[Gllug] IE flaws

[Peter Childs]

Yas wrote:

>On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:34:01 +0100, Simon Jakesch
><simon.jakesch at proxima-tech.com> wrote:
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>>yeah I have to agree. I have tried everything recently to get people away from
>>IE and to eithetr mozilla or firefox. it is furstrating that you show them a
>>better product that is entirely free and they simply don't use it because they
>>are sooooo used to IE.
>>it's ignorance and will never change regardless of how many features IE is
>>missing and firefoz providing... the average user doesn't care about security or
>>tabbed browsing or pop-up blocking. they don't care.
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>I think it's more the case that the 'average user' has had IE and
>other MS products stuffed in their faces for so long they can't even
>imagine using anything else. Maybe they even believe spyware, popups
>etc are all normal and have to be put-up with in order to use the
>Internet.
>
>Yas 
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    The silly thing is that even the 'average user' who sees firefox (or 
thunderbird) likes it so much they start using it as soon as they have 
it downloaded. 99% of the population could be using Firefox very very 
shortly....
    I've introduced several people to firefox at work and they are all 
using it and installing it at home. Somthing I can't say about Linux.

Peter.

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>>Bruce Richardson wrote:
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>>>On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 12:18:28PM +0100, John wrote:
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>>>>I venture to say that if 99% of the population switched to using Firefox
>>>>on Windows there would be exploits crafted to attack it.
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