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Get Rid of Internet Explorer - Browse Happy!
Matt writes "BrowseHappy not only tells us why IE is unsafe, but also provides "switcher" stories of people that stopped using IE and switched to a safer browser. This campaign is not so much against IE, but for the use of safer and more user-friendly browsers."
My eyes! Ze goggles, zey do nothing!
i have dumped ie (and outlook, blech.) for mozilla and my computer has never been more gooder.
-knowles
Safari! Need I say more?
I think hunting down IE users for sport is a bit of overkill, don't you?
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
... need a porn friendly browser!
Not really, no.
The congregation says Firewhat?
Seriously, does anyone who reads slashdot these days really need someone to point out the advantages of mozilla/firefox/opera/safari/whatever? Is this really news?
Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination.
I use IE all the time
This one time, I got an email from Citibank I need to veerify my account information!
All I have to do is to click the link with bunch of characters in it, then it loads the seemingly legitimate Citibank website. Then I enterd my account name and password, plus all the other informations. There I veerify my Citibank account using IE.
Meanwhile, Mozilla browser and Mozilla Firefox can't even load the page.
Now, which browser is broken?
Definitely not IE.
By the way, for some strange reason, my Citibank password is no longer working shortly after that.
(sarcasm mode turned off)
I think hunting down IE users for sport is a bit of overkill, don't you?
You're either with us or against us. Now prepare for the hunt!
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So does your X10 camera, DVD backup software, Debt Consolidation Program...
Ms. Sandlin is just asking for trouble.
Everyone knows that leaving a large warning stating that on no accounts is anyone to touch the big blue button, is practically an order to press the damn thing.
It turns your hair green.
I'm Rick James with mod points biatch!
I explain that if [...], they will need my services less frequently
It looks like your line of work (spyware removal) is going to die from your own word.
Write boring code, not shiny code!
"Brushing your teeth is a fight against tooth decay, not denture companies."
Tooth decay is a hoax perpetuated by dental industry in an effort to get you to buy useless appliances and pastes. I havn't seen any evidence to support the need to brush your teeth ever.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
On some work computers I have changed the Firefox Shortcut to appear exactly as the IE shortcut - I used the same icon, and renamed the shortcut to "Internet Explorer".
I then placed the shortcuts in the same places that you normally find IE.
No one noticed. Not one single person.
Makes things easier for some people sometimes.
Try to hack my 31337 firewall!
SIGFEH
Why would this be a good thing? Imagine the nightmares web page designers would have to go through if they had to support two completely different non-standards-compliant browsers. We'd need to use several different browsers on a day-to-day basis just to view all the pages correctly.
Welcome to 1998. I'll be your host.
-Waldo Jaquith
It's like a neverending icecream headache!
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make install -not war
They don't require registration, you can change your PC's configuration as much as you like, and they have a few free applications thrown in as well!
So you can have an "Offically" unsupported product?
I just found out there's no such thing as the real world. It's just a lie you've got to rise above. - John Mayer
mice have legs. not wheels.
Imagine the nightmares web page designers would have to go through if they had to support two completely different non-standards-compliant browsers.
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Calm down there sonny and remember to salute your superior officers. Some of us have already been through BW I and II, as well as few "Browser Actions" like the launch of NN 6.0.
Boy howdy, I remember those days. You had to make sure your Palette had the Web-Safety on or BLAM!, colors bleeding all over a Mac browser IT WAS HORRIBLE!
Sniff a browser incorrectly and the Flash movie you had on point was as dead as an MIDI file without an <embed> tag in Netscape.
You just make sure and stick to JavaScript object detection insted of browser detection and it won't make a hill of beans difference WHAT kind of new fangled whojeewhatsis they come up with to view web pages, you'll do just fine
Now put down that ActiveX Control sonny, we don't want you hopped up and going through any kind of delusions of granduer when you're out in the jungle.
DIS-missed *salutes*