I wondered if you feel this way about features like , and too?

I’d give them a yes for Firebug – although the functionality is not exactly the same they are similar tools and both have their advantages.

But I’d change the definition of IE Tab to “Supports use of competitor’s rendering engine”, for which they would get a no.

I agree. As an example, I found it strange that the new location bar wasn’t an add-on (installed by default). I seem to remember that one of the thing that was touted when IE was released was that it was build using com-components that could be reused and upgraded. If you squint, you might say that add-ons was taking this further and adding upgrade functionality and letting the user, not only the original developer, replace the components.

Wait… what?!

1) “Knowing the top speed of a car doesn’t tell you how fast you can drive in rush hour.”
a) It does if your car only goes 2mph.
b) If browsers were cars and rush hour was 6-8pm on Comcast, then Microsoft are saying the top-speed of your browser is not important when network traffic sucks. Actually it matters more because a browser is an interface and not a delivery method, and the quicker your interface can display the information the better the experience in a slow environment.

2) “To actually see the difference in page loads between all three browsers, you need slow-motion video.”
a) So THAT’S how Microsoft are measuring the speed of their browser… video!!! Explains a lot.
b) No. You do not need slow-motion video. You need to use high resolution timer functions, which IE does not have.
c) Didn’t they ever think of loading the same page 10,000 times to check the diff? Oh… crash!

3) “This one’s also a tie.”
a) It’s only a tie in your mind. You can take that to mean whatever you wish.

I wonder if they actually did any testing. From the sound of it… they loaded Bing.com in IE and said… “Oh that was quick!” and then closed IE, opened Firefox, and loaded Bing.com again… and said… “Oh that was quick too!”… and after doing the same thing with Chrome, they decided they were all so damn quick to load Bing.com… that they got a video recorder to time the difference. Upon finding a 25-frame difference in the video-footage when slowing it down, -they failed to realize that each frame was approximately 33 milliseconds, which means their load time was slower by almost a whole second. If you visit only 1,000 pages a day, that’s 16 minutes of your day spent waiting for a browser that was designed to load like a traffic-jam.