points ago

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What would make McAfee easier on computer users with it, setting scan priority down a notch.

I work in a NOC for an ISP, nothing like trying to handle a major outage when McAfee decides to do its scan and slows my computer to a crawl, so many customers just had an outage last 30 minutes longer than it should have, because McAfee.

IT should really look into testing the new versions of Norton, it does most of its system scans using only idle time, the moment the user starts doing something, it either stops, or scans with very low priority. even better, it can be configured to do its major scan when the computer is locked, so, when I go on my 15 minute break, why not do it then...

[–]alexgbelov 0 points1 point ago

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Wait, since when is google's spam blocker shit? Or am I not getting something here?

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[–]alexgbelov 0 points1 point ago

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Oh, thank you for clearing that up for me. As for the last part, do you mean that you called tech support, and then had to wait months for it to be addressed?

[–]a3b2c1 2 points3 points ago

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IE 7 on USB-disabled work computer here. To make it better, this computer is lower-spec'd than the one it replaced, but is 3 years newer. :(

[–]Thryck 0 points1 point ago

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How'd they manage to do that? Or rather, why would they do that?

[–]a3b2c1 0 points1 point ago

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psyik has it right. Government computers are locked down pretty hard. I can download stuff to use on off-line computers, but the slightest deviation from standard installations on a network computer (or even plugging in a non-locked down external storage device) will get my account locked out and disciplinary actions will be taken. Given that almost everything that I do at work requires CAC access for login, losing my account would be devastating to my productivity.

As far as the new computer being worse than the old one, it was replaced due to a contract time line, not really because it was horrible. 200mhz slower processor, 1GB less RAM, and VGA instead of DVI video are the major differences. It doesn't affect my day to day work, but does bother me in the context of "waste, fraud and abuse."

[–]Binxstar 1 point2 points ago

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Right now I have this job.

[–]kscannon 1 point2 points ago

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my job just upgraded to IE7 a month or so ago. in a 3 hour shift it will crash at least 3 times

[–]f0ckthesystem 1 point2 points ago

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I use IE6 every day at work. I come home and cry for a good 15 minutes after work...

[–]celestialwolf 0 points1 point ago

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[–]Internet-Explorer6 1 point2 points ago

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You and me both, buddy.

[–]jcmc2112 1 point2 points ago

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"redditor for 15 days"

This checks out.

[–]sp00nix 0 points1 point ago

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Keep trying

[–]raffytraffy 0 points1 point ago

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redditor for 16 days, waiting for the perfect moment.

[–]mdrndgtl 46 points47 points ago

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Have you used IE9?

[–]i_love_segfaults 25 points26 points ago

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Seriously, why are people still complaining about IE now?

I used to whine about IE refusing to be standards compliant, but IE9 is just fine!

[–][deleted] 18 points19 points ago

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I'm a web developer and I still dislike IE9. It may comply to some standards but it still has quirky behaviour, requires extra work and a bunch of other nasty things.

Opera, Chrome and Firefox tend to place nice.

Safari is a bitch at times too.

[–]anpiscin1ui 0 points1 point ago

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I also dislike IE9 as a dev because in 4 years, every chrome user will be on chrome 77.3 or whatever, and most firefox users will have been auto updated as well, but there will still be tons of IE9 users. At some point every new IE version becomes the new IE6, just like IE7 is now. Right now IE9 is OK enough to be not a major problem, but the day will come when we are all cursing at it and charging 30% extra to support it as well.

Also, the developer tools in iE9 are dire compared to the webkit console and firebug. They are limited in functionality and annoying to use especially for debugging JS. Where webkit inspector shows you a whole object and all its properties as an expandable tree, IE9 shows you the name of the object and the toString of each property... what's the point?

[–]brolix 1 point2 points ago

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Also, the developer tools in iE9 are dire compared to the webkit console and firebug.

At least they are smart enough to let you easily switch between 7/8/9/9compat lol. pretty much the only redeeming quality I can think of for the dev tools.

And that said, Firebug for Chrome is awful compared to the FF version.

[–]dxprog 0 points1 point ago

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No need for Firebug for Chrome when the webkit inspector already kicks much ass (more than Firebug, imo).

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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I admit the improvements in IE9 are great, but I agree with you that it will definitely remain for longer than necessary and that is the real problem.

[–]WiglyWorm 4 points5 points ago

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Spoken like a non-web developer.

