| DOATS1 said: i don't know why so many people hate ie. i see absolutely nothing wrong with it. both ie and firefox work exactly the same to me except their user interface. but that's it. please someone tell me, why do you think ie is so crap? |
Pretty simple, actually. When firefox came on the scene, IE was the dominant browser.
1. Being the dominant browser, they were implementing ActiveX objects and totally going against all web standards. So many championed firefox as the more standardized browser and to keep the web from falling into microsoft domination through the use of ActiveX.
2. Implementing ActiveX made IE tremendously unsecure, so many more championed firefox as the secure browser.
3. Firefox, being open source, was championed by the open source movement -- programmers in the know who understand what open source is about.
4. Firefox is cross platform, so you can get the same functionality regardless of which computer you're using.
All of those reasons appealed to me to try out Firefox. I stay with firefox because of the way firefox handles the tabbed browsing (much better to have the close button on each tab), the way it handles interrupting (does not stop the page from loading while asking the question "Do you want me to remember that password?" and other such prompts), and for all the add ons, like Ad Blocking, Gestures (makes browsing news aggregators in tabs super efficient), and image zoom.
When I've shown other people firefox and the way that I use it, they switch too. In fact, I don't know anybody personally that uses IE. All my coworkers, my parents, my family, my friends...all use firefox.
