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Fred Bloggs replied

14 June 2009, 12:59
Originally posted by xoggoth View Post

Still no built in optimised porn search engine I see. Bah.
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xoggoth replied

14 June 2009, 08:28
Still no built in optimised porn search engine I see. Bah.
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Fred Bloggs replied

14 June 2009, 07:50
Originally posted by FiveTimes View Post

and it has a privacy mode just like chrome

cntrl shift p.

Hmmm, what's that do, mask your true IP address, or just not log your surfing history?
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FiveTimes replied

13 June 2009, 07:59
and it has a privacy mode just like chrome

cntrl shift p.
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NickFitz replied

12 June 2009, 14:11
Originally posted by Grinder View Post

Talking of rendering, does IE still screw up transparent colours?

Do you mean PNG alpha channels? They fixed that in IE 7

Last edited by NickFitz; 13 June 2009, 15:51. Reason: Left some stray text in there
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Fred Bloggs replied

12 June 2009, 07:06
Originally posted by Peoplesoft bloke View Post

Thanks for this - downloaded IE 8 and it is a big improvement over 7

Agreed. IE8 is a very good browser indeed I reckon, now.
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Sysman replied

11 June 2009, 22:12
Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post

Well, that was bollocks - it was released yesterday, and it's very shiny and very quick.

The only thing I don't like about it is the load progress thingy. I'd got used to not seeing it and now it's come back I find it distracting.
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Peoplesoft bloke replied

11 June 2009, 21:04
Thanks for this - downloaded IE 8 and it is a big improvement over 7
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TheRefactornator replied

10 June 2009, 07:34
Originally posted by TheRefactornator View Post

..but what's with the 'beta forever' concept that has crept in and seems to be the norm for systems at present?

Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post

Well, that was bollocks - it was released yesterday, and it's very shiny and very quick.

I take that back, well done Apple for actually getting some software out the door. It has some nice ideas and it does appear rapid, but I don't like it at the moment..it might grow on me.
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Grinder replied

9 June 2009, 21:59
Talking of rendering, does IE still screw up transparent colours?
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Moscow Mule replied

9 June 2009, 21:24
Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post

Safari 4 won't come out of beta until Snow Leopard is released.

Well, that was bollocks - it was released yesterday, and it's very shiny and very quick.
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Moscow Mule replied

8 June 2009, 02:37
Originally posted by TheRefactornator View Post

Yes it gets good reports, but what's with the 'beta forever' concept that has crept in and seems to be the norm for systems at present? Wasn't Safari 4 beta released ages ago? And it's not just shrink wrapped software because the big vendors including Google and Microsoft are also at it with their web offerings. I find it a bit irritating.

Safari 4 won't come out of beta until Snow Leopard is released.

Gmail is still in beta - which I don't find irritating, just amusing...
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TheRefactornator replied

7 June 2009, 22:32
Originally posted by Sysman View Post

I've been using the beta of Safari 4.0 for a while now (on my Mac), and am definitely impressed with its speed. It appears to refresh only the parts of a screen which change, like a well designed Ajax site, but even when Javascript is disabled.

Yes it gets good reports, but what's with the 'beta forever' concept that has crept in and seems to be the norm for systems at present? Wasn't Safari 4 beta released ages ago? And it's not just shrink wrapped software because the big vendors including Google and Microsoft are also at it with their web offerings. I find it a bit irritating.

For what it's worth Safari 4.0 beta is at the top of the performance pile averaged out over all browser benchmark tests performed here: http://service.futuremark.com/peacek...tistics.action
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Sysman replied

7 June 2009, 20:51
Originally posted by TheRefactornator View Post

Apparently Safari has a very fast rendering engine and Chrome uses the same engine. Maybe you can try a browser benchmark test on your own system to see which wins for you - here is one if you want to give it a try: http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/index.action

I've been using the beta of Safari 4.0 for a while now (on my Mac), and am definitely impressed with its speed. It appears to refresh only the parts of a screen which change, like a well designed Ajax site, but even when Javascript is disabled.
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minestrone replied

7 June 2009, 18:08
Originally posted by Fred Bloggs View Post

Hmmm, I'll have to see how I get along with this-

http://www.iespell.com/

Doesn't check as you type, as far as I can see.

I use that, have done for years, I am dsylexic.

It seems to have lost the ability to highlight the text that you are checking in IE8.

Really good wee product though.
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