IE10 should be good. IE 9 is "getting there". At best.

[–]madsonm 4 points5 points ago

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This guy.

I would even go as far as saying that I wouldn't trust IE10 off the bat given Microsoft's track record. Fool me once, shame on you...fool me 9 times, shame on me.

[–]rarkai 0 points1 point ago

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It's not just fine. It's still missing lots of standards and is still not divorced from the system, so again we have rot because people don't upgrade their OS until they get a new machine.

[–]robywar 0 points1 point ago

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I haven't got it on my work computer, how does it do on the acid tests?

[–]tyros 95 points96 points ago*

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IE9 is way faster than firefox. The only reason I'm using firefox is because of Adblock Plus. Browsing without it is intolerable for me.

[–]mik3 5 points6 points ago

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Also, as someone who uses firefox/opera concurrently ( i have about 30 tabs open in firefox and 4 windows of around 90 tabs in opera), opera runs MUCH much much much smoother when there are assloads of tabs open. The only reason i use firefox is for the vast amounts of plugins it has, but for general browsing i would choose opera.

[–]floppypick 2 points3 points ago

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Is opera actually any good? I almost always have a ton of tabs open, so if it can handle that well, I think it might be worth my time trying it.

[–]Nikoli_Delphinki 2 points3 points ago

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Yes, quite good. My linked post will explain some features I love.

[–]kapherine 0 points1 point ago

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What are you doing that needs 30 tabs or more open?

[–]Batolemaeus 0 points1 point ago

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Reddit, I'd assume.

[–]SrsSteel 59 points60 points ago

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Ie9 has a startup that rivals chromes.

[–][deleted] 33 points34 points ago

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I think you saying something good about IE broke reddit.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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Apparently we get some kind of asylum here? I said IE9 was actually pretty fast the other day and ended up at -30 in an hour by a bunch of people who had apparently never used it. I'm still on firefox due to some dependence on a few extensions, but IE9 is a huge step forward for MS.

[–]brolix 1 point2 points ago

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but IE9 is a huge step forward for MS.

Incredibly true, but that's like saying you built a much better car than a Geo Metro... not all that difficult.

Hell just rendering CSS more or less properly in IE8 instead of just making shit up as they went like in IE7 is a huge step forward. Fuck IE7, it STILL haunts me as a developer.

[–]nikomo 0 points1 point ago

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You can't really rival something that's already running on the system, unless IE9 also does that.

[–]SrsSteel 10 points11 points ago

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I HAVE -1 DOWNVOTES :| and what do you mean?

[–]nikomo 7 points8 points ago

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Chrome runs in the background all the time, so when you open up Chrome, it just spawns a child process and gives you a window instantly.

[–]bastardshiv 0 points1 point ago

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-1 downvotes = 1 upvote

[–]MidnightTurdBurglar -3 points-2 points ago

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Likely an unfair claim as libraries used for IE are probably already loaded by Windows.

[–]lucas42 23 points24 points ago

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I don't understand, are you saying it should have to work faster in non-windows environments to be pertinent? If preloading is a working method that Microsoft can utilize thanks to the home field advantage, why is that unfair?

[–]ninepointsix 4 points5 points ago

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not an unfair claim. Maybe if it was just relating to start speed (but then firefox is free to load with boot and not display if it wanted) it'd be a bit unfair but in general speed, IE9 is quicker than the latest firefox iteration. XUL is dated and slow, and the IE9 engine is tightly integrated with DirectX technologies to make everything pretty snappy. It's nearly on par with chrome for features in IE10 too.

Unfortunately they don't have the same rapid release schedule as chrome (a real plus IMO) and doesn't have such a great extension culture.

Firefox is good, but it can't keep up with Microsoft/Google when they're in full force.

[–]MidnightTurdBurglar 0 points1 point ago

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I assumed the OP was referring to startup speed. The top reply to OP about startup speed probably threw me off.

[–]scartinator 1 point2 points ago

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As are ones used by Firefox.

[–]wackywiener 22 points23 points ago

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I'm pretty sure firefox is the slowest start. Firefox is cool if you like gadgets but it's way weighed down. My preference? Chrome. Sure it slows with more tabs than opera but who uses 40 fucking tabs. Other than that it's fucking lightning.

[–]douglasg14b 5 points6 points ago

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You might croak if you saw my browser windows..... I open several windows to accomidate all my tabs.

