Friends Dont Let Friends Use Internet Explorer

[hammervice]

 

[josh_the_hot_boy]

I use FireFox.

 

[neo666]

mostly use opera

 

[Haplo]

I use FireFox.

:agree: The only times my computer has IE running, it's just because I'm distracted and I've clicked on the wrong icon...

 

[fusi0n9]

chrome

 

[diklik]

That's the result of being a click-freak....as I've heard it expressed. Clicking on anything and everything to put multiple app bars and their wonderful trojans on a computer.

I use FireFox, with IE8 in the background for several work-related sites (needed to access shit from home) that will not load properly into Fox. The developer of those sites is a Micro$oft nutjob, and won't recode them, so I'm stuck with using IE for just those sites. A bitch, but since it earns me a living I abide it.

 

[topdog]

Ha! Funny picture. It shows IE 6 which I certainly HOPE no one is still using - big security problems. Though the idiot that loaded every toolbar known to mankind should have to forfeit his internet connection.

I have been using the IE 9 release candidate for the last month and I am enjoying it immensely.

In particular I like:

• Easy to re-open accidentally closed tabs
• Able to pin web sites to the Win 7 task bar - the site's logo (not IE) shows there
• HTML 5 video
• Completely redesigned interface - simple and more Chrome-like.
• Complex sites (ESPN, for example) load very fast - it uses the hardware acceleration in the graphics card - also for video.
• The address bar now functions as a search box as well (one of my favorite features from Chrome).
• Browser can start with many add-ons and features - or you can choose to speed it up by disabling add-ins until you need them. (It even suggests this when an add-on takes more than half a second to load). IE 8 already does this in a basic way, but IE 9 makes it much smarter.
• Security - blocks cross-scripting, looks for phishing attacks, and even give a notice when it suspects social engineering is going on.

IE 8 was all about security and adding Win 7 tricks. IE 9 looks like it builds on that and adds new technology and a clean interface.

 

[gb2000ie]

The sentiment is correct - the reasoning is bogus.

If your friend is the kind of idiot who enables every tool bar going - steering them away from IE isn't gonna help!

The reason friends don't let friends use IE is for the safety and security of those friends - it has nothing to do with looks! As has been shown here - the newer versions of IE have come on a long way in the looks and features department.

The core problem is Active X - and how vulnerable it makes people on the internet. Active X has legitimate uses - especially within corporate intranets, but it's just not safe to do your general browsing with it. Simply not supporting Active X makes FF a lot safer!

There are other safety advantages to the non-IE browsers to - IE is stuck on MS's monthly update cycle. Most software patches are released as soon as they are ready so people can get protected as soon as possible - but with MS - they hold them all back till the second Tuesday of the month (with a few rare exceptoins).

From a security point of view Chrome has the most going for it IMO. It self-updates without you having to do ANYTHING - it also bundles it's own Flash which it also keeps up to date for you, and it has it's own sand-boxed PDF reader. There are a lot of attacks targeting Adobe products over the web, so this is great.

FireFox also has some nice touches - as well as not supporting Active X, it also releases updates instantly, but you do have to OK them and restart the browser. FireFox doesn't update Flash, but it does warn you when your flash is out of date, and gives you the link to get the update - so it does make it easier to protect yourself.

Ultimately - if your family are not tech-savy, you'll save yourself a lot of hassle if you get them off IE and Outlook, and onto Chrome or FF and Thunderbird.

B.

 

[tysb9966]

Firefox or chrome. Hardly use IE if ever.

 

[josh_the_hot_boy]

IE shall be sent to hell and live out its life with viruses and Trojans and male-ware and everything else.