John H 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.


Interesting that you used an average. I just ran my own test. I restarted Windows, then opened IE8,
It took about 2 seconds for IE8 to open. Then I fired up Firefox. It took right at ten seconds for
Firefox to open. I then tried both again. IE8 opened in about 2 seconds, and Firefox in about 3
seconds. On the next Firefox try, it opened in about 2 seconds. I suppose something is staying in
RAM to assist in subsequent openings, but I'm no IT guy so not sure.


You commented that I used an average value, so just for the record:

Based on my manual notes, here are the individual test results where
each browser are started alternately (i.e. IE, FF, IE, FF ...) after
first doing a clean reboot of Windows:

IE Firefox
--------- ---------
Test #1 (Internet Explorer): 1.60 sec
Test #2 (Firefox): 6.18 sec
Test #3 (Internet Explorer): 0.85 sec
Test #4 (Firefox): 2.82 sec
Test #5 (Internet Explorer): 2.66 sec
Test #6 (Firefox): 2.52 sec
Test #7 (Internet Explorer): 0.92 sec
Test #8 (Firefox): 1.89 sec
Test #9 (Internet Explorer): 0.81 sec
Test #10 (Firefox): 2.37 sec
--------- ---------
Average: 1.37 sec 3.16 sec



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