Never knew chrome used 9gigs of RAM.....wtf

[–]St0n3aH0LiC 1 point2 points ago

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Yeah I definitely average around 150+ tabs open at once (and surprisingly only about 15 are actually reddit).

[–]brolix 0 points1 point ago

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what in the...how...I don't even...

?!

[–]St0n3aH0LiC 2 points3 points ago

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Haha, I don't have the habit of closing tabs. I'll open up a new window for a project, open up like 10 tabs, then open up facebook and reddit, then open more tabs for the project, followed by more for facebook and reddit, etc... Then I don't close that window later because I know I should do the project eventually, and it snowballs from there..

[–]PotataChipz 0 points1 point ago

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This is also what happens to me. Eventually I will just save the session ("I'll open this and finish this project later") and close everything. I have yet to ever reopen a session.

[–]mrpeach32 14 points15 points ago*

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I used to think I would never need 40 tabs, then I discovered tvtropes.

[–]wackywiener 7 points8 points ago

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What? What the shit is that site about?

[–]Batolemaeus 2 points3 points ago

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[–]wackywiener 0 points1 point ago

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Me no likey.

[–]Gaarulf 3 points4 points ago

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Seriously, this link is really horrible. I always know I should not click it, but here I am again after an hour of reading and still 40 tabs yet to read...

[–]EpilogueTime 2 points3 points ago

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Thanks, now I won't do anything for the next five hours.

[–]SimpleDesign 0 points1 point ago

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I think you accidentally a http.

[–]mrpeach32 2 points3 points ago

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Yeah it was surprisingly difficult for me to get that to work (I was doing it by hand so I wouldn't have two black holes open at once. Reddit and TV Tropes while I'm at work is probably like crossing the streams in Ghostbusters.)

[–]Le_Petit_Lapin 1 point2 points ago

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Of course it starts up faster, it runs in the background does it not? :P

[–]otakucode 1 point2 points ago

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I use 40 fucking tabs.

And for the retards that are so intellectually unengaged with the world that they only need 1 or 2 tabs, sure, Chrome is great. But when they got rid of vertical tab support, they signed their death warrant. Nobody who spends time on the Internet doing more than Facebook and using ChatRoulette to watch dudes jack off would touch Chrome with a ten foot pole.

[–]wackywiener 0 points1 point ago

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That was... dramatic. I use the web for a lot of shit and I get a maximum of like 20 tabs. Using multiple screens if I'm doing research maybe 40 tabs in multiple windows. But 40 tabs in one window isn't even navigable.

[–]otakucode 1 point2 points ago

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It's extremely navigable in every single browser with vertical side tabs. It's only impossible to manage in the one browser that tore the functionality out, Chrome. They know, and admit, that their browser makes navigation of many tabs difficult. And they claim to be toying with different ideas of setting up the navigation, but at a very low priority.

In the bug tracking thread, I asked the developers what their 'recommended' means of browsing was, because I honestly can't figure out how Chrome is meant to be used, aside from the trite 'Facebook in one tab, email in the other' use scenario it seems to be optimized for. If I open up Reddit, and I see 8 stories that interest me... clearly opening them in 8 separate tabs would be unusable, I'd never be able to tell which tab I was switching to next as the width of the tabs would be tiny. So... what options are there? Some people mentioned opening multiple windows, which is just inane. Then you have to remember which window you opened a given page in, and you only buy yourself another 10 usable tabs or so. So, click on the first story that interests me, leaving Reddit, and after finishing reading that one, I should go back and hope the other stories are still there? And if I happened across a few interesting links on the first story, I just need to ignore them or maybe come back to them later, assuming I can ever find that story again, or remember what links were where?

Especially with something like the TabTree extension in Firefox, tabs opened from one page simply expand down from the page they are opened from. Pages stay grouped easily. You click on the Reddit tabgroup and all the pages you opened from Reddit (and their subpages) are right there in the tree. You can easily switch back and forth between topics, not having to remember or backtrack or anything. But Google has so much scorn for this browsing style that they actually risked introducing bugs in their application by having a developer go in and tear their basic vertical tabs functionality out.

They got 200+ comments on the bug thread begging for vertical tabs to be restored (they were never even a visible feature - you had to find out how to enable them by setting instance variables in the advanced settings page) and just closed down the comments thread to try to get people to go away. People still keep re-creating the thread though, amazed that Chrome would get rid of this extremely basic and entirely necessary functionality. They say they don't like the solution of vertical tabs, so out they go.

