Since broswing under the auspices of Google's generosity seems to attract the attention of undesirables (and that's not a reference to anyone in here - stragely, I do post elsewhere), I thought I'd restore the balance a bit, and if anyone wants to try browsing with a better IE than IE (it make sense if you think too hard ), then they can try browsing with The World Browser

http://www.ioage.com/en/index.htm

This uses the IE engine to provide its functionality, but is not IE.

In fact, it's a lot nicer and slicker than IE, and a number of features "in the box" that you have to go and find to add-in to IE if you want them. Blocking ads and rubbish for example. In use, in my opinion, it's lighter and faster than IE, which has to be a good reason to give it a try.

It's also one of the few browsers I've ever been tempted to reskin, and the version I use at the moment is skinned to resemble Winamp modern.

Quoted from Apollo

http://www.ioage.com/en/index.htm

In my opinion, it's lighter and faster than IE, which has to be a good reason to give it a try.

I've downloaded the world browser and totally agree with the above Apollo.
Much faster than IE.

So, I wasn't deluding myself

I haven't tried it since I upgraded to IE8, which is billed as a whole heap faster than its predecessor, so that will be interesting to try and compare when I can get round to it.

I suppose the downside to this - if that's the right way to describe it - is that you are still browsing with IE. As I noted above, it uses the IE engine to do the actual browsing, which means that the functionality, appearance, toys etc are all being provided by the folk that code The World.

This shows how much "waste" there is in the corporate offering.

That said, I simply haven't done enough to tell if IE8 is as fast as it's claimed to be - and I'm not likely to very soon, since (as you can read in the IE8 thread), operating the browser in IE8 mode is knocking the first pic out of every SeSco page, and that's not good, and means I have to run in Compatibility or IE7 mode