[Requiem]

Has anyone had time to play around with the IE9 Beta yet? What are your general thoughts on it? Seems like Microsoft is going all out with the PR on this one. They posted to Reddit!!

[Tragedy]

All internet browsers are terrible. IE sucks. Opera sucks. Google Chrome sucks. Firefox Sucks. I'm sure this IE will be more terrible than the last, knowing Microsoft. I'm getting tired of these browsers.

I wish there was just one that didn't crash when I was watching a video or going to a wiki. God.

[Requiem]

Yea, I hear you there. Web browsers still need to make a lot of improvements if this is really to be our future platform for just about everything. And the W3C needs to make some kind of concious effort to approve standards rather than leaving things in 'draft' state forever, too.

[Sway]

IE9 is pretty good. Pretty, pretty, pretty good.

[Master of AFTER]

Glad to hear it. Does this mean I can finally use IE without suffering through endless waves of condescending insults from Firefox and Chrome users?

[Sway]

Haha, no, never.

[???????]

The biggest thing Firefox still has over other browsers for me is the addons and the fact that I don't bookmark many pages, so I rely on the history a lot. If I could find all of the add-ons that I regularly use on a different browser (preferably Opera; it's almost never crashed on me), and ones that became incompatible with this newest version of Firefox, and transfer my history, I'd switch.

[Master of AFTER]

Pretty much every browser out there has a history function, unless Firefox's is somehow different from the rest.

[???????]

I can't tell if you're joking, if you just didn't read the last part of my post, or are subtly implying that I can, in fact, view my history in all of my Firefox sessions from a different browser.

[Master of AFTER]

I wasn't aware that it was vital for you to be able to pull up web addresses you visited one time two years ago. I figured you were just using your history as a substitute for bookmarks or a favorites menu or whatever to make return trips to your most frequently visited sites easier. What I'm saying is all most (presumably all) current browsers will let you do the same thing. You'll lose your existing history, but I wouldn't have thought that would be such a big deal unless you've got hundreds of stored links that you need to be able to access or something like that.

[Requiem]

I'm not sure if IE can import from other browsers yet. It may be possible to do this, so you wouldn't have to lose your history at all. As reasonable as it happens to look though, I think I'll remain with Chrome and Firefox for the time being. Addons like Firebug are vital for making web development less painful. And I just like Chrome.