Acid test? I can only imagine you throwing acid at IE and laughing at it when it doesn't work. That's my kind of test!

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Daniel

Are you brave enough to try this Install Internet Explorer 8.

Lots of stories around, that MS admit they got IE7 wrong, and now trying to create browser that works like all the rest, Firefox, Safari, Opera etc. and not break pages.

I installed the beta version of IE 7 it completely hosed my computer. So installing IE 8 Beta no thanks

:o)

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LETS BEGIN IN 2010

I use IE 7.0.6000.16609, but only when I have to.

I just did the acid test on IE7, and it looked like several blobs.

Firefox would at least display Face and the words. IE couldn't display anything.

I almost always use Firefox 2.0.0.12, mainly because I like the add-ons. The add-ons I like the best are ones that kill stuff in Firefox, like various ads.

I love Firefox and won't ever depend on Microsoft. I am now learning to use Open Office, to prepare me to kill off some more MS products.

I also use Yahoo, for the news and my email, however if Microsoft is successful at buying them, then I am going to gmail (accually I already have a gmail account).

I am also killing my hotmail account as well.

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Watch out... next thing you know you might be using Linux!

I'm an Opera user myself. I'm proud to say that Opera 9.5 (still beta) passes acid2 with 100% and has the highest score on acid3! (60) But even the stable one (9.26) does far better than IE.

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I just got a fresh Ubuntu CD. As soon as I move to Oregon, in a month or 2, I'll install it on my old Dell XPS 800t. The XP stuff that I have on there now is way to slow. Besides, I want to learn Linux anyway.

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I just got a fresh Ubuntu CD. As soon as I move to Oregon, in a month or 2, I'll install it on my old Dell XPS 800t. The XP stuff that I have on there now is way to slow. Besides, I want to learn Linux anyway.

As to FireFox, just got an UPgrade to 2.0.0.14, 10 minutes ago.
Never had trouble with it, even in VISTA.
On the QX9650, I.E.7.0.x repeatedly crashes, pitty Netscape is nowhere to be found.

And Linux, tried Ubuntu 6.04, worked OK, but always seem to mess things up, installing to many packets or the wrong ones.
Got 7.10, included in a magazine, but since all host's have (windblows) ehh WINDOWS XP x86 & x64 & VISTA. Isn't XP short for eXPerience.

*** Keep On Crunching ***

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I must admit one of the biggest things that really gets me wound up on internet message boards is browsser snobbery. I think people should be allowed to make their own choices.
I was suprised to hear about IE& being 'wrong' and too full of errors. I've never had a problem with it. Mind you, I've never had a problem with Vista either, despite all the doomsayers ( that's the 32bit, the 64bit is still running like a dog on one of my machines ).
Having said all that I do use Firefox but mainly because of the addons and specifically for adblock plus.
I don't dislike IE7 I've just got used to FF and prefer to use it.

That said too I'm browsing these forums and the Seti site in general on the IE7 browser because I use the links within the Boinc client to access these pages quickly and for some reason they always open in IE even though FF is my default client.

I can't find anything in preferences to alter it and I expect I'll go mooching in the config files sooner rather than later because when something does something I have no control over I start to have tiny annuerisms.

I'll not be taking a look at IE8 until there is a release candidate as I have still not tried FF3. Running Vista Ultimate and finally having it more stable than my previous XP machine ( I've had this machine up for more than 6 weeks and even the 64 bit is regularly up 7+ days at a time, XP used to die on its arse in those times ) means that I don't want to mess with something until they are sure they have it right.

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... In VISTA, I.E 7 just is worthless, cause off the too many ERROR's,
BLUE-SCREEN's, beyond 'function call XXXXX' or whatever reason, the thing SHUT's
DOWN , always fight with this ......

Hey! I've seen a few of them...

Very odd being as it was on a Linux system!!!

Quick double-take, and then it flipped over to an old Apple-Mac system bomb screen... OK, so it was a random screensaver selection that I'd left running to try out the graphics. Phew!

Very amusing for the geekie types :-)

Happy crunchin',
Martin

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I tried IE8 on my main system but I had to uninstall it. There are a few new minor features that I like but it broke Google Maps so it had to go!

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I must admit one of the biggest things that really gets me wound up on internet message boards is browsser snobbery. I think people should be allowed to make their own choices.
I was suprised to hear about IE& being 'wrong' and too full of errors. I've never had a problem with it.

Yes, IE does work fine on most websites... but a lot of times that is because people MAKE their websites work in IE simply because that is the most common browser out there. If everyone wrote their web pages according to the official XHTML/CSS standards and didn't include special tweaks for IE, then it would be completely unusable on many sites. There is more to bashing IE than snobbery. There are technical merits that can be used to compare browsers objectively and IE ends up at the bottom of the heap in most of them.

Then there is the wole "lack of innovation" thing. Some people think that the "new" tabs are great in IE7. Well I've been using them for at least 6 years in Opera. Popup blocking was hacked into IE6 a year or two ago. Once again, that has been a feature in Opera for as long as I've been using it. Firefox has had plugins to do similar things for years too. Microsoft is always playing catch-up.

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I must admit one of the biggest things that really gets me wound up on internet message boards is browsser snobbery. I think people should be allowed to make their own choices.
I was suprised to hear about IE& being 'wrong' and too full of errors. I've never had a problem with it.

Yes, IE does work fine on most websites... but a lot of times that is because people MAKE their websites work in IE simply because that is the most common browser out there. If everyone wrote their web pages according to the official XHTML/CSS standards and didn't include special tweaks for IE, then it would be completely unusable on many sites. There is more to bashing IE than snobbery. There are technical merits that can be used to compare browsers objectively and IE ends up at the bottom of the heap in most of them.

Then there is the wole "lack of innovation" thing. Some people think that the "new" tabs are great in IE7. Well I've been using them for at least 6 years in Opera. Popup blocking was hacked into IE6 a year or two ago. Once again, that has been a feature in Opera for as long as I've been using it. Firefox has had plugins to do similar things for years too. Microsoft is always playing catch-up.

Its a crazy paradox eh. M$ always playing catch up yet they continue to lead the industry in sales to all of those stupid people who buy their crap. I guess it really points out how inept our educational instutions are. They have totally failed to enlighten their sutdents. Either that or it's Bush/Cheney fault.

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When we finally figure it all out, all the rules will change and we can start all over again.

Apple has also made Safari for Windows and you can get it for free ...

THe one thing I hate is that you cannot uninstall IE, if you do, you cannot download updates. So, you have to have the worlds most exploited browser installed to keep your system up to date.

On windows, when I do use them I try to use FF, or Safari ... but sometimes MS forces you to use IE ...

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