You Are Probably Not Using Internet Explorer to Read This
- Thread starter Greg Tito
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Hurray! That lump was slow and unstable on my newest computer's factory-startup, for goodness' sake.. then, and now, it reliably crashed every time I try to open a new tab. I mostly use chrome, for its minimalist interface - firefox if something a bit more readily compatible's needed.
Finally come competition-based innovation.
Finally come competition-based innovation.
This is a pretty biased poll though because what comes boxed with every new computer? IE
So most of the business users will be using IE not through choice or ease of use, but of necessity - despite Chrome/Firefox/Safari being better.
Apart from all those with Itunes that have Safari anyway. (Oh, you clicked "Do Not Install"? Re-check your system...it was included with one of their auto-updates)
So most of the business users will be using IE not through choice or ease of use, but of necessity - despite Chrome/Firefox/Safari being better.
Apart from all those with Itunes that have Safari anyway. (Oh, you clicked "Do Not Install"? Re-check your system...it was included with one of their auto-updates)
I use Internet Explorer for reading webcomics and for doing things that I don't want my friends to know about -_-. I'll leave it to you to guess what I mean by that.
But for everything else, I use Safari. This happened after it was automatically installed on my laptop when I installed iTunes, and I was fed up of IE as it kept shutting down, cutting out, without warning whenever I browsed The Escapist. Though that problem has gone, when I tried Safari out I was hooked, and now I use it for everything apart from the above mentioned things. With webcomics, at least, it's easier because I already have a folder in my Favourites tab with the ones I read regularly, so it's easier than trying to do it all over again setting one up in Safari. I read a lot of webcomics...
But for everything else, I use Safari. This happened after it was automatically installed on my laptop when I installed iTunes, and I was fed up of IE as it kept shutting down, cutting out, without warning whenever I browsed The Escapist. Though that problem has gone, when I tried Safari out I was hooked, and now I use it for everything apart from the above mentioned things. With webcomics, at least, it's easier because I already have a folder in my Favourites tab with the ones I read regularly, so it's easier than trying to do it all over again setting one up in Safari. I read a lot of webcomics...
Of course not, IE is pure shite. I'd rather eat glass than use that sluggish hunk of arse.
Isn't it the only thing that uses .NET framework though? Isn't that why so many people still use it (as well as some people just making do, I pity those people)?
Isn't it the only thing that uses .NET framework though? Isn't that why so many people still use it (as well as some people just making do, I pity those people)?
yay another flock user. I like chromium but don't want to make google look good (dodgy buggers)Bigsmith said:
plus flocks occasionally functional social bar is nice.
For some reason firefox just won't run on my windows rig.
You mean anti-virus program reports? not viruses surely?jamesworkshop said:
Firefox moves temporary things (like web pages) to the cache and runs them in isolated memory space; so viruses typically won't run onto your system unless they target firefox specifically, which almost none do.
However your anti-virus package will find them, inactive,there later and they get safely removed. Added to that some anti-virus progs report things in the cache as a virus just because the cache works in a none standard manner.
IE however would just have run malicious code and your anti-virus would tell you after the fact.
Although if you can't live with being told about the viruses and don't mind getting the infections then all's well.