What is Digg?283 Comments
- fionasummers, on 12/17/2008, -12/+167Oh that's a hard one, let me think.... Uh....NO!
- GhostFreeman, on 12/17/2008, -6/+139Internet Explorer is a great way to download Firefox/Chrome/Opera/Safari
- richardweaver, on 12/17/2008, -10/+136If you are currently using Internet Explorer, consider switching to Firefox or another alternative. It's worth it.
- KMartSheriff, on 12/17/2008, -24/+125I'm pretty sure no one in here is running IE. Let's take a vote. Digg me up if you ARE NOT running IE, and digg me down if you ARE running IE. Be honest, you know you're just as curious about this as I am.
- andtheodor, on 12/17/2008, -7/+89Right, next you're going to tell me that I shouldn't be using dial-up, webcrawler, or hotmail.
- AmyVernon, on 12/17/2008, -11/+83So glad when I switched away from IE.
- Po0py, on 12/17/2008, -3/+59Has any browser ever been safe?
- klitzbtc, on 12/17/2008, -2/+55Better yet, go find who's in charge of program development and punch them straight in the ball sack.
- czeman, on 12/17/2008, -7/+50That's why it was nicknamed 'Intenet Exploder' long ago.
- UberNick, on 12/17/2008, -0/+38IE Tab literally invokes iexplore.exe and displays it in a Firefox container. It means you're using IE (more or less).
- inactive, on 12/17/2008, -9/+45Let's switch to Mozilla Firefox.
- briantest1, on 12/17/2008, -23/+58I love IE so much. It is the best browser out there. Everybody should be using it
- DJNephilim, on 12/17/2008, -5/+35I use Lynx, and if I REALLY need to see images, Mosaic.
- acmaurer, on 12/17/2008, -8/+33i'd love to drop IE, but so many of my company's programs only run on it :-(
- SkippyDoorknob, on 12/17/2008, -1/+23Lynx
- sexybobo, on 12/17/2008, -1/+23My company actually chose one product over another just because it had multiple browser/OS support.
- scoottie, on 12/17/2008, -5/+27yes when it wasnt connected to the internet
- p0pcorns, on 12/17/2008, -5/+25I dugg you down just to screw with the voting.
- strangewill, on 12/17/2008, -0/+18TBH: Firefox is not inherently "safe" either, flash exploits and add-on exploits can be extremely dangerous. So never let your guard completely down just because you're using something the community calls "safe".
However, I do promote people using Firefox for various reasons, supporting Mozilla, standards compliance (mostly), speed, reliability, security (not "safety"), features....
I wish everyone would drop IE due to lack of standards compliance alone, screw security, they patch that every time, they _NEVER_ fix their compliance. - jebaird, on 12/17/2008, -2/+20The internet is not a safe place...
- KMartSheriff, on 12/17/2008, -3/+20What's funny is people will be too thick to sense the sarcasm in your post.
- wadick4, on 12/17/2008, -2/+18Dugg for the IE icon being on fire.
- Fustigations, on 12/17/2008, -1/+17You should have misspelled some words in there to make it more authentic.
- OmegaWolf, on 12/17/2008, -3/+18IE is garbage. I haven't used it since around 2003.
- inactive, on 12/17/2008, -3/+18How dare you mention the most secure browser. Shame on you.
- nysus, on 12/17/2008, -3/+17I wonder how much money Microsoft would save if they just quit shoveling money into their rat hole of a browser and adopted open standards. The world doesn't need IE 8.
- YodaOfDarkness, on 12/17/2008, -1/+15The author wrote what about that? Guess! Come on.
No? Okay, I'll tell you:
"I’m well aware within recent findings; those reported on the ZDNet Zero Day blog, that Firefox is one of the most vulnerable applications for Windows, although it doesn’t say anywhere that the actual application is insecure. It may well be perfectly fine on other platforms, which would say more about the Windows platform than the browser itself." - inactive, on 12/17/2008, -8/+21By default? No.
With some [minor] adjustments to its settings, most certainly.
Oh, then there's http://sandboxIE.com ... it makes any program safe. The only way I have used IE/FireFox for a LOOONG time. NOTE: Bookmarks, settings changes, downloads, etc will not be kept.
Only browser I run without it is Opera.
Read this, FireFox is their number 1 most vulnerable App!
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2304
(IE doesn't even make the list) - alfrednonimous, on 12/17/2008, -3/+16I only use Internet Explorer do download Firefox
- diablozx9, on 12/17/2008, -3/+16If you believe Firefox is more vulnerable than IE,
You are dumb. - mrBitch, on 12/18/2008, -1/+13@ slvrbullet87 RE: " ... as long as you dont install active x controls from random porn sites you are pretty safe "
You obviously didn't read the extent of how dangerous the current IE exploit is.
