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      Can someone confirm or deny, I remember using IE and it was fast, like faster then Chrome and Firefox. I think this was around WinXP or Win7? I remember loading up large websites and comparing speeds with the other browsers.

      Chrome looked better, sleeker with animations and tabs, but slightly slower. IE looked like ass, some sites were broken, and maybe some features weren't supported?

      The IE = slowpoke memes never made sense to me because of this. Maybe it got slower later, Win7 or win10?

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        Indepedence

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          Can someone confirm or deny, I remember using IE and it was fast, like faster then Chrome and Firefox. I think this was around WinXP or Win7? I remember loading up large websites and comparing speeds with the other browsers.

          Chrome looked better, sleeker with animations and tabs, but slightly slower. IE looked like ass, some sites were broken, and maybe some features weren't supported?

          The IE = slowpoke memes never made sense to me because of this. Maybe it got slower later, Win7 or win10?

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          opera was the fastest of the bunch.

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            opera was the fastest of the bunch.

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            I remember opera features were wild. At some point they cached websites on their servers to load them faster, they had a builtin torrent client, they automatically created mobile versions of pages, probably more I'm not remembering

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              opera was the fastest of the bunch.

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              They’ll never live down (to me at least) that they tried to charge money for a web browser.

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                Indepedence

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                This bothers me more than it should

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                  I remember opera features were wild. At some point they cached websites on their servers to load them faster, they had a builtin torrent client, they automatically created mobile versions of pages, probably more I'm not remembering

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                  There was also a built in webserver, email client, irc client. I was quite sad when they sold out and became yet another chrome clone. Vivadli carries on the spirit, but i've since switched to firefox purely because i dont want the web to be dominated by chromium.

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                    They’ll never live down (to me at least) that they tried to charge money for a web browser.

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                    I mean... so did Netscape.

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                      What's IE?

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                        I mean... so did Netscape.

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                        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator

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                          Happy Indepedence Day! Because you can write "independence" without three Ns!

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                            They’ll never live down (to me at least) that they tried to charge money for a web browser.

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                            how many hours a day do you use a browser?

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                              Internet Explorer, the ancient internet browser from microsot that does not spy on you, unlike Chrome

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                                Can someone confirm or deny, I remember using IE and it was fast, like faster then Chrome and Firefox. I think this was around WinXP or Win7? I remember loading up large websites and comparing speeds with the other browsers.

                                Chrome looked better, sleeker with animations and tabs, but slightly slower. IE looked like ass, some sites were broken, and maybe some features weren't supported?

                                The IE = slowpoke memes never made sense to me because of this. Maybe it got slower later, Win7 or win10?

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                                I remember trying to create websites with some fancy features that would work on all the major browsers. Every time i looked up some browser functionality it would basically say "supported by all major browsers except IE", like every goddamn time

                                IE was waaay behind in functionality, but yeah it wasn't particularly slow from what i can recall

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                                  Can someone confirm or deny, I remember using IE and it was fast, like faster then Chrome and Firefox. I think this was around WinXP or Win7? I remember loading up large websites and comparing speeds with the other browsers.

                                  Chrome looked better, sleeker with animations and tabs, but slightly slower. IE looked like ass, some sites were broken, and maybe some features weren't supported?

                                  The IE = slowpoke memes never made sense to me because of this. Maybe it got slower later, Win7 or win10?

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                                  Well when it was just IE, Netscape and Opera... IE was the best browser. It won. Hands down.

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                                    Can someone confirm or deny, I remember using IE and it was fast, like faster then Chrome and Firefox. I think this was around WinXP or Win7? I remember loading up large websites and comparing speeds with the other browsers.

                                    Chrome looked better, sleeker with animations and tabs, but slightly slower. IE looked like ass, some sites were broken, and maybe some features weren't supported?

                                    The IE = slowpoke memes never made sense to me because of this. Maybe it got slower later, Win7 or win10?

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                                    IE was really bad for web compatibility in that it really did not properly support the specs.

                                    Ignoring that, I’ve found any browser you don’t normally use is a lot snappier only because you don’t have any extensions installed

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                                      Well when it was just IE, Netscape and Opera... IE was the best browser. It won. Hands down.

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                                      It won but it was not the best browser. It was slower, and never fully met web standards. Many sites had to write different formatting code for IE specifically. It was a nightmare from the back end.

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                                        How do you write Autonomy with Safari and Chrome ?

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                                          It won but it was not the best browser. It was slower, and never fully met web standards. Many sites had to write different formatting code for IE specifically. It was a nightmare from the back end.

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                                          Yeah, but it just worked better. I remember doing all the cludges and hacks for IE. The bad taste in my mouth is still largely the reason I hate doing web ui work.

                                          It's interesting to see the similarities between the market when IE was king and now with chrome. I prefer to use Firefox, but there are just so many sites that only work with chrome. Etc.

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