Firefox vs. SP2's IE?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday December 22, 2004 @08:40AM from the as-microsoft-slowly-improves-their-products dept.

Anonymous Coward asks: "I was at my grandpa's house today, and I came across a somewhat unsettling issue. He is a user of Internet Explorer. I was talking about Firefox with him, and it turns out that he has had no trouble with popups since SP2 came out, he doesn't multitask enough to benefit from tabbed browsing, and he doesn't care about safety/privacy concerns. On top of that, I ran a test and found no difference in load/download speeds between the two browsers on his computer. This brought me to an interesting point. For someone like him, is there any benefit to be gained from using Firefox? On top of that, are there any people who are actually better off sticking with IE?"

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So... by Jebediah21 · 2004-12-22 09:30 · Score: 0, Troll

So your grandfather doesn't care if his machine spews out spam? By golly, he must be a pillar of American society! If it doesn't affect him why should he care?

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Re:Security/Privacy issues by weicco · 2004-12-22 18:02 · Score: 0, Troll

Did you click that little button which said "Please click me, I'm gonna install some spyware up your a**"?

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