What’s IE?
Can someone confirm or deny, I remember using IE and it was fast, like faster then Chrome and Firefox. I think this was around WinXP or Win7? I remember loading up large websites and comparing speeds with the other browsers.
Chrome looked better, sleeker with animations and tabs, but slightly slower. IE looked like ass, some sites were broken, and maybe some features weren’t supported?
The IE = slowpoke memes never made sense to me because of this. Maybe it got slower later, Win7 or win10?
opera was the fastest of the bunch.
I remember opera features were wild. At some point they cached websites on their servers to load them faster, they had a builtin torrent client, they automatically created mobile versions of pages, probably more I’m not remembering
There was also a built in webserver, email client, irc client. I was quite sad when they sold out and became yet another chrome clone. Vivadli carries on the spirit, but i’ve since switched to firefox purely because i dont want the web to be dominated by chromium.
They’ll never live down (to me at least) that they tried to charge money for a web browser.
I mean… so did Netscape.
Indepedence
Happy Indepedence Day! Because you can write “independence” without three Ns!
This bothers me more than it should
