General Project Spartan Talk.

Klepto · April 23, 2015

So I updated to the Windows 10 Enterprise Edition last night and I've been testing out their new browser.

What I've noticed so far is that the layout is really simple and very clean.

I personally think that this layout is a lot more clean than the other browsers, but that's just me.

It kinda gives it an iOS feeling to it. Or just for me?

When you download something, it looks like this.

Pretty simple.

Now, my biggest gripe about this browser is that if you're playing a video on YouTube (as background noise or simply music), and you minimize the page.... The video stops. It pauses if you have the page minimized. That's something that's throwing me off and hopefully they fix it in the future updates.

There's some other small little issues here and there with other sites like imgur. When I click "browse your computer", nothing happens. I sometimes have to shrink the page to a smaller size just to be able to open the folders to select a picture.

Another small issue was that when I tried to look at images on Google, and I would click on the image... The images wouldn't open. Then a few seconds later I would try again and it would work. Small little bugs that'll be fixed in the future.

Overall, I think that this browser has a lot of potential. It's fast, smooth, and clean.

I already prefer this over Firefox. But we'll see whenever the final version comes out.

Have any of you tried out Project Spartan? If so, what do you think of it? Do you think it has potential to compete with Chrome and Firefox?

Rook · April 23, 2015

Project Spartan is the new Internet Explorer?

Klepto · April 23, 2015

Yes.

Rook · April 23, 2015

Yes.

It does look good but once Windows 10 is officially released, Firefox and Chrome will probably be even better.

But I'd still give Project Spartan a try.

Klepto · April 23, 2015

It does look good but once Windows 10 is officially released, Firefox and Chrome will probably be even better.

But I'd still give Project Spartan a try.

I'm down for a better Chrome. I just like the simplicity of it.

castix · April 23, 2015

I really like the clean and plain layout. They still use the old Internet Explorer tile on the bottom when you download something which is a bit of a fall back for 2015 and a whole new browser project. YouTube audio backrgounding is really imortant to me when I work on some code and music is something that accompanies me all the time. However it does fit more to Windows 10 in my opinion more than Chrome and Firefox and I'm pretty sure if there isn't a tweak market or add-on there surely will be in the future. I'm expecting this browser to be more customizeable than the others with more user interactions. Back to the layout, the font looks a bit thin to me and I'll have to look if I can adjust it a bit for my personal touch. I'm right now downloading the Windows 10 ISO and looking forward to test the new Project Spartan and also give some more feedback.