IE7 problems

[VampDude]

VampDude, hey, I'm not telling you what to use -- I'm all for freedom of choice. I love the fact that people can choose to use IE if they want. However, I wish that more people would choose to use a different browser because from a technical standpoint, it's a horribly broken browser that just keeps on getting worse and is majorly impeeding the advancement of the internet. I don't know if you do any web design, but if you just spend a few minutes browsing the web about web design issues you'll quickly find that IE itself is the biggest barrier in web design advancement and internet application development. If it were a less widely used browser, web designers could just ignore it, but since it holds such a massive market share (at least 90% in most cases), web designers are forced to continue supporting it, despite the fact that it's a massive waste of time, energy, and resources (IE development can be so problematic and unpredictable that web designers have to budget anywhere between two to three times as much timeto fully support it -- as compared to the ammount of time it takes to fully support the other major browsers).

IE was the best and leader for years, but Microsoft has done very little to maintain that quality in the past seven years, and there's quite a bit of credibility to the assertion that Microsoft is intentionally retarding it's development on the grounds that dependable, fully, and properly working web applications pose a significant threat to it's own lucrative software business.

Continue to be a stringent IE supporter if that's what suits you, but there's ample evidence that it's a technically inferior browser that, by design, exposes your system to inexcusable security risks and receives very poor, intermittent support from it's own maker. You should expect regular problems.

As with every web browser there is problems, I choose IE purely because Microsoft is a company I trust and as I have a "paid for" Vista OS which I get all the technical support I need for my software/browser etc...

...I bet you wouldn't believe me if I said this, but my PC isn't even running any Virus Protection software of any kind (except the preset Windows Security) I've been like this for the past 2 months "yeah, my PC is left wide open to attacks" and no I haven't had any attacks (I had constant security attacks when with Norton Antivirus on XP). But back to IE, it's all down to the user and how they use the browser as to how good it is etc, if the user mistreats it by downloading unsupported plugins or going to sites that are looking to pose threats to just about any web browser user it's their problem NOT Microsoft's

I actually Remember in Febuary of thisyear my FireFox browser went "kaput" and there was no way to fix it (I looked for help everywhere on the FireFox site) and the only way to fix it was to do a complete uninstall then re-install which I have never had to do with IE in the whole 9½ years I've used it (and many versions starting at IE3.0) since late 1997 (2 years after IE was first included on Windows95)

Wow, 9½ years... That is one hell of a long time to get my say about me actually liking IE, when I've had more than enough years to try a good few internet browsers such as AOL, NetScape, Yahoo and a few morewhich now include Opera and FireFox. Not quite every popular web browser, but I've been around long enough to know that there is plenty of choices and I've chosen the one I like - And yeah, it's Internet Explorer

[Gold Line]

firefox is soooo fast i love it!

[dejkirkby]

VampDude, silly to post that you have no AV software mate!

[gdf]

MUST DESTORY VAMP'S PC.

a friend of my mum had problems and the technician who came to fix it said it was from ie and she needed to start using ff. that is when my mum finally stopped using ie.

[VampDude]

VampDude, silly to post that you have no AV software mate!

I have in some way got AV software, cause I have the one that Windows Security one that comes packaged with both XP and Vista (below)

[b8a]

Wow, that's some incredible experience you've had. Well, that's the reason I'm glad that people have the choice to use IE if they want.

I guess it's kind of like: 90% of the people I know who have ever driven a Ford have had nothing but problems with those cars, but there's always that 10% or so that have driven nothing but Fords, have had absolutely no problems with them, and swear by them. To each their own I guess.

I'm serious about it being a technically inferior browser though. It's got a lot of problems under the hood that have been well documented since version 6 and still remain in version 7. Maybe I could sway your opinion of the it if I could get you to build a thorough, modern web site though? Even if cross-browser compatibility isn't a concern, developing for IE is enough to make you want to slam your head through a wall (!_!)

Oh, by the way, you probably shouldn't refer to AOL as if it's a seperate browser. It's just IE. If anything, it's IE with better security.

[VampDude]

Wow, that's some incredible experience you've had. Well, that's the reason I'm glad that people have the choice to use IE if they want.

I guess it's kind of like: 90% of the people I know who have ever driven a Ford have had nothing but problems with those cars, but there's always that 10% or so that have driven nothing but Fords, have had absolutely no problems with them, and swear by them. To each their own I guess.

I'm serious about it being a technically inferior browser though. It's got a lot of problems under the hood that have been well documented since version 6 and still remain in version 7. Maybe I could sway your opinion of the it if I could get you to build a thorough, modern web site though? Even if cross-browser compatibility isn't a concern, developing for IE is enough to make you want to slam your head through a wall (!_!)

Oh, by the way, you probably shouldn't refer to AOL as if it's a seperate browser. It's just IE. If anything, it's IE with better security.

AOL fails....

....Purely because it always logs out've it's session and and there are always error log messages, plus you have to sign in each time to use it - whereas on IE you don't have to

[SnesR0X]

i used to use IE all the time, now I use firefox, it's not much of a difference, but I'm fairly sure it's faster

[VampDude]

i used to use IE all the time, now I use firefox, it's not much of a difference, but I'm fairly sure it's faster

It's about the same, Netscape is better than FireFox (NS & FF both made by Mozilla)

Netscape Installation - notice it saying anything ???



And yeah, Netscape 8.13 is based on FireFox (notice the FireFox logo on the bottom left corner)



I feel FireFox is inferior to Netscape, I say so because Netscape looks nicer!

[JKKDARK]

you should buy firefox