[SpardaSon21]

Firefox and Safari currently work fairly well, although the former crashes occasionally when attempting to view too many tabs set to HLP.

Firefox typically crashes for me once I have more than eight windows and/or 100 tabs. :\

Why do you need eight windows and 100 tabs?

[The E]

Considering that this is iamzack we are talking about, I'm not sure I want to know...

[Eishtmo]

Opera!

Here here!

[Polpolion]

See attachment for browser stats.

neat

[Grizzly]

Considering that this is iamzack we are talking about, I'm not sure I want to know...

Is she that scary?

[Rick James]

Considering that this is iamzack we are talking about, I'm not sure I want to know...

Is she that scary?

I think it would be cool to be inside zack's head for ten minutes. I probably wouldn't get anything done, but it would be really, really enlightening.

[Commander Zane]

I enjoy watching so many people complain about Internet Explorer while I sit here, having used it since the first day I began using the web, and have not suffered a SINGLE problem with IE.

[ssmit132]

I think it would be cool to be inside zack's head for ten minutes. I probably wouldn't get anything done, but it would be really, really enlightening.

Just as long as you pick a time she's not, um, having sex or something. Unless you'd like to experience it in a girl's body?

I know that's a dirty remark, but really, you should be careful about what you wish for.

I enjoy watching so many people complain about Internet Explorer while I sit here, having used it since the first day I began using the web, and have not suffered a SINGLE problem with IE.

I wonder if people would joke about it as much if it wasn't a Microsoft product?

[Commander Zane]

Unless you'd like to experience it in a girl's body?

Nothing wrong with wondering what it's like.

[General Battuta]

Unless you'd like to experience it in a girl's body?

Nothing wrong with wondering what it's like.

Yeah, actually, that'd be pretty interesting.

[The E]

There were some pretty amaznig gender-bending sequences in Charles Stross "Accelerando" and "Glasshouse", but reading about it can't substitute for real experience.

[chief1983]

I enjoy watching so many people complain about Internet Explorer while I sit here, having used it since the first day I began using the web, and have not suffered a SINGLE problem with IE.

I wonder if people would joke about it as much if it wasn't a Microsoft product?

Yes.  Have you ever tried web development?  That's where a lot of the vitriol comes from.  IE refuses to adhere to accepted standards, instead trying to carve their own way of doing things, and expecting everyone else to follow, because they're Microsoft.  Well they can't get away with that these days, Firefox and Safari and Chrome and Opera have too much market share now.

[Herra Tohtori]

I wonder if people would joke about it [IE] as much if it wasn't a Microsoft product?

They most likely would.

Even if the frequency of the jokes about other crap products is lower than that of the frequency about prominent crap like Internet Exploder, it's amplitude often matches or oftentimes surpasses the complaints about Microsoft's antics.

Yes.  Have you ever tried web development?  That's where a lot of the vitriol comes from.  IE refuses to adhere to accepted standards, instead trying to carve their own way of doing things, and expecting everyone else to follow, because they're Microsoft.  Well they can't get away with that these days, Firefox and Safari and Chrome and Opera have too much market share now.

That, and web designers are tired of breaking the standards to make pages work on a broken browser. Since alternatives are more available, they can start to flip the bird at Microsoft's non-standard-compliant software.

Which is a blessing, really.

[ssmit132]

Have you ever tried web development?

I did some HTML in year 10, I think I remember in the tutorials we read that some of the tags would only work in IE, or wouldn't work.

They most likely would.

Can I assume that these pages have trouble displaying on IE? Because I can't check now since IE isn't loading anything (ironic, although I think I need to restart my computer since that's not the only think that isn't working properly).

[General Battuta]

I enjoy watching so many people complain about Internet Explorer while I sit here, having used it since the first day I began using the web, and have not suffered a SINGLE problem with IE.

That's because you haven't used other browsers and realized what you're missing.

Never looked back after I switched to Firefox.

[Commander Zane]

I used Firefox, all I see is a different UI, and Favorites are called Bookmarks.

[Dark Hunter]

I used Firefox, all I see is a different UI, and Favorites are called Bookmarks.

I concur. Having FF on my laptop, I use it quite often.

I honestly see no difference in performance.

[General Battuta]

Security-wise, Firefox is superior, and it had (still has?) a significant performance edge.

Most significant is the fact that Firefox tends to be the leader in terms of features, and IE plays catch-up. IE didn't have tabbed browsing until well after other browsers.

Lastly, Firefox gets new releases faster and has a leaner codebase.

[chief1983]

ssmit, those sites have nothing to do with IE or Microsoft.  They're just examples of software that people make fun of, that _isn't_ a Microsoft product.  Turdspace, Norton Slowware, Real (Crappy) Player, and, ugh, Quicktime.  Ok I made up a nickname or two, but they apply.  And they do get made fun of.  A lot.  (Not ).

[ssmit132]

ssmit, those sites have nothing to do with IE or Microsoft.  They're just examples of software that people make fun of, that _isn't_ a Microsoft product.  Turdspace, Norton Slowware, Real (Crappy) Player, and, ugh, Quicktime.  Ok I made up a nickname or two, but they apply.  And they do get made fun of.  A lot.  (Not ).

Once again, an assumption of mine turns out to be wrong. Actually, when I come to think of it, I should have realised that first. Argh. Well, at least for Truespace and Norton. Although I do know that they have nothing to do with IE or Microsoft.

Argh.