In addition, maintaining IE allows Microsoft the ability to promote their own online services (ie default search engine, homepage, etc.).īesides, IE is *not* free. There are LOTS of apps that require some IE functionality to operate. Apps built on the IE platform require IE to run and hense Windows. Microsoft’s strategy is simple: maintain control of content. Konqueror reached ACID2 compliance before Firefox and is actually quite nice and has many innovative features to boot. IE does provide group policy integration, tie-in with the Windows update service, etc that make it easier to manage than Firefox (there is 3rd party plugins but they feel like a kludge).įirefox is nice but don’t discredit other browsers such as Konqueror. I don’t see corporate networks rolling out Firefox. Maybe that’s my paranoia kicking in, but I’ve said it before – a little paranoia is healthy.Īs long as people stick with Windows and IE7 is close to Firefox for security/end-user features, then I don’t see people loading Firefox on new systems. I simply don’t trust IE (and probably never will) because I know for a fact that it is so tied-in to the OS with secret system calls (WindowsUpdate has always smelled dangerous to me) that the risks involved in using it are a little too unsettling for me. That said, I’ll be sticking with Opera (on Windows) and Firefox (on Linux) as my first choice (Firefox seems to be the de-facto standard for Linux distros, so that’s a no-brainer). I’ve used Firefox, and I guess it’s okay, but it seems to take longer to render pages than Opera or IE (I don’t have stats to back this up, but that’s how it feels), and since I couldn’t care less about skins there’s not too much Firefox can offer that the others don’t (heck, they all do the same thing!). It doesn’t seem to barf on bad HTML (like pages missing proper end-table tags and such), and it seems to respond to user input while it’s working (very different from Safari – which hangs/locks all the time). I recently gave Opera another try (my last experience with it was way back in ver 4 or 5) and I have to say that it really impressed me. I also felt that this review was lacking substance, it was so mushy and there were not stats to base any facts on.
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