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Debsuvra Ghosh

A goddamned nerd, over-twisted geek, cycling on event horizon.

Website : www.techsideofme.com and blogging from www.feelingentity.com

   

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Switching to IE for a week

I am a avid Firefox user since its release of v2 three or four years ago. Being a enthusiast, I did not even mind toying with dev versions of Firefox i.e. Minefield. But now its resource hungry nature is really pissing me off, I really can't stand something when it stalls the whole computer just to play some youtube videos. Since I got a limited bandwidth based internet connection, using any browser does not make sense to me. Kilobytes matter, they are worth their prices. So I used Adblock Plus in Firefox, now nothing else have the same solution.

Finally I decided to test IE8 for a week now. There is a plugin called Adblock Pro for Internet Explorer and it offers almost same functionalities that ABP does. Let's see how it fares against my all time favourite.
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Someone tries to crown IE8 RC1 as best performer in the town

Dana Wollman from www.laptopmag.com tried to convince us by reviewing IE8 RC1 and commenting that it smashed both Firefox 3 and surprisingly Google Chrome. In her own words,

The last time we tested IE 8, it was often—but not always—faster than Firefox 3. This time around, it blew Firefox out of the water, along with Google Chrome

How flattering, I wonder. Firefox 3 and now Google Chrome sports two of the fastest available mainstream rendering engine on this planet, while rickety Trident continues to grow on patches rather than a complete overhaul. And then there are Minefield 3.1 and 3.2Pre (the one I'm using now), and the later likes to beat almost anything in vicinity. Javascript rendering engines, Tracemonkey and Squirelfish are going to take over the world soon. IE8 does not even stand a chance when pitted against this, so much for beating Firefox and Google Chrome.

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MS is too busy to select a proper IE icon

I know MS is a 'BIG' multinational company and they are always busy with their own 'jobs'. But when it comes to development of Internet Explorer (a slowly dying browser, poisoned by Firefox), they should take some extra care to retain its lost share. Now, they even did not have the time to set a proper icon for IE8 RC1, that's disappointing. #FAIL

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