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Which is better: Firefox or Internet Explorer 8?

Why does Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 perform so much better than both Firefox and Chrome?

  • I had already noticed its snappiness on my old Vaio AW , but when I put Windows 8 on my Vaio P, the only browser that could play videos smoothly and let me scroll n browse smoothly heavy sites like http://Pulse.Me was Internet Explorer 10. I wanted to check how Asana did on it, since it fares better on Firefox than on Chrome, but it doesn't seem to like Internet Explorer 10. So anyway, the how did Microsoft end up making IE so snappy? (The usual IE that is, the Metro one sucks, i mean, it won't even let you see your favorites after allowing you to pin your sites, plus the usual one doesn't auto-close). Of course the usual one's lack of Chrome and Firefox quality plugins is an issue, but barebones IE10 seems to wipe floor with barebones Chrome 23? and Firefox 17. I am looking for a developer's/engineer's perspective; someone who knows more about IE10.

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    The latest version of IE has a few advantages over its competitors: Better hang-resistance. IE is more hang-resistant than most browsers, although only slightly better than Chrome (and that gap may have been closed now) [1] Better hardware acceleration and text rendering than Chrome. Chrome's hardware acceleration is still kinda flaky, and it does not use the DirectWrite API, meaning that text is not as smooth as it in IE and Firefox. It is harder work for the Chrome team to compete in this area, because they target a much larger number of platforms, so cannot tie themselves as closely to the underlying Windows APIs as IE does. Better standards support. This might seem like an outrageous claim, but since IE9, it tends to support standards somewhat better than Chrome. Webkit has very wide support for a lot of different HTML and CSS features, but they tend to be buggy and unfinished in places. Conversely, IE supports a narrower group of features, but their implementation tends to more polished and deal better with edge cases. More modern layout engine. The layout engine underlying IE, called Trident, was more-or-less rewritten from scratch for IE9. This allowed the developers to apply what has been learnt in the past decade of browser development and to clear out the cruft inevitably builds up in an old codebase

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I may be not well informed to answer this, but from a web developer perspective the reason you notice Internet Explorer to work smoothly on your computer its mostly because of its tight integration with your operative system.  Many of the components of Internet Explorer are native to the OS and therefore, every call to those component is on the fastest possible when compared to firefox or chrome. By this I am not implying or telling that Firefox or chrome are bad browser, but perhaps in your personal case, Barebone IE cover better your needs than Chrome or Firefox. For more information, you might read the following article: http://www.ghacks.net/2014/01/02/chrome-34-firefox-29-internet-explorer-11-memory-use-2014/ And if you want an online tool to benchmark your browsers you might use this: http://browsermark.rightware.com/

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