Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer

Good talk, didn’t see that one coming…

You’re asking us to go for what is better, and I am saying we do not care. IE hasn’t given me issues - so why fix something that is not broken?

Ralph.

IE is the worst browser ever for any Web designer! It messes up your pages and you have to make it up all over again for IE. I say let’s boycott IE!

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I have been firefox for last year and a half now, and realize what all I was missing earlier…

Its true, IE is crap. NO REASON AT ALL to use IE, except for Windows Update.

As for the part of the world that does not see anything broken, come out and see the world!

great article. i’m going to use it in an argumentative paper for my english 111c course. I love firefox and have been using it for a while now.

As a web developer who uses Firefox but needs to check sites in IE too, I found the Firefox extension IE Tab very useful. It opens up IE in a Firefox tab.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/

You can also find a bunch of other Firefox extensions that make web development a lot easier at: http://lesliefranke.com/files/firefoxwdev/firefoxwdev.htm

i use both opera and firefox… firefox is definetely more user friendlly and definetely a good browser but opera is a powerhouse… very smooth, very fast.

Nicely wrapped up, could refer newbs to this site. Sadly when not using IE you get a little ‘out of touch’ with Microsoft.com and theire updates. Not that i’ve ever noticed any update thats worth the bandwidt or my time.

I would however like to try IE 7, but it never reaches my computer before i get some installation error, without any possible hint of why it crashes.
(that one is for those saying IE is so very compatible)

Im using Firefox, which is quite incompareable with IE, because of all the extensions availible. Open-source and plugin based browsers will always rule over the hardcoded ones.

Amen.

I was 14, I thought I can only browse internet by IE. once I realised that IE is just on of the web clients. I swtich to the other alternatives immediately.
Firefox. Web client platform should be opensourced as everyone needs to use it. I personally support IE. As a web developer, I found IE is not very friendly at all. It freezes my machine.

For all of you saying that IE is needed for updating windows, try http://www.WindizUpdate.com . It’s a version of Windows Update that works with Firefox. I would try it, but hey, i’m a happy linux user. Now there’s a different article ;)

I know perfectly what you mean…

I own/maintain a series of servers/workstations/customer PCs, and the ones that give me most of the problems are those that just can’t let IE go.

Someone mentioned IE7.. and yes.. it’s a lot better, then IE6.. but I don’t think that it brings more security(I must confess I was lazy to dig more info about it).. but I have my doubts.

Currently I use Firefox or Opera.. it depends(on the mood). ;)

This guy is a phony. He’s not a MSCE.

And IE7 is far better than any other browser i’ve used.

It took Microsoft about five years to upgrade Internet Explorer from version 6 to version 7. In that long span of time, they couldn’t implement support for an important web standard: XHTML.

XHTML is the future of the web, and the most important part of it is the MIME type used to serve it. Although most web sites are served with the MIME type of text/html, the latest version of XHTML (version 1.1) needs to be served with a MIME type of application/xhtml+xml.

Internet Explorer doesn’t understand this important MIME type, but every other browser does. Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Konqueror are all standards compliant. Internet Explorer is not standards compliant.

I’m in the process of moving my web site to XHTML 1.1 served as application/xhtml+xml, and I can’t wait another 2-5 years for Microsoft to put this into IE8.

So I’m giving my readers fair warning and giving them a mechanism to install Firefox. They’ll be so much better off if they switch.

mwha firefox is very bad.

Im using version 2.0.0.1
It has problems with showing nested tables. Sometimes it doesnt show the page correct and when you minimize and maximize the window it shows the page correct again.
Another problem is that it doesnt respect ‘no cache’ headers. When a page was viewed that has ‘no cache’ headers you can use the history back button to view the old page with wrong data.
Internet explorer rescpect ‘no cache’ headers as mentioned in HTTP 1.1.

Take a look here and see how many unhandeld bugs mozilla/firefox has…

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=all

*cough* wtf are you on about Brink, the link that you posted, shows all bugs, that were posted, during the development ffs, from start, to present, an developer version of ff 3.0 (Gran Paradiso) was released late last year, which is based on gecko 1.9, which might give you some idea, of the scale of development (ff 0.x to 3).

Hi there…

Great post. You’ve been linked to on my blog… http://phototip.blogspot.com/2007/03/why-im-asking-you-to-use-firefox-on.html

Cheers!

