Re: IE 6.0--upgrade time

Hi!

I also have FireFox, but it lacks many features and it is slow
and a memory hog. But some people like that. ;-)

I'm not sure I agree. No disrespect intended, just saying...

I'm using Firefox 3.0.7 day-to-day on a Pentium III/866 PC which is
"low end" in any sense of the term or as compared to modern computer
hardware. Sure, it doesn't come up as quickly as IE when first
started, but it also doesn't have the advantage of being loaded with
the operating system as much of IE's rendering engine is. Once Firefox
is up, it's fine.

As far as the memory usage goes, I do find that some sites cause
Firefox to use a lot more memory than perhaps it should. And it has
been criticized for that in more than one place. I don't disagree,
however, I don't find it to be a problem that keeps it from being
usable.

I'm very much a "use what works for you" kind of guy, but I can't
recommend IE in any release, especially with other good browsers
around. IE7 and later have horribly broken UIs, still don't
demonstrate outstanding security (as I still clean up systems with IE7
and see much same kind of crapware coming in, using the same old
"InfectiveX" methods that it always has), and are a moot point to
those using older but still supported versions of Windows. And Firefox
has extensions for almost any functionality you find to be missing...

I haven't seen any websites like this. Interesting. Also I am not
sure, but if you move from IE6, you might lose Outlook Express
v6.

According to people who may know, IE6 has horribly broken support for
CSS and various web standards, if it supports them at all. Microsoft
didn't play ball with standards in mind at the time IE6 was developed.
They definitely did things their way, something that has caused a
great deal of cursing amongst web sites that attempt to use certain
features, such as CSS.

Some webmasters have made a very public stand against IE6, going so
far as to say that they "wish it would die" because of the hacking
required to get it working with sites that work in other, more
standards compliant browsers. Some of these people go a step further
and actually don't even bother attempting to support IE6. Some just
grumble about it and go on anyway, at least for a while.

You don't lose Outlook Express 6 if you move to IE7 or IE8. It
continues to work just fine, at least as far as I've seen. I know
people who use it as their mail program and have IE7 installed
alongside it. However, Office 2007 installation kills the Outlook
Express spell checker.

William
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