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Internet Explorer users 'have below-average IQ'
"thanatoid" wrote in message ... "BillW50" wrote in : In , thanatoid wrote: Bill Blanton wrote in ng.com: Most Firefox users are dumber IMHO. In a way. They're dumber because they don't realize FF is just as unsafe unless you install a whole batch of add-ons. In the early days of FFox's rise, after trying it and being TOTALLY disgusted, I called it "IE for people who like to say they are too smart to use IE" for a while. Luckily I don't use either very much. But most Firefox users somehow believe they are protected and they leave themselves wide open. And if you check out the infection rate, FF and IE is going neck and neck. And I can't believe Mozilla leaves DCOM wide open (like ActiveX under IE). They should know better, but they never had done nothing about it. If Microsoft acted so stupid, we would never hear the end of it. ;-) Yeah, like with Linux, there's a strange silence surrounding ANY problems in the FFox camps. I have stuck by Opera since I discovered it, at ver. 5.x, and it is just reassuring to always see data about it being the best- maintained and safest browser. It has been this way consistently since the beginning. While also the most innovative browser, it always had Flash problems, but it's not the only browser that did, and they have fixed it with 10. Also, it was always the fastest, now 3 are about the same and one trails behind a bit. I agree there is a much steeper learning curve with Opera, while other browsers are "use out of the box", and it took SOME time to find out how to set it up the way I wanted, but it was worth it. A major release always tends to have some VERY irritating new features (whose value I sometimes see later, and after the initial annoyance, I actually consider putting them back in), but I know of no other fully functional browser which is as customizable and which writes ONE line to the registry (on my system, anyway) and which behaves exactly as you want it. I have NOT tried Chrome, but I distrust Google more than MS at this point. You seem to be sold on 'Opera', that's fine. When I compare the latest version with IE 9, the latter comes out on top, no matter what. To compare a browser with intelligence is silly, to say the least. It has to do with personal preference, nothing else. OffByOne remains the fastest and safest, but it has a few limitations (which I see as assets) which most people seem unable to tolerate. But for me, the less "page design" and pointless graphics I see, the better. And NOTHING beats no script and no popups and no Flash by design. :-) |
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