Susheel

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[...] The lesson learned here is not how crappy Windows or Microsoft is, but moreso that I’ve wasted so many hours of my life dealing with these types of problems, so many precious hours of my life have been spent dealing with issues that shouldnt need to be dealt with. From now on I will go out of my way to aviod dealing with any Microsoft products, be it a mouse, and O/S or really-crappy-defective-non-standard-insecure browser [...]

I just want to know why, when I install MozillaFirefox, upon opening Firefox it’s main page is windows Internet Explorer. It doesn’t allow viewing properties. And I can’t seem to get rid of the IE home page no matter what I do, even re-installing MozillaFirefox. Please help me out. Email me if you would. I can’t seem to find an answer on this one. Take care, Mark

Mark: go to Tools/Internet Options. Make sure you’re in the “Main” tab. You will see a text box labeled “Home Page.” Just change the address in there to whatever you want it to be.

Read the “Halloween letters” from Microsoft and you will understand why IE is the way it is. MS want to lock you in to Proprietary standards to stop you from using something else. This is an old strategy in the computer industry (IBM VS DEC etc.). Also FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt) another IBM strategy that MS has taken to a whole new level. The more I learn about Active X scripts the more I realize that it’s imposable to secure. (Java script isn’t much better, it’s just really hard to secure)

yea go Mozilla!

Microsoft is doing a noble thing. Due to bugs in internet explorer, people who write clean DOM based code are forced to make workarounds. That takes time and effort. That means more charges at hourly rate. That means more income from unexpected sources. It is also the reason that so many security firms earn their business. If it were a perfect DOM compliant browser, what would these guys do? And would there ever be competing browsers? Would there ever be so many web-journalists making money out of stories like - zero day flaw in Internet Explorer discovered - every week, week after week for the past 8-10 years? What would they do? What about all the ad companies who make their money from Internet Explorer bugs? Security issues are few compared to this huge security industry being sustained by Internet Explorer and Microsoft’s policies. They provide employment to everyone. Now with Vista, even hardware experts get great business. Device and driver manufacturers get more business. A whole lot of people’s daily bread is earned by those bugs in Internet Explorer. They run an industry. They rock!

great article..

IE is the slowest browser .. and i left it since 2 years .. i am using opera now and its faster and better than IE …but i dont about the opera from the desingr view..

Thanks alot dude

IE7 is the WORST BROWSER EVER!!!!!!!!

IE7 has so many prompts and questions, why can’t it just work?

WHAT THE HELL ARE THOSE MICROSOFT FOLKS IN REDMOND DOING?

5+ YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT TO ROLL-OUT CRAP????

BILL NEEDS TO COMEBACK TO PULL THE REIGNS ON THESE KIDS…

CRAPPY ASS IE7 BITCHES!

I CAN’T EVEN UPDATE MS OFFICE ON IE7?????

WHERE’S THE IRONY IN THAT?

I hate it - I really hate that corporation more and more.
Everyone who says IE not sucks is an amateur!
F**K microsoft - liberate the web!

Internet Exploder…

Why?
Why??
Why would anyone still use Internet Exporer when a free, superior alternative is just one download away?

Mozilla Firefox is better. You should use it. Here’s why:

Firefox is more stable than IE
Firefox is faster than IE
Firefox ha…

A Note to Internet Explorer Users…

Please, PLEASE stop using Internet Explorer, if for no other reason but this: You won’t see all websites the way they were meant to be seen. Internet Explorer (from here on out refered to simply as “IE”) does not support many features…

Actually, Firefox doesn’t support the standards as much as one might expect. Example! http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html is a test page created just to test browsers compatibilty.
According to Wikipedia, only Safari 2.0.3. (or later), Konqueror 3.5 (or later), and Opera 9 render it properly. However, check out the same page in IE for an even more horrid result, (Laughs at how bad IE is at transparency).

Fucking IE7 couldn’t even display a single page, fucking stupid. I used to prefer Firefox but some of the part of the page couldn’t be display. That’s why I want to open fucking IE to display because the fucking page is coded in ASP. I think everything in microsoft Sucks like shit. Those that are behind microsoft are fucking shit brains. microsoft can you just eat shit and die?

And some body save the world by eliminating microsoft, please save the world create something that’s overwrites microsoft, and write microsoft off once and for all.

I CAN’T EVEN UPDATE MS OFFICE ON IE7?????

