Tried 64 bit Chrome for a month...

[Carfax83]

And I'm back to IE 11. Chrome 64 bit version 39 to be precise, is an excellent browser. But it's not as fast as IE 11 from my experience.

IE 11's hardware acceleration is just unmatched. Web pages load very quickly, noticeably faster than Chrome, and they scroll smoother as well. Also I prefer IE 11's spell checker, which has an auto correct feature..

Chrome seemed to struggle on web pages with lots of gifs for some reason. Maybe it's a bug, but IE 11 never had an issue with gifs at all.

Anyone tried the 64 bit Chrome browser? What were your impressions? I haven't tried Firefox in a while, so maybe I'll try that one next.

 

[taq8ojh]

If you want to try Firefox and are into 64bit, you might give Pale Moon a shot.

 

[Carfax83]

Interesting. I never even heard of Pale Moon, so I'll look into it..

 

[Fayd]

If you want to try Firefox and are into 64bit, you might give Pale Moon a shot.

tried that, went back to strait firefox. (actually, on the nightlies, but strait enough firefox.)

 

[sswingle]

I'm pretty happy with Waterfox, which is identical to Firefox except 64 bit.

 

[tweakboy]

I use FIrefox with neat plugins and I use Chrome as well. Both are pretty much same performance. gl

 

[Virgorising]

Well, jus caught this. I agree, IE 11 is best build yet of IE, but as of now, for subjective reasons, I am hanging in with Pale Moon.

I just found this, not current, far before E11 and benchmarks were run in W7 (I run W7 64-bit).....but I still found it interesting.

https://www.waterfoxproject.org/

 

[Carfax83]

Well, jus caught this. I agree, IE 11 is best build yet of IE, but as of now, for subjective reasons, I am hanging in with Pale Moon.

I don't know how IE 11's hardware acceleration is so much better than the competition, but I suspect it has something to do with Microsoft owning Direct3D. Their expertise and skill with Direct3D over the years has surely given them a better handle when it comes to exploiting and understanding GPUs.

I just found this, not current, far before E11 and benchmarks were run in W7 (I run W7 64-bit).....but I still found it interesting.

https://www.waterfoxproject.org/

Actually the benchmarks did include IE 11. But I've learned not to pay much attention to benchmarks..

Chrome has the best benchmarks of any browser, but IE 11 loads web pages and it's scrolling speed is significantly faster..

IE 11 also launches faster as well, compared to Chrome.

 

[Virgorising]

I don't know how IE 11's hardware acceleration is so much better than the competition, but I suspect it has something to do with Microsoft owning Direct3D. Their expertise and skill with Direct3D over the years has surely given them a better handle when it comes to exploiting and understanding GPUs.

I did not know they owned Direct3D!!! My God, they are like LOCUSTS.

Actually the benchmarks did include IE 11. But I've learned not to pay much attention to benchmarks.

I missed it, cause I sped thru it, given I've made my decision re sticking with PM unless the developer does something even crazier than he did with 25.

Actually the benchmarks did include IE 11. But I've learned not to pay much attention to benchmarks..

I feel the same mostly, cept with CPUs. I have come to trust my subjective take more than most benchmarks.

But the second Google crossed the line re privacy invasion....I dumped everything Google including Chrome. That was very long ago. I do, tho adore android re phones and ebook readers. K....also Google maps.

 

[inf1nity]

If you want to try Firefox and are into 64bit, you might give Pale Moon a shot.

A good browser, but they have stopped using Mozilla's code, so you might have problems with a few websites.

gmail told me that my browser was outdated when i was using to Palemoon. Now i switched to Cyberfox and its fine!

 

[dinker99]

Another vote here for Pale Moon

 

[taq8ojh]

A good browser, but they have stopped using Mozilla's code, so you might have problems with a few websites.

gmail told me that my browser was outdated when i was using to Palemoon. Now i switched to Cyberfox and its fine!

