Why I Will Never Use IE Again!

Posted on October 17, 2006, under Browsers, Development, Software.

I have used FireFox for over a year, and have been very, very, very pleased. I have also been enjoying the release candidates for the new upcoming version. Today I had an experience that reminded me why I use Fire Fox and why I will never use IE again.

I installed Windows 2000 on my Virtual Machine for testing purposes. The O.S. was installed for literally two seconds; and I had to open up IE to get a copy of a DLL. I didn’t want to install Fire Fox yet, because I usually get the O.S. setup to the bare minimum and then take a snapshot with VM. That way when I am testing applications I start with a clean slate every time. Anyway, I did a search in Google and visited a webpage, and all of a sudden was bombarded with popups and downloads and spyware. I admit, I clicked on the wrong search result link… but the fact that I was able to get all that crap installed in a matter of seconds boggles my mind. I don’t care how good IE 7 is, I am not going back. I have forgotten how bad IE was after switching to the good life, and this trip down memory lane was a nice reminder on why I will not be going back. Any application that can make you that vulnerable in with one click of the button is an application I can live without. I know IE7 will have a lot of improvements, but it is too integrated into the O.S. which leads to a series of problems.

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