Can someone confirm or deny, I remember using IE and it was fast, like faster then Chrome and Firefox. I think this was around WinXP or Win7? I remember loading up large websites and comparing speeds with the other browsers.

Chrome looked better, sleeker with animations and tabs, but slightly slower. IE looked like ass, some sites were broken, and maybe some features weren't supported?

The IE = slowpoke memes never made sense to me because of this. Maybe it got slower later, Win7 or win10?

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

IE was really bad for web compatibility in that it really did not properly support the specs.

Ignoring that, I’ve found any browser you don’t normally use is a lot snappier only because you don’t have any extensions installed

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

opera was the fastest of the bunch.

[–] Vince@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I remember opera features were wild. At some point they cached websites on their servers to load them faster, they had a builtin torrent client, they automatically created mobile versions of pages, probably more I'm not remembering