Right now, Project Spartan is not that much for use(from version 10014), it doesn't have anything good in settings. I think Google Chrome is the best as far as extensions concern.
Project Spartan is just the same IE Modern version of Windows 8.x, with some small changes in the skin and few new options, all the rest is the same, also it still lacks of options compared vs the IE Desktop version.
IE Modern is sandboxed by design and default - IE desktop is only both on Windows Server 2008 and later. (And even there it is griped about BECAUSE it is.) I'm throwing this Spartanized build into VMware Player, since Spartan is the only thing I am testing in it.
on Build 10014? there is no interesting feature here. most features are not active like developer tools, download view(but we can still download a file), etc.
Spartan seems to be more responsive than Google Chrome on my system. I don't know if anybody is having the same experience. It blows out IE out of the water.
Although Spartan or any browser that MS invents were the last browser on the earth, I wouldn't use any of them. The mistrust that they have created in years are unrepairiable.
Spartan was fine at first but after several boots over few days Spartan started to crash right after clicking its icon. Click again. Crash. Again. Same result. It's now useless and this is in 10049.
Just out of curiosity (and because I got some spare time), I installed 10049 and checked out Spartan after all... I suspect this is a pretty stripped-down version of it, many features don't seem to be enabled just yet. But what actually bothers me more is that even providing just very basic functionality, it is pretty unstable. So far I had crashes on startup, when I tried to type in the address bar, and on maximize/restore, so entering a page address or maximizing the window only works with some luck (at least for me). With a single page open, the MDL forums for example, task manager shows about 12 megs of memory being used but careful - there are three Spartan-named background processes running as well that add another 100 megs. But I wouldn't give too much about memory consumption, it's a common misconception that less memory always means better performance, it's more important that the algorithms are optimized (cache-misses are expensive and sometimes using more memory can be a solution). Performance-wise, I don't feel there is much difference between IE and Spartan right now. What else? It doesn't support InPrivate browsing and cannot be run in multiple instances - I hope this is just for now. If not, I really hope they provide a public API to reuse the Edge engine in your own applications. Someone ought to build a better shell around it than that.
Could you believe I didn't experience any of the issues you pointed out? I really like the local search system incorporated into it.
That is really uncalled for. It is me who has it. It is not to show off but to show that Spartan annotate works. I think some people know the system I am using here as we often talk about configurations when having problems with installation. EDIT: I thought you were talking about the image I posted earlier. My apologies.
I just discovered why Spartan crashed right after clicking its icon. I have Comodo Internet Security on, but Windows Firewall was OFF. So I turned it ON. Now Spartan is working great. EDIT: I have two problems with Spartan -- You can't use its own "pen" to draw something on a face paused in Youtube video. So I tried to import a picture into Spartan. No go. Impossible. Any tips?
Thank you for the solution to the Spartan crashes. If you were able to use your finger to annotate then you can use your pen as well. Maybe that is a bug and you would have to put that on the Microsoft Feedback.
From few information available, it can do what the old Internet Explorer couldn't do in recent times, that includes moving from browser to doing things as earlier highlighted.