Internet Explorer Joke
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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 !~
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.
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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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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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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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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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
You and your fancy pictures. Lynx is superior. :laugh:
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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 !~
Do you remember when IE3.0 became the first fully rendered graphical browser to give full capability to browse completely with only a keyboard? Those were the days.
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Do you remember when IE3.0 became the first fully rendered graphical browser to give full capability to browse completely with only a keyboard? Those were the days.
You can still browser the internet using only a keyboard. I do. :laugh: Sadly enough, it is Google Chrome that I am using right now. :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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You can still browser the internet using only a keyboard. I do. :laugh: Sadly enough, it is Google Chrome that I am using right now. :sigh:
The shit I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem ~! Firewall !~
Sure, but IE3 was the first to do it, when Microsoft was actually working hard to get the user base. Mosaic and Netscape both botched up until then and left lots of stuff unnavigable. This weekend, a friend couldn't find the mouse for his HTPC, so I was just happily doing all of the surfing with the keyboard (which didn't have a context menu key, so shift+F10 a lot). Then I hit the requisite Bonjour(Zconf) install and had to actually plug in his notebook's mouse. Sad day.
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Sure, but IE3 was the first to do it, when Microsoft was actually working hard to get the user base. Mosaic and Netscape both botched up until then and left lots of stuff unnavigable. This weekend, a friend couldn't find the mouse for his HTPC, so I was just happily doing all of the surfing with the keyboard (which didn't have a context menu key, so shift+F10 a lot). Then I hit the requisite Bonjour(Zconf) install and had to actually plug in his notebook's mouse. Sad day.
Totally accurate words, but not just Microsoft every company tries their best to get a user base, once they get a few users. They convert them self into some laboratory and keep testing and experimenting on their user base. :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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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 !~
:~ Microsoft Edge? X| :wtf: Yer FIRED! :mad:
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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 !~
You forgot the joke icon.
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