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?

[–] Wojwo@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Well when it was just IE, Netscape and Opera... IE was the best browser. It won. Hands down.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It won but it was not the best browser. It was slower, and never fully met web standards. Many sites had to write different formatting code for IE specifically. It was a nightmare from the back end.

[–] Wojwo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, but it just worked better. I remember doing all the cludges and hacks for IE. The bad taste in my mouth is still largely the reason I hate doing web ui work.

It's interesting to see the similarities between the market when IE was king and now with chrome. I prefer to use Firefox, but there are just so many sites that only work with chrome. Etc.

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