WHERE’S THE IRONY IN THAT?

thanks

And IE7 is far better than any other browser i’ve used.
Thanks

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Look at it as Cars, they all have there differences, sometimes its nice to have a big one other times you wish it was smaller. With the proper settings IE isnt much (un)safer from FireFox or Opera. ( IE is the most interesting browser to write exploits for since it is still the leading browser on the net ). I use all 3, surfs up!

Saying that I dislike Internet Explorer is a huge understatement. All of your arguments are right on the money. Any one reading your article that still think Internet Explorer is not so bad check out my article “Internet Explorer is the worst browser” on my blog http://www.thegnrgroup.com/blog/?p=63

Yeah, IE sucks, every attempt at dom based scripting always leads to headaches with IE. CSS scripting is a pain. The market is all IE, so as a web developer, you have to support the damn thing.

I couldnt tell you how many hours ive spent trying to develop something around IE. First, dev it in FireFox (1 hour), then, get it working in IE (2+ hours). Its crazy, i couldnt really care about the security of the thing, leave that to MS to mess things up.

Solution, if you cant get rid of IE because stupid people still use it (and ultimately end up paying more on dev time). then you need a work around. A abstracted layer for dom scripting would be nice. As for the CSS and rendering problems, abstract that away with additional script. Web sites get slower, everyone suffers, angry people throw bricks at MS. Revolution !

I have Windows Vista (gasp! the horror!) and like it for one big reason. Windows update is done through control panel. This means that I never have to use IE. Ever! GO FIREFOX!!

IE 7 is just another lameass browser product that is layin’ around in a while. i had been usin’ IE since Bill told me so , lil’ did i learn bout the other alternatives. IE was devastatin”’ frequently crashin’ my system..took years to open up a blank page and surprisingly froze my screen until i had to heat it up and put it on-a-thaw. folks out there !! its time for a change …its worth tryin’ other navigators and i bet you would never wanna switch back to IE ever again…word up…

I hate IE, but have to use it as firefox wont download on my computer, I’m using a new computer `bout 1 year old and Win Xp, It use to download to the comp before it got rebooted….anyone know a way I could get it?

http:\\www.firefoxmyths.com
You guys may think that IE is bad. But it is infact better than firefox. I’m not saying it’s the best, but I’m saying it’s better than firefox. The correct order is Opera>IE>FireFox.

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I like FF the best. MUCH, MUCH, faster than IE7. Takes a day and a half to load. By then, it’s old news. Get a lot of error pages on it. IE7 IS JUNK. If you want a good one, go with FF. Can’t beat it…

Great Article.

I have been an avid Firefox user for 3+ years now. I have even just recently written an article on this very topic on my website.

IE should be banned, as well as those who use it! Okay, Mozilla can’t view some pages perfectly, but that’s a small price to pay when your computer is filled with viruses you weren’t aware of!!!

I find it sad that even though this article was written in 2004 that something like half the internet users out there still use IE6. I’ve gotten tired of it and started up End 6!

- Hudin

Firefox SUCKS. Firefox is not all that it’s made out to be. Check this out: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/FirefoxMyths.html

I hate you Microsoft. You made a job that could have been fun (web design) into a hair pulling, face humping nightmare.

Internet explorer is the worst piece of software in the history of computers.

IE (any version) has go to be one of the worst pieces of garbage ever to become hugely popular. Inept at almost all of the jobs it’s supposed to perform, it’s popularity comes mostly from Microsoft forcing it down people’s throat and making it appear as if there is no alternative. Try completely removing IE from a windows system and you’ll see what I mean. YOU FREAKIN CANT! These people have designed a product with almost ZERO concern for the user. Its all about ensuring that you keep using Microsoft until you die, no matter how crappy it is and how many alternatives there are.

Runners-up in this category of garbage software are AOL, and RealPlayer.

I just got tired of all the crap that happen to ie, having to try to fix a problem with it all the time or take it to get it fix and they fix one thing and something else would be messed up in it, When you got it back.
Scraped it and went to Firefox, No more problems.

IE 7 is tha crap in perfection
guilltoine bug(11 variations).floating bug,3pixel bug and so an on
and now that best bug ever when you have an pseudo class object
:hover(btw one of the most important features of css) with an background-image, the f**** ie reload everytime the image. what a f+++!!!
feature of css is to decrease the http requests not to increase them.
anybody should tell this them,these m*****f****rs in redmond
if the couldn’t buy the sourcecode the have no good one.
ie6 –> ie7–> same bugs

Nicely put Daniel!!

