8 responses to “Bye, Bye IE – We Hardly Knew Ye”

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   Doc May 4th, 2010 at 05:08

   {sarcasm} Darn! What a shame! {/sarcasm}

   Chrome rocks.

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   rc primak May 4th, 2010 at 10:58

   I’ll give the obligatory counterpoint that I prefer and will stick with Firefox, unless they really mess it up.

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   woody May 4th, 2010 at 16:45

   I’m sticking with Firefox, too, but learning to use Chrome…

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   Sue McCain May 4th, 2010 at 20:21

   I’ve been using Chrome for a month or two and so far have found two sites where it doesn’t work properly. I’ve reported them but so far no fixes.

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   rc primak May 9th, 2010 at 10:46

   Woody —

   Chrome looks like an interesting possibility when I go for my new Windows 7 laptop. I consider Chrome to have a few performance ans security advantages, and it may be more compatible with 64-bit Windows 7 than Firefox at this time. Anyway, it looks interesting, even with the Google privacy issues.

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   Doc May 11th, 2010 at 20:48

   My Win7 laptop used IE just one time… had to use it to download Chrome. Same with my wife’s Vista desktop. I’ve removed all shortcuts to IE and have forgotten about it. Well, tried to at least.

   Of the multitude of other comps in the household running MS OS’es, 5 are WinXP, 1 is Win2k, 2 still run Win98SE and 1 is a highly modified (and stable-running) Win ME. Those utilize IE only to visit the MS update sites as needed.

   My boxes running OS2 & SuSE utilize Opera. My old vintage stuff isn’t online, so no worries there.

   Chrome Rocks!

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   Merdiwen May 15th, 2010 at 06:34

   I’m not so sure that Chrome is the “horse to beat”. 24.59% market share for Firefox is nothing to sneeze at, and the privacy issues with Chrome still aren’t all that appealing… still, it is nice to see that IE is losing steam.

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   sethness May 18th, 2010 at 01:14

   I’m with Merdiwen.

   Firefox and Chrome have about the same market share, but I’m convinced that Chrome-maker Google’s constant abuse of user privacy means that Chrome will fall in popularity.

   The news this year is full of breaches of privacy foisted upon us by social networking sites, gmail, chrome, AdSense cookies, a hundred and one toolbars, and other BHOs.

   I expect that big brother’s abuse of our privacy will be an increasingly hot issue for the remainder of this year, ‘tik key legislation or public outcry make would-be big brothers back off.

   Chrome’s EULA is particularly foul: it gives Google the right to collect browsing data and censor what we see, and that in unprecedented levels.

   Fellow IT folks, make sure your middle fingers are well-tuned-up so you can react “in kind” to to Google’s latest EULA nooses.