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  • A Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

    Old times:

    Internet explorer is the best browser to download Google Chrome, Firefox or Opera for use.

    Those days are over. With the release of Project Spartan, I don't think you can get away with this joke at all. I remember in Windows 8.1 (or 8), Internet Explorer 10 was not a very much great experience and I didn't even use it to download Google Chrome, I used my previous stand-alone installer. But since this Spartan came (soon it will be Edge; they are working on changing the product name) I have not yet used Google Chrome even once. There are a lot of good things in Spartan, Reading view is one of them. Yesterday I tried it on a CodeProject article, and it was awesome experience. Not just Reading view but the memory benchmark and other similar things. Why not see it yourself[^]? Remember: Spartan has two tabs open, Google Chrome has nothing (sorry if you count "New tab is a tab indeed") open, yet the difference in their memory consumption. I always was a Google Chrome fan, but... I am feeling a change in me. ;) I would definitely not use Google Chrome or Firefox again (unless for design debugging) if Windows 10 amazes me. So, the new joke comes out to be, Google Chrome and Firefox are best browsers to download Microsoft Edge (if they allow). :laugh:

    The shit I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem ~! Firewall !~

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    Jorgen Andersson
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    Grabs a bag of popcorn...

    Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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      Grabs a bag of popcorn...

      Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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      Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan
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      Too early, this was just the trailer. :) Save some for the actual picture. ;)

      The shit I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem ~! Firewall !~

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      • A Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

        Too early, this was just the trailer. :) Save some for the actual picture. ;)

        The shit I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem ~! Firewall !~

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        Jorgen Andersson
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        I have plenty of popcorn, and there are plenty of haters around. :)

        Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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          I have plenty of popcorn, and there are plenty of haters around. :)

          Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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          Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan
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          Clearly, you are a Google Chrome user! :laugh: Like me. :sigh:

          The shit I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem ~! Firewall !~

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          • A Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

            Clearly, you are a Google Chrome user! :laugh: Like me. :sigh:

            The shit I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem ~! Firewall !~

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            Jorgen Andersson
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            70% IE, 30% Chrome. 0% fox.

            Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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            • A Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

              Old times:

              Internet explorer is the best browser to download Google Chrome, Firefox or Opera for use.

              Those days are over. With the release of Project Spartan, I don't think you can get away with this joke at all. I remember in Windows 8.1 (or 8), Internet Explorer 10 was not a very much great experience and I didn't even use it to download Google Chrome, I used my previous stand-alone installer. But since this Spartan came (soon it will be Edge; they are working on changing the product name) I have not yet used Google Chrome even once. There are a lot of good things in Spartan, Reading view is one of them. Yesterday I tried it on a CodeProject article, and it was awesome experience. Not just Reading view but the memory benchmark and other similar things. Why not see it yourself[^]? Remember: Spartan has two tabs open, Google Chrome has nothing (sorry if you count "New tab is a tab indeed") open, yet the difference in their memory consumption. I always was a Google Chrome fan, but... I am feeling a change in me. ;) I would definitely not use Google Chrome or Firefox again (unless for design debugging) if Windows 10 amazes me. So, the new joke comes out to be, Google Chrome and Firefox are best browsers to download Microsoft Edge (if they allow). :laugh:

              The shit I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem ~! Firewall !~

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              Marc Clifton
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              Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote:

              So, the new joke comes out to be, Google Chrome and Firefox are best browsers to download Microsoft Edge (if they allow).

              I'm sure they'll screw it up somehow. Like adding ads. I mean, come on, they couldn't even figure out that people might find the working name "Spartan" while properly meaning "sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere" more to mean "rigorously simple" as a negative, as in one of Webster's definition "marked by simplicity, frugality, or avoidance of luxury and comfort." Frugal is good. Simple and avoidance of comfort in not so good for a browser's name. Marc

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                Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote:

                So, the new joke comes out to be, Google Chrome and Firefox are best browsers to download Microsoft Edge (if they allow).

