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The spyware issues never really went away with it though they did diminish somewhat. The holes are still more prevalent than with any other browser and MS is typically more glacial with getting them all patched compared to other companies. The standard compliance is two fold. They adopt their own standard which more secure and feature rich competitors can't utilize yet can be accomplished with other more open technologies. This leaves plenty of sites on the net that can only be accessed using IE.

The main thing I see wrong with IE is the me-hostile user experience. I honestly cannot imagine how the web ever caught on if IE is how 90+% of users accessed it for so long. It is so horrible I cannot believe how horrible it is even as I use it, which is rarely and never for more than a minute or two. Maybe almost everyone else has a much, much, much, much (much) higher tolerance for bullsmurf than I do? In simple terms, the big thing "wrong" with IE seems to be the user base is a bunch of pre/early medieval Spanish Christian religious psychotics, fantasizing about drinking the menstrual blood of the Virgin Mary.

Ribtorus wrote:

I must be missing something terribly important.

Or not. I've been planning on going FF3... I'll at least try it. But thru 4+ years of lightning, power interruptions and the like, this overpatched, aging install just keeps going, doing its job with no more than a nuke & pave needed to reclaim space on the C partition. More than 512M RAM would help, too...

I dream of UPSs and line conditioners I can't afford, but meanwhile the cable company is my biggest cause of downtime. No viruses, Trojans, rootkits and only a rare lockup, let alone crash.

It just sort of works. I heard that somewhere.

And just to be clear, this XP Pro SP1 went in in June '04. It's never been reinstalled.

(imagines horrified look on Booksley)

sturner wrote:

After FF and Safari and some other browsers had implemented tabbed browsing, IE waited 2 or 3 years, just to make sure it wasn't some silly fad.

Then they brought it in and said look how modern we are!

That and they still are behind in how to implement CSS 2.0

And it matters because...?

user wrote:

The main thing I don't like about IE is that it is intergraded into the Windows "finder", which seems to be a huge security risk to me.

Huh?

The copy of IE on my laptop came with an AOL toolbar pre-installed. I only used it long enough to download Firefox and Safari.

User, speaking of security- do not use Safari for Windows. Seriously. Especially with FF on the same machine.

Apple finally fixed a "carpet bombing" flaw in the Windows version of its Safari web browser, but security researchers warn that the consumer electronics giant's patch only provides partial relief from bugs involving the interaction of Safari and other browser packages.

A flaw that meant Safari automatically downloaded executable files based on IE zone settings was one of three vulnerabilties in the browser addressed in an update published by Apple on Thursday.

The other two updates addressed errors in processing image files that created a memory disclosure risk and a memory corruption flaw involving the handling of JavaScript arrays.

Upgrading to version 3.1.2 addresses all three bugs, according to Apple.

However, security researcher Billy Rios warns that the "carpet bombing" fix is only partial. If Safari is used on a system where Firefox is also installed it might be possible to steal arbitary files, he warns. The flaw, like the carpet bombing bug before it, involves a blended threat concerning how Safari and other browser packages work together. Rios is holding back details of the bug pending a release from Apple. ®

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/0 … _security/   (23 Jun 2008 12:34)

I do all my web development in Firefox, because it the best browser for it, period. You install Firebug, which is platform-agnostic, and you have yourself a complete debugging environment, on my Mac and on my PC. I also prefer the user interface; IE7's interface just bothers me. In terms of new features in Firefox 3.0, I actually really like the Awesome Bar (it's actually called that... which is awesome). The lowered RAM usage is nice too.

Different strokes for different folks I guess

http://www.maclife.com/forums/topic/106646

That might well explain what's wrong with IE.

dvpierce wrote:

http://www.maclife.com/forums/topic/106646

That might well explain what's wrong with IE.

You might want to revisit that thread. Google has some issues too.