Right now I have 5 tabs open in this window (one of 3) at work. They're on a horizontal tab bar. And already their functionality is crap. I have Newegg tab open and I get to see "Newegg.com - Computer ...". Oh how helpful. What the fuck is in that tab? I can't tell from the user interface because I have the audacity to have 4 other pages open. God help me if I had 10. If those tabs were on the left hand side of my nice wide-ass screen (which is wasting about 4 solid inches of screen real estate over to the right of my messages page) I'd know if that were the hard drives category or maybe system fans or something like that. And I'd have room for 50 more tabs or so before I ever even had to THINK about not being able to see everything I have open at a single glance.

[–]pascontent 67 points68 points ago

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Pretty sure Opera beats the rest in terms of stability over the number of tabs opened.

[–]Batolemaeus 54 points55 points ago

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Opera also beats them in tab management with the ability to organize and keep open dozens of tabs at once, especially ever since Firefox went insane in a misguided attempt to imitate chrome.

[–]erveek 26 points27 points ago

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Opera is fast and extremely stable. Until Flash.

[–]robywar 1 point2 points ago

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I use the alpha version of 12 at home, and until a couple of recent patches it would completely crap out on youtube videos. The video would be frozen, but audio would continue to play. If I minimized the browser, the video image would remain on my desktop until I killed the process.

It's doing fine now though.

[–]ravi86 2 points3 points ago

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It's an alpha

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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If I uninstall flash Opera becomes godlike. Incompatibly stable.

When I install Flash on Ubuntu, it becomes shit. Just pure shit.

I hate Flash and I am glad Linux support is being pulled.

[–]jamstight 1 point2 points ago

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As someone who is not very in the know about stuff, why do you hate flash? Is it something that it does that I can't even notice but without I would be much happier? Or is it something that only effects those who are really into computers and stuff?

[–]opieself 0 points1 point ago

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Flash can be very unstable especially in the Linux world. And from an IT stand point it represents one of the largest headaches/security risks on a computer (Java takes the cake on that one). Also Adobe loves to bloat its software.

[–]brolix 0 points1 point ago

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Flash is INCREDIBLY slow and resource intensive. But like the pdf format, it somehow became the standard despite being terrible.

[–]jamstight 0 points1 point ago

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Oh shit...what's wrong with pdf's?

[–]erveek 0 points1 point ago

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The official reader.

[–]dorekk 1 point2 points ago

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Fuck Flash. HTML5 Youtube for life.

[–]Batolemaeus 0 points1 point ago

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That's what I use Chrome for. It's the only reason why I have chrome on my pc.

[–]graffiti81 0 points1 point ago

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I have it so I can play angry birds on my pc. That's the only reason.

[–]zeCrazyEye 0 points1 point ago

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Could just need video acceleration disabled in Flash settings, and/or update video card drivers.

[–]ninoffmaniak 10 points11 points ago

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up to 170 tabs open with 1080p streams 1 h long youtubes, 13h long sc2 twitchtv tournaments and will check comments on this reddit post after x 100 all stable and under 2 gb memory

[–]Circuitfire 8 points9 points ago

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Porn Browser of Choice

[–]celestialwolf 2 points3 points ago

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I've only ever used Chrome and FF to open a large amount of Tabs; FF did the best at it IMHO (but I always install the Tree Style Tab add-on to keep the 60+ tabs manageable).

[–]Le_Petit_Lapin -1 points0 points ago

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Sucks when you want some of those sexy addons/extentions though. :(

I think I would use Opera otherwise.

[–]DivineDevil 13 points14 points ago

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Opera has addons/extentions...

[–]Le_Petit_Lapin 5 points6 points ago

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Oh I know, sure, I wasn't implying it doesn't. Its just doesn't have some that I find essential.

SALR, Https Everywhere, Custom Referrer (by website)

There's another that I use at home, that I don't have here in work, but damned if I can remember what it is! I know I miss it when its not there, and I should imagine its something related to gaming if its on the Home PC :P

Yeah, non-utterly essential, but greatly missed. :(

[–]Batolemaeus 1 point2 points ago

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[–]pascontent 1 point2 points ago

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Opera has extensions too! I just never had a use for any, except the Reddit and Facebook widgets on the speed dial!

