[Utilizer]

...I almost never use IE, just because it’s installed as part of Windoze.

What I found most annoying was running across a bit of new software more and more frequently that REQUIRED IE to run! I had to install it (or, more frequently re-install it) just to get the software to run -even though I used only Opera.

[GeronL]

You use Opera? I was wondering who used that browser.

[Squawk 8888]

What I found most annoying was running across a bit of new software more and more frequently that REQUIRED IE to run!

That's because a lot of software displays HTML content either online, internally generated or from a file, and the easiest way to handle it is to use the HTML viewer ActiveX control that is included with IE. There is a similar control that uses Firefox instead, but the last time I tried it there was still some missing functionality.