Is it just me, or has Firefox become an outcast?
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@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
IE 11 is better than FF in most benchmarks that I have seen
The newer IE's, while still lacking a lot of basic features, IMO, are actually much faster than previous revisions.
What do you consider basic features?
Add-ins. There is no add-in market, like there is on FF and Chrome (extensions on Chrome). Sure, individual programs might have ones. But as a rule, IE doesn't have the expandibility I'll call it. It's not really customizable, like FF and Chrome are.
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Agreed, IE won't be really worthwhile until we can have addons!
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@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
IE 11 is better than FF in most benchmarks that I have seen
The newer IE's, while still lacking a lot of basic features, IMO, are actually much faster than previous revisions.
What do you consider basic features?
Add-ins. There is no add-in market, like there is on FF and Chrome (extensions on Chrome). Sure, individual programs might have ones. But as a rule, IE doesn't have the expandibility I'll call it. It's not really customizable, like FF and Chrome are.
I wouldn't consider Add-ins a basic feature. Although, I do enjoy some of Chrome's extensions. Chrome extensions are necessary since they have an OS that pretty much depends on it.
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@ajstringham Actually IE has many add-ons http://www.iegallery.com/
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Why not? Firefox has had them since the beginning. Chrome has as well. Allowing the world to develop for your platform, and make add-ins/extensions that improve useability, among other things, is essential. Microsoft missed the band wagon, and STILL hasn't realized it.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@ajstringham Actually IE has many add-ons http://www.iegallery.com/
They have less than 1000. That's pathetic.
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What we really need to do is define browser. Because Chrome is more than a browser. Its a mini OS
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@IRJ said:
What we really need to do is define browser. Because Chrome is more than a browser. Its a mini OS
I wouldn't say Chrome is a mini OS. How do you figure that?
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You could literally live off just Chrome in Windows for the majority of your tasks
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@IRJ said:
You could literally live off just Chrome in Windows for the majority of your tasks
It's a browser. Yeah, Google has Google Docs and the like, but those are all web applications that can be used in any browser. Most of what we do nowadays is in a browser, so that's not really an accurate statement.
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@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
You could literally live off just Chrome in Windows for the majority of your tasks
It's a browser. Yeah, Google has Google Docs and the like, but those are all web applications that can be used in any browser. Most of what we do nowadays is in a browser, so that's not really an accurate statement.
Have you used Chrome OS before?
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@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
You could literally live off just Chrome in Windows for the majority of your tasks
It's a browser. Yeah, Google has Google Docs and the like, but those are all web applications that can be used in any browser. Most of what we do nowadays is in a browser, so that's not really an accurate statement.
Have you used Chrome OS before?
Never used a Chromebook or Chromium, no.
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I use both all day. Just not IE.
I think FF suffers from sharing an audience with chrome. IE has its own user base.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I use both all day. Just not IE.
I think FF suffers from sharing an audience with chrome. IE has its own user base.
McAfee still has all their company-issued laptops on IE8! We don't have admin rights either...
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@ajstringham said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I use both all day. Just not IE.
I think FF suffers from sharing an audience with chrome. IE has its own user base.
McAfee still has all their company-issued laptops on IE8! We don't have admin rights either...
OK IE 8 is more than a little dated.. but I completely understand the lack of local admin rights, why do you need it for your day to day job?
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@scottalanmiller said:
I use both all day. Just not IE.
I think FF suffers from sharing an audience with chrome. IE has its own user base.
Sure, but everything I see these days are Chrome or IE. Vendors are now starting to develop specifically for Chrome (in my case IE and Chrome - well and that apple browser too).
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@Dashrender said:
@ajstringham said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I use both all day. Just not IE.
I think FF suffers from sharing an audience with chrome. IE has its own user base.
McAfee still has all their company-issued laptops on IE8! We don't have admin rights either...
OK IE 8 is more than a little dated.. but I completely understand the lack of local admin rights, why do you need it for your day to day job?
Yeah it is. As far as rights go, we don't really. We have a box we're given that we're allowed to run any OS we want on and have full rights on. That's our play/dev/admin box. The other has all the company-issued tools and monitors on it.
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@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
You could literally live off just Chrome in Windows for the majority of your tasks
It's a browser. Yeah, Google has Google Docs and the like, but those are all web applications that can be used in any browser. Most of what we do nowadays is in a browser, so that's not really an accurate statement.
Have you used Chrome OS before?
I have used a ChromeBook before, and yeah as far as the user interface is concerned - it is just the Chrome browser - but that doesn't mean that Chrome the browser that's install on my Windows machine is anything like the Chrome OS that runs on ChromeBooks.
That said - do you know... is the code essentially the same with a bootloader strapped on?
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So I post from the dev/admin machine, as that isn't really tracked. I work from the other. It's kind of a weird system but it makes sense.
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@ajstringham said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I use both all day. Just not IE.
I think FF suffers from sharing an audience with chrome. IE has its own user base.
McAfee still has all their company-issued laptops on IE8! We don't have admin rights either...
Great for a security vendor! Eeek.
