Internet Explorer needs a overhaul
Internet Explorer is getting a bit long in the tooth. Forget all the security flaws (who cares? Every browser has them), but the bugs in the engine is seriously pissing me off.
The first one is the stupid rendering engine wait-for-pictures-to-load-before-displaying-entire-pages bug (as last seen on Netscape 4). IE will sometimes wait to download a picture that's at the top of the page and not display text at least in the rest of the page, even though the HTML file has clearly been loaded. Try it yourself. Next time IE seems to not load anything more for a while, press STOP and watch as the rest of the page magically appears. IE never did this before, it was Netscape (which was one of the reasons I switched).
The second one is a really stupid flaw. I like to browse multiple pages at the same time a lot. Especially when I'm on NewsNow with their multiple headlines that are all clickable. Sometimes, a webpage will take a long time to appear in one of those windows but what does IE do? Yes it stops the other windows from completing displaying the window. So many times I've had to close the offending window that contains the webpage that refuses to come up just to get the other webpages in other windows to finish. Sometimes this doesn't work and I have to close every single IE window and start it up again. Really stupid.
The third thing is a minor one but should've been fixed years ago. The favicons. IE will usually only retrieve a favicon and display it next to the web address ONLY when you save it as a Favorite in your list. This is stupid. Even stupider, these favicons are stored in the "cache" area and can expire just like any other webpage, picture or whatever internet file. So guess wot: when this happens, it doesn't display the favicon again. Other browsers just display it everytime you go to a page, just like how it should be displayed. They need to fix this obviously stupid bug.
All in all, if IE doesn't get changed majorly soon, most people will be moving to Opera or Mozilla.
The first one is the stupid rendering engine wait-for-pictures-to-load-before-displaying-entire-pages bug (as last seen on Netscape 4). IE will sometimes wait to download a picture that's at the top of the page and not display text at least in the rest of the page, even though the HTML file has clearly been loaded. Try it yourself. Next time IE seems to not load anything more for a while, press STOP and watch as the rest of the page magically appears. IE never did this before, it was Netscape (which was one of the reasons I switched).
The second one is a really stupid flaw. I like to browse multiple pages at the same time a lot. Especially when I'm on NewsNow with their multiple headlines that are all clickable. Sometimes, a webpage will take a long time to appear in one of those windows but what does IE do? Yes it stops the other windows from completing displaying the window. So many times I've had to close the offending window that contains the webpage that refuses to come up just to get the other webpages in other windows to finish. Sometimes this doesn't work and I have to close every single IE window and start it up again. Really stupid.
The third thing is a minor one but should've been fixed years ago. The favicons. IE will usually only retrieve a favicon and display it next to the web address ONLY when you save it as a Favorite in your list. This is stupid. Even stupider, these favicons are stored in the "cache" area and can expire just like any other webpage, picture or whatever internet file. So guess wot: when this happens, it doesn't display the favicon again. Other browsers just display it everytime you go to a page, just like how it should be displayed. They need to fix this obviously stupid bug.
All in all, if IE doesn't get changed majorly soon, most people will be moving to Opera or Mozilla.
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