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[–] Vince@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Can someone confirm or deny, I remember using IE and it was fast, like faster then Chrome and Firefox. I think this was around WinXP or Win7? I remember loading up large websites and comparing speeds with the other browsers.

Chrome looked better, sleeker with animations and tabs, but slightly slower. IE looked like ass, some sites were broken, and maybe some features weren't supported?

The IE = slowpoke memes never made sense to me because of this. Maybe it got slower later, Win7 or win10?

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 hours ago

IE was really bad for web compatibility in that it really did not properly support the specs.

Ignoring that, I’ve found any browser you don’t normally use is a lot snappier only because you don’t have any extensions installed

[–] Wojwo@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 hours ago

Well when it was just IE, Netscape and Opera... IE was the best browser. It won. Hands down.

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

I remember trying to create websites with some fancy features that would work on all the major browsers. Every time i looked up some browser functionality it would basically say "supported by all major browsers except IE", like every goddamn time

IE was waaay behind in functionality, but yeah it wasn't particularly slow from what i can recall

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

opera was the fastest of the bunch.

[–] Vince@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I remember opera features were wild. At some point they cached websites on their servers to load them faster, they had a builtin torrent client, they automatically created mobile versions of pages, probably more I'm not remembering

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

There was also a built in webserver, email client, irc client. I was quite sad when they sold out and became yet another chrome clone. Vivadli carries on the spirit, but i've since switched to firefox purely because i dont want the web to be dominated by chromium.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

They’ll never live down (to me at least) that they tried to charge money for a web browser.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 13 hours ago

how many hours a day do you use a browser?

[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 6 points 19 hours ago (2 children)
[–] egrets@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Happy Indepedence Day! Because you can write "independence" without three Ns!

[–] pitaya@lemmy.zip 3 points 17 hours ago

This bothers me more than it should

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 12 hours ago

Internet Explorer, the ancient internet browser from microsot that does not spy on you, unlike Chrome