Should Internet Explorer be banned?

http://www.hulu.com/watch/29522

Search your hearts, EoFF, and you'll find that we're all internet explorers. :G

just become standards-compliant and have more than one update every 3 years

IE sucks because it doesn't follow any standards and so the stuff written for it is all awful and only works in specific versions of IE. The newer versions of IE are less bad but still bad. Firefox is fine, except Flash has a bad habit of breaking in it (more Flash's fault, but whatever). Chrome is fine, except it sucks up a relatively huge amount of memory to operate. And both of the auto-update cycles they use are kind of bad if the programs you have to work with are so bad that they break when things update. Also it really annoys me when Firefox installs to the user profile instead of the actual Program Files directory.

All I really want is a super-clean interface that can run everything important, has no random features that don't matter, and lets me turn off unauthorized scripts from running and block elements of pages I don't want to see.

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Originally Posted by Spuuky

IE sucks because it doesn't follow any standards and so the stuff written for it is all awful and only works in specific versions of IE. The newer versions of IE are less bad but still bad. Firefox is fine, except Flash has a bad habit of breaking in it (more Flash's fault, but whatever). Chrome is fine, except it sucks up a relatively huge amount of memory to operate. And both of the auto-update cycles they use are kind of bad if the programs you have to work with are so bad that they break when things update. Also it really annoys me when Firefox installs to the user profile instead of the actual Program Files directory.

All I really want is a super-clean interface that can run everything important, has no random features that don't matter, and lets me turn off unauthorized scripts from running and block elements of pages I don't want to see.

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Flash also craps out on Chrome. In fact, I believe the Flash updates for Chrome are actually the same ones as the FireFox updates.

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Originally Posted by Colonel Angus

One thing I do know, is that they all kind of suck, each in their own way.

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Pretty much, it's all about choosing the browser that sucks a little less than the rest :D

You guys can close the thread now. Internet Explorer has been banned.

yay! we are saved

I worked on a project that was developed in a 100% microsoft dev environment and we could only test it in internet explorer and help I have stockholm syndrome now that I was actually kind of enjoying using IE by the end of it although I haven't gone back to it since.

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I remember that oh too well. I used the damn thing for two years because I was a newb at computers and didn't know there were other browsers I could download. Once I did learn I had it replaced and never looked back.

Yeah, IE sucks, but 11 is at least slightly more useable. We still deal with it at work, same as most people, it seems. Has anyone tried out Spartan? It's supposed to be the IE replacement.