Poll: Is it 'cool' to use Internet Explorer yet?

kortin

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I use firefox. I don't like IE at all. With the security holes and all that, its much safer to use a different web browser. My friend is constantly needing to run virus scans and all that because he refuses to use a different browser for some unknown reason.
 

Voodoomancer

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I don't pick based on "coolness", I pick based on secureness. Which is kind of redundant when Avast locks my browser down anyway if someone as much as sneezes near the server.
 

Lord Doomhammer

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Just thought I'd share a little researching I dug up in the past little while...
Cnet reviews of the browser battles [http://www.cnet.com.au/browser-battles-ie-vs-firefox-vs-chrome-vs-opera-vs-safari-339287694.htm]
 

Woodsey

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MiracleOfSound said:
I dunno, but Chrome and Firefox are damn slow for me at the moment. I keep getting that 'Kill Pages' message.
Have you tried clearing your browser cache?

OT: No, its a piece of shit.
 

isnosche

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i'm sorry,

But i love IE 9, i've never been a fan of firefox or chrome.
I am pretty meh about ff and i can't stand chrome.
It was pretty buggy last time i tried and programs keep trying to force it on me.
Been using IE for a while and i'm happy with it.
btw i also used to love opera :D but i haven't used that in a long time :)
*its just so pretty*

i say try it, i really liked it, some (you) may not.
last time i checked it was still free :)

P.S.
and one of the other people here are right, why would you care what other people think.
unless it was to know if it was secure or not :)
 

isnosche

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i'm sorry,

But i love IE 9, i've never been a fan of firefox or chrome.
I am pretty meh about ff and i can't stand chrome.
It was pretty buggy last time i tried and programs keep trying to force it on me.
Been using IE for a while and i'm happy with it.
btw i also used to love opera :D but i haven't used that in a long time :)
*its just so pretty*

i say try it, i really liked it, some (you) may not.
last time i checked it was still free :)

P.S.
and one of the other people here are right, why would you care what other people think.
unless it was to know if it was secure or not :)
 

K84

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Don't care if it's cool, i always use IE.
Chrome was'nt my cup of tea, and Firefox....well, that did'nt end well.
 

Lord Doomhammer

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isnosche said:
P.S.
and one of the other people here are right, why would you care what other people think.
unless it was to know if it was secure or not :)
I suppose I worded that poorly.

I was trying to get a perspective on weather IE9 was acceptably secure, stable, compatible and feature-rich to get tech-heads to call it cool...
 

Jasper Jeffs

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I'm still using Lynx. Fuck all of you, my penis is larger.

OT: IE crashes, Mozzarella takes ages to load up, Chrome works. I'm not using it for the utility, it just fucking works.
 

thylasos

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I've never had a problem with firefox, really. I don't see the reason to change, especially not back to a microsoft product.
 

DustyDrB

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I use Firefox, but...it's really not that big a difference.
Browsers are probably the most trivial thing I've seen people be fanboys over.
 

SkyHawkMkIV

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I'm using Firefox 5 beta 2 and it zips right along on my 5-year-old laptop. Can't really say that I'm a "fanboy" for any particular browser, I just use what works for me.
 

Thaliur

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I've been using IE (again) since version 8, because I was fed up with Firefox occupying about 80% of my RAM, especially on my netbook, starting slowly and crashing. It didn't crash often, but more often than IE, and when it crashed, it took all the tabs with it.

Also, IE uses a Win7 security feature no other browser uses (as far as I know). When IE8+ is running on a Win7 PC, it runs with lower permissions than a standard user, not quite sandboxed, but with highly restricted read/write permissions. AdBlock is integrated as well (called "Tracking Protection". Just have it use the right block lists and your web pages are clean.

IE starts a lot quicker than Firefox and offers jumplist functions (but maybe these two problems got fixed in FF4).

And: Silverlight is awesome, and doesn't feel as fluid in FF. Let alone Safari (which I - embarassingly - actually used until I realised that "Apple" folders kept popping up all across both my harddisks)