I have to agree with Laurie and think tha you are...unique. IE is not a good piece of software. One of its major UI shortcomings is the pop-up issue (Do you really want an X10 camera?). Another engineering flaw is the fact that it uses a lot of DLLs that can cause problems with other software after upgrading because of some security update.
What really irks me though is other applications insisting on having the latest IE installed just so that their installer can show you nice adware as you install, or for their documentation (Symantec and Visual Studio are examples). So even though I do not use IE I have to keep upgrading it.
Give me Mozilla anytime ;I find it to be anything but slow.
Chris.
Laurie Brown wrote:
Rob Kendrick wrote:
Am I unique in the Linux users world who pines of an IE for x86 Linux? Mozilla's all good and dandy, but it's /slow/ and in my experience, horribly unstable. IE by contrast is simple, and blindingly quick. It's actually a superb browser on balance, no matter what people say.
I think you are unique, because with respect, that is total bollocks. IE hasn't been updated in years, and simply pales into insignificance against Opera and Mozilla 1.5 (neither of which is slow, BTW).
There are two things I miss unspeakably when some brain-dead site forces me to use IE. 1) tabbed browsing, and 2) blocking pop-ups. QED.
Cheers, Laurie.