Final preview of IE11 for Windows 7 uncanned A preview of the final build of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 has been released by Microsoft, bringing "30 per cent more speed" than any of its rival browsers when run on the OS, according to Redmond. It also supports multi-touch, and although there aren't very many Windows 7 touch PCs out there, this might be useful for …
Logged into Webmail and it is sitting there idle and within an hour I'll get the crash notification window come up
'Internet Explorer has stopped responding'
as it is so tightly bound up in the O/S internals I give a little shudder every time this appears.
Funnily, logging into the same webmail system from an old XP box with IE8 and it stays running all day no crashes.
Thats because opening up more than 10 tabs in Firefox will grind your machine to such a halt that it become unusable.
BTW ALL browsers have issues. Show me 1 that render pages correctly on 100% of the time and works with 100% of webapps, it don't exist.
Thats because opening up more than 10 tabs in Firefox will grind your machine to such a halt that it become unusable.
NOW, if you are using it on a Pentium 4 with only 512 mb of RAM, then it most likely run as slow as molasses in a Vermont winter. I know, because I once had such a dog. A newer rig running a i3 and 4gb of RAM is so much faster.
What about the benchmark MS created because SunSpider didn't suit them? Though, to be honest, I thought pretty much everyone had stopped referring to SunSpider results because they no longer reflect UX very much (all JS engines have got so fast that they are no longer the bottleneck).
Does it do SPDY or HTTP 2?
"Look in your post history and you'll see you can withdraw a comment."
Nice to see someone here willing to own up. Shame to see some others can't resist an opportunity to lecture people. Be a shame if those people turn this place into something like the userfriendly.org forum ...
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It will be interesting to see if my employer's customer facing webmail will still have to be viewed in Compatibility Mode, as well as several of our CPE Firmwares that have been in place for 5 years. Works fine on IE9. Works fine on FF. Works fine son Chrome. Works fine on Safari. It would be nice is MS could quit trying to redefine the web and just deliver what works with current standards.
Hey Microsoft. I'm just fixing a compatibility issue with your browser. And then my latest creation will be ready. Its so tempting to release it now but you know how it is, you don't want to upset your users with poorly tested code. I mean! Who would do that, right?
The thing is, I don't understand what "SCRIPT87: Invalid Argument" means. The causes of this message that I have found on the web do not apply in my case. I have spent two days on this one. I think the disturbed sleep and fear of a missed deadline are starting to affect my mind. I've been having these dark thoughts. You know, I'm a kind natured, gentle person, don't you?
I think I should see a doctor. I've noticed recently that the words "Internet Explorer" cause me an uncontrollable nervous twitch. Perhaps you guys could do me a favour, do we really need another browser bearing that name? Perhaps you could call IE11 something else? Or you could just wait another couple of months before releasing IE11? You could do a bit more testing in that time. You do do testing, don't you? You know, "testing", making sure a product works before you release it?
That's what I've been doing recently. Well, I was until two days ago. Oh, you're adopting a quick release schedule? Great. What are you doing to make sure your mistakes don't live on and on? After all, you do remember IE6, don't you?
I think it is time to accept you're just no good at writing browsers. Actually, come to think about it, you're no good at operating systems either. Perhaps you guys should run along to the careers advisers office. Haven't you done enough already?
I just don't think I can take much more. I sometimes wonder if any of this is real. I wonder if IE warped my mind. Sometimes I imagine that you're not really there, perhaps, I'm just blurting all this out on a web forum. But then I realise, that's just stupid talk.
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We have a 'dynamic' webform creation service that creates a HTML(5) form + accompanying jQuery/javascript based on an (enriched) XSD. For one customer, that XSD become so big (9MB), that the resulting form contained thousands of controls (tabs, inputs, ...), and the (already optimized) JavaScript file contained a million lines of code.
Now, when we open this (huge) form, it takes max 5 seconds in FF and Chrome, but 20+ seconds in IE 7/8/9/10/11. There was a performance downgrade in 9 and 10, but 11 is back at performance level of 8 and lower, but nowhere near the performance of FF and Chrome.
Automatically filling this form with data (XML), will take up to 20 secs in FF/Chrome, but tens of minutes in IE (any version) or would even crash IE.
So, on what are they basing their performance claims????????
The problem we face is that a customer is bound to IE(9), and all we can tell is that 'according to official benchmarks IE should be the fastest browser', but in fact you'll have to switch to FF or Chrome, or live with the slowness of IE....
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