Well that's not - if I understand it correctly - Pale Moon's fault, but rather websites not using any browser detection methods at all, and only check the IDs or whatever they are.
From the release notes of the latest version:

Added a "Firefox compatibility mode" selection in Options -> Advanced.
This mode is enabled by default (reluctantly so), because too many websites (including some very big players who, themselves, promote an Open Web...) still use very poor browser detection methods based on arbitrary User Agent string comparisons, not catering to alternative browsers, and the resulting user experience being poor (being presented with mobile site layouts, broken pages, or even being flat-out refused service because someone exercises freedom of choice for web browser used). This should alleviate most, if not all, issues with browser-discriminating websites.

 

[ninaholic37]

IE 11's hardware acceleration is just unmatched. Web pages load very quickly, noticeably faster than Chrome, and they scroll smoother as well.

How many computers did you test this on? Just the 1?

It says here that Chrome disabled smooth scrolling recently in Windows and you need either Linux or an extension like this or this to enable it ? I don't have Chrome so someone else will have to confirm if this is true.

 

[Carfax83]

How many computers did you test this on? Just the 1?

I only tested it on my computer. Loading MSI Afterburner and surfing, it becomes obvious that IE 11 uses the GPU a lot more than Chrome..

It says here that Chrome disabled smooth scrolling recently in Windows and you need either Linux or an extension like this or this to enable it ? I don't have Chrome so someone else will have to confirm if this is true.

Why on Earth would they disable smooth scrolling?

 

[Revolution 11]

The Chrome team has made some weird decisions before. If they are the future of web browsing, yuck.

 

[Virgorising]

Another vote here for Pale Moon

Yay! I try not to be a browser slut.()

 

[Berryracer]

And I'm back to IE 11. Chrome 64 bit version 39 to be precise, is an excellent browser. But it's not as fast as IE 11 from my experience.

IE 11's hardware acceleration is just unmatched. Web pages load very quickly, noticeably faster than Chrome, and they scroll smoother as well. Also I prefer IE 11's spell checker, which has an auto correct feature..

Chrome seemed to struggle on web pages with lots of gifs for some reason. Maybe it's a bug, but IE 11 never had an issue with gifs at all.

Anyone tried the 64 bit Chrome browser? What were your impressions? I haven't tried Firefox in a while, so maybe I'll try that one next.

I have also stopped using IE since IE9, then recently tried it after being a Pale Moon / Firefox / Cyberfox user for a long time and I was blown away at how much better the hardware acceleration works in IE. It really does. In the Firefox variants, scrolling is not smooth at all and seems like my graphics driver isn't even installed. When I go to about:support in Firefox I do see that Direct3D and all other graphic enhancements are set to TRUE, but even after 33 versions of Firefox, Mozilla can't get it right, their hardware acceleration purely sucks and as such, scrolling, or loading a page full of images is very jerky and slow compared to IE.

Chrome is better but the smooth scrolling also sucks, it's not as jerky as Firefox but nowhere near the buttery smoothness of IE.

Thus, I have recently switched to IE and every thing works better, webpages load instantly with 0 lag. There is a 1 to 2 sec lag before Firefox starts loading the page. chrome has the same snapiness in browsing but then it has a lot of shortfalls like no WYSIWYG editor for older vBulletin 3 forums, and again, I hate its interface, its bookmarks manager, everything about it pretty much I can never get used to. IE strikes a good balance and I didn't use it before since there was no adblocker for it, now that I started using AdGuard, no more ads in ANY browser without even installing an extension, it works so great

 

[TheRyuu]

My problem with IE has always been the availability of extensions. I only use two extensions in Chrome (uBlock and HTTPS everywhere). Now ublock isn't available outside of Chrome but there is always ABP (which is worse than ublock but will still get the job done). Lack of HTTPS Everywhere is the main problem as I don't think there are any alternatives for that.

Every browser for me has always been fast enough so it comes down to features. If I had to rate them against each other it would be Chrome (64-bit) > IE11 > Firefox. For me Firefox or anything based on it is ruled out of consideration for me due to the lack of sandboxing. I'm not sure how high they rate security but their actions seem to indicate they don't consider it to be a major priority (64-bit support? sandboxed processes? ppapi support?). Sure they may lead the way with privacy but why should I have to give up security to get it. Configure Chrome correctly and there shouldn't be any privacy issues.