Microsoft to Set IE8 Apart From Chrome by Giving It Twice the Bloat

[ray|raven]

^Thanx , i knew smthin went wrong when the install was stuck and i killed it

 

[narangz]

Oh. The setup couldn't update the registry properly, I guess.

 

[naveen_reloaded]

Isnt unfair to compare a released version vs beta version?

Anyway opera is very light compared to firefox or ie8 beta...

And i thing its time we appreciate the work of ms for giving something good rather than more bloated version...,

Opera ftw

 

[Krazy_About_Technology]

I donno should i post it here or not, but did anybody noticed that in IE8B2, if you right click the toolbar (any one) and select customize, you get an option to move the stop and reload button to the left of address bar?

 

[RCuber]

^^ Already there in Opera

 

[MetalheadGautham]

@ray|raven: Well, atleast on MY system, midori is not at all as nice in performance as expected. It hangs when opening multiple tabs, it has a horrible interface, and its only as fast as firefox.

As for opera, try installing the Opera QT4 version from the KDEmod-extragear repository in Arch linux and tell me how it feels. And yeah, use a rig with 256MB DDR RAM and a 2.66GHz Pentium 4

 

[comp@ddict]

shoo tommy

looooooooooooooollllllllllllzzzzzzzzz

 

[hellknight]

To hell with these all GUI browsers.. Lynx and W3M, here I come

 

[chesss]

I donno should i post it here or not, but did anybody noticed that in IE8B2, if you right click the toolbar (any one) and select customize, you get an option to move the stop and reload button to the left of address bar?

WOW WHAT AN AMAZING FEATURE!!!
THIS IS PROOF THAT INTERNET EXPLORER IS THE BEST BROSAR EVAR!! SOO CUSTOMIZABLE AND FULL OF INNOVATIVE FEATURES.
NOW I JUST HOPE THEY REINTRODUCE IE5 FEATURES LIKE AUTOINSTALLING TOOLBARS AND FREE PORN POP-UPS

Opera has a rather LARGE interface,

Use This Slim skin
If you want more try these steps:
disable status bar && enable progressbar to popup at bottom.
U can disable the menu bar & Grab a menu button
Heck its possible to use a single toolbar config in Opera.

 

[krates]

^^^ lol

 

[chandru.in]

How dare a beta Software from a company called Microsoft give Memory Leak error????

Isn't chrome in beta too?

How dare they make a beta browser without leaking memory when Microsoft can't?

 

[hellknight]

@chandru.. arey to to bada chandraa nikla re

+10^100

and btw.. Mozilla Firefox came out in its first full version Firefox 1.0 after quite a few months.. it didn't had any leaking memory !!

 

[iMav]

Question: How did Mozilla plug Firefox 2 memory leak issues in Firefox 3?
Answer: By making sure Firefox 3 consumes outrageous amounts of memory from the beginning itself!

 

[chandru.in]

Firefox 150MB? A bit of googling on how much of a memory hog Firefox 3 is will put thing sin perspective. I am a full time Firefox 3 user on OS X; Ubuntu & Vista and it has even clocked 250MB + for 2 tabs.

And consumes around 1GB virtual memory on OS X.

Whoa! Please please please tell me how you achieved this.

With 14 tabs (including GMail, Google Reader, few Digit Forum pages and few Orkut forum pages) open, mine is not exceeding 82 MB. I have Ubuntu's default add-on enabled. Firebug is installed byut disabled during normal browsing. I enable it only when debugging my own pages.

 

[Hitboxx]

/me thinks Either iMav is just blatantly lying or making conversation just for the sake of it. Show us the proof please.

And one theory I might have for the consumption of memory(on any browser) is it also depends for how long the browser is running. Say its 24hours uptime for the browser with all types of pages/media going into the cache, then it is quite possible for just two tabs to consume that amount of RAM.

 

[iMav]

CHeck out the web dude! It is a well accepted fact that Firefox 3 is a resource hog and trust me don't give me that crap of it consumes so and so amount of RAM on your system. I am a full time user of Firefox on Ubuntu; OS X & Vista. On all 3 platforms the amount of resources the browser consumes is outrageous and search google you will find a lot of people face the same.

PS: On OS X Firefox consumes 900MB to 1GB virtual memory with 3 tabs.

Here are some links on the web:

*www.pcmech.com/article/firefox-3-hogs-memory-like-crazy/

Here's your beloved Ubuntu:

*neosmart.net/blog/2008/firefox-3-is-still-a-memory-hog/

Here was another discussion on a forum where many have reported their insane RAM usages and some have normal usage:

*forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/1003816.html

There are many links these, I went through a lot of blogs/sites/forums to find a solution to this problem, but in vain, that is the only reason why I will switch to Chrome once it get's a stable release on all platforms and will have extensions, till then I am bearing Firefox's antics.

 

[chandru.in]

And did you bother to read the comments in second URL?

A couple of blog posts claiming high memory usage vs several more comments claiming it is not so. Sounds like a weird proof to me.

 

[Pat]

PS: On OS X Firefox consumes 900MB to 1GB virtual memory with 3 tabs.

An illegal, community-hacked, unsupported OS is a right way to compare

 

[iMav]

An illegal, community-hacked, unsupported OS is a right way to compare

When you know of things and are certain, it is advised then one should try to be sarcastic, until then one should sit by the sidelines and let others do the talking.

 

[Hitboxx]

Anyways here is my current usage, system and Firefox, both have been up for almost 10 hours and it has just touched 200mb now, see for yourself. This is 64bit FF3.1 on my 64bit Fedora 9.

*www.imgx.org/pthumbs/large/10964/ffx.png

And I think we should stop this discussion right here as we are getting off topic now. Probably continue in that Browser war thread :=)