RIP, IE

Linux Today ^ | 25 June 2004 | Brian Proffitt

[ShadowAce]

[ShadowAce]

Browser Tech Ping

[GeorgeBerryman]

Funny that he mentions Mozilla. I finally got frustrated with IE and threw it out the door in favor of Mozilla. And I am much happier for it, too.

[Jack Black]

I have Mozilla running on my Red Hat 9 machine. It works fine. Some weird file formats are not handled as well as Windows, but who needs them anyways. (Mostly video stuff, I haven't got the equiv. of Real Player working there)

[bcoffey]

I'm using FireFox on all my machines now, both Windows and Linux. Same for Thunderbird (e-mail program).

[Mr. Mulliner]

I just read this page via Mozilla. I'm giving it sort of a test run this week. The jurey's still out, but it really doesn't have to perform all that well to make advantageous to running IE.

[LouisWu]

Moz. Firefox user here.

[MizSterious]

So, does this mean that Netscape users didn't get the virus? Can I turn on my java again?

[TexasTransplant]

We need a list from the Tech types, which browser will I be able to keep the longest, before the next mass infection, and while we are at it... email (simple please)

I am changing both tomorrow, to what I don't know.

[martin_fierro]

FREE PC PROTECTION: (Not an exhaustive list. Your results may vary. Void where prohibited. For entertainment purposes only. No wagering, please. Whattayawantfernuthin'.) (Thanks, but "Buy a Mac" doesn't qualify as "FREE PC protection")

Alternative browsers: Mozilla Opera AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition: Free anti-viral protection Popup ad killers: Bayden Systems Popup Popper: Blocks popup ads well in MSIE Shoot the Messenger: Close that friggin' Messenger in Windows XP Spyware removers: Spybot S&D AdAware MailWasher: Good for pre-screening & bouncing SPAM Windows Update: At least install the critical ones ZoneAlarm: Excellent Firewall Test your firewall from without with ShieldsUP! Test your firewall from within with LeakTest LAST BUT NOT LEAST: Explore Linux as an alternative OS, without installing it on your hard drive, via a free bootable CD-ROM! Download Knoppix (or one of these other Linux distributions), burn the ISO file onto a CD-ROM, and reboot with the CD-ROM in its drive. If you later want to install Knoppix on your hard drive, here are some tips.

[Pit1]

I switched to Opera several months ago, and liking it. I was going to try Firefox, but so far Opera 7.5 has been good to me. Including their M2 mail.

IE is history on my system.

[delapaz]

Firefox >= sliced bread

tabbed browsing, no popups, great controls, and just a very wicked fast simple browser.

Encouraged the better half to use it, but every once in a while she comes across a site designed for IE and it won't work. I explain that it's because some idiot webmaster's don't understand about coding to open standards, but it still gets her down on Firefox.

Also for work we have many inhouse webapps that will only work with IE, not much I can do about that.

for the stuff that has to have IE, there is Avant Browser a free "wraparound" program for IE, that includes tabs, popup blocker, among other things. Check it out if you have to use IE.

[Salo]

Funny, I was just deploying Firefox to some of my users last week - more of a performance enhancement than anything else - and I saw (and posted here) an article about the latest IE vulnerability.

I use Safari at home primarily, and Firefox on my Windows box.

The thing that totally sucks is so many places *require* IE - like our new Loathsome Notes email system - so we're going to be stuck with this suck-ass, third-rate security risk masquerading as a browser for a long time.

[ShadowAce]

I would suggest Firefox for your browser, and Thunderbird for your e-mail. You could run Mozilla if you want a full-featured suite, but just for browsing/e-mail, I'd get the two separate programs.

Check my link in Post #1

[markman46]

I have been using Mozilla/firefox for the past year or so, but I use the OS/2 version, and am reading this page with firefox now have no problems at all. have firefox installed on my wifes windows PC and she likes it ok.

[ShadowAce]

Have you tried the User Agent Switcher extension for Firefox? It may be worth the try.

[TexasTransplant]

Man that was Quick!

[mlo]

There is no virus hiding in web pictures, and any technical writer who says there is, isn't worth listening to.

[Salo]

no - what does it do?

[ShadowAce]

It lies to web sites, by claiming to be IE/Opera, etc. It's user-configurable.