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Microsoft Says IE Faster Than Chrome and Firefox

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-we-all-have-to-design-for-the-broken-thing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to its own speed tests, Microsoft's Internet Explorer loads most websites faster than both Chrome and Firefox when looking at the top 25 websites on the Internet. 'As you can see, IE8 outperforms Firefox 3.05 and Chrome 1.0 in loading 12 websites, Chrome 1.0 places second by loading nine sites first, and Firefox brings up the rear by loading four sites faster than the other two browsers. Also, in case you missed it, IE loads mozilla.com faster than Firefox, and Firefox loads microsoft.com faster than IE, just for kicks.'"

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  1. mozilla.com by Bert64 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ofcourse IE loads mozilla.com faster, that's the only site you'd ever need to open with IE...

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    1. Re:mozilla.com by jellomizer · · Score: 4, Funny

      I would say IE is faster too if I had a fully loaded chair pointed at my head.

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  2. What about rendering ? by wooferhound · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure it loads up sites faster, that's because microsoft left out all the code that renders the web pages properly . . .

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  3. Let me fix this... by Maxim+Kovalenko · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Loads most malware faster?" See, corrected it. It is IE after all ;)

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  4. Re:Riiight, sure. by Chrisq · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now all they need to do is patent "being the fastest" and collect royalties from anyone who beets them.

  5. Visual correcteness matters! by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's true that IE8 loads pages blindingly fast.

    What MS is missing, however, is that not all pages are supposed to be all blue background + some white text at the top.

  6. Re:speed is everything? by EatHam · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's just like I say with sex...

    I may not be good, but at least I'm fast.

  7. Re:But IE8 doesn't work with Slashdot correctly. by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Funny

    Umm... considering how safe, secure and (since recently) stable banks are, I dunno if /. is the worse choice for your money.

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  8. MS also says that .... by Jerry · · Score: 4, Funny

    they didn't stuff the ISO committees, or bribe Nigerian distributors, nor sabotage the OLPC, hide illegal agreements violating the GPL behind NDAs.... and the list goes on and on and on...

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  9. Re:you are not looking by cbiltcliffe · · Score: 4, Funny

    And the emulation is so good, that accessing a floppy drive freezes all activity on the entire machine, simply because the original circa 1980 IBM PC power supply was only capable of supplying 87.5 Watts.

    There's a limit to how far you should go with backwards compatibility.

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  10. Re:you are not looking by Xtravar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Games? Here's a dollar, kid. Go buy yourself a nice candy bar while the adults talk.

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  11. Re:you are not looking by Xtravar · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Fun"? Unix terminals are "fun". Now get the fuck off my lawn!

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  12. Re:You can dream by twistedsymphony · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes a local Fox station clearly shows Firefox. The OS is not shown.

    oh no! don't say that! slashdot's readship will be more than halved as all those who hate Fox News but love Firefox will suffer from exploding head syndrome.

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