Web Browser BS

[logicallefty]

Anyone else getting fed up with all of the hoopla' with web browsers?

In the scope of what I do I use Mac, Windows 7, Android, Linux, and Windows 8.1 once in a while. Lately, I have found both Google Chrome and Firefox to completely suck on all said platforms other than Linux. Both browsers have slowed down Windows, Mac, and Android. I switched to Safari on the Mac and after many years of not touching IE because of security issues, I finally started using it again because it was the only PC browser I could find that didn't make my system puke on itself. Now Microsoft is doing away with IE. WTF? Anyone know why? (assuming Microsoft uses logic, I can't say they do). It's getting old. They keep always wanting to add more sh|t, when they could be spending time making what they had better. Arg!!:cuss:

 

[Eph]

They're not "doing away" with it. Windows 10 will feature a new browser called, for now, Project Spartan (a reference to the game Halo if you're not familiar). The reason they're working on a new browser is because web developers hate developing for IE, so websites don't always render correctly, users hate IE, etc. The negative stigma around IE (even though since IE9, it's become a decent browser) won't go away. Everyone hates IE no matter how much better it has become. So, Microsoft is solving this by forking the Trident engine, supporting more web standards, making the browser faster, adding new features, etc. They're doing everything they can to get users to use it and developers to stop detecting user-agents and start detecting feature support, which is usually why websites render incorrectly on IE.

Anyway, IE11 will still be available on Windows 10, 8.1, and 7. They won't be any more updates to IE from now on though.

 

[Desdinova]

Firefox sucks on ALL platforms, including Linux. It's a huge resource pig. I've been using Chrome pretty much all across the board. I used to use Opera, but development came screeching to a halt for a bit and then some webpages (especially Facebook) didn't work reliably on it. It seems that Opera hasn't yet recovered, so I'm not using it anymore.

Chrome loads in two seconds flat on Linux. It chugs away for a good 10-30 seconds in Windows. Whenever I'm forced to use a Windows computer, I feel like I'm suffering with a broken leg.

 

[Eph]

Firefox sucks on ALL platforms, including Linux. It's a huge resource pig. I've been using Chrome pretty much all across the board. I used to use Opera, but development came screeching to a halt for a bit and then some webpages (especially Facebook) didn't work reliably on it. It seems that Opera hasn't yet recovered, so I'm not using it anymore.

Chrome loads in two seconds flat on Linux. It chugs away for a good 10-30 seconds in Windows. Whenever I'm forced to use a Windows computer, I feel like I'm suffering with a broken leg.

To be fair, Chrome is a resource hog as well. Haven't used it on Linux as of yet though. Though, it is the main browser I use. Can't remember why I stopped using Opera. And yeah, Chrome does take about 10 seconds or more to start up, even on a SSD.

 

[Desdinova]

Doesn't use up much on mine. I've got only 4G of RAM installed:

%CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND     
17.9  2.2   2297:26 Xorg        
10.6  4.8   2221:39 compiz      
3.6   2.0   0:02.81 chromium-b+ 
3.0   0.2 167:25.78 pulseaudio  
3.0   4.3   0:45.02 chromium-b+ 
2.0   4.8 592:20.11 clementine  
1.3   0.5   0:01.03 gnome-term+ 
1.0   8.1  41:26.03 kdenlive    
0.7   1.0   0:06.90 chromium-b+ 
0.3   0.0  33:50.06 rcu_sched   
0.3   0.0  28:21.43 rcuos/0     
0.3   0.3 128:13.66 bitstormli+ 
0.3   0.4  66:58.88 bitstormli+ 
0.3   3.9   0:12.07 chromium-b+ 
0.3   0.0   0:00.05 top         
0.3   0.0   3:04.02 kworker/2:2 
0.3   0.0   0:51.36 kworker/1:0