Archive for the tag 'internet explorer'

Oct 05 2004

What Can Happen If You Use Internet Explorer

Published by Jody under internet & computers

Friends don’t let friends use Internet Explorer:
A friend of mine… pasted some screenshots of a machine he was playing with. He decided to use Internet Explorer, and click on every popup and link he could find. His goal was to see if AdAware would adequately clean his system up. The results? Internet Explorer was covered [...]

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Oct 01 2004

Firefox, An Alternative To Internet Explorer

Published by Jody under internet & computers, software

Why I dumped Internet Explorer:
After months waiting for Microsoft to give me a reason to remain loyal, I finally dumped Internet Explorer for the Firefox Web browser last week.
On the security front, Microsoft has clearly had its hands full. Fixing the myriad holes in Windows and Internet Explorer is no small job. But why should [...]

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Apr 02 2004

Mozilla or IE?

Published by Jody under internet & computers, software

I’ve been using Mozilla’s browser (i.e. Firefox) for a long time; its tabbed windows features is convenient, it blocks popup windows, and it has never crashed on me.
However, Firefox’s latest version has been running slow on my system, taking a long time to download pages; so I decided to try MyIE2, an Internet Explorer-based browser [...]

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