[Gllug] IE flaws

[Yas]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:34:01 +0100, Simon Jakesch
<simon.jakesch at proxima-tech.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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 

 
> Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 12:18:28PM +0100, John wrote:
> >
> >>I venture to say that if 99% of the population switched to using Firefox
> >>on Windows there would be exploits crafted to attack it.
> >
> >
> > True but they would probably be fewer and less cataclysmic.  Firefox for
> > Windows isn't tangled (I refuse to say "integrated") into the OS in the
> > way IE is.
> >
> >
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