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    I present to you as evidence in favor of this motion:

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    As anyone who has used it knows, IE is so bad it drives people into homicidal rages.

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    Google Chrome should be banned first.


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    for years we suffered the horrifying IE in school. it was a welcome change when we finally got Google chrome.

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    "Supposedly" the newer IE versions are almost useable. Out of curiosity I tried it a couple of times and it's just (IMO) really user-unfriendly.

    Personally I haven't had a reason to switch away from Firefox since I first started using it (pre-release, too!) in 2004.

    I know some people who were using IE up until Chrome was released in 2009 or whenever and I am just like, how. How did you last that long.

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    When I first interwebbed many moons ago, I used to use Netscape Navigator. After college & before I got my own laptop, I switched to Explorer, because that's what the library had.

    When I got my own computer I used Explorer until maybe 4 years ago or so & switched to Chrome.

    I've also tried FireFox, which I know is the descendant of NN, but it didn't seem all that different to me.

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

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    This is my one complaint with my windows phone. No firefox

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    But without Internet Explorer what will I use to download a better browser?
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    Have a nice day!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aulayna View Post
    Google Chrome should be banned first.
    Krazy talk. You're talking krazy!

    My computer has already banned IE. I can't work it at all and Windows 7 is supposed to be good with it.

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    Murder rate, schmurder rate. The most persuasive evidence that IE should be banned is that its use turns you into Daniel Towns.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blackmage_nuke View Post
    But without Internet Explorer what will I use to download a better browser?
    If IE was banned however, computers would come pre-loaded with a marginally better browser, so this would never be an issue.

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    The graphs wouldn't lie. So yes.


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    chrome and firefox are both quite suitable browsers and their usage should come down to personal preference.

    the biggest problem with internet explorer is the slowwwwwwwww adoption of newer versions by enterprises who require their users to use IE. developing for IE11 (current version) users isn't bad; developing for IE8 (lowest version still supported by MS) is a whole different animal

    anyway old versions of IE are bad

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pheesh View Post
    Fools! No one ever suspects the under the radar Opera user.
    A few years ago I would have agreed but they've revamped Opera so now it's just Chrome with a different skin

    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel Angus View Post
    I've also tried FireFox, which I know is the descendant of NN, but it didn't seem all that different to me.
    Firefox has revamped itself so it looks a lot like Chrome now. But it differs in the nuances. The last time I tried Chrome I didn't like the way the URL bar worked. When you type in a word in the URL bar in Firefox it searches through your history, bookmarks, bookmark tags etc. to suggest things. That's a feature I use a lot, and Chrome didn't have it. But then again that was a long time ago so maybe things have changed

    honestly though probably #1 reason I stick with Firefox is because I've been using it for ten years so I know its nuances, I know how to tweak it in about:config, I know what addons I like (I have like 40 installed ) and so forth. If I switched to a different browser I'd have to relearn it all and ain't nobody got time for that

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