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1. David Anyanwu

   
   Posted on: February 03, 2009 at 2:13AM  

   I wish/hope this is available for Firefox.
2. adcworks

   
   Posted on: February 03, 2009 at 2:43AM  

   it's a pretty nice idea, just a shame that IE is too slow. speed and lightweight > features for me. perhaps if IE could be made as fast as Chrome or FF I would consider switching back. Until then we have vista/w7 desktop gadgets for this stuff, one click to minimize all windows to see them all at once.
3. irfaan7

   
   Posted on: February 03, 2009 at 3:37AM  

   Honestly I used to be a heavy user of IE7, but slowly I realized that how slow IE7 was compared to Firefox. I m not even comparing in terms of loading pages but launching the browser. And the experience I have for IE8. I try to use it often in Win7 beta but then I get attracted to Firefox whenever there is a delay in IE8 browser launching. I hope this gets fixed as I really want to use IE8 as my primary browser because of its few new features
4. marcpodi

   
   Posted on: February 03, 2009 at 5:05AM  

   im happy with live bookmarks in firefox.
5. đ€ฬ€ℓ0p€я

   
   Posted on: February 03, 2009 at 7:41AM  

   Hi.

   For My is Best İnternet Explorer X :-)

   Coming Soon , I Want to Make a Questionnaire , For İNTERNET Explorer, Firefox , and Opera .. : -)

   See You , My Friend's...
6. Brandon LeBlanc

   

   
   Posted on: February 03, 2009 at 2:50PM  

   adcworks, have you tried IE8 RC1? It's pretty fast.
7. adcworks

   
   Posted on: February 03, 2009 at 3:58PM  

   @brandon

   i did indeed and you're right it's definately nippier than the beta was and i am so happy to see the developer tools, but head to head with chrome, both with totally cleared caches, chrome booted microsoft.com in 1-2s and ie8 booted it in about 3-4s and in general browsing the net is still slightly snappier in chrome. i am going to give ie8 some testing.

   btw, ie8 threw an error for the microsoft.com homepage on first attempt as copied below but chrome degraded gracefully but is now working on subsequent attempts with ie8.

   Webpage Script Errors

   User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506)

   Timestamp: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 21:55:31 UTC

   Message: 'Silverlight' is undefined

   Line: 12

   Char: 77

   Code: 0

   URI: www.microsoft.com/.../js.ashx

   Message: 'Silverlight' is undefined

   Line: 12

   Char: 77

   Code: 0

   URI: www.microsoft.com/.../js.ashx
8. yert

   
   Posted on: February 03, 2009 at 10:14PM  

   Plus it gets old having to wait for the next version of IE to go gold.

   Honestly, I get impatient with Microsoft sometimes for being so slow with IE development (I know it is hard to develop and deploy, especially with Microsoft's business commitments, but Microsoft is such a large company, you'd think they could just throw programmers at the problem even if this scenario doesn't work in real life most of the time) even though it is much faster then it was back in the IE6 days, especially since wonderful products like the Windows Live Essentials bundle work so well and get upgrades so often.

   Of course, the IE8 team isn't failing to innovate (especially with the separate processes to protect against crashing feature that Chrome blatantly nabbed; I was so happy when they did however, because seeing it in more browsers is cool). But they are moving very slow, and there is the feeling of the Vista development happening, where Vista announced a ton of cool features a long time before its launch, and by the time it got out, the competition had stolen all the features and then pretended that Vista had copied it.

   In short, it is very, very frustrating, even with the great rivalries between the Firefox and IE teams (I love it when they exchange cake). IE8 RC1 is nice, but I expect more from Microsoft (even if I like webslices, accelerators/activities/whatever, etc.), and I expect it now.
9. Quarem

   
   Posted on: February 04, 2009 at 10:38AM  

   I agree with a lot of the sentiments already posted here.  IE, even version 8 RC 1, is too sluggish.  In terms of page loading, layout, and UI responsiveness IE is significantly behind Firefox and Chrome.  

   Innovation has slowed to a trickle in the development of IE.  If you compare it to other browsers there is very little to differentiate it (web slices only come to mind), and most of IE's other features are done better by other browsers.  I am using Chrome right now, with Live Search as my default search provider, and it's amazingly responsive, with a crisp elegant UI, and screaming fast page-loading.

   Maybe IE 8 will be good enough to stop the steady user migration to other browsers, but it's certainly not good enough to attract people that have left IE back.
10. Scutterman

    
    Posted on: February 05, 2009 at 7:35AM  

    For the people who are torn between the slices of IE8 and the speed of Firefox I will make it easier for you. I stumbled upon a firefox labs addon called Ubiquity. It basically does what the slices do and more, except you get a command window rather than a favourites folder. Check out the video for a better demonstration:

    labs.mozilla.com/.../ubiquity

    And the main page is:

    http://ubiquity.mozilla.com/

    It's still in alpha stages at the moment, but it seems to work well, and the map, weather, email (just google for now I'm afraid) and translate commands (to name just a few) really save time, and the possibility of developing and sharing custom commands is really cool.