Just came across a post on Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer.
The main reasons stated are the security problems IE has and it’s non-compliancy with web standards. And I totally agree with those reasons.
But I would also like to add slow speed and lack of new features as problems I have with IE.
Tabbed browsing, fast page loading, popup blocking, skinning, extensions and more. These are all things that are very necessary in a modern browser.
IE simply doesn’t provide that.
IE is great for developers who want to get something working and who want to have extra possibilities that other browsers don’t provide. I used to love IE for that when I was in development.
But as a user, IE turns me off now. And I only use it when I really have to (Windows Update, certain websites, …etc).
My main browsers these days are: Opera and Firefox, with Opera dominating at work and Firefox dominating at home.
Outlook still rules as my email application though. There still is nothing out there yet that makes me want to change.
Mozilla rules ! Get FireFow !
The first thing that I do when finishing installing windows is to delte IE, and so I leave in peace and got many children …
I use Firefox as well, for all those reason. Personally, I don’t like Opera, partly because of its huge buttonbars.
As for mail, I use The Bat (http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/). It does everything and adds much better virus protection (simply by not being Outlook).
I agree Opera by default has big and annoying buttons, but I always load a minimalist skin that takes care of that and gives me more screen space.
I’ll also check out The Bat. I heard of it but never got around to playing around with it.
As for Karim, I don’t really see any direct relation between a browser and having lots of children. Unless you’re conceiving them through cyber sex 😛
You can get children only through stability, With IE, stability is a convention imoossible to satisifite !