[Osiris]

Source Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Comparison Chart

Microsoft has published a comparison chart that compares Internet Explorer with Mozilla Firefox and the Google Browser Google Chrome in categories such as security, privacy, compatibility and ease of use. It is not clear when the comparison chart was published but it made the rounds on Reddit earlier today. A comparison chart created by the developer of one of the web browsers that are part of the comparison is surely not the best way to get an objective opinion and result of the capabilities of the web browsers.
What Microsoft did goes one step further as the results look beyond belief even for inexperience users or die hard Internet Explorer fans. To put it plainly: Internet Explorer 8 beats Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome in seven of the ten categories including security, privacy, reliability and ease of use.

[Trotter]

I had to actually go and look at the chart. ROFL! it's as close to a joke as anything I have ever read.

Like privacy. It fails to mention that Firefox offers the same kind of private browsing. On ease of use it includes the use of web slices and accelerators but doesn't includes add-ons for Firefox. Recovery claims that tab isolation is a good thing, but having each instance of a tab be a separate process eating up RAM is not the way to do it. And of course IE is more compatible than any other browser... MS forced that issue through their "standards" they have pushed on the world.

[Mak213]

Sorry but i cant agree with you statements.

The Tab as its own process is a good thing actually. Because if a single tab is affecting your system you can see it reflected in the Task Manager and shut down just that tab. Not have to shut down the whole browser and possibly lose work. Which is very convenient.

M$ does force their standards. Because they are following the same standards as Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome are now with the Acid2 test pass and trying to get Acid3 test to pass next. Those standards are set forth by the W3C not Microsoft. So if IE8 is compatible with more sites it is cause those site are still using old code which is not M$'s fault but the fault of the web master for not making the site up to standards.

I am not trying to defend IE cause i dont even load it up on my PC. But at the same time Microsoft has bent over to try and help Firefox users by making their site compatible with their browser but not making it compatible with Opera, Safari or Chrome. Which goes to show you that Firefox has bad standards allowed just as much as IE if you can use M$ sites in the browser.

In the end it is the web masters. They dont bother to follow the standards set forth. They dont follow what the W3C says and it is cause of them that sites have issues. there are very few sites out there that i can say look the same in every browser. That is just poor coding on the site since all the borwsers i have installed at least pass the Acid2 test for CSS compatibility.