[–]Le_Petit_Lapin 1 point2 points ago

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Yeah, I know, unfortunately try using Something awful without SALR, after having used it, and there's just no making do without anymore! :(

[–]pascontent 0 points1 point ago

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Not very familiar with SA but if it's like browsing Reddit without RES, I totally understand. Poor thing!

[–]MathBuster 4 points5 points ago

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Hm. Internet Exporer 9 is actually one of the faster browsers nowadays; it's pretty closely tied to Chrome, and definitely faster than Firefox.

Maybe it still has reliability issues, but I think hitting on IE because it's slow isn't really fair anymore.

[–]poeticsxpolitics 3 points4 points ago

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no love for netscape navigator?

[–]starlinguk 2 points3 points ago

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Isn't Firefox based on Netscape?

I remember changing from Lynx to Netscape. Pictures! Awesome.

[–]otakucode 1 point2 points ago

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Pfft, I'm sure you meant you changed from Lynx to NCSA Mosaic. Netscape came much later.

Gopher still rules.

[–]starlinguk 0 points1 point ago

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THAT's the one! Sorry, my brain's not what it used to be.

:creaks pathetically:

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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I came here to say that. I had a Windows 3.11 with Netscape. Pretty sure it was before Microsoft copied it and called it Internet Explorer.

[–]graffiti81 3 points4 points ago

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Say whatever you want about opera, but if I open five tabs in firefox, it takes up about 200k memory. Same pages in opera take about 80k.

[–]lamb3rt 8 points9 points ago

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I honestly have no idea why people complain about ie. Ive used firefox, ie, and chrome, and have the most issues with firefox. Its slow and freezes a lot.

[–]halmut 5 points6 points ago

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IE used to have a lot of problems and people have trouble forgetting that. I like IE9 but I use chrome for most of my browsing mostly because it's what I'm used to right now. I keep all the major browsers updated and try to compare them on an even playing field. They all have flaws and features and the deciding factor at this point is mostly a style preference.

[–]exteras 7 points8 points ago

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[–]EvilSpunge23 7 points8 points ago

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I like how "uninstalling" apparently means "move the shortcut to the recycle bin.

[–]Le_Petit_Lapin 5 points6 points ago

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Man, its like dodging bullets in here with the fanboys! :P

[–]yoboozer 6 points7 points ago

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[–]AwesomeKing5000 15 points16 points ago

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lol.. Opera wins, by far the best browser ever, and the nicest gui and search functions

[–]Nikoli_Delphinki 14 points15 points ago

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I used to be a big FF fan about 4 years ago or so before trying out Opera...and here I am still using it.

Chrome and Opera address stability differently from my experiences, mostly if Opera fails it gives you the option to reopen your previous session where as Chrome runs each tab as a separate process (though it clutters up task manager, it is an interesting solution).

My favorite feature by far has to do with mouse gestures. Mouse gestures let you issue a range of browsing commands with just your mouse if you don't feel like fussing about with anything else. Particularly my favorite bit is back and predictive forward. By holding the right mouse button then clicking the left mouse button it takes me back a page. If I do the opposite (hold left, click right) it will take me to the next page. This is amazing for browsing forums, blogs, news articles etc. However, it doesn't work for every site.

The search functions are pretty nice on the whole. g + <text> in URL field gets you a google search, b for bing, and so on. In college I worked it out that IM did a google image search for a parameter and for work I did something similar for all the bloody tools we have available.

Last but not least, Speed Dial. Chrome does something similar in imitation to Opera, but instead of using your most frequented sites it just lists ones you choose to have there. I have probably 30 references(?) on my speed dial and it is pretty damn nice.


TL;DR: Opera is a great browser with a lot of features, that while small, make the browsing and productivity experience wonderful.

[–]AwesomeKing5000 2 points3 points ago*

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Predictive forward, sweet trick dude! I only knew about the <hold right and scroll> to switch tabs.

[–]robywar 2 points3 points ago

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Fast-forward is great for numbered picture galleries.

[–]Gaarulf 2 points3 points ago

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Can't live without mousegestures. I've set mine up like this:

Right mousebutton + slide to right = close the current tab and go to the next one to the left.

Right mousebutton + slide to left = go to next tab, I really hate it when I don't have it set up on other browsers etc.

[–]dirtypancake 1 point2 points ago

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g + < text > in URL field gets you a google search

This feature is supported by several browsers. Chrome can do this as can Safari (with Safari omnibar) as well as more niche browsers like uzbl and luakit. All of which support customisable search engines.

