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To: Utilizer

Good. Internet Explorer 11 is the fastest, cleanest, safest browser on Windows, at least from what I can tell.

Not sure why people still use Fire fox. It’s turtle slow. And Chrome is weird. It drains my battery like no tomorrow.


3 posted on 01/10/2016 8:37:01 PM PST by Up Yours Marxists
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To: Up Yours Marxists

I recently discovered what you said about Chrome draining battery. I love Chrome in all other respects, and was happily using it until I got a new laptop (a Surface Book). I was concerned that battery life wasn’t anywhere near the promised/published numbers. In researching the issue, I ran across some forum posts mentioning the huge negative impact Chrome had on battery life. I dumped Chrome and have been using Edge, and my battery life is much improved.

I really love Edge. There is still the occasional compatibility issue, and I wish they would hurry up and add plug-in support, but I think it has a promising future.


5 posted on 01/10/2016 8:41:28 PM PST by Scutter
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To: Up Yours Marxists

I had heard that Windows 10 had privacy issues— ex. keeping track of your internet browsing history for marketing purposes, etc.

Is Windows 11 better in that regard?


7 posted on 01/10/2016 8:48:55 PM PST by Freedom56v2 (`)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

eh late...I think I am confusing Windows with IE...
Nonetheless, I would like to know more about IE 11.


9 posted on 01/10/2016 8:51:46 PM PST by Freedom56v2 (`)
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To: Up Yours Marxists; Scutter
Try going into your Chrome Settings>Advanced, and unchecking the box that says 'Allow Chrome to run applications even if the browser is closed'. It'll ramp back your processor/RAM utilization, hence longer battery life.

That being said, Chrome sucks on many other levels.


10 posted on 01/10/2016 8:52:43 PM PST by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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To: Up Yours Marxists
Good. Internet Explorer 11 is the fastest, cleanest, safest browser on Windows, at least from what I can tell.

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Best Sarcasm of the day

16 posted on 01/10/2016 9:03:53 PM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Good luck with that.


23 posted on 01/10/2016 9:35:13 PM PST by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzrims trying to kill them)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

“Not sure why people still use Firefox.”

Addons. Here’s the ones I use to increase my productivity by a couple of orders of magnitude: adblock plus, betterprivacy, classic theme restorer, cookieculler, element hiding helper for adblock plus, ie view, findbar tweak, flash video download helper, refcontrol, roboform, tab mix plus, visited, et al.

Differences in browser speed are pretty much irrelevant anyway when one has REALLY high speed ISP, lots of RAM, and a solid state hard drive.


24 posted on 01/10/2016 9:42:58 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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