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Internet Explorer (IE) users have low IQs in comparison to those running other browsers, analysis has claimed.
After giving 100,000 people IQ tests over four weeks, Canadian firm AptiQuant suggested more people with higher IQs have moved away from IE in the last five years. A similar test from 2006 showed IE user IQ levels were noticeably higher than in 2011.
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Personally, I'm on the sunny side of the bell-curve.

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Opera users were found to have the highest IQ

Does this mean I'm genius. :lol:
 
IQ tests or IE?

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Good question:

AptiQuant chief executive (CEO) Leonard Howard claimed he had received hate mail from IE users and threatened with a lawsuit.

“I just want to make it clear that the report released by my company did not suggest that if you use IE that means you have a low IQ, but what it really says is that if you have a low IQ then there are high chances that you use Internet Explorer,” Howard said.
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He's not doing himself any favours.

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Probably not, I had a look on Geegle Earth, and not a trace.

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Pyromaniac605 said:
:facepalm:
Why does such a thing still exist?
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Because IE9 works fantastically on Win7, far better than the other browsers. Hardware accelerated rendering? Yes please. Stability and not constantly crashing like Firefox? I'll take that, too.

Oh, and let's not forget that Firefox has decided to crank out a new version every three months for the next two years or something...you know that they're high quality releases when they spend all of three months on them.

- IE user who *doesn't* have a low IQ
 
Hielor said:
Because IE9 works fantastically on Win7, far better than the other browsers. Hardware accelerated rendering? Yes please. Stability and not constantly crashing like Firefox? I'll take that, too.

Oh, and let's not forget that Firefox has decided to crank out a new version every three months for the next two years or something...you know that they're high quality releases when they spend all of three months on them.

- IE user who *doesn't* have a low IQ
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I've never had issues running Firefox in Windows 7, nor have I had any stability issues whatsoever.
 
HTML 5 ran actually slightly faster on IE9 than on Chrome for me. Other than that, subjectively, I get much better performance on Chrome. Faster startup, page loading, etc.

I know it's not the same as IQ, but Chrome is more logical for me.
 
Well, there's gotta be some useless BS generated to feed the 'net..
 
Pablo49 said:
HTML 5 ran actually slightly faster on IE9 than on Chrome for me. Other than that, subjectively, I get much better performance on Chrome. Faster startup, page loading, etc.

I know it's not the same as IQ, but Chrome is more logical for me.
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I have a friend who works for Google (so is naturally using chrome and biased as hell) who complains that Firefox is too slow and performance on Chrome is better. I just don't get exactly what the great advantage in performance is. If it's loading time, I could understand it (but I only load up FF once when I log on to the PC and leave it running). I have many tabs open and pages load as fast as the internet connection allows so it wouldn't be noticably faster using Chrome.

The only thing that I see as a major point for Chrome over FF is that the tabs run as separate processes - so if one tab hangs your browser with particularly slow javascript, the other chrome tabs will be unaffected, but all tabs in FF grind to a halt.
 
Notebook said:
He's not doing himself any favours.
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That's actually a very good point he's making there.

We call it "large house syndrome". Statistically rich people live in larger houses than poor people, but you don't get richer by simply buying a larger house.

PS: I use IE9

PPS: Does installing Google toolbar help? :lol:
 
Haha. This is hilarious.

agentgonzo said:
[...]pages load as fast as the internet connection allows[...]
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Wrong. I don't know why, but IE loads pages much, much slower than Chrome (or Firefox/Opera/Safari, for that matter). It's true that I have IE8 however (I'm on XP).
 
Rtyh-12 said:
Haha. This is hilarious.

Wrong. I don't know why, but IE loads pages much, much slower than Chrome (or Firefox/Opera/Safari, for that matter). It's true that I have IE8 however (I'm on XP).
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If you'd bothered to read the post, you'd have seen that I was talking about Firefox, not IE. But then that would have spoilt your flame with all those nasty 'facts' that get in the way. Thanks for trying - go collect a sticker from the back of the class.
 
Hielor said:
Because IE9 works fantastically on Win7, far better than the other browsers. Hardware accelerated rendering? Yes please. Stability and not constantly crashing like Firefox? I'll take that, too.

Oh, and let's not forget that Firefox has decided to crank out a new version every three months for the next two years or something...you know that they're high quality releases when they spend all of three months on them.

- IE user who *doesn't* have a low IQ
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Same here.I have an IQ of 114.I dont use IE much because it is sometimes slow,and it uses a lot of memory so Orbiter runs slowly.I have firefox but I barely use it.
 
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