                I'm sure they'll screw it up somehow. Like adding ads. I mean, come on, they couldn't even figure out that people might find the working name "Spartan" while properly meaning "sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere" more to mean "rigorously simple" as a negative, as in one of Webster's definition "marked by simplicity, frugality, or avoidance of luxury and comfort." Frugal is good. Simple and avoidance of comfort in not so good for a browser's name. Marc

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                Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan
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                Your first line is totally correct, that is what they did to Internet Explorer and most of their products. As far as ads are concerned, I have not yet seen a single ad (I am not a Microsoft Employee, Partner or affiliated to them in any way :laugh:) while using any product. I am not sure of what would happen when Windows would be releases publicly. Indeed, but they would soon change it to Edge.

                The shit I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem ~! Firewall !~

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                • M Marc Clifton

                  Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote:

                  So, the new joke comes out to be, Google Chrome and Firefox are best browsers to download Microsoft Edge (if they allow).

                  I'm sure they'll screw it up somehow. Like adding ads. I mean, come on, they couldn't even figure out that people might find the working name "Spartan" while properly meaning "sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere" more to mean "rigorously simple" as a negative, as in one of Webster's definition "marked by simplicity, frugality, or avoidance of luxury and comfort." Frugal is good. Simple and avoidance of comfort in not so good for a browser's name. Marc

                  Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project!

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                  OriginalGriff
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                  Marc Clifton wrote:

                  I'm sure they'll screw it up somehow.

                  That does seem to be a recurring MS theme over the last five years or so... :sigh:

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                  • A Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

                    Old times:

                    Internet explorer is the best browser to download Google Chrome, Firefox or Opera for use.

                    Those days are over. With the release of Project Spartan, I don't think you can get away with this joke at all. I remember in Windows 8.1 (or 8), Internet Explorer 10 was not a very much great experience and I didn't even use it to download Google Chrome, I used my previous stand-alone installer. But since this Spartan came (soon it will be Edge; they are working on changing the product name) I have not yet used Google Chrome even once. There are a lot of good things in Spartan, Reading view is one of them. Yesterday I tried it on a CodeProject article, and it was awesome experience. Not just Reading view but the memory benchmark and other similar things. Why not see it yourself[^]? Remember: Spartan has two tabs open, Google Chrome has nothing (sorry if you count "New tab is a tab indeed") open, yet the difference in their memory consumption. I always was a Google Chrome fan, but... I am feeling a change in me. ;) I would definitely not use Google Chrome or Firefox again (unless for design debugging) if Windows 10 amazes me. So, the new joke comes out to be, Google Chrome and Firefox are best browsers to download Microsoft Edge (if they allow). :laugh:

                    The shit I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem ~! Firewall !~

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                    Lost User
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                    You call that a browser? This[^] is a browser :)

                    Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)

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                    • A Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

                      Old times:

                      Internet explorer is the best browser to download Google Chrome, Firefox or Opera for use.

                      Those days are over. With the release of Project Spartan, I don't think you can get away with this joke at all. I remember in Windows 8.1 (or 8), Internet Explorer 10 was not a very much great experience and I didn't even use it to download Google Chrome, I used my previous stand-alone installer. But since this Spartan came (soon it will be Edge; they are working on changing the product name) I have not yet used Google Chrome even once. There are a lot of good things in Spartan, Reading view is one of them. Yesterday I tried it on a CodeProject article, and it was awesome experience. Not just Reading view but the memory benchmark and other similar things. Why not see it yourself[^]? Remember: Spartan has two tabs open, Google Chrome has nothing (sorry if you count "New tab is a tab indeed") open, yet the difference in their memory consumption. I always was a Google Chrome fan, but... I am feeling a change in me. ;) I would definitely not use Google Chrome or Firefox again (unless for design debugging) if Windows 10 amazes me. So, the new joke comes out to be, Google Chrome and Firefox are best browsers to download Microsoft Edge (if they allow). :laugh:

                      The shit I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem ~! Firewall !~

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                      Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter
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                      How much did you spent on Edge? I booted up my Windows 10 VM and decided to use Edge for a week...I gave up after 3 days... It maybe low in memory (it's a huge maybe as Chrome has truly separated processes behind each and every tab, so one fail and others keep going, where fail of one the tabs in Edge will block others until the shared libraries restored from crash...) but it is still has the same rendering and JavaScript engine as IE has and for that a very clumsy tool for development...

