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View Poll Results: Which browser is best?
Gecko-engine browsers (Mozillas, Netscapes) 39 70.91%
Internet Explorer 14 25.45%
Opera 0 0%
lynx 1 1.82%
konqueror 1 1.82%
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Old 12-05-2004, 05:08 PM
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The only fast thing about IE I saw on the mozilla site was this:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mozilla Website
Now available in 26 languages, for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. “I suggest dumping Microsoft's Internet Explorer” — Walt Mossberg, Wall Street Journal.
Maybe you should listen to your government, who urge you to not fuck up your Winblows.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mozilla Website
Recent security failings in Internet Explorer have caused experts (Including the United States Department of Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Readiness Team) to recommend that consumers stop using Internet Explorer and switch to other browsers
View these websites to see why IE is unreliable, and why your friend can't load IE anymore.

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/713878 and http://secunia.com/advisories/12048/

Read on about arbitrary code. If you log in with only one account, this amounts to being (as we say in linux) rooted. You are 100% hacked, and fall victim to whatever mercy the party redirecting you (only in IE) may have.

These are awesome. Read this:

Secunia Advisory: SA12048 Print Advisory
Release Date: 2004-07-13
Last Update: 2004-10-20

Critical:
Extremely critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Spoofing
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Partial Fix

Hmmm, system access, from remote, with spoofing? Being rooted!? OH NO! Partial fix? Thank god! Extremely critical? Sounds dangerous!

I get these in the mail at school unsolicited all the time. What does this mean? I fix my friends' computers all the time because they have Windows and because they have IE.
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