How sloooooow is IE7
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Just downladed IE7
I cannot beleive how bad it is!!!
It takes about 5 seconds to go backwards through a page
Typing this message at normal typing speed it misses half the letters out like this
typing this mssge out atnomalspeeds itmises half the lters outlike ts
So I have to type like my dad
Thats it! what's the alternative I want rid of it
I cannot beleive how bad it is!!!
It takes about 5 seconds to go backwards through a page
Typing this message at normal typing speed it misses half the letters out like this
typing this mssge out atnomalspeeds itmises half the lters outlike ts
So I have to type like my dad
Thats it! what's the alternative I want rid of it
rich1231 said:
IE7 super fas for em at home, renders pages quicker than FF1, 2 and ie 6
That's what I've found too - faster than IE6, and certainly not noticeably slower then FF2. On the other hand, I did run out sugar for my flakes this morning and I'm pretty certain that's IE7's fault somehow.
jamieboy said:
rich1231 said:
IE7 super fas for em at home, renders pages quicker than FF1, 2 and ie 6
That's what I've found too - faster than IE6, and certainly not noticeably slower then FF2. On the other hand, I did run out sugar for my flakes this morning and I'm pretty certain that's IE7's fault somehow.
Sounds like a case of anti phishing combined with crap PC = go slow.
I moved over to IE7 on my old P4 3Ghz and it actually feels a bit faster than IE6. Certainly its no slower. Didnt notice much disk space being gobbled up ... bu then I do have a terabyte of storage so the odd 40 Gb would go un-noticed ;-)
Also running it on my crappy old Dell laptop with a Centrino M processor - again it feels fine speed wise and the way it presents the text is fantastic.
I moved over to IE7 on my old P4 3Ghz and it actually feels a bit faster than IE6. Certainly its no slower. Didnt notice much disk space being gobbled up ... bu then I do have a terabyte of storage so the odd 40 Gb would go un-noticed ;-)
Also running it on my crappy old Dell laptop with a Centrino M processor - again it feels fine speed wise and the way it presents the text is fantastic.
When set-up properly it appears IE7 is a little faster than IE6 but still considerably slower than FF2.0
Opera seems to be outstriping all of them in performance terms at the moment but for a good reason, it has a lot less code and functionality but for most that doesn't present a problem.
FF2.0 can be tuned but this does offend some webmasters! (by typing in about:config in the address bar).
Opera seems to be outstriping all of them in performance terms at the moment but for a good reason, it has a lot less code and functionality but for most that doesn't present a problem.
FF2.0 can be tuned but this does offend some webmasters! (by typing in about:config in the address bar).
I have to admit on my laptop both IE7 and WMP11 seem to be slow to get going although once they're up and running they seem to be on part with their earlier counter-parts.
What annoys me is that IE7 is considered a critical update. I don't honestly believe a brand new web browser constitutes this.
What annoys me is that IE7 is considered a critical update. I don't honestly believe a brand new web browser constitutes this.
ThePassenger said:
What annoys me is that IE7 is considered a critical update. I don't honestly believe a brand new web browser constitutes this.
Microsoft are trying to sneak this under the radar by stating it patches security wholes and allows the user to enjoy a safer experience when surfing the web. If I was being cynical, I would say that this is the only way they can get their new browser out to the masses.
It does make sense from their point of view though to automatically publish the new browser through updates.
__LEE__ said:
ThePassenger said:
What annoys me is that IE7 is considered a critical update. I don't honestly believe a brand new web browser constitutes this.
Microsoft are trying to sneak this under the radar by stating it patches security wholes and allows the user to enjoy a safer experience when surfing the web. If I was being cynical, I would say that this is the only way they can get their new browser out to the masses.
It does make sense from their point of view though to automatically publish the new browser through updates.
Safer and more secure remains to be seen really doesn't it? After all XP and IE6 were supposed to be the be all end all of the matter
Don said:
I've been using IE7. Very fast for me. I have Firefox 2 as well which I use from time to time as well - also very fast and behaving itself. However - IE7 is a LOT quicker to launch and do graphics work than Firefox for me.
How very unusual.
Do you find it faster at load a particular website or is it everything?
-DeaDLocK- said:
Specific problem with your PC. IE7 is faster than FireFox 2 in countless reviews across the web.
Nope your completley wrong, I don't even have IE7 installed on my PC for a start.
I have had far too much experience with these problems working for my last two companies.
I'm just waiting for all of the security wholes to be revealed, as you can imagine there will be a bunch of people sat in dark rooms right now figuring how to install/modify IE compoments.
IE vs FF2.0 (from a decent source, rather than someone who runs a little website protending to be an expert on the subject)
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10442_7-
I would be interested in looking at some these articles which state this. After much testing in different evironments I have never seen IE7 out perform FF2.0.
__LEE__ said:
Don said:
I've been using IE7. Very fast for me. I have Firefox 2 as well which I use from time to time as well - also very fast and behaving itself. However - IE7 is a LOT quicker to launch and do graphics work than Firefox for me.
How very unusual.
Do you find it faster at load a particular website or is it everything?
IE is much faster to launch - partially because much of what needs to be loaded into memory is already present as its integration with the operating system is almost total. Once Firefox is loaded - which takes longer - the two perform very similarly. Whereas in the past IE whupped FF in almost every respect these days I believe there is little to choose between them. Nearly all the sites I have looked at render identically and in comparable times.
My firm is a web development firm...and we have been doing what, these days, is called "AJAX" for flicker free, non-page-turnaround apps for a long time. Since, in fact, IE supported the Microsoft Java runtime environment. We soon dumped that and used our own ActiveX applet. After that we were able to create a JSCript only solution as IE supported the ActiveXObject capability. Of course - the only object anyone ever needs is the Microsoft XML Parser and HTTP library. When Firefox introduced native JavaScript commands for accessing these libraries Firefox became a viable platform for "AJAX" and for our own development method that predated AJAX by some time.
So for years we never bothered with Firefox because as a platform it was inferior for what we wanted to do. I have to say I believe it has caught up and is more than capable of most of the things we require - we do a LOT od DHTML manipulation in JavaScript and IE was for a long time waaay ahead in this. Not so any more.
However - we have not yet ported our apps to FF as it just isn't necessary - they're corporate applications and do not face the public - so IE is always available. One day if a big client asks us and waves money at us we might do it.
Anyway: whilst doing all of this I have had extensive and in-depth exposure to the browsers and their suitability as a platform for deploying complex client side applications (of the order of Google maps etc) and I am delighted to now state - they are much of a muchness!
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