                      Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

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                      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                        Marc Clifton wrote:

                        I'm sure they'll screw it up somehow.

                        That does seem to be a recurring MS theme over the last five years or so... :sigh:

                        Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                        Jorgen Andersson
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                        Five years, FIVE years? Let's just agree on recurring shall we. :laugh:

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                        • J Jorgen Andersson

                          Five years, FIVE years? Let's just agree on recurring shall we. :laugh:

                          Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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                          OriginalGriff
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                          They do repeat mistakes, don't they? :sigh: But I can't think of anything in the last 5 years that had been meet with general approval: even VS was SHOUTY and dark (and still didn't fix bugs that were reported on VS2005) I'm really hoping they have got it right with Win 10 - I think they'll get slaughtered if they haven't.

                          Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

                          "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                          "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                          • Kornfeld Eliyahu PeterK Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

                            How much did you spent on Edge? I booted up my Windows 10 VM and decided to use Edge for a week...I gave up after 3 days... It maybe low in memory (it's a huge maybe as Chrome has truly separated processes behind each and every tab, so one fail and others keep going, where fail of one the tabs in Edge will block others until the shared libraries restored from crash...) but it is still has the same rendering and JavaScript engine as IE has and for that a very clumsy tool for development...

                            Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

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                            Richard Andrew x64
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                            I gave up on it because it forces you to use Bing, it has no home button, and it shows "suggested" sites in new tabs, read "paid advertisements."

                            The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

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                            • Kornfeld Eliyahu PeterK Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

                              How much did you spent on Edge? I booted up my Windows 10 VM and decided to use Edge for a week...I gave up after 3 days... It maybe low in memory (it's a huge maybe as Chrome has truly separated processes behind each and every tab, so one fail and others keep going, where fail of one the tabs in Edge will block others until the shared libraries restored from crash...) but it is still has the same rendering and JavaScript engine as IE has and for that a very clumsy tool for development...

                              Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

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                              yves schelpe
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                              tbh, Chrome & it's failing tabs.. Chrome just freezes my browser & system every x-minutes for a second or two/three.. They can claim what they want, but Chrome is far from perfect, and it's a resource hog.. I stick for Firefox;

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                                You call that a browser? This[^] is a browser :)

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                                Super Lloyd
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                                My thoughts, exactly! ;P

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                                • A Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

                                  Old times:

                                  Internet explorer is the best browser to download Google Chrome, Firefox or Opera for use.

                                  Those days are over. With the release of Project Spartan, I don't think you can get away with this joke at all. I remember in Windows 8.1 (or 8), Internet Explorer 10 was not a very much great experience and I didn't even use it to download Google Chrome, I used my previous stand-alone installer. But since this Spartan came (soon it will be Edge; they are working on changing the product name) I have not yet used Google Chrome even once. There are a lot of good things in Spartan, Reading view is one of them. Yesterday I tried it on a CodeProject article, and it was awesome experience. Not just Reading view but the memory benchmark and other similar things. Why not see it yourself[^]? Remember: Spartan has two tabs open, Google Chrome has nothing (sorry if you count "New tab is a tab indeed") open, yet the difference in their memory consumption. I always was a Google Chrome fan, but... I am feeling a change in me. ;) I would definitely not use Google Chrome or Firefox again (unless for design debugging) if Windows 10 amazes me. So, the new joke comes out to be, Google Chrome and Firefox are best browsers to download Microsoft Edge (if they allow). :laugh:

                                  The shit I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem ~! Firewall !~

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                                  Benito Aramando
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                                  Fair enough, *if* Spartan is significantly better than Firefox or Chrome (at least for your specific purposes) then yes, why wouldn't you switch to it? But that's a big "if". I don't really understand why you seem so desperate to abandon Firefox and Chrome. Most power users will already have the FF or Chrome extensions they want and also use their respective session sync services across machines and devices, and won't suddenly switch to Spartan just because it uses less memory and happens to be the default browser with Windows. If Spartan has a vibrant extension ecosystem, and a session sync service, and an Android/iOS client, and looks nice, and has a decent interface, then I will _consider_ switching to it. But somehow I doubt all that will be the case.

