Comments on: Still browsehappying? http://foolswisdom.com/still-browsehappying/ A fool and his blog are soon parted. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:39:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha By: Brian Layman http://foolswisdom.com/still-browsehappying/comment-page-1/#comment-10637 Brian Layman Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:32:47 +0000 http://foolswisdom.com/still-browsehappying/#comment-10637 I think it is funny that the BrowseHappy Why? page makes no attempt to say why it is unsafe. It references one 2004 bug and the rest of the articles are all "Well, so and so thinks it is unsafe...." I was excited when I saw that link, because I thought I would finally get some facts about how a properly configured IE browser is unsafe, but found I was instead reading about some grandmother who things IE is to clutterred. IE is a good browser and Maxthon turns it into a great browser. Any time I try to find out the details of a general flaw in the IE design, I find I am arguing with some 13 year old twerp who doesn't know anything except what he's been peer pressured to say. I do not like the elitist atmosphere Firefox is promoting. Browse Happy falls in this category but does it gently. I DO NOT think Blogs should be in the habbit of insulting the 85%+ of their users by saying "Your not welcome here because you are too dumb to choose the right browser." Sites like http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ go too far in belittling their IE users. Their arguments don't wash anyway: · Firefox blocks pop-up windows. - So does every IE browser with a search bar installed. Maxthons ad blocker beats all others anyway. · It's more secure against viruses and spyware. - No longer true. This trend has been reversed. Its now popular enough to be targeted. Firefox actually has had more major security holes this quarter than any other browser. Opera, as usual, had the least. · It keeps Microsoft from controlling the future of the internet. - OK, That I agree with. · It's better for web designers and developers. - Each browser is actually broken in different ways. And THAT's what is the most annoying. There are pleanty of niceties available in IE that are not elsewhere. · Features like tabbed browsing make reading webpages easier. Maxthon supplied this in IE6 and it is built in in IE7. I think it is funny that the BrowseHappy Why? page makes no attempt to say why it is unsafe. It references one 2004 bug and the rest of the articles are all “Well, so and so thinks it is unsafe….” I was excited when I saw that link, because I thought I would finally get some facts about how a properly configured IE browser is unsafe, but found I was instead reading about some grandmother who things IE is to clutterred.

IE is a good browser and Maxthon turns it into a great browser. Any time I try to find out the details of a general flaw in the IE design, I find I am arguing with some 13 year old twerp who doesn’t know anything except what he’s been peer pressured to say.

I do not like the elitist atmosphere Firefox is promoting. Browse Happy falls in this category but does it gently. I DO NOT think Blogs should be in the habbit of insulting the 85%+ of their users by saying “Your not welcome here because you are too dumb to choose the right browser.” Sites like http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ go too far in belittling their IE users.

Their arguments don’t wash anyway:
· Firefox blocks pop-up windows. – So does every IE browser with a search bar installed. Maxthons ad blocker beats all others anyway.
· It’s more secure against viruses and spyware. – No longer true. This trend has been reversed. Its now popular enough to be targeted. Firefox actually has had more major security holes this quarter than any other browser. Opera, as usual, had the least.
· It keeps Microsoft from controlling the future of the internet. – OK, That I agree with.
· It’s better for web designers and developers. – Each browser is actually broken in different ways. And THAT’s what is the most annoying. There are pleanty of niceties available in IE that are not elsewhere.
· Features like tabbed browsing make reading webpages easier. Maxthon supplied this in IE6 and it is built in in IE7.

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