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Looks Like Yahoo Hates Internet Explorer, Recommends Firefox

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Who dugg this? Made popular Sep 4, 2008

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  • alapoet, on 09/03/2008, -6/+140Can you blame them?
  • inactive, on 09/04/2008, -8/+111I hate IE as well.
  • GregFD3S, on 09/04/2008, -16/+106As a Web Developer, I just came in my pants.
  • BXRWXR, on 09/04/2008, -5/+76Thanks for sharing, weirdo.
  • sirber, on 09/04/2008, -4/+61on your mom's computer
  • howdareyou, on 09/04/2008, -4/+55A larger screenshot would have been nice.
  • Venom339, on 09/04/2008, -3/+48Apparently they prefer Firefox over Safari on the Mac as well :

    http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/8435/picture1pl ...

    Don't bury the messenger either, I'm just saying. :)
  • inactive, on 09/04/2008, -6/+46Internet Explorer still exists?
  • energyblue, on 09/04/2008, -3/+43Fair enough. IEs a bitch.
  • BXRWXR, on 09/04/2008, -7/+46Well it is safer and faster.
  • Boshow, on 09/03/2008, -9/+41Of course they hate IE. They hate Microsoft because Microsoft has been trying to take them over for a while. Yahoo would like nothing more than to see IE get their market share flushed down the toilet. I would even guess that Jerry Yang secretly hopes that chrome or firefox replace IE as the dominant browser.
  • plundstedt, on 09/04/2008, -4/+33http://www.yahoo.com

    There you go.
  • zadadka, on 09/04/2008, -12/+38Why didn't they recommend Chrome?
    (sarcasm)
  • evilregis, on 09/04/2008, -3/+27That's twice today that you've baby-battered your pants, dude. I hope you do your own laundry.
  • SugarCoatedSalt, on 09/04/2008, -6/+29CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL
  • sremick, on 09/04/2008, -1/+22You don't "fix" a page to make it work in a non-standard, non-compliant browser.

    You "break" it, or "muddy" up the code, but it's hardly called a "fix".

    Good for Yahoo. Neither them nor anyone else should have to be "arsed" to break their site to work with non-compliant browsers.
  • SSUK, on 09/04/2008, -1/+20They're called "***** websites" or "Outlook WebForm".
  • sremick, on 09/04/2008, -1/+19Oh yeah, isn't IE that klunky low-end browser that comes bundled with Windows, but most users replace with something better? Kind of like replacing Notepad with a real editor?
  • 4321234, on 09/04/2008, -0/+18I looked for a mention of that, too.
    (totally straight face)
  • jayakumark, on 09/04/2008, -1/+18This is the same in Chrome

    http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/2913/chromeyaho ...
  • bonzooznob, on 09/04/2008, -3/+19only catch is it is "pre-loaded" with Yahoo toolbar.... which technically for Yahoo is a good thing, since the default search engine in a vanilla Firefox install is Google.
  • OneLess, on 09/04/2008, -1/+15That involves using IE...Who would want to do that?
  • skidooer, on 09/04/2008, -0/+12I have never once encountered one of these so called IE-only sites. If they exist, they must not be very important.
  • inactive, on 09/04/2008, -1/+12"Looks Like Everyone Hates Internet Explorer, Recommends Firefox"

    Fixed.
  • XA04, on 09/03/2008, -19/+29Obviously Yahoo can't be arsed adding fixes to make IE work properly.
  • freezerburn666, on 09/04/2008, -5/+13do you yahoo? no, nobody does.
  • ryan83189, on 09/04/2008, -1/+8you gotta have something to go www.mozilla.com/firefox/ when you get a new computer.
  • sremick, on 09/04/2008, -1/+8Say what?

    English is your friend.
  • HeDiggMe, on 09/04/2008, -5/+12Well yeah, who doesn't?
  • krisrm, on 09/04/2008, -1/+8Dude, you just dissed Notepad. That's nearly as bad as calling Paint a "poor graphics program." May the software Gods forgive you...
  • Zippo, on 09/04/2008, -2/+9Well, Yahoo just earned some respect points.
  • SSUK, on 09/04/2008, -1/+8Who thinks Pinasco is in the closet?
  • Crazymaniacc, on 09/04/2008, -2/+8People on Digg don't have ads...
  • w3ber, on 09/04/2008, -0/+6Crome doesn't have Yahoo toolbar.

    not war it's advertising.
  • sprintmarathon, on 09/04/2008, -2/+8um... have you been to flickr lately?
  • wigren, on 09/04/2008, -0/+6EVEN WITH CRUISE CONTROL YOU STILL HAVE TO STEER.
  • Neo829, on 09/04/2008, -1/+6I'm pretty sure you could replace "Jerry Yang" with "any sane Internet user" and still maintain accuracy.
  • theaceoffire, on 09/04/2008, -0/+5Anyone who learns of Firefox from reading Yahoo ads would probably *want* yahoo to be there.
  • jdstorer2, on 09/04/2008, -1/+6Why were they using IE in the first place?
  • inactive, on 09/04/2008, -1/+6Take a chill pill.
  • dblbender, on 09/04/2008, -0/+5basic typing skills matter...
  • billbugger, on 09/04/2008, -1/+6Awesome! Still up there, just checked in IE.
  • mikedoth, on 09/04/2008, -2/+7All I can say is... good. I hate IE.
  • Sawta, on 09/05/2008, -0/+5Perhaps you didn't catch his job description.
  • GregFD3S, on 09/04/2008, -0/+4What the ***** is the Internet?
  • kolyana, on 09/04/2008, -2/+6I'm burying this for one of the worst screenshots ever - way to totally show everything except for the subject of the article.
  • charliebucketts, on 09/04/2008, -2/+5Unfortunately some web sites only run on IE.
  • jacko87, on 09/04/2008, -3/+6Yahoo is my home page and I'm pretty sure that firefox button was there way before the whole Microsoft trying to buy them thing.
  • spamspanker123, on 09/04/2008, -3/+5Haha. How embarassing would it be to send that in without a solid excuse?
    I was using IE because... uhhh... errrr... umm... comparing speed with Google Chrome?
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