I have been doing web-design for over 10 years now, and I have found so many issues with IE that it’s unbelievable!!

It is true that you will find an issue with something on at least one browser, due to how differently they are configured… however, IE seems to take the gold medal in doing things wrong…

IE7 being one of the worst culprits around, bringing in all the new features, trying to be as good as other browsers (i.e. Mozilla Firefox) however completely failing at most things… Firefox benefits from “updates” from Mozilla, anytime something needs fixing or anything, and it does the job 1st time… working in the background to make sure that you are protected to the max!

However, with Firefox providing you with newer packages with fixes… IE seem to be releasing new packages (or patches) which don’t really solve the problem… and if they DO solve it, it simply creates a brand new problem… so… where’s the benefit in that? They seem to be going backwards rather than forwards with the times!!

Not to mention the anti-phishing filters and all other security features that are built into FireFox…

My recommendation… would be to switch to FireFox… only use IE when you absolutely must!! The way it stands at the moment, the more you DO use IE, the more you put yourself at risk!

I commpleatly agree with this…I’m hopping that there wont be any more IE in 10 years…give or take a few decades…

Firefox doesn’t support my website, just try to access any link on the left frame =C
IE supports almost all of my website features (used to support all) and I dont like Micro$oft…
My site was coded with just the notepad.

Cuts wrote:
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Firefox doesn’t support my website, just try to access any link on the left frame =C
IE supports almost all of my website features (used to support all) and I dont like Micro$oft…
My site was coded with just the notepad.
…………………….

You use frames, LOL. Get with the times, frames are on their way out. You can get the same effect (a stationary navigation bar/pane) using css.

Yes, there are only 2 reasons for having IE…. 1) to ensure you get infected with virii …… 2) to pay homage to Bill Gates because he is your lemming king. Piss on Gates, he’s nothing but a crook who should be in jail for fraud and extortion.

Open source software and operating systems, Linux for example, is the future. Get with it or get left behind. There was a day when Linux was not too user friendly but those days are gone, it’s now more user friendly than Windows.

cuts

use opera instead its like firefox

and also there is a setting for hte java or something which will let you click on the button you want

i’ve tried it trust me

Great article, I linked to it on my site. After spending a few hours making a very simple javascript run photo slideshow I realized it doesn’t work at all in IE. Yet again! This just after spending hours on workarounds for another section of the site to accomodate the bastards. I give up! IE is making DOM developing a pain in the ass and makes me yearn for the prehistoric days of tables! Comply or be destroyed!

I find it easier to edit separate pages, also its better to just load a frame/page once instead of having to load the same navigation on each file
My firefox has all script options enabled and doesnt work :c
Does Opera still have ads and stuff?

Someone should make a real browser for once…
I tried them all and liked none..
Firefox seems nice, unlike the annoying I.E., but like all browsers as a great deal of things to improve… basic things that should have already been implemented…

My ex uses Firefox. I hate it and its not any better then IE. I use IE and never had any problems or badware.
My ex has so much badware on her pc cause of it.

If you know how to configure IE, you can disable automatic activex downloads and many more features.

I wouldn’t down IE. I do down Firefox cause everyone is trying so hard to make us use it. IE is default. If we wanted a better browser, we would search for it. Ads suck!

If it was up to me I would tell them to use SlimBrowser from flashpeak.com
SlimBrowser is a True Web Browser.

i HATE IE! im mozilla firefox all the way!

im using it now…

and will…

for..

the rest of my life…

I am beta for new version

Opera. Use opera. well better than firefox. IMO it sucks along with IE however IE8 is half-decent.

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Well, I just want to say that he made some very valid arguments. I love Firefox. I have experience with using and maintaining Linux, but my personal computer runs WinXP Pro. For a long time, Microsoft has tried to maintain its superiority atop the computer world, rapidly developing any software pursuits they deemed important. (Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Gaming Zone, Games for Windows, .NET Runtime Environment, Windows NT, XNA Game Studio, etc.) The problem with this is that even Microsoft has to watch their funding and resources, and with this many demands from a changing market, they are spending less and less time deciding on the best solution. Additionally, the people of Microsoft have enough time and experience to constantly “reinvent the wheel”, redeveloping their own nonstandardized, “safe” versions of well-known software. This is the gambit of most of Microsoft’s software problems:

