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Internet Explorer 11
On 11/21/13, 8:54 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/21/2013 8:42 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote: On 11/21/13, 8:33 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: 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, Hankİ 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. Sometimes there is more going on than just the startup of the operating system. On my desktop, running Mac OSX 10.9, the start up procedure includes not only the OS, but a connection to my server and a connection to a half dozen folders on that server and a couple of programs I run in the backaground, so it takes a little longer for the boot-up. But since it is a Mac, I rarely boot it up because it doesn't crash, and I don't have the BSODs that plague Windows. In fact, the last time I rebooted was a few weeks ago when I uploaded and installed the latest *free* version of the OS. I just leave the desktop machine ON and after 15 minutes of no keyboard activity or backup activity, the screen blanks out and the hard drive spools off. My laptop also runs OSX 10.9, but I don't usually connect it to the server, so the boot up is very fast, fastest I have ever seen, actually, on a consumer computer. The laptop has no hard drive in the traditional sense...it has an SSD. I'll have to time the boot up but my guess is that it takes no more than five seconds from the time I push the ON button. It's funny you mention crashes. I can't remember the last time either of my Windows based computers crashed. I also rarely shut them completely off either. I put them in "sleep" mode when they are not being used. The only time a reboot is required is after an update of the OS and occasionally after a major update by AVG (anti-virus). I have them set so I can pick and choose when I want the updates to be installed. XP was (is) a very stable program. The last time I recall routine crashes was back before it came along. I recently read that XP, Vista, Win7 and Win8 were all derived from Windows NT. I remember it because NT was an "industrialized" version of Windows or something. All the CAD PC stations in my company ran on Windows NT. Many of the interim updates for Windows 7 require a reboot, according to my wife, who runs that OS on her home computer. There seem to be "security" updates every week. I still use Microsoft's Office Suite, the Mac version. I've never liked it because of its complexity but most of my clients use it and when I prepare files or presentations for them, the work output has to be 100% compatible. I've tried some of the open source substitutes for these Microsoft programs, and they do work OK, but invariably there are "formatting" problems when importing or exporting to the non-Microsoft versions. My favorite word processor, XyWrite, fell by the wayside decades ago. -- Religion: together we can find the cure. |
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