re: Norwegian Websites Declare War On Internet Explorer 6
Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 7:17 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Arminius
(334 messages posted)
Norway is a relatively small place. Can't help but wonder whether some kind of back
room deal has been cut between "Norway's largest eBay-like site, finn.no" and Opera
Software (also Norwegian) to squeeze IE out.
When I decided to try another browser a little over a year ago I decided to try Opera
because it claimed to be the fastest browser at the time, and wasn't as resource
hoggish as Firefox.
I have come to like the tabs and the built in download manager. IE is spartan by
comparison. Nevertheless there are times when I use IE because Opera isn't up to
scratch.
1. Opera (the world's fastest browser) takes much longer to load the NBC news website
than IE does, and Opera tends to lock up while the page is loading so I use IE for
that one.
2. With Opera I wasn't able to register at the Sony corporate website to lodge my
claim for the free Playstation 3 they owed me. The online form didn't work so I had
to use IE for that.
3. Opera doesn't display .xml correctly. I use IE for those. I prefer to get the
links and download the files manually.
After reading that CERT report you linked to gewg, I got to thinking Microsoft might
have been better off in the long term if the judgement in the 1998 antitrust case
filed against them had forced Microsoft to separate (dis integrate in the literal
meaning of the words) IE from Windows. It would have forced them to design a new,
hopefully more secure browser from scratch.
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