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                                  • A Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

                                    Old times:

                                    Internet explorer is the best browser to download Google Chrome, Firefox or Opera for use.

                                    Those days are over. With the release of Project Spartan, I don't think you can get away with this joke at all. I remember in Windows 8.1 (or 8), Internet Explorer 10 was not a very much great experience and I didn't even use it to download Google Chrome, I used my previous stand-alone installer. But since this Spartan came (soon it will be Edge; they are working on changing the product name) I have not yet used Google Chrome even once. There are a lot of good things in Spartan, Reading view is one of them. Yesterday I tried it on a CodeProject article, and it was awesome experience. Not just Reading view but the memory benchmark and other similar things. Why not see it yourself[^]? Remember: Spartan has two tabs open, Google Chrome has nothing (sorry if you count "New tab is a tab indeed") open, yet the difference in their memory consumption. I always was a Google Chrome fan, but... I am feeling a change in me. ;) I would definitely not use Google Chrome or Firefox again (unless for design debugging) if Windows 10 amazes me. So, the new joke comes out to be, Google Chrome and Firefox are best browsers to download Microsoft Edge (if they allow). :laugh:

                                    The shit I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem ~! Firewall !~

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                                    James Curran
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                                    For a proper browser memory use comparison, I'd say we'd need one tab with Gmail and one tab with FaceBook (optional, one tab with Pandora, paused) open for 24 hours. Then compare 'em.

                                    Truth, James

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                                      Fair enough, *if* Spartan is significantly better than Firefox or Chrome (at least for your specific purposes) then yes, why wouldn't you switch to it? But that's a big "if". I don't really understand why you seem so desperate to abandon Firefox and Chrome. Most power users will already have the FF or Chrome extensions they want and also use their respective session sync services across machines and devices, and won't suddenly switch to Spartan just because it uses less memory and happens to be the default browser with Windows. If Spartan has a vibrant extension ecosystem, and a session sync service, and an Android/iOS client, and looks nice, and has a decent interface, then I will _consider_ switching to it. But somehow I doubt all that will be the case.

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                                      Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan
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                                      Nope, no matter how long I use Spartan. I would always be a Google Chrome fan and a loyal user. It is just this resolution problem* that is forcing me to use Windows 10. As far as your doubts are concerned, that is still the same. Edge is after all Internet Explorer, with a different UI only. Nothing has been updated, I have not yet found anything, from a developers perspective, to be new. However, from a user's (reader's) perspective there are a few changes. So, it depends on who you are (Developer or user) in order to switch your user-agent! After this, my only wish is that in Windows 10, the pixels are not rendered as per screen resolution. It is just a pain, trust me. *My new laptop has 1920x1080 resolution and thus Google Chrome shows very small fonts. Where as this old laptop of mine has perfect font size and rendering resolution so, I am using Spartan.

                                      The shit I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem ~! Firewall !~

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                                        You call that a browser? This[^] is a browser :)

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                                        CMullikin
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                                        Pssh, this[^] is the only thing I use. :-\

                                        The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin

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                                        • M Marc Clifton

                                          Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote:

                                          So, the new joke comes out to be, Google Chrome and Firefox are best browsers to download Microsoft Edge (if they allow).

                                          I'm sure they'll screw it up somehow. Like adding ads. I mean, come on, they couldn't even figure out that people might find the working name "Spartan" while properly meaning "sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere" more to mean "rigorously simple" as a negative, as in one of Webster's definition "marked by simplicity, frugality, or avoidance of luxury and comfort." Frugal is good. Simple and avoidance of comfort in not so good for a browser's name. Marc

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                                          firegryphon
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                                          You mean they didn't just base the name off of the project that produced Halo's Master Chief? I just figured they were keeping it all in a Halo theme since they have Cortana.

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