Re: IE 6.0--upgrade time

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William R. Walsh typed on Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:53:19 -0700 (PDT):
Hi!

Greetings William!

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...

Sure, no problem. Same here. ;-)

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.

Not for me. Although I use low powered netbooks (running Celerons no
less) the majority of the time. So I see things if they take a bit
longer than most people would on far more powerful machines.

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.

Yes it is *do* to some poorly written websites. Although Firefox has
problems with them and IE (and others using IE's engine) and Opera
doesn't seem to have this problem. Only Firefox. And since I like to use
only 1GB with Windows XP (two machines do have 2GB though), I find
Firefox eating way too much and cause me problems. Especially with SSD
based machines where I have the pagefile (virtual memory) turned off.

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 am too a "use what works for you" kind of guy. And I use Maxthon which
uses IE's engine (IE6 here). And I never get any infections on any of my
systems. So it isn't IE fault that some are getting infected. It has to
be another reason.

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.

I wouldn't doubt that at all. Although from the user's point of view, it
works well.

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.

I am sure Microsoft wants everybody to move on past IE6 as well.
Although that doesn't matter what they want. It is what the users want
that is what is important. ;-)

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

Yes I heard that about Office 2007. Also the spelling dictionary from MS
Works would work with OE too. Up to Works 6 I believe it was. Later
versions no longer worked. That is okay though, I'll just stick to older
versions which works just fine. If Microsoft doesn't want to add
features to newer versions that people want, well it is their loss. ;-)

And as far as IE7 and 8 still working with OE6... well I guess we can
say it does for now. Although I wouldn't be surprised if someday if some
Service Pack or critical updates will kill it. And they will get away
with it if not enough OE6 users complain about it.

--
Bill
Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP SP2



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