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I switched from Firefox to IE 7 after checking it out and finding that for me it was faster. Today it got really really slow, both with loading pages and rendering. I didn't go to any sites that have spyware as far as I know. I came here and it was fine, then I went to apple.com and it started getting really slow. Scrolling jumps around and the back buttom takes forever to register. It's not the apple site because it took me forever to navigate qbasicnews and post this. What's going on?

Quote:I switched from Firefox to IE 7 after checking it out and finding that for me it was faster. Today it got really really slow, both with loading pages and rendering. I didn't go to any sites that have spyware as far as I know. I came here and it was fine, then I went to apple.com and it started getting really slow. Scrolling jumps around and the back buttom takes forever to register. It's not the apple site because it took me forever to navigate qbasicnews and post this. What's going on?

I've had no problems when going to sites with IE 7. It might just be that your clock speed and memory are too low for the hungry hungry browser. I'm browsing apple without any problems whatsoever except for a slight chopiness since I disabled smooth scrolling.

Rendering plain old pages and navigating in IE 7 seemed plenty fast for me during a quick test; I don't know about JavaScript execution speed or things like that.

Newest browsers tend to be fast with completely standards compliant pages (using DOCTYPE and the rest) and enter "legacy mode" with the older sloppy-coded pages with missing and incorrectly nested tags.

For example this forum page triggers 23 errors in the W3c markup validator http://validator.w3.org/ :roll:

It seems browsers would be smaller apps if they had'nt to be so fault tolerant...and there would be less web authors too :{

Somebody should update all webpages to XHTML.

Wait what am I saying? That would open roads all over for Microsoft to take over... never mind...

Quote:Somebody should update all webpages to XHTML.

Wait what am I saying? That would open roads all over for Microsoft to take over... never mind...

Err, Microsoft has no more control over XHTML than they do over HTML (the X in XHTML is not the same as the X in DirectX). The XHTML standard was drafted by the W3C to try and get rid of the problems with parsing standard HTML. XHTML is based on XML, which again, was not created by Microsoft. Often enough, (at least in my understanding, I'm not a web-guru by a long shot), conforming HTML is usually fairly close to XHTML anyway.

It's all the same thing... Microsoft has plants everywhere, probably in the W3C too...

You might have a bloated cache.

Download and use Cleanup! to clear your cache and temporary files, unlike the cleaning program provided with windows. This gets everything - it saved me 700mb in one run!

Quote:Microsoft has plants everywhere

Hope no one forgot to water them...

Hope they did...