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Mr. Luddite

On 11/21/2013 7:13 AM, John H wrote:
On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:44:26 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 23:20:36 +0100, Stig Arne Bye
wrote:

John H wrote:

On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:55:08 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:42:58 -0500, John H
wrote:

On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 10:23:27 -0500, Hank© wrote:

Has anyone updated to IE11. Any comments or feedback?

I'm still using XP. The latest I can use if IE8.

Another good reason to run Firefox. IE8 will not open a lot of things
but Firefox will. (Bill Gates trying to sell more product)

I've had Firefox run into problems opening Microsoft stuff. But I like Firefox. Never had any
problems with it, although it is slow to open compared to IE8.

John H. -- Hope you're having a great day!

I do also have one computer running XP SP3 with multiple browsers
installed, and by using a stop watch, I measured and compared the time
to open IE and Firefox after clicking the shortcut.

After doing this test 5 times for each browser, I got the following
results:
- IE (version 8.0) opened in 1.37 seconds in average.
- Firefox (version 25.0.1) opened in 3.16 seconds in average.

A lot of IE is actually resident in Windoze.

That would help explain it. I've learned patience when it comes to Firefox.

John H. -- Hope you're having a great day!

The first time after a reboot both Firefox and IE are slow to open on
both of my computers (meaning four or five seconds) but after that they
open fairly fast ... like a second or two. As previously mentioned, I
don't use IE as a browser, but I just tried it for comparison. Doesn't
seem to be any faster than Firefox.

My computers are both laptops, one running Vista Home Premium (64 bit)
and the other Win 7 Home Edition or something like that ... also 64 bit.
When I bought them I was advised by a computer geek to make sure they
had at least 4GB of RAM memory and a faster CPU (forget what speed they
are). Both work fine, although Vista takes forever and a day to
initially boot up. Once it's fully booted however it seems just as fast
as Win 7. I also have an older XP laptop that has both IE and Firefox.
It is slow as molasses compared to the Vista or Win 7 laptops.