The Let's Rag On Internet Explorer Thread

Lots of people hate it. Let's share exactly why we do. Post features you dislike, bad experiences you've had, whatever. Include the version! I'll be mostly complaining about IE6. TBH, alot of those complaints are fixed in IE7, but TOO LITTLE TOO LATE, MS!!

I'll start:

ActiveX & Market Domination:

Like dirt you just can't clean yourself of!
1. ActiveX makes it SO easy to do serious damage. Technical users have to secure IE, and non-technical users are at risk.
2. ITS EVERYWHERE. UGH. Our relatively small company couldn't do business without it. It's like crack! That's it.. CracktiveX. Hence, I can't migrate away from IE without pissing off our users. Damn those market manipulating maniacs at Microsoft.

 

If you need to maintain a large number of corporate productivity computers and work-stations you quickly learn to loathe ActiveX. Fortunately somebody over at Microsoft stepped out into the real world and got an unpleasant whiff of a stinky product befouling their otherwise fairly decent browser. ActiveX needs to be banned, or preferably an update needs to render it in-operative. Then there would be no need, whatsoever, for "legitimate sites" to push ActiveX DLLs onto your hard drive. Just one man's opinion.
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No point, really. Vent some frustration? Have a laugh or two, or at the least, an open discussion?

What's the big objection?

 

Sounds like you know exactly what I'm talking about!

 

Actually, I like IE7:duckthe tabbed browsers are cool and I customize the tool bar the way I want it, but it is slow. I was turned on to a browser that works faster without the customizing (at least I can't find out how yet) And I think I like it's system of layers (similiar to tabs) better. It's called K-meleon (Thanks Lev)

 

The "rank and file" users of a corporate network, have a "policy" installed on their machines via logging onto the "Corporate Domain". If they have internet access then their browser uses this "policy" which keeps everyone out of trouble. Unfortunately, the "bosses" don't like their machines "hobbled" by "policies" set by tech geeks, and insist that they only surf responsibly, and therefore don't need "policies" that stop their favourite ActiveX sites from working. Forensic trouble-shooting after a network attack, proves time and again, that a "bosses machine" was patient zero and that the vector was an ActiveX DLL that was downloaded during "irresponsible surfing". Some of these bosses do get re-educated, and allow the techies to help them. Others have very large egos and refuse to acknowledge that they were the cause of the attack. Hackers do rely on these over-sized egos, and are rarely disappointed. LOL.
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I have nothing against IE. I also love FF. But I really am infatuated with K-meleon (Thanks Adrynalyne, actually). I love the search and URL bar being one and the same; still get tabbed (layered) browsing, but the speed is fantastic. Only drawback.....I have that stupid Boy George song going through my head everytime I open it

 

Nothing really against IE, but for the fact that when I am surfing, I love to speed surf, and I have to say, FF2 is a heckuva lot faster than IE has ever been for me. I also notice that I have less spyware showing wehn I scan (on a daily basis with Spybot and Adaware). Of course, the downside is that when I go to work (our answeringservice software is all web based and we run IE at work) I tend to get frustrated with the lack of speed. I have been trying to talk the boss into letting me run FF2 off a CD install (run it from a CD instead of from the HDD) but haven't gotten very far yet. Have a few things I'd like to run that way at work (trillian etc) but even though they know that I use my net priv's responsibly (only surf when call que is clear and phone is in ready) still haven't gotten the OK yet

I think I went off topic there, but I am still trying to get my work to see the productivity advantages to running somehting other than IE *grin*

OK, back to makinf dinner now


~C

 

uke

 

Some things that have been resolved in IE7, but are still aggravating due to the number of users still on IE6:

PNG support - You can't have transparent .PNG images in IE6. They go all black.

Standards compliance - IE6 has "quirks mode" if it comes up with code that isn't W3C compliant, it tries to fudge the results so it looks right. Stricter browsers, such as Firefox, don't lie to you.

 

As soon as I got XP installed I wanted to get rid of as much MS products as possible. I don't know why, it's just an attitude. I replaced Notepad (big deal ), Outlook and IE was another victim.
After meeting tabed browsing I can barely use IE now.

 

Yet you used Windows. How ironic, LOL.

 

IE7 has plagiarized - I mean INCORPORATED - the concept of tabbed browsing!

 

If you think about it, MS has made great strides in the area of making the world of computing an insecure place.

I'm actually glad that alternative browsers arent jumping on the activex bandwagon.

 

Which is funny to me, considering that Microsoft websites are the only place I see anyone mention the Trustworthy Computing Initiative anymore....

(unless of course, I'm mistaken in my understanding that this was, at least at one time, a broader ambition than JUST Microsoft's)

 

Thats not hypocritical in the least, LOL

 

yeah, when I tried to get rid of them I ended up booting from the CD .

 

Now that's funny!

 

I think I've mentioned this before, I like IE7. I don't see it as anything great but it's not terrible either. The thing that really turned me off was when I started going through their add ons and noticed you have to pay for most of them. wtf?

Other than that, it's just another browser, just not my top pick.

 

I do too, honestly... I think IE7 has come a long way... it just took a long time for that to happen.

 

the last problem that I had using internet explorer, was with my sbc global dsl, sbc and yahoo got together, and when I moved to cable....internet explorer didn't want to work, and downloading a newer program didn't help....and because it's inbeded into ms, could not uninstall it.....and a lot of my programs need internet explorer running to work right......I put most of the blame on yahoo, it's explorer...........wobbles