This current exploit will install malware on your PC just by VISITING the web site.
That's ALL that needs to happen, just look at the web site and you have malware installed on your PC.
The malware installs WITHOUT YOU CLICKING ANYTHING on that web site.
Do you understand NOW why it is that you should NOT be using IE ? - aboundingrhythm, on 12/17/2008, -4/+15It was safe on Mac OS 9
- Nephersir7, on 12/17/2008, -1/+12Try visiting this in IE http://crashie.com/
No explanation needed - steelclash84, on 12/17/2008, -2/+13Per TFA, Mozilla needed to patch 10 vulnerabilities. What does IE do about vulnerabilities? Nothing until it hits the press...
- thinkdifferent, on 12/17/2008, -3/+14Switch companies.... any company that stuck in the past is gonna go the way of Wall Street.
- ferrariman60, on 12/17/2008, -1/+11Compliance is why, as a dabbling web dev, I have really taken to hating IE lately. I've been using firefox for about 5 years now, but never actively hated on IE....... until I made a web page. The coding was correct, worked great in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera..... then IE. IE didn't even display half the thing right. If you're going to be a dick and make the browser that basically controls the way pages are coded, couldn't you at least make it standards compliant??!!? And it's still true, even with IE 8!! It's just a piece of trash. I think that Ballmer needs to personally apologize to every web develover on earth, give us each $1000, and kill IE. Completely. Include FF as standard in windows from now on. And apply patches to all old systems so it's applicable to all.
- savagemind, on 12/17/2008, -5/+15nothing safe even Firefox that why you get an update time to time
- poidh, on 12/17/2008, -3/+12Is it safe?
Yes it's safe. It's very safe. It's so safe you wouldnt believe it.
Is it safe?
No. It's not safe. It's very dangerous. Be careful. - sexybobo, on 12/17/2008, -0/+9You do know firefox auto updates by default
- br0ck, on 12/17/2008, -0/+9Ha, I love how they excluded all Microsoft software from the list before they even started.. from the PDF:
6. The application cannot be automatically and centrally updated via free Enterprise tools such as Microsoft SMS & WSUS.
So just because some part of IE users have browsers at work that get automatically patched, the 100s of millions of home self-managed IE installs get a free pass? Firefox at least updates itself, while IE updates requires people to run Windows Update which is far from a sure bet. - inactive, on 12/17/2008, -0/+9Because sarcasm is SOOOO easy to detect on the internet!
- skintigh, on 12/17/2008, -1/+9Who would ever expect a site partly owned by Microsoft to say something like that?
- jenshik, on 12/17/2008, -0/+8obviously. That's why everyone who added "/s" is being buried.
- WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -1/+9I also remember having to go into the registry (!!) to remove an AOL install icon from my desktop, even though I had already uninstalled AOL. It was like a permanent advertising splotch on my wallpaper >=|
- UnpossibIe, on 12/17/2008, -3/+11When you try to corner the market by making your web browser part of the operating system, you're bound to get kicked in the nuts.
- 4321234, on 12/17/2008, -2/+10Since switching to firefox, I've only been rickrolled 11 times.
- minago, on 12/17/2008, -4/+12ugh, i rememebr back in the day (maybe 7-8 years ago?) i was trying to clear out all the bulkware that came with my computer, and i wanted to get rid of ie. BIG MISTAKE. windows worked about as well as a diabetic on the atkins diet.
- coldeh, on 12/17/2008, -2/+10Hell, anything that stops people using IE is fine by me. I actually hope this ruins the browser, as I am sick of pulling my hair out making my sites render properly in it.
- jftitan, on 12/17/2008, -0/+8I switched from IE to Firefox as my personal browser, because when a friend of mine showed me his computer screen of the same page I was looking at, but WITHOUT ADS, and popups. I instantly switched. my whole world changed when I found out I could filter ads and popups out of my browser.
plus the plugin system rocks with firefox. IE is so microsoft. LoL
But I'll be honest with you all. I still have IE for web development reasons. along with Safari and Opera. but before my switch I used IE religiously. I never had problems like the majority of users that DO use IE, but I am the tech guy, so I know how to keep my computer infection free. its just the general population that helps keeps me employed. - Khast, on 12/17/2008, -0/+7Well, Microsoft can proudly boast, that if there is 90% Windows use, then 90% of the computers has IE.....so I guess by that logic, it is #1. Since you can't uninstall IE.....
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