Is IE9 a modern browser?

Re:Is IE9 a modern browser? by ootachi on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @02:56PM (#2222945)

"Secondly, when it comes to performance, IE has been getting better with every version while Firefox has been getting worse."

Your point about the lack of out-of-process tabs is legitimate, but I'm unsure as to how Firefox is getting worse. Could you elaborate? As far as I can tell, Firefox 4 is better than 3.6 in terms of performance on virtually every measure.

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Re:Is IE9 a modern browser? by burgerbrain on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @02:58PM (#2222968)

I haven't used other browsers besides Firefox in years, so I'm not qualified to provide a comparison. What I can say is that on the "profanity uttered"/"hour of usage" metric, Firefox has been getting much worse. Hell, I used to praise it.

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Re:Is IE9 a modern browser? by Joeri on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @05:43PM (#2223715)

Have you tried creating a new profile? In my experience, firefox needs a fresh profile every now and then or it becomes horribly slow.

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Re:Is IE9 a modern browser? by ootachi on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @03:08PM (#2223026)

Have you used Firefox 4, and if so, do you have things in particular that are slow?

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Re:Is IE9 a modern browser? by burgerbrain on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @03:10PM (#2223035)

Not slow, just breaky. Now, 3.6.13, which I use the majority of the time, is both.

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