Story: IE is broken: can you fix it?

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I agree with CERT, IE is a hackers dream and a users nightmare in its current form, MS really need to take it in hand and give it a thorough overhall before it can be considered as a safe and realistic browsing solution in the current market.

One question: when Windows doesn't control 95% of the OS market, and Mac OS now has Safari as its default browser, *nix based OS's don't get IE, and many Windows users have already switched away from IE, how can IE account for 95% of the browser market?
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Firefox (and I assume Mozilla) offers to import your existing Internet Explorer bookmarks when installed, so getting back up to speed isn't that difficult...

I have been using Firefox on Windows and Linux for about 2 years. The only thing I use IE for is to get the latest patches from the Microsoft Update web site.

I find Firefox is generally much faster than IE, and the options to turn off pop-up windows is a god-send. I also only accept cookies and images from the originating web site.

The latter means that often ads are not shown, just big white spaces on the page, but it decreases the loading time of the page... Occassionaly a page uses navigation images from a different domain and things get a little confusing, but temporarily switching the option back on again sorts it out.

The thing that I like most about Mozilla/Firefox is the tabbed pages, opening a link in a new tab is great. The tab loads in the background and I can just switch to it when I want. Unlike IE, this doesn't clutter up the desktop.

Also, as Firefox/Mozilla are cross platform, you don't have to learn a new browser on each new machine. The bookmarks are also stored as html and can easily be copied to new machines.

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