So much bad press about Internet Explorer.
I used to be a die hard Windows freak. All development on Windows machines, a good little MSDN subsriber forking out $5K a year...... Then things changed.....
Fast forward. No more Visual Basic, no more MSDN. Its all JAVA/J2EE and with MONO now out, hopefully C#
And what about the browser? I used to like coding specifically for IE as it was nice and easy. But then the w3c standards caught up and other browsers got significantly better while IE humbled along.
I don't use IE anymore. I'm now on Mozilla Firefox, its a dang great browser and with the full Google toolbar now available, who needs anything else! Its free. Its opensource. Its regularly developed.
What does Firefox it have over IE?
1) Tabbed browsing
2) w3c standards based
3) Open source. No hidden gotchas. We still don't know some of the hidden Windows API's!
4) No virus problems yet.
5) If a patch is required, I bet it will come out quicker than IE. IE is too bolted into the operating system to allow rapid patch fixing.
6) Themes (aka skins). Who wants to have the same looking app as everyone else
7) Extensions. A thriving community of them.
8) Javascript console that tells me where the errors are located!
9) Works on Linux/MAC/Windows.
IE IS LEGACY
If you want better safer browsing, download Mozilla Firefox now! If Thunderbirad had an integrated calendar it would kill Outlook.
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