Internet Explorer 7

I gots my cookies the other day. Amazing what a cookie will do for your mood.

Of course, you go to the right websites, and you can get loads of cookies...

 

Yeah, that too. I'm not too keen on programs that get their slimy little tentacles all into your registry, like AOL. I used AOL as my first ISP and learned how insidious that crap can be. That was my primary impetus for building my first box, I couldn't find anything that did not come pre-loaded with AOL.

I had a good friend offer to build me a box, but I was skeptical. After he built it, we started to load all the software I wanted and only the software I wanted. Amazing...no more blue screen of death. No more tangled crap software. My system ran quick and flawlessly. Of course, he knew what he was doing, so that made a difference.

Then I started to get real geeky again. Technology rocks.

 

Microsoft would NEVER do anything like that.

 

I'm using Vista Ultimate..IE-7 and like it so far.

I was using FireFox on my old pc which had IE6...Which seemed ok too...untill the thing crashed.(which consequently was right after i upgraded to IE-7)
I hate internet porn when it turns on you.

 

Correct-a-mundo.

MSIE is using a bunch of shared libs already in memory (like the actual rendering engine, for example - it's also used to render folders in windows). Windows sucked up that memory the minute you booted your machine.

The windows process list is only showing you what the actual static executable is using.

So yeah ... the firefox executable is using more memory than MSIE. Because it has to. No way around that.

- Roach

 

Troll.

It's real easy to have a small static binary when 80% of your functionality is already in memory via shared libs that the operating system already loaded.

- Roach

 

i promply removed dat shyt!

 

You missed the wink? You're right about IE using Windows resources available in the OS, but that still doesn't support the argument that Firefox is more streamlined. Much of IE's overhead is already present when you boot, and using an alternative browser won't change that. You already know my position on this, anyway, bloat in current operating systems is totally unnecessary for most common uses today, and that's gonna change.

 

The ultimate Warrior, wow he was the syht b4 Sting came along. I heard they were actually brothers

 

Yup, and I'm 100% in agreement with you. The days of the "Fat" desktop OS are numbered. I think even MS has figured that one out.

I still haven't found a compelling reason for anyone to upgrade to Vista. You?

- Roach

 

Nah, my next new PC will be a Mac. Only reason I will own Vista is if I have a reason to write software that requires it.

 

It's so purdy.