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Old 19-06-2004, 00:07   #23
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Re: Why you should dump IE.
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Originally Posted by Jerrek
I see no reason to switch. IE provides everything I need. The only standard that I see is the IE standard.
Except that MS are members of the W3C and supposedly should have a good idea of what the standard is.

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If it can't be displayed in IE, it isn't worth viewing or visiting. If a page doesn't display correctly in IE, I skip over it.
I do the same, but the other way around

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Originally Posted by Russ D
The day Firefox matches IE for speed is the day I'll swap. I tried the current version and it's about 4 or 5 seconds slower than IE.
One day I'm going to have to sit down and compile firefox with performance metrics enabled and compare the two, but from what I've seen on my newly compiled 0.9 it's at least as fast as I remember IE being (especially IE on XP).
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