[–]Batolemaeus 0 points1 point ago

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And guess where that feature (any many others) originated from.

Opera users are essentially browser hipsters.

[–]Le_Petit_Lapin 2 points3 points ago

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about:memory

Google Chrome 18.0.1025.152 | Memory Private: 647,500k

Anyone want to tell me why Chrome absolutely loves to hog the RAM? It is a right pig for it compared to the others.

Please, before the fanboys shower me with downvotes ಠ_ಠ , note that I am still using Chrome in preference to the others. Its decent enough like.

Cheers in advance if you can explain this to me. :)

[–]duetosymmetry 2 points3 points ago

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(Bug: We seriously overcount our own memory usage: Issue 25454.)

[–]Le_Petit_Lapin 1 point2 points ago

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Really? That's pretty amusing! :)

[–]timmertc 2 points3 points ago

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I think Opera should be third from left for the first scene. I'm not sure how may tabs Chrome can handle, but Firefox often gets sluggish with 8-10 tabs, and downright pokey with 20. With Opera, I regularly have 40-50 tabs, and somewhat frequently have 2 Opera windows with 25-30 tabs each, and sometimes as many as 80-100. Many users will have several Opera windows with 60-80 tabs each. Opera handles tabs very well.

[–]PintoTheBurninator 6 points7 points ago

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Firefox is every bit as slow as IE9.

[–]Kvraj 5 points6 points ago*

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We all love to laugh at IE but give it credit where it's due, the startup time is where it's really not bad. Even if we go comparing the older versions.

[–]N0V0w3ls 2 points3 points ago

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[–]Metroshant 9 points10 points ago

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what ?! Blasphemy ... Opera is the fastest

[–]Mastni 6 points7 points ago

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[–]dustinjt 12 points13 points ago

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I feel like you're picking on the kid with Down Syndrome. Not cool.

[–]Deltaway 36 points37 points ago

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[–]grantly0711 1 point2 points ago

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He did start it all, though... I will never forget that.

[–]ninjastar3 1 point2 points ago

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your so lucky! I saw this on Google+ the other day and I could have posted it, but I didn't. Dammit!

[–]preferstea 0 points1 point ago

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I saw it on makeuseof.com last week and thought about it. I figured that it would've been a repost.

[–]GameFreak4321 1 point2 points ago

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Back before Chrome was even released I often ended up with 100+ tabs in Safari.

[–]Herr_God 1 point2 points ago

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Even IE has forgotten about Netscape....

[–]melesion 1 point2 points ago

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I tried with chrome, best I can do is 80

[–]avgn 1 point2 points ago

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Instead of Chrome, use SRWare Iron. Its code is based on Chrome and it is completely like it, but it has one major plus; it doesn't leak information to Google.

Here is some info about why its better than Chrome: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron.php

Download link (xp & win7): http://www.srware.net/downloads/srware_iron.exe

[–]nihonjim 1 point2 points ago

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Why does everyone hate on opera? It is amazing

[–]F19Drummer 1 point2 points ago

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Oddly enough, Chrome runs like shit on my computer, and Opera is the fastest browser I've used yet.

[–]schwantz9 1 point2 points ago

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Let's get it started in here!

[–]rcane 0 points1 point ago

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[–]xtan 0 points1 point ago

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I came for this.

[–]x3xtacYx 4 points5 points ago

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To be fair IE9 isnt so bad. Although the customisability of chrome and firefox do make them shine brighter

[–]h8bit 4 points5 points ago

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I am sure it's a setting I've managed to fuck up, but I've run Firefox alongside three different children of Chromium, and they all perform significantly slower than Firefox on pages with a lot of content. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, though... I assume since everyone seems to be migrating to Chrome that I've just got mine set up incorrectly.

For now, though, I'm using Firefox with the Chrome theme. Delicious.

Also, I love that Firefox seems to be the only one that lets me keep my bookmarks next to the address bar instead of on their own line.

[–]starlinguk 1 point2 points ago

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I've tried Chrome a few times and found 1. the Adblock isn't as good. and 2. It kept crashing my computer rather spectacularly, which ain't much fun when you're trying to make a deadline.

As for Opera, it ate my complete inbox 3 times, then I gave up.

[–]nirvanachicks 3 points4 points ago

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Aw. You guys know that IE is the best browser to download better broswers right?

[–]amolad 1 point2 points ago

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IE could have easilly said "I farted" instead of "I started."