1. Microsoft sees a great new software product develop.
2. Microsoft tries to get a piece of XX software’s market value, in what they often refer to as “Initiatives”.
3. Microsoft’s developers, seeking security and conformity with Windows’ API system, attempt to redevelop a system to work with the often-confusingly formatted API. Hence the many systems that now litter Windowers’ hard drives (OSE.exe, DirectX, .NET Runtime Library, etc).
4. Microsoft sees the potential for them to grip the market slipping as time goes on, and they rush to get a product released “in time”.
5. Microsoft hastily finishes the product, and flushes it out the door.
6. People unassumingly try Microsoft’s products, and get mixed reactions.
7. Those who liked original product XX stick with it.
8. Those who switched to the Microsoft version, don’t like it, and want something better ask the people who stuck to XX for a better solution.
9. The XX’ers tell the MS’ers about product XX, and they like it.
10. Microsoft’s product is either adored by those who have denied its problems, or hated by those who have found better.

That’s the way it’s always been. Since Bill Gates was just a Californian punk kid with a switchboard computer and dreams of getting Unix onto a desktop PC. Unfortunately, he started the company with the somewhat emotionally driven, idealistic thoughts of a high-school kid, and although his products still work, just as back then, they have some issues with authority. ;)

As a web developer, I prefer Internet Explorer because in my experience firefox outputs differently than how I designed my site ex. table padding. A table within a table somewhat appears differently in terms of border color with firefox. I dont know why but that’s reality. Some javascripts also does not execute well or are not compatible with firefox. A browser should comply to programs written based on standards, and programmers should not be the ones to adjust to browsers which interprets differenly than expected. Another simple error for firefox designers is the exit button for each tab, why? if you don’t notice it (im sure you do) the tabs are left aligned, so everytime you want to close a page, you need to reach and reach for the next close buttons. I mean y not keep it right aligned so that it would be easy to close any tab. Im in for IE.

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@ dev

If you really are a programmer, you should know by now that standards change from time to time.
When a certain scripting procedure needs to be improved (ie. functionality, ease of use), standards need to be drastically changed.
That’s the way programming works; new standards are applied every so often to enhance productivity.

And Microsoft, as the premier PC corporate giant, should abide by these standards. I see no viable reason for them not to, since every other web browser programmer follow these NEW standards.

I have to say that IE gives me more problems than any other browser, I just finished up some scripting, that works quite well on every other browser out there, safari,
firefox,

I had some friends test the script out one out of two found that the IE browser 7 would not load and came back with an abort message.

This tells me one thing, IE just does not support the current web standards while other browsers do.

What is wrong with this picture.

I refuse to go in and hard code a workaround just because IE does not work.

So I guess all I can do is pop in a warning, if you are using IE please switch to firefox otherwise you are going to miss out on a lot of what you cam here to see.

Oh well, what a mess.

IE 7 gives me so many problems. It’s very unstable and frequently crashes when trying to view flash content. I’ve never had this problem with Firefox. Stay clear from IE and microsoft altogether

Am I a Internet Explorer hater; No, but close. Consider This: If you have ever worked on a design or a particular cool feature for your web application and all went well people loved it and even your boss loved it. All to find out the ##*@@ IE, dosen’t work the way you expect. Knowing myself well I wouldn’t even bother. However we live in a strange world where inspite of the best avilable browsers being free, we still use IE. I am a big fan of Firefox, yes Opera and Safari are also really great.

Now comes the tricky part I can respect anyone using anyone of the listed browser above but, Why still people use IE. It just escapes me. I request all of you to please download you fav browser and use it instead of the Stupid, Unresponsive, Technical Blunder, and Arrogant IE.

I have recently developed a small website for my medieval fencing group, with php that generates xhtml pages that uses css for the style. What I’ve done once I written and tested all of it in firefox, mozilla (yes, the old good Mozilla), and in safari (and seeing it like it was meant to be) was opening it in IE6… horrible. I had to write a specific css in order to make it decorous with the Microsoft product. I had no time to see it with IE7, but I’m sure I’ll have to make another workarond for it too..

You come here and tell me that IE works fine? bah..

Doing some searches I found this site, browsershots.org, that lets you see the result of a site over different browsers in several operating systems. I selected every browser in every operating system (a total of 61 browsers in 4 different OS) and here is the result: my site looked good in 55 browsers and bad in 6 (IE4.01, IE5.01, IE5.5, IE7, IE8?? and Seamonkey 1.1.8, but good in other versions of Seamonkey). Anything else to say?

