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Man upgrades Internet Explorer 1.0 to 9.0

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Re: Man upgrades Internet Explorer 1.0 to 9.0

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Post by xist »

pavs wrote: post #10

"If you’re an Internet Explorer fan..." Wait what? I was under the impression that most people use IE either because its installed by default or they are forced by their corporate overloads. Do people actually use IE because they really liked it after comparing it with other options?

Yes :( Perhaps it's more the comfort factor, but there are people who are tech savvy, but prefer IE over anything else. I have ran across countless endusers who have multiple browsers but use IE8 as their "goto" browser for normal web surfing.

Re: Man upgrades Internet Explorer 1.0 to 9.0

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Post by rsoto »

pavs wrote: post #10

"If you’re an Internet Explorer fan..." Wait what? I was under the impression that most people use IE either because its installed by default or they are forced by their corporate overloads. Do people actually use IE because they really liked it after comparing it with other options?

I know some people that does. One time I installed Chrome in some friend's PC. He has used Firefox and despite he's not a technical person, he understands there is 'more' Internet than the blue E icon.

Next time I know, he uninstalled it "to save up space". It was one of the saddest days in my life.

Re: Man upgrades Internet Explorer 1.0 to 9.0

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Post by Niten »

pavs wrote: post #10

"If you’re an Internet Explorer fan..." Wait what? I was under the impression that most people use IE either because its installed by default or they are forced by their corporate overloads. Do people actually use IE because they really liked it after comparing it with other options?

For one thing, IE 8 is arguably a more secure browser than Firefox due to its use of low-integrity process isolation on Windows Vista and 7. It's also more stable than Firefox in my experience, probably because of the way it isolates browser windows into separate processes.

And now IE 9 has a rendering engine that's at least equal to Firefox's. It lags behind Firefox's user interface in some respects (customization, built-in spell check), but it feels much faster, and it doesn't bog down over a long browsing session like Firefox does (again thanks to isolated browser processes – now one for each tab, just like Chrome).

For my part, I still think Chrome is superior to both IE and Firefox for general web browsing, but these days I certainly wouldn't look at someone funny for choosing IE. It may just take a little while for the folk knowledge that "IE suxors!" to catch up to the new reality.

Re: Man upgrades Internet Explorer 1.0 to 9.0

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Post by rbanffy »

To be fair, IE3 and, more specifically, Microsoft News and Mail, had one intriguing idea - that mail (and NNTP) messages were things to be managed like files and folders by a shell extension.

I would love to have Nautilus turn into a mail or calendar client when opening specific folders (somewhat extending magic into discovering what a folder is about)

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