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Does Comcast Hate Firefox?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the compatibility-is-hard dept.

destinyland writes "Comcast is the largest ISP in America. And they're requiring Internet Explorer for installations — even if you're using a Mac. The Comcast homepage even specifies that the page is optimized for IE 5.5 (which was released in 2000), and 'is not optimized for Firefox browsers and Macs.' With 13 million subscribers, you'd think they could spring for a web developer who could handle multiple browsers. (From the last line of the article: 'I'm afraid to ask how Comcast handles Linux...')"

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  1. More likely... by artemis67 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It sounds like Comcast has received a big, fat check from Microsoft.

    1. Re:More likely... by alexhs · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      They hate their customers.

      More likely... It sounds like Comcast has received a big, fat check from Microsoft. What's the difference ? :P

      Both statements aren't mutually exclusive, and they sure don't care much about these consumers that are not using MS products.
      And in a GWB America, "you're either with us or against us". I proved they're not with these customers, so Comcast sure are terrorists hating their US customers freedoms. QED.

      I thought it was obvious :)
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  2. Pot kettle black by Snaller · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well slashdot can't design a propersite either, and taco doesn't care as long as it looks good in his browser, so that seems to be going around.

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  3. Re:More likely...MS Troll by jedidiah · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ok, so you're a volunteer shill. You're still a shill.

    There are very sound technical reasons to avoid running Exploder, especially on an untrusted network. You don't have to be a Mac or Linux partisan to realize this. You might want to lock your copy of Exploder down even if you still have chosen not to dump it. Doing this would be motivated for the same sound technical reasons for dumping Exploder in general.

    In short: Why should someone trying to sell me network services be perpetrating piss-poor network practices?

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