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Follow the OP's advice: don't remove IE unless it is unused! You may lose a convert by removing it without explanation. My parents navigate the Internet by cli

Follow the OP's advice: don't remove IE unless it is unused! You may lose a convert by removing it without explanation. My parents navigate the Internet by clicking the arrow next to the address bar, and clicking the webpage they want to use. The last time I tried converting them, they also used work-related webpages with ActiveX controls, which no sane browser would ever support. Tech is slow outside of the tech industry. My parents' Chrome usage would be a play in three Acts: Act 1: Confusion. "Where did my Sites go? The ones that were on top. I used to click something to click the sites, but now that's gone. There's no arrow! I have to open History? I didn't have to do that before. Where did my Homepage go? What's a 'tab'?" Act 2: Judgement. "I had this the way I like it before. I don't think I can get used to using this. And I couldn't use the Work system, so I have to keep switching between things." Act 3: Trashbin. "That Google thing? I uninstalled that. We didn't like it. And we couldn't use it for Work." As they say, the best user interface is the one you already know how to use.

Maskawanian 16y ago
Use IETab for those specific websites, seamless support.
- seabee 16y ago
  Not seamless in my experience. There is one site in particular that I need to use whenever my domains need renewing; the javascript menus didn't work in the IE tab, but was just fine viewed from IE itself. Not a clue why.
  - mMark 16y ago
    I've had the same problem with a couple government websites up here in Canada (don't ask why our Canadian Gov websites aren't compatible yet... incredibly frustrating). Installed a fully secured suite of FF in a law office w/IETabs. Forms wouldn't load in it. Chaos ensued. None of them ever used FF again and now tell everyone it's "that crappy program tech support installed". Now I didn't uninstall IE but I hid the icon. Lesson learned. Just leave the icon in their quicklaunch with FF on the left of it. Instruct them to use the orange icon because it's safer and faster. If they don't use it and their computer gets fubar'd you can just tell them that you told them so and fix it up for them.
    - windsurfer 16y ago
      I worked for Public Works and Services Canada, and all our sites must be compatble with IE 6 and Firefox 3.0 before they are pushed to production.
msluyter 16y ago
sigh I hopefully installed Chrome and set it as the default browser on my mom's new Windows 7 machine. Things seemed fine for a while, until I got an e-mail from her saying that whenever she clicked a link from her e-mail (Outlook, unfortunately), she'd get Chrome's "Aw, Snap!" error message -- which, incidentally, she found obnoxious. Sure enough, it turns out that this is a common issue that occurs when a link in Outlook is followed and Chrome isn't currently running. (Things work fine if it's already up.) Whether this is a Chrome issue or an Outlook issue is unclear to me, but the bottom line is similar to above.

Maskawanian 16y ago

Use IETab for those specific websites, seamless support.

seabee 16y ago
Not seamless in my experience. There is one site in particular that I need to use whenever my domains need renewing; the javascript menus didn't work in the IE tab, but was just fine viewed from IE itself. Not a clue why.
- mMark 16y ago
  I've had the same problem with a couple government websites up here in Canada (don't ask why our Canadian Gov websites aren't compatible yet... incredibly frustrating). Installed a fully secured suite of FF in a law office w/IETabs. Forms wouldn't load in it. Chaos ensued. None of them ever used FF again and now tell everyone it's "that crappy program tech support installed". Now I didn't uninstall IE but I hid the icon. Lesson learned. Just leave the icon in their quicklaunch with FF on the left of it. Instruct them to use the orange icon because it's safer and faster. If they don't use it and their computer gets fubar'd you can just tell them that you told them so and fix it up for them.
  - windsurfer 16y ago
    I worked for Public Works and Services Canada, and all our sites must be compatble with IE 6 and Firefox 3.0 before they are pushed to production.

msluyter 16y ago

sigh I hopefully installed Chrome and set it as the default browser on my mom's new Windows 7 machine. Things seemed fine for a while, until I got an e-mail from her saying that whenever she clicked a link from her e-mail (Outlook, unfortunately), she'd get Chrome's "Aw, Snap!" error message -- which, incidentally, she found obnoxious. Sure enough, it turns out that this is a common issue that occurs when a link in Outlook is followed and Chrome isn't currently running. (Things work fine if it's already up.) Whether this is a Chrome issue or an Outlook issue is unclear to me, but the bottom line is similar to above.