[–]coprolite_hobbyist 0 points1 point ago

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That is exactly the way I read it.

I think it is funnier that way.

[–]shadow34345 0 points1 point ago

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And I finished.

[–]allo_reddit 0 points1 point ago

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The flash player play better with IE, try happy wheel if you want to test the speed of flash on different browser.

[–]dorekk 0 points1 point ago

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Haha, like Chrome can run well with more than 10 tabs open.

[–]ForTheWilliams 0 points1 point ago

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I have 8 windows with an average of 10+ tabs per window open in Chrome right now, and I'm doing fine.

[–]edinburg 0 points1 point ago

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I just like Firefox for the history sync feature that works across all my computers and my phone. I can't believe more people don't think this is an important feature, it's just fantastic.

[–]soobtoob 0 points1 point ago

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whaaa! whaaa! I'm forced to use outdated technology, and the fact that it's worse than the newest thing makes me justified in complaining that an entire product line is terrible! whaaa! Also, GIVE ME KARMA FOR THIS LOW HANGING FRUIT!

Am I doing this right?

[–]lev00r 0 points1 point ago

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Where's the similar image bot?

[–]otakucode 0 points1 point ago

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Chrome can't do more than half a dozen open pages before it's shit-stupid horizontal-only tab bar goes full retard and makes it completely unusable.

The idea of opening more than a handful of pages at once in any browser without vertical side tabs is idiotic. And Chrome is the only browser that has fully embraced this imbecilic practice. Sad. They supported vertical tabs for a long time, but apparently don't want any real users, so they got rid of it so grandma can use Chrome for email AND facebook, but everyone else gets the shaft.

[–]Avatar1909 0 points1 point ago

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Since when is Chrome better then Firefox?

[–]erikpurne 0 points1 point ago

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OK, reddit, you're starting to embarrass yourselves with the whole 'IE sucks' thing. Yes, IE sucked balls for a while, but IE9, which has been out for a over a year now, is definitely up to par as a browser, and is in some ways actually better than Chrome and Firefox.

[–]khast 0 points1 point ago

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And you can block ads too...if you know how to hack the hosts file.

[–]aldamasta 0 points1 point ago

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I bet chrome could have millions of tabs open at once. Ya know what, I might just try that. Ctrl t, Ctrl t, Ctrl t, Ctrl t, Ctrl t… forget it.

[–]dalsgaard 0 points1 point ago

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Hardly. Netscape started.

[–]badphish94 0 points1 point ago

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Am I the only one who uses Safari?

[–]arahman81 0 points1 point ago

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I remember the days when I would have 100 tabs Opened in Opera- back in 10.50, I would guess. If I wanted to do it in Firefox now, it would quickly eat up my RAM (no idea what's causing it), and with Chrome, tab loading slow down considerably.

[–]juhunter 0 points1 point ago

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Most of these comments sound like they're from people who are still in high school, or they're just riding the 'IE sucks' wave.

IE9 works fine. Speaking as a developer, it's so much better than Chrome will ever be. Firefox still comes in first, but just barely... it's memory usage is ridiculous.

[–]kt_ginger_dftba 0 points1 point ago

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Is seriously not old yet? I get IE sucks, and I use Firefox, but is this really still funny?

[–]rhubarbbus 0 points1 point ago

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It is my opinion that Opera is superior to Firefox.

[–]Aleitheo 0 points1 point ago

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In my experience, Chrome can't handle more than 20 tabs before slowing down a lot.

With me, Firefox with a whole bunch of addons can run over 50 and run faster. I always found Chrome made for lighter tasks and flash.

[–]akhymes 2 points3 points ago

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[–]Chadissocool 2 points3 points ago

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Well, sorry to burst the IE haters out there but...

IE9 IS the fastest browser out their right now (not including betas and prereleases) and IE10 (in Windows 8 consumer preview) is even faster

[–]starlinguk 3 points4 points ago

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I'm sure it loads adverts really fast.

[–]NathaNRiveraMelo -1 points0 points ago

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where's my safari love?

[–]kiefstone 0 points1 point ago

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thatswhati'msaying.

[–]rollinca 0 points1 point ago

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I love safari. Not for its speed or anything, though it's not slow by any means. I don't care about the tiny differences in speed. I used chrome until i updated to OSX Lion and the way safari is integrated with the OS is outstanding.

[–]bayareacoder 0 points1 point ago

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The googly eyes make it for me.