Tech ping please.
9 is a very nice browser. Although the the Firefox 4.7 build is really nice too but with far more features.
They tested Chrome 6. The current version is Chrome 8 so maybe Chrome has caught up.
Firefox is becoming more of a clunker.
It has become bloated, slow, and is still a memory hog.
I recently ran a ISP speed test out of Firefox. Latency was in the 200ms range. The same test using Chrome shows the latency in the 60ms range.
I currently use Firefox 3.6.3. I tried some of the later versions, and they were so filled with crap that they would no longer run on my old XP computer.
Firefox and plug-ins have nice features, but it is becoming a monster to use.
Nice to see IE competitive again.
I nominate this as funniest thread of the week.
Kudos to MS, but the problem with being King of the Hill is all the folks aiming to bring you down hard.
“The testing included 636 URLs identified as potentially malicious. ... Meanwhile, Internet Explorer widened the gap. Internet Explorer 8 improved its results over the previous study—increasing from an 85 percent block rate to 90 percent. Internet Explorer 9, though—which wasn’t available during the previous study—was nearly flawless. “
Folks, I’m no techie. However, in my experience, blockers regularly block sites I want to see. I was having problems accessing FreeRepublic at times, and also a number of history and religious sites.
I’m not at all sure I want a browser that decides to block websites for me. Is that what this is about, or is there something else that I’m just missing?
FWIW, my computer has only caught a virus twice this last year, and one of those was my daughter using it and clicking on an ad to ‘help’ find viruses - so I don’t feel like I’m too threatened anyways.
Maybe. But Macs are hipper.
I’ll stick with my Firefox and its WOT filter. Thanks.
Opera blocked none...the last of the pioneers...
None of this really matters. Windows is fundamentally an unsecureable operating system. I make a living removing malware and “virus-proofing” Windows computers.
The only thing that will keep malware from invading the system is to run from “standard”/”limited” accounts. Even then, malware can invade the login id itself (though it’s easy to remove because you can simply logoff the user account, logon to the admin account and delete the offending files).
Additionally, I’ve mostly solved the standard account invasion problem with a program I wrote that removes modification privilege by the user account from an additional 27 user account registry entries. So far, I’ve not had any “virus-proofed” clients that were invaded, though there’s a class of viruses that modify user-defined filetype handlers that my additional protection can’t address.
I currently use QTWeb. Wonder how it stacks up.