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MRC_Hans said:
IE. It came with the box, and it works like a breeze. I'm wondering: What do other browsers have that IE hasn't? I can't imagine what more I could use.

Looking at the stats of my website, I can see that about 90% of the visitors use IE.

Hans
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Mainly better control over what web pages can and can't do when you view them. Mozilla's built-in popup blocking and javascript controls are much better than "stock" IE's.

And you'd have to pay me to give up tabbed browsing, but until you've tried it for a bit that might not seem like a big deal.
 
MRC_Hans said:
IE. It came with the box, and it works like a breeze. I'm wondering: What do other browsers have that IE hasn't? I can't imagine what more I could use.

Looking at the stats of my website, I can see that about 90% of the visitors use IE.

Hans
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What Occasional Chemist said plus mouse gestures. Mouse gestures are very cool.
 
Originally posted by MRC_Hans
I'm wondering: What do other browsers have that IE hasn't?
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Don't forget compliance with web standards. Another advantage is that because other browsers aren't embedded in the (Windows) kernel they aren't as compliant with nasties like viruses and trojans.
 
MRC_Hans said:
IE. It came with the box, and it works like a breeze. I'm wondering: What do other browsers have that IE hasn't?
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Let's see:

  • Popup blocking (you can get this in IE with the Google Toolbar)
  • Tabbed Browsing (the killer app—once you use this, you won't want to go back)
  • Bookmark keywords (mentioned above)
  • Better "smart browsing" functions
  • Better keyboard navigation of links
  • The ability to stop scripts from doing such things as resizing windows etc. without affecting other functionality
  • Built-in Mail client that doesn't even look at Outlook viruses, much less run them
  • Excellent pseudo-Bayesian spam filter in Mail client
  • Options to view EMails as full HTML, simple HTML (avoiding the running of nasty scripts), or plain text (avoiding HTML entirely)
  • Excellent password manager
  • The ability to encrypt passwords and other sensitive information with a master password
  • Excellent download manager
  • Excellent cookie manager
  • Excellent form manager

That's just off the top of my head...I'm sure I left out a whole lot!
 
jimlintott said:
Don't forget compliance with web standards.
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IE gets better at this with every release.

Another advantage is that because other browsers aren't embedded in the (Windows) kernel they aren't as compliant with nasties like viruses and trojans.
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And they don't take everything down when they crash.
 
Oh and when you hit "Stop" they actually stop instead of ignoring you and continuing to load the page anyway. In this respect IE seems like a kid getting into some mischeif, it almost seems to hurry up when you hit "stop" as if to try to get into as much trouble as possible before you get over there to pop it on the butt :)
 
gnome said:
Oh and when you hit "Stop" they actually stop instead of ignoring you and continuing to load the page anyway.
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Or, when it actually does stop loading the page, starts loading a completely different page...
 
Whoa, Neoplanet is an old one, I used that one a couple years ago, mainly for that really nifty Farscape theme. It wasn't a stand-alone browser though, at least that was the impression I got from it.

I currently use Firebird 0.6.2 almost exclusively, IE for the rare times a site doesn't work with FB. The occasional times I do dabble with Linux, I use Konqueror.
 
tygirwulf said:
I currently use Firebird 0.6.2 almost exclusively, IE for the rare times a site doesn't work with FB. The occasional times I do dabble with Linux, I use Konqueror.
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Why not use Firebird on the Linux side, too?
 
tygirwulf said:

I currently use Firebird 0.6.2 almost exclusively, IE for the rare times a site doesn't work with FB. The occasional times I do dabble with Linux, I use Konqueror.
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0.6.2 is out? Excuse me for a few minutes...

Hmmm, the mozilla.org website still is at 0.6.1. Thought I was in for a treat there.
 
IE. I've never had a compelling reason to go to the trouble of finding another.
 
Tabbed browsing, and not as virus/trojan/etc. friendly.

Upgrading to a new version of Mozzilla won't BREAK every installation in the system by replacing or incompatibly "upgrading" the Win32 "common controls".

Every time I've had to "fix" a horrible emergency where somebody's computer is a useless blue-screen popping ruin, the same theme has emerged:

"I only upgraded to IE XXX".

Both Outlook and Outlook express are only too happy to act on any old scripted junk. Especially if you have that 'preview pane' up. "Oops, I saw that! You wanted to install the latest mail WORM right now! Done! Here, let me send that WORM to everyone in your system-wide accessible address book! I know you don't mind! Oh, and I'll get right on that PING attack you wanted to do!"

Oh, you think your Outlook is secure? So did the people at Valve.

Guess what? It wasn't.

Their whole Halflife 2 source tree was grabbed and put out on the internet!
http://www.planethalflife.com/

So, keep using that Microsoft browser and Mail client. At least the damage probably won't cost you as much as it did Valve.

Our speculation is that these were done via a buffer overflow in Outlook's preview pane. This recorder is apparently a customized version of RemoteAnywhere created to infect Valve (at least it hasn't been seen anywhere else, and isn't detected by normal virus scanning tools).
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AvantBrowser. Based off of IE, but a lot more user friendly with really useful mouse controls for forward- or back-browsing.
 
I don't believe any of you about which browser your using! Damn these worthless anecdotal claims. Your all lying about which browser you use and I know it!
 
I originally voted for IE, but I've been using Firebird for the last couple of days and it's great. I'll probably only be using IE for windows update form now on :)
 
So, that would beat out IE for Mozilla/Firebird/Netscape variations versus IE now.
 
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