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Vimes

Vimes

Vimes

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You're choosing to use IE? Good luck with that... There are four other browsers(Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari) i'd choose before i even think about using IE full time. I certainly use IE for web development testing, but beyond that you won't find me personally choosing to use it.

Nice to hear IE has AdBlock to now though, i'll pass that information down the chain to the users who refuse to use anything but the default windows browser(if it aint broke don't fix it mentality - which is reasonable really).
 
t31os said:
You're choosing to use IE? Good luck with that... There are four other browsers(Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari) i'd choose before i even think about using IE full time. I certainly use IE for web development testing, but beyond that you won't find me personally choosing to use it.

Nice to hear IE has AdBlock to now though, i'll pass that information down the chain to the users who refuse to use anything but the default windows browser(if it aint broke don't fix it mentality - which is reasonable really).
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You'd choose Safari on a PC before IE10??!? Seriously?
 
t31os said:
You're choosing to use IE? Good luck with that... There are four other browsers(Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari) i'd choose before i even think about using IE full time. I certainly use IE for web development testing, but beyond that you won't find me personally choosing to use it.

Nice to hear IE has AdBlock to now though, i'll pass that information down the chain to the users who refuse to use anything but the default windows browser(if it aint broke don't fix it mentality - which is reasonable really).
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Have you tried Opera recently....?!
 
Macro said:
You'd choose Safari on a PC before IE10??!? Seriously?
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I have a personal aversion to IE(doing web development you can't help but gain some resentment toward it), so yeah i'd happily choose Safari over IE.

Vimes said:
Have you tried Opera recently....?!
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I have Opera installed right now, as is Chrome, but both are purely for testing purposes and not full time usage(only need load a webpage here and there). My main browser of choice(as it has been for years) is Firefox, despite the fact they seem to be making some bad choices in direction recently(personal opinion), but i stick with what i like and no other browser(for me) comes close.
 
Mainly because of applications such as SharePoint, etc. and anything else that has integrated authentication.

I quite like IE10 - I can't say I've had a problem with it. I don't notice bizarre resource issues like I do in other browsers and I don't have random crashes that I seem to have in FireFox.

Bringing it back on topic though AdBlock Plus is good news as it's one of the first things I install on FireFox because of the annoying YouTube adverts. If this does exactly the same then I no longer need FireFox.

Time to test!



M.
 
gothic_hobbit said:
IE is terrible.

I don't know why people still use it.
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IE10 isn't terrible by any sensible measure, not least due to security.

Reports from the Secunia Vulnerability Review 2013 and Symantec’s 2013 Internet Security Threat Report show that contrary to popular myth, Internet Explorer holds up very well for vulnerabilities and anti malware protection.:

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Macro said:
Doesn't make the fact wrong and those are recently published 2013 independent reports from Secunia and Symantec.
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They are reported vulnerabilities. Users with up-to-date browsers (most of the userbase due to auto-update) were not exposed to the vulnerabilities.

0day = a threat
patched vulnerability = not a threat
 
Although of course almost all of the "patched vulnerabilities" would have been unpatched and a real threat at some point (i.e. when before they were patched) so the figures stand.
 
I don't get the hate for IE10, it's come a long way in the last few versions. I've tried a couple of others but always preferred IE.
 
^^^ agree, it did surprise me how well it performs after trying it out. I am looking forward to version 11 with the 8.1 update to Windows 8.
The only browser that I do consider problematic, even more so than usual, is Opera. Since they changed engines, understanding that it is only in beta as yet, it seems a very poor imitation of what it once was. Hopefully it will get some of its old features back but after following some of the posts from their development team I'm not sure just what they can, or wish, bring back, even the bookmarks bar.!

I am finding that I am flipping between IE and FF. It was only yesterday that I had a FF issue, it would not apply a discount voucher for Debenhams and yet with IE it worked perfectly well....

with FF

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With IE...

the voucher applied and it worked...

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Macro said:
Although of course almost all of the "patched vulnerabilities" would have been unpatched and a real threat at some point (i.e. when before they were patched) so the figures stand.
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They weren't a threat because they weren't being exploited in the wild.
 
Vimes said:
It was only yesterday that I had a FF issue, it would not apply a discount voucher for Debenhams and yet with IE it worked perfectly well....
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as the end user, your first reaction is to point at the browser being at fault but it really isn't.

it's pure incompetence from the people who made the site. they obviously haven't tested it in all the major browsers which is pretty disgraceful for anyone who is serious about running an online shop.
 
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