Looking for a new browser

Dynamo_Maestro · 2013-03-08T14:36:29

A little background history Most of my life I was with IE until like 2007 or something, moved on to FF, and in the past year or so, Chrome. Something stupid happened with Chrome in December and I know it was a patch update because the control panel symbol changed and I kept getting asked for log in info (which btw is awesome for multiple comps), however Chrome became slow, slow, slow and in Jan there was another update that made it even worse. I decided to have a look at IE9, something I only ever opened after a fresh OS install to install Chrome and it turned out to be faster, just lacked add ons. IE10 for Win7 came out recently or so I believe and speed has gone to awesome levels, its rather ironic how IE has gotten so fast considering how terrible it once was. The new spell check, other features and super fast loading made it a great choice, sadly MS have gone on a "NO EXTENSIONS" path and it seems based on the examples I have seen making add ons is going to be a pain the COM ass. It is a shame really, it would have been cool making add ons or at least having access to them. Anyway I only use 2 add ons, NotScript / AdBlock and there isnt a suitable (free) alternative in IE. I cant really bare with the poor performance of Chrome (32 seconds to load a .gov site, vs IE10 <1s wtf?) and I dont think its the add ons either, since things were super smooth last year. Oh and this is a fresh install of the comp ;) /Rant off Is there a browser out there that is just as fast as IE (never thought I would ever say that) but has the features of Chrome?

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Started by Dynamo_Maestro March 08, 2013 12:03 AM

9 comments, last by benryves 11 years, 6 months ago

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March 08, 2013 02:36 PM

As fond as I am of Opera they have announced that they are no longer going to be working on their own rendering engine and will be switching to a browser based on Chromium instead. Hopefully they will reimplement most of the excellent UI features that made Opera such a good browser, but in the meantime it's probably not the best choice.

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