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September 28, 2003

Pop-Ups - ARGHHH!!!

I've been surfing this weekend, adding a few bits and bobs to this and other sites. And it's getting more, and more annoying as my machine, firewalled as it is, grinds to a halt as various places kick off pop-ups. I've gotten close to putting my fist thro' the screen today :X

Oh why can't IE be like this - Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 ?

Posted by alan at September 28, 2003 12:21 PM

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IE is (mostly) fast and (mostly) stable, but it's a long way from being the most useful browser out there. Unfortunately, just as with Word and Excel, everybody's so used to it they seem to assume nothing else is worth investigating.

This appears to include Microsoft themselves, who so far as I can tell have undertaken not to release any further versions except with OS upgrades.

The attitude appears to be: 'People use it, so it must be good enough, and 'good enough' is all we're aiming for.' I find this attitude baffling; in a corporate IT department, I find it intensely frustrating.

I use Firebird in part because I believe it to be better than IE, but also as a reaction against the 'it'll do' mentality. But then, I'm a Mac user. Low-level retaliation is burned into the very silicon.

Posted by: Jonathan Sanderson at September 28, 2003 7:40 PM

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