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2004-07-26

Throwing down the gauntlet

Do you think IE sucks? [Chris Sells]
Although I use Firebird (yes, Firebird*) as my web browser, the reasons for me to continue doing so have diminished since Windows XP service pack 2 became available (in beta, at least). I can’t help feeling the case against Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is generally somewhat overstated by the anti-Microsoft crowd. If you disagree, Chris Sells points out that you’ve now got ample opportunity to gripe about what’s bad in IE, as the development team has its own blog. It’ll be interesting to see what this throws up.

* Why Firebird and not the more recent Firefox? It’s because some of my essential extensions weren’t updated when it went to v0.8. I don’t want to upgrade if it’s going to downgrade my browsing experience, so I’m stuck at 0.7. And you’ve got another thing coming if you think I’m going to keep on hitting the websites of my favoured extensions’ authors until they re-release. I’d sooner go back to IE than have that kind of maintenance hassle.

Update: Oh great, looks like the site’s down already. Is that some punk-ass kid’s idea of justice via a DDoS attack? I openly confess to knowing nothing about such things (wouldn’t it mean the website just couldn’t reply at all?), but I hope it’s not some lamer’s idea of fun.

posted by Mal # Monday, July 26, 2004

Comments:

Not sure, I've stopped caring now. Anyway, allow me to ignore that question for a moment and ask this instead: what benefit I would get from upgrading?

# posted by

Mal : 11:18 am

Actually, maybe it would be worthwhile going through the upgrade experience and documenting any hassles I encounter. At least then I'll know whether I ever want to do it again.

# posted by

Mal : 11:36 am

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