Mozilla: IE9 is NOT a Modern Browser

[johnsmithhatesVLC]

IE, Chrome, and Opera still don't have as good, intelligent ad blocking as Firefox. Chrome users don't even talk about your terrible Adblock. It still hides ads after half a second and can't block all video ads such as the ones in livestream. Opera can block ads through a url filter but only to a basic level.

 

[face-plants]

[citation][nom]aevm[/nom]Kudos to FireFox for supporting more of the standard than IE does. However, as a Web developer, I have to be very careful to use only the lowest common denominator, so that my product works for people who use IE as well as for people who use FireFox. Too bad about FireFox's extra features - I have to be very careful NOT to use them.[/citation]

A perfectly true point aevm....as depressing as it is. Just the mere existence of IE and the fact that people use it not knowing any better means that lots of developers have to either "dumb down" their sites or deal with different versions of their pages depending on what browser visitors are using.

I went on the html5 test site and a few other browser compatibility sites and indeed the IE9 release candidate got the worst score with a 130 or so. Firefox 4 beta and Google Chrome both got around 250!
Firefox remains my primary browser after trying out the lot and coming back to it. I love the speed of Chrome but one simple feature they have refused to add to Chrome ruins it for me to this day...NO Print Preview...WTF?! Yes you can use IE tab to cheat and get print preview in Chrome but the irony of using IE emulation inside Chrome is just too much to handle.

 

[face-plants]

Another reason to avoid IE in my opinion: Compared with any other browser I've ever used....Internet Explorer continues to be the most targeted with browser hijackers and malware of varying degrees.
I tell my novice customers to avoid IE unless absolutely necessary for this reason alone. Basic users won't care about html5, CSS, or any of these new features for developers. But they DO want a browser that's relatively safe that won't trap them in a loop of dialog boxes trying to install malware and toolbars any time they have the misfortune of spelling a web address incorrectly.

 

[Wish I Was Wealthy]

Watch out for Mozilla though,it is not totally free of getting bugged either...I had an old HP pc & I had heaps of problems with IE6,IE7 & so on...I took the IE off & added the Mozilla Firefox browser,I forgot which version it was at that time...Although I used many versions & got updates...Anyway I still had problems,but not as bad...That HP pc was an XP Pro x32 operating system which I kept up to date with service packs for a long time until I ran out of life spans for the operating disc...I would only format when it became necessary to do so ( I used anti-virus & all )...My old HP pc was an LGA 478 socket pinset number model with the largest cpu being at 3.0 GHz & original was 2.8 GHz...

 

[Wish I Was Wealthy]

Right now at this moment I am using a new pc,but the parts are not up to date new...It is one of those AM2 motherboards that allows you to go to AM2+ cpu's & I am using IE9 with the operating system being XP Pro x32..I have had a little bit of problems with the pc so far,but it is not as bad as my past HP pc...I will chuck on mozilla firefox eventually,but that will be after checking this IE9's usefullness online with browser down & surfing around...

 

[crisan_tiberiu]

IE iss better in the activex section. In example every video surveilance system in the world works on Internet Explorer only, while Mozilla and the other dont work.
For Browsing i dont recomend IE

 

[maestintaolius]

This just in: Company says their product is better than their competitors.

 

[rpgplayer]

[citation][nom]Wish I Was Wealthy[/nom]Watch out for Mozilla though,it is not totally free of getting bugged either...I had an old HP pc & I had heaps of problems with IE6,IE7 & so on...I took the IE off & added the Mozilla Firefox browser,I forgot which version it was at that time...Although I used many versions & got updates...Anyway I still had problems,but not as bad...That HP pc was an XP Pro x32 operating system which I kept up to date with service packs for a long time until I ran out of life spans for the operating disc...I would only format when it became necessary to do so ( I used anti-virus & all )...My old HP pc was an LGA 478 socket pinset number model with the largest cpu being at 3.0 GHz & original was 2.8 GHz...[/citation]


sounds to me like if you had that much trouble with a 3ghz pentium on xp 32 bit you weren't running enough ram, 512mb is the bare min i would run in xp (and i'd hate using the computer) 1gb is reasonable if you don't do a boatload of multitasking, but windows xp 32bit is best with 2gb of ram

 

[goonigoogoo]

Why is this idiot flaming IE? He should look at the pile of sh!t FF has been these past 18 months.

People in glass houses my friend.

 

[rhino13]

Good call jimmysmitty. No rating system, but still +1

 

[eddieroolz]

Honestly, this coming out of the guys that still push a nearly 2-year-old browser (Firefox 3.5) that starts up like molasses. The guys that is taking a whole year to develop their new version even though they tout their open-source nature as offering "faster development and patch times" than proprietary.

Something tells me that I won't be leaving my IE9.

 

[mayankleoboy1]

the only good thing about ie9 is that it looks slicker and runs some benchmarks better, but it is not a browser i will use on a day to day basis.