I recently updated my old website, writing everythting nicely in CSS, and it looked perfectly fine on opera & firefox. then I tried it out on my laptop with IE7 and OH MY GOD I almost had to go throw up.

It’s a also funny to read books about XHTML and CSS - after every paragraph describing some cool feature it says “Unfortunately, Internet Exporer including version 7 does not support this feature”
muahaha, if it wasn’t so tragic it would be hilarious!

the whole f***sh** about it is that micro$oft pre-installs windows on most computers - and people (more or less understandably) don’t bother downloading another browser like firefox or opera.
but you know, you can blame’em? after all they all think that the internet doesn’t look too bad with IE, firstly because they don’t know anything else, and secondly they just can’t see the hard and totally unnecessary work that’s behind making your website IE compatible…

only way to change this would be to organize all web-developers and to agree not to bother supporting that damn IE any longer. and whhooom after some time everyone would be using opera & co.
but the customer is king - and the customer only seldom acts reasonably… : welcome to capitalism…

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I very do love your write, is one of the many way you can look at IE and know for sure is not good as it should.

For me very simple, IE team tryed to implement they own specification over a allready done specification, this is very bad play.

I add this:
Relesing a software that is pre installed into a OS system and contain MEMORY LEAK, is a good course of action?

IE 6 from is last patch still contain thoses Memory Leak, for IE 7 i don’t know but i will go with the IE family and say… :)

hope W3C will never be a buyable entity, probaly the dream of someone.

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internet explor is worst i have to turn off my pc without closing running programmes

IE SUCKS, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PROGRAM WEBSITES THAT RUN OK ON IT, IT IS A TERRIBLE BROWSER, BILL GATES SHOULD GET PUNISHED.

Internet Explorer is an example of corporate technocrap. The whole concept espoused by Bill Gates and his money-grabbing lawyers is CONTROL. Corporate control for Cash! They want to control everything and get paid for it. The world’s richest man made a fortune on the back of technocrap that will go down in history as pure, unadulterated technocrap. Meanwhile, Bill continues to send his profits to Africa and looks to cleaning up American schools. If he is half successful as IE, the world will drown in Aids and the kids get more stupid as they bumble thru life looking at IE.

Gates and IE are a cruel joke!

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THIS IS WHY I HAVE A MAC!!!!!! I SOMETIMES HAVE TO USE IE AT SCHOOL AND HATE IT!!!!! I HOPE MICROSOFT GOES UNDER!!!

I hope a Mozilla Firefox for PS3, because Opera for Wii are crappy and IE for XBOX 360 is impossible. For me, using Linux is better solution, because it is came with Firefox.

It’s true……….. IE SUCKS LIKE HELL! When I used Google Chrome it just loaded in seconds but IE takes forever and ever to load and even sometimes it hangs once I double-click on it! I also hate its ‘Error on page’ and once it says ‘The page cannot be displayed’ or it says ‘Hi, either you have not turned on JavaScript or you don’t have Adobe Flash Player’(something like that)in Youtube when I want to watch a video. And the pop-up blocker NEVER WORKS! Instead they offer you whether you want IE to remember your password!

So guys, NEVER EVER USE INTERNET EXPLORER IF NOT YOU WILL REGRET IT FOR YOUR WHOLE LIFE!!!!!!

(Latest STUPID IE news: IE has a new version: Version 8(beta) SO LET’S HOPE THE IE8 IS A PLAIN FAILURE!)

I find that IE is largely used by computer illiterates that are either too scared to try something new, don’t know what a browser is or how to install anything. I too am a MS developer of many years and like a lots of MS products (so not your usual MS basher) but IE should be taken out back and shot. I have been web developing for 5 years now and it is the bane of my life. Wake up people and download FF today FTW (for the win).

On the topic of IE8 I hope they will turn a corner but somehow I doubt it.

IE is crap, Mozilla for the win baby. ;)

Join No IE Standards right now!

Promote Web standards, liberate Web developers!

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I use Google Chrome nowadays. It’s much faster than IE. I’m not a huge Linux fan and Firefox also sucks in my opinion.

Very interesting… but not much news really. If you take a look at the OSs they build, how can you expect them to build anything right? Luckily, I have seen the light years ago? (As a kid, I thought I HAD to use those things… hehe)
But computer illiterates (and cowards) make up for 90% of the market, so… IE will be king for a while. Too bad for web developers.

