2w ago

Independence Day

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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?
- IE was really bad for web compatibility in that it really did not properly support the specs.
  Ignoring that, I’ve found any browser you don’t normally use is a lot snappier only because you don’t have any extensions installed
- opera was the fastest of the bunch.
  
  I remember opera features were wild. At some point they cached websites on their servers to load them faster, they had a builtin torrent client, they automatically created mobile versions of pages, probably more I'm not remembering
  
  They’ll never live down (to me at least) that they tried to charge money for a web browser.
- I remember trying to create websites with some fancy features that would work on all the major browsers. Every time i looked up some browser functionality it would basically say "supported by all major browsers except IE", like every goddamn time
  IE was waaay behind in functionality, but yeah it wasn't particularly slow from what i can recall
  
  I remember having an extension in Firefox that would open up the page in IE so you could check it easily. 9 times out of 10 IE broke something
- Well when it was just IE, Netscape and Opera... IE was the best browser. It won. Hands down.
  
  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.

Indepedence
- This bothers me more than it should
- Happy Indepedence Day! Because you can write "independence" without three Ns!

What's IE?
- Internet Explorer, the ancient internet browser from microsot that does not spy on you, unlike Chrome

How do you write Autonomy with Safari and Chrome ?

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