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Story: Thinking of ditching IE? Think again
Posted by: Peter Simpson (Thursday 20 October 2005, 12:27 PM)
I stopped using IE after a month of closing unwanted popups. Loaded up Firefox and turned off popups. For the sites I access, there has been no noticeable reduction in browser functionality. All the major web sites detect and handle the "Netscape" browser type, some even identify it as Firefox.
Additionally, the ability to turn Java[script] on and off, store passwords, tabbed browsing and plugins make Firefox my browser of choice. The only time I click on the big blue "e", is to see whether a malfunctioning web site works better in IE...almost always, the problem is a broken website, not Firefox's lack of features.
So, I've thought again, and my answer is still "there are other browsers equal to or better than IE"
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Story: Thinking of ditching IE? Think again
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And what happens if you are not running Windows in... Anonymous -
Yarden might have been well intentioned in writing... Anonymous
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Sure, don't ditch IE. But that shouldn't mean ditc... Arthur B.
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Quoting from your column:
"In addition, a consider... Mark Van den Borre
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This article is a baseless advertisement for IE. T... Anonymous
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Of course you keep IE around: generally you have t... Fred Negus
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""In addition, a considerable number of Web s... Eduardo Webb -
I use other browsers because of all the functional... Anonymous
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I stopped using IE after a month of closing unwant... Peter Simpson -
It is a very weak argument to reconsider to switch... Percy Rotteveel
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Obviously on the side of IE. The pain of migratin... Simon Buckner
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Stick with Firefox it will never let you down!
IE... Ryan Jones
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Microsoft wide web rather than World wide web I su... Anonymous
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