Browser - Is IE old skool or what?

Susquehannock · Sep 21, 2005

Who else thinks IE is old skool?

Just tried Opera(free) again after a long absense. FF was my favorite but Opera
is my default browser now. Browsing is much more pleasurable than with IE.

Xtreme Barton · Sep 21, 2005

just curious to what you mean by pleasurable? just the looks or what ??

9mmCensor · Sep 21, 2005

Is IE Old School? No. Its crap.

TheGreySpectre · Sep 21, 2005

^^QFT

I understands what he means, more user friendly, easier to navigate, easier to deal with, I like opera because it has mouse gestures and tabbed browsing, mouse gestures are availalbe for FF but you have to download an extra plugin.

Crana · Sep 21, 2005

9mmCensor said:
Is IE Old School? No. Its crap.

So dam true

Once your into the tabs on firefox you never look back to IE.

9mmCensor · Sep 21, 2005

TheGreySpectre said:
^^QFT

What does that mean?

Albigger · Sep 21, 2005

9mmCensor said:
What does that mean?

Quite F****** True ?

Karbon · Sep 22, 2005

9mmCensor said:
What does that mean?

I always thought it meant "quoted for truth"

Anyways, I've pretty much always used IE. I had firefox for a while but there were a few sites that it didn't like. However, I've given it to my grandparents and they like it

MRD · Sep 23, 2005

Oldschool is NCSA Mosaic. IE is just a cheap and shoddy knockoff. I really don't get why people use it, it's such a lousy browser. Personally, I use firefox and epiphany. Opera may now be a good contender since going free. Dillo is the fastest browser ever made, by a landslide, but is still in development and doesn't render some pages well. Still, dillo on my P133 laptop is faster than any other browser on my athlon 3200 XP desktop.

khiloa · Sep 28, 2005

MRD said:
Still, dillo on my P133 laptop is faster than any other browser on my athlon 3200 XP desktop.

What about lynx?

But seriously, I bet I know why people use IE: It is all they know, and they are not willing to try something new and "different."

It will be interesting to see how Opera is now that they've released it for free. I have not tried it in a long long time but I am sure I will install it soon and give it a test run myself.

Susquehannock · Sep 29, 2005

TheGreySpectre said:
^^QFT

I understands what he means, more user friendly, easier to navigate, easier to deal with, I like opera because it has mouse gestures and tabbed browsing, mouse gestures are availalbe for FF but you have to download an extra plugin.

^_^ ... exactly. More customizable to suit your tastes. And I like using a
couple quick mouse clicks more than having to move my cursor over a toolbar
button or R.click pop-up.
One feature I really like about Opera is how you can set it to reload ALL your
tabs back where you were in your last browsing session.

Why do people use IE? As khiloa said, it's all they know - just click the big blue "E" on their desktop.
Plus, some are under the impression since IE came with Windoze it's more stable and secure. :-/

Captain Newbie · Sep 29, 2005

What about lynx?

Yeah!

The next version of IE is going to include tabbed browsing, but will still likely be a massive Pile.

RJARRRPCGP · Sep 29, 2005

The following problem exists if you use Opera:

Some web sites think that the browser is older than Internet Explorer 5 and Netscape 6!!!

Albigger · Sep 30, 2005

RJARRRPCGP said:
The following problem exists if you use Opera:

Some web sites think that the browser is older than Internet Explorer 5 and Netscape 6!!!

If you're referring to a yahoo site (I got that error when I first went to opera) there are workarounds.

A pain - yes. Opera's fault - no.

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