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Does anyone get the feeling that we are being led like lambs to the slaughter by the likes of MS and Google? Use our browser, use our operating system, use our apps and store everything in our cloud..you can trust us ..honestly!!! Yeah right...
Using chrome and firefox, chrome 'feels' way faster than firefox
Print preview isn't an issue for me as I use the preview in the print driver as a final check before print .
Not all drivers will have the option but I think a lot do, although it's often buried deep in the options menu
I can't argue with alfranatic's post. And I agree with BlueBear about chrome being faster than FF (which in time will change as more extensions become available, IMHO
As for PrintPreview
If you need it so bad, just get the extension IETab for Chrome, open the page you'd like to print in IETab, right-click and there is your Print Preview
Like this:
which leads to this:
-DG
For my own tests, using SunSpider, FF pre 8 was 3x faster than 3.6.12, with accelerator enabled. Not quite as fast with accelerator disabled. Chome 8 beta was better by 100ms than pre8. And I don't have Opera installed to test. I don't care what browser you use, we all win when they compete head-on.
**EDIT** Oh, and I tested pre-9 with no add ons, same for Chrome.
Just one point, as far as I.E.9 is concerned:-
As far as I know, the "main competition", Firefox and Chrome, is available for all Windows, Mac and Linux.
Safari is available for all Windows(?) and for Macs of course.
My understanding is that Internet Explorer 9 is available only for Vista and Windows 7, which at the moment is about 30% of all users.
Obviously, Microsoft know their own business best, but to me this seems to be a possible restriction on IE9 adoption.
It's all part of Microsoft's plan to kill off Xp. The old software dinosaur, which was developed way back in the '90s, that has over 60% of the PC Market Share.
This is a huge problem for Microsoft as they always want PCs to be upgraded to the latest version of Windows (in this case Windows 7), so they can get a steady (and big) money revenue stream.
Part of the plan to move everybody off XP is to stop distributing Microsoft's popular free software to XP. This is why Windows Live Essentials 2011 and IE 9 can only be used on Vista or 7. I'm sure in the future other Microsoft program will become Vista/7 only.