Tag: internet explorer 8

  • Microsoft Vista performance issues

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    Tom Raftery
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    Vista is buggy. That much is obvious to anyone who runs it but it has been improving in stability as the patches are rolled out. However it runs extremely slowly too and this became startlingly obvious to me in the last few weeks as I have been testing browsers on different platforms. It turns out…

  • Firefox 3.0b4 review

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    Tom Raftery
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    Firefox 3.0b4 was released overnight and it is a significant improvement over the already superb 3.0b3! The browser space is really improving of late, what with the release of the surprisingly good Internet Explorer 8 beta, the nightly Webkit releases, and now Firefox 3.0b4. I ran Firefox 3.0b4 through the Sunspider browser speed test and…

  • Internet Explorer 8 (Beta) released

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    Tom Raftery
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    Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 Beta yesterday and, surprisingly, it seems to be quite a good browser! I say surprisingly because Microsoft don’t have a track record in the good browser market 😉 I wrote a post a few weeks back comparing the speeds of various browsers and Microsoft’s current browser, Internet Explorer 7, was…

  • Will 2008 be the year of the standards compliant browser?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Microsoft announced yesterday on the Internet Explorer blog that the next version of Internet Explorer (IE8) will correctly render the Acid2 test page. See the excellent Channel 9 video for more. The Acid2 test is a test of a browser’s ability to properly render CSS and HTML. From the Acid2 Wikipedia page: The Acid2 test…