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Unrelated, but sort of not: I'm in the process of setting up some Windows servers. I haven't really touched Windows as an OS in a number of years (linux and O
by brk 19y ago
Unrelated, but sort of not:
I'm in the process of setting up some Windows servers. I haven't really touched Windows as an OS in a number of years (linux and OS X mostly). I can't believe how horrible the interaction is, ESPECIALLY with IE. Holy crap, quit with all the popups about adding sites or whatever. It took me a dozen clicks after I typed in www.firefox.com just to get the page to load.
I'm amazed that people actually use IE, it's user experience seems like an experiment in cyber-torture.
- jgrahamc 19y agoThat is related because as I was debugging my scripts I figured I'd use the Microsoft Script Debugger. Big freakin' mistake. The debugger crashed and took IE with it. I use OS X most of the time and Linux most of the rest of the time. Every time I go back to Windows to do something Microsoft finds a way of kicking me in the teeth. John.
- aston 19y agoIE7 loads up twice as fast as Firefox, has almost universal compatibility with web sites, and isn't to my knowledge lacking any significant functionality that would compel a switch to Firefox (including blocking popups).
- brk 19y agoLoads up what twice as fast? Pages or the app itself? I could care less about app loading times, I hardly ever reboot anything, so once I launch FF, it stays running. IE7 now has popup blocking, but it came years behind FF. Of course, I also use Windows as little as possible, so IE isn't an option in most cases. And where it is an option, I prefer FF for the extensions anyway.
- inklesspen 19y agoWhat about Firefox extensions?