PS: This is not a Mac or Windows world… there are quite a few OSs… most of them better than those rather poor examples.

Yeah, I don’t even understand WHY they even work on internet explorer anymore, there are loads of better browsers out there that actually follow the standards.

On my personal website if you try to open it in internet explorer it just displays a splash screen that tells whoever is using it to use another browser. It just isn’t fun anymore to design a web site when you have to go through the tedious process of re-coding everything to accommodate IE’s needs.

I think Microsoft should just have it when you install their operating system it takes you to a window where you choose between Firefox, Chrome, Opera or Safari to use.

I don’t know why I waited so long, but I finally sent IE to the dumper today and I regret NOTHING. Firefox and Opera more than fill the resource gap (though I wish there was a version of SiteAdvisor for Opera) in place of IE. Also, there is, in fact, an add-on for Firefox that allows you to switch between it and IE w/o having to install or even open another browser, which makes “IE only sites” and updates still accessable. IE is indescribably awful and there is truly no reason for to be anything but superior, however…….*&!#@$!!!!

Good stuff mate. I had been using Firefox for a while. For some reason i went back to IE. Lately its been crashing on me like there’s no tomorrow.. so I’m back to FF and sticking with it this time. I don’t understand how Microsoft can make such a shitty browser. Like you i am also a fan of most MS products.

[...] as I said, IE is shit and if anything, that’s an insult to shit. Ask around. Google it if you like. Even Locket Gnome will set you straight and tell you why. I understand, nobody likes changing but if the change protects your security, [...]

IE is absolutely horrible, especially IE8. Me and my friend did a virus scan on his whole computer and it also scanned the “.exe” file for IE8. It turns out it had a trojan horse on it! and it came from the microsoft website. I don’t hate microsoft or windows, in fact, they’re one of my favorites. Just its slow, a virus magnet, annoying, and very unsafe.

[...] On that note, i would like to suggest to every IE user out there – get rid of it. Hell even Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers don’t like to use it. [...]

We really have to boycott IE. I am a web programming and IE really messed up my work!! Why do Microsoft have to make such useless browser? Damn it I’m really pissed off right now..

[...] Why are you using IE to view this blog? Well, there have been quite a number of controversy which sparked off stating why IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On or Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer? [...]

Google Chrome is the way to go. F**k IE, f**k it in the a*s, and you’ll probably get AIDS.

Microsoft should accept they lost the web browser market but also end-users and the developers, stopping to develop pages for this total non-sense software. This is drastic but when ie 15 will come out, I will be probably dead, trying to css hack my web pages for ie6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15… Come on All firefox/opera/chrome/safari users are using the latest version and guess what ? who is not convincing enough its users ? Tada !! your friendly neighborhood Internet Explorer. Lots of other Microsoft products are fantastic I am a vs fellow no pb BUT seriously what is IE ? All other browser are open, no? So a simple copy paste please and everybody will be happy. Nobody will say Microsoft can not code properly.

[...] Explorer (IE). I haven’t used IE for a long time because its issues : security, standards, options, [...]

[...] Internet Explorer 6 is a designer’s worst nightmare. I won’t go into why, but you can read this article if you are somehow clueless on this matter. While I don’t condone the use of IE8, it’s [...]

[...] standards: Microsoft only chooses to acknowledge these standards when it suits them to do so, to the chagrin of every web developer on Earth. Additionally, Microsoft likes to actively squeeze out competitors to their ubiquitous Internet [...]

Kill yourself please! NOW!

IE just never stops irritating me. It’s like a bad dream, haunting me.

do we really need to support ie6? http://www.myhtmlworld.com/web-development/do-we-really-need-to-support-internet-explorer-6.html

I use Firefox 3.7, alongside the current version (daily updated) 3.5.4. Also Opera 10.10, Chromium 4, Chrome 4, Epiphany (webkit) and Midori (webkit) and find them all to be excellent browsers.

I cannot understand how anyone can say IE isn’t broken and doesn’t need scrapping - even up to IE8 it’s anachronistically slow.

fortunately, I have no issues with Windows updates, as I get mine from a secure repository - I don’t use Microsoft. I’ll consider using Microsoft products when they manufacture vacuum cleaners - everyone knows they suck best.

I prefer Firefox than internet explore