Hi all,
Loading status / info
This is rather a feedback to MS IE team than a question as I have played around and this is the only issue that is stopping me from using IE as default browser.
In older versions of IE, there was a clear indication with a progress bar in status-bar of IE, so users would know that page is being loaded, and how much of it has loaded. This loading status / info was quite accurate most of the times.
In last few major versions IE9/10/11, I have noticed that this loading status info is not accurate at all. Sometimes the spinning wheel appears in tab's icon, but this is just random, and mostly it doesn't show if the page is loading something.
Being a technical user, I really need to know what's been going on when I click. I like the status-bar showing links when I hover on them, so I'd know where the link will take me to, similarly, there show be accurate info when page starts loading something, either via user clicking link/button, or when script starts loading something.
In latest IE11 on Win8.1, mostly the tab opens blank white (when ctrl+click a link on page, to open in new tab), with no indications of is its actually loading or not. It maybe not noticeable on fast connections, so I see no one complaining about it, but on slow connections, every single detail is observed.
Tabs management
I am really disappointed with IE9+ that the tab management is worst than all other browsers. Dragging tab out of window, putting it back is so fluid and best implemented in Chrome, then Firefox and Opera etc. But IE's tab management is so bad, and I see that it's been same flacky kind since IE8. MS has done a lot of work on HTML and JS engine to make it faster, but all this hard work doesn't pay off until tabs are not properly implemented.
Sometimes, IE window hangs just because of scripting issues in one tab, user can't just kill one tab, instead, user have to kill the window, then reopen same links.
I would really love to use IE as default browser, but only these few small but critical details are keeping me away from it. I hope IE team is reading these forums, and take note of these for future updates.
Best regards,
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