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Originally posted by grumpyolddude
msn.com won't let me play Hexic on firefox
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Unfortunately, that's expected
MS writes things in such a way so that only IE does it properly since it is not standards compliant. They intentionally ignore standards to avoid people being able to have a choice in what they use. Luckily, developers are catching on and starting to say "screw MS."
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Originally posted by Destrox
Tab Browsing - again useless to me
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It's odd to understand until you've used tabbed browsing, but I don't know anyone that after trying it out hasn't later said they could never live without it.
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Originally posted by Destrox
Keeps HTML Formatting - no clue what this is and why its good
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That means that when someone writes a web page the way they are SUPPOSED to, then it works. As it is right now, if a person codes a webpage correctly, many times it won't work properly in IE, thus many web developers dislike IE because it makes web development a pain in the ass. Were IE to follow standards, life would be MUCH easier for developers.
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Originally posted by Destrox
Security - ie is too if you keep it updated
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Not quite. Critical security flaws in open source software tend to be fixed in a matter of days. I don't think I need to bring up the "critical flaw" that MS JUST updated which they discovered 6 MONTHS ago
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Originally posted by Destrox
Open Source Advantage - and DISadvantages once it becomes popular enough
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No offence, but that's just FUD. See above. Not to mention the countles research showing that OSS is more secure...except for the ones funded by MS
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Originally posted by Destrox
Block Images - why?
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Someone already covered this, but it's great for blocking ads. Or anything else you don't like showing up.
Anyways, it's all up to the user. I have no problem with people choosing to use IE or whatever other browser they want, but just like Opera users or Mozilla users that go "why would you use IE?!" it's just as bad for an IE user to go "why would you bother with Mozilla?!" I couldn't tell you how many different browsers I've tried - I remember showing my friends the benefits of Opera way back in 1998 when it was version...I don't even know, before Mozilla was even created.
The problems with MyIE2 and AvantBrowser come in the fact they're really only cover-ups of IE. They still use IEs inferior HTML rendering engine and are no more secure than regular IE.
It's almost funny how many times someone has asked me why Mozilla hasn't had a security update for such-and-such and then I explain that was only a flaw with IE. Point being, if you're too lazy to download and configure a new browser, that's totally fine, but don't say IE is just as secure. It simply is not.
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Originally posted by rsl12
another nice addition: for you porn hoarders, linky is a kind of add-on that can create in a few clicks an html page that shows every image linked to a particular page in a single page, for ez downloading.
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hehehe yes, I love Linky
