Priuschat and IE is horrible

Why do people torture themselves with IE when there are far better standards-compliant browsers freely available?

 

When on workplace computers for one where you do not have a choice! I am having similar issues with my work computer and IE. I have a few minor issues with other sites but nothing like this site. I use Chrome on my home computer with no problems and none on my iPad.

 

When I was working, I always had the choice to read these things on the home computer, not the workplace computers. In fact the owner of the workplace computers very strongly recommended that choice.

 

I still have that choice but I do "choose" to pull up PC at work at times even though it is frowned upon by Big Brother IT

Are you saying that you never ventured to PC at work ?

 

There's a few reasons people "torture" themselves with IE. For starters, it comes built-in with Windows, and correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that the predominant operating system world wide? If a site is flakey with IE, something is wrong.

One thing I'm noticing, and noticing, and noticing (with IE):

Since the upgrade, I've got a 50/50 chance of the front page just locking, and sometimes locking IE completely.

(With a lot of the alternate browsers also blocking ads, and the apparent hang-up of ad loading in concert with the front page locking, I'm guessing that bug is ad related.)

 

I couldn't say 'never', but could go months at a time without doing it. IT was very definitely tracking such usage, and management used it as 'leverage' when desired.

 

I keep getting Flash crashes while loading all the revenue generating stuff that comes with the new priuschat upgrade. I do crash report to Adobe and notice that they have a new Flash version out very frequently. Firefox latest on a big vertical screen.

Priuschat now has a less usable home screen IMNSHO...more cluttered format. Uses much of the screen for its own publicity and less for the information I want to see. I also hate the color switch. A forum is about the exchange of information/opinion, not glitz.

 

Not really - there are standards for web pages which IE hasn't always followed, so you can have a fully compliant website which IE will be flaky with (not the other way round).

And while Windows is the predominant *operating system* for desktop PCs, IE is now far behind Chrome and only just ahead of Firefox, despite the fact that every Windows PC comes with IE as its default browser:

Usage share of web browsers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In other words, a good majority of users have dumped IE.

 

Simple, Internet Exploder just plain SUCKS!

 

I avoid IE like the plague. Chrome is first choice, then Firefox.

SCH-I535

 

I have been having trouble with IE at work with other sites other than PC but PC is my worst actor. Of course I did not want to tell my IT manger that I was having trouble with PC at work! I am not having similar trouble with IE and PC at home on my desktop or iPad.

I was talking to my IT manager this morning and asked if others were having similar issues with IE. He said yes and asked if I had a laptop or desktop. I told him that I have a laptop that I use in a docking station at work that is connected hard-wired to our company LAN/WAN. I use WiFi at home.

He said that corporate IT was telling him that turning off WiFi on laptops had shown improvement with IE users. The laptops will sometimes automatically switch between network connections and WiFi and cause problems with IE. I turned off my WiFi and so far today PC has been doing much better. Time will tell.

 

I dumped IE long, long ago... I can't believe that Opera has such low percentages. I thought more people knew about / used it.

Chrome is my all time favorite, but unfortunately the IT department took over IE and now chrome on my work computer, now I can't use anything with Flash or visit cool websites like PC, Yahoo news etc. Somehow I was able to download and install Opera with non-administrator privileges!? Opera is my only option at the moment to visit non pre-approved websites like PC while at work... (but we're told that personal use of the computers on lunch or break is okay, you just can't go to any website that's not pre-approved or non-work related...)

 

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa??? People still use IE?

 

Well, once I installed AdBlock, IE works fine.

The banner ad at top of page seems to be locking the site, and IE, for me. I'd be fine with not blocking the ads, giving the site's sponsor's a decent chance for attention, but it makes it the site impossible to use.

 

The official firewall at work here allows each MAC address 2 hours of non-work type web browsing every 24hours. But I just tether on my phone for all connections and then hardwire for backups or secure info. Faster too...

As to the switching between WiFi and ethernet, it won't do that if it is setup properly and if you have an IT department it should be. You can set the priority for each connection in the network manager. If WiFi is set to the #1 priority then yes it may switch back and forth when it detects and connects to WiFi and every time it does that all connections in intermediate stages are aborted and not always retried because the adapter technically went offline. The proper way is to have hardwired connections be set to a higher priority. As a general rule, if you are plugged in, you want to use the plug. Even if you have WiFi, if you are plugged in, use the wire. If no wire, then use wireless.

And it could be very possible that the reason PC displays poorly is because PC requests files that don't exist and some that are malformed. Also if you are viewing from work, some of the ad links and then social media crap things it requests could very possibly be blocked. That would also cause it. Below is what a typical post load looks like with ads enabled. I never have them enabled so it skips a lot of the junk, but with everything working "normally", it is 99 different requests for information. I would just load the equivalent viewer in IE and see exactly where it hangs up.

 

What's the analysis tool you're using there?

 

Firebug within Firefox.

 

Thanks! I just installed it.