Browser Wars: Round 1: Internet Explorer 6

Yeah, right but do you really think that home users have the time and patience to download huge patches from Windows Update every once in a while and that when most of the Indian users are on a dial up connection

no worm or spyware can harm a home user who dosent go internet way. less u r on net, less chances of ur system being buggy.

I grew up with IE, and have allways been plagued by pop-up's and malware. Hackers will try and hijack any new software, just to say they can. Whateved browser you use, you still need a good firewall in place. Microsoft Antispyware is remarkably good (as loathed as I am to say this) at what it does, and since installing it I have had no problems.

Excuse me! I have my DELL notebook with LICENSED VERSION OF WINDOWS 2K. But using IE means your system is open for all. Use IE on Windows XP without firewall for just one minute(online ofcourse) and you will get RPC errors. And pathces means further dependencies and troubles. Even Cyber cafe' promoting Firefox over IE6.

to: Manish Singh, Are you the Manish Singh who is selling log-ins to IDES SAP ECC 6.0 training system? I am trying to contact you for several motnhs now as the login details you provided do not work. So, please recredit the USD 150 I paid to you or provide the correct login details. Can anybody help here? Where to find this Manish Singh?

Try using Netscape 8, u will love it. It renders itself to Work either as Firefox or IE. If u have problems in websites designed specifically for IE (As all MS Jokers do), switch the Netscape 8 display as IE and enjoy. And for IE, trash it.

Exactly, so therefore 80% of the people using the net are plain idiots.

Shreya, your coment that the 80% people using IE are idiots is really amazing.... Just imagine, India with it's huge population accounts to worlds largest no. of idiots along with China.... Wake up... stupid... Didn't you see the news??? Firefox is equally vulnerable to attacks and is shutting down its site for 10 days to be reopened on Oct. 15.... Microsoft has till date not yet shutdown it's site for even ONE day........ and you call 80% of world's population stupid....

I think you are being Childish and Stupid, Anonymous or whatever. Dont pick on Shriya for her comments. Your comment that "if 80% of users are using it, why bother" is silly. before Windows came into picture 100% of users were using dos or unix flavours.Soon they shifted to Windows. That is the picture Shriya wanted to put into ur big head. So, in coming days almost all(except some die hard MS romeos sticking to MS as if Bill Gates is sponsering them) NON IDIOTS using IE now, will be shifting to Firefox. Period. For your info, MS was attacked by hackers umpteen times as well and need to remind u that u talked about Browsers and not the Websites run by the Browser companies (Stupid, eh?), read the following news at BBC hAAp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1137486.stm (replace AA by tt, phew) ---------- Microsoft hit by hacker attack: Friday, 26 January, 2001 Internet surfers were unable to access sites run by software giant Microsoft for the third successive day on Thursday. The company said it had been the subject of a "denial-of-service" attack, in which hackers flood systems with so much data that other efforts to access a site are slowed or fail altogether. Microsoft restored service on Thursday and notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the attack, company sources said. Microsoft shares fell during the shutdown, closing at $61.81 after reaching a high of $64 in the morning. Earlier shutdown The attack was unrelated to the human error that had shut down Microsoft sites on Tuesday and Wednesday. A technician was responsible for that failure of the company's websites. In a company press release, Microsoft said that a technician's error "limited communication" between internet servers and the company's own servers. Between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday surfers across the world were unable to access addresses including the firm's corporate site, and the e-mail system hotmail.com, which has more than 74 million users worldwide. Technical blunder Late on Tuesday, the Microsoft technician made a configuration change to routers on the edge of the company's Domain Name Server (DNS) network. The DNS servers connect domain names with the various servers and networks that form Microsoft's presence on the internet. The mistaken configuration restricted communication between the different servers and prevented a large number of surfers from reaching many Microsoft websites. Access denied Users could not gain access to sites including the Expedia travel service and Encarta encyclopaedia. The sites affected were operational again by about 0130 GMT on Thursday. Microsoft had in October suffered the embarrassment of a hacker stealing part of the code for products in development from its corporate computer network. Other sites that have also crashed this month include the auction site eBay and Amazon.com, the biggest online retailer. Along with Yahoo and CNN, the two sites were also crippled for hours at a time by similar attacks last February.

I think you are being Childish and Stupid, Anonymous or whatever. Dont pick on Shriya for her comments. Your comment that "if 80% of users are using it, why bother" is silly. before Windows came into picture 100% of users were using dos or unix flavours.Soon they shifted to Windows. That is the picture Shriya wanted to put into ur big head. So, in coming days almost all(except some die hard MS romeos sticking to MS as if Bill Gates is sponsering them) NON IDIOTS using IE now, will be shifting to Firefox. Period. For your info, MS was attacked by hackers umpteen times as well and need to remind u that u talked about Browsers and not the Websites run by the Browser companies (Stupid, eh?), read the following news at BBC hAAp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1137486.stm (replace AA by tt, phew) ---------- Microsoft hit by hacker attack: Friday, 26 January, 2001 Internet surfers were unable to access sites run by software giant Microsoft for the third successive day on Thursday.

Very good point. "Actually they are trying to simulate the "Good Old Days" by using "Good Old Browser" in this era.

The site I'm talking about is www.nationalpanasonicindia.com - It has a main menu on the left side. Mousing over each item launches a menu, which has submenus of its own. The problem is moving from one menu item to a submenu item - the submenus appear detached from the main menu. Hence, when you ry to highlight the submenu item, the main menu triggers a "mouse out" event and collapses the menu before you can select the submenu. Try selecting Products -> Consumer Products -> Washing Machine.

umm....www.overdriveindia.org (Overdrive car & bike magazine website) doesnt work properly with Mozilla either...the sub menu doesnt show up! I use IE to browse that site..for the rest its Mozilla all the way!

okay the sit has been changed to: www.overdriveindia.co.in

Win98 came with IE4 truly "integrated" into the OS. Till version 3, IE was just an add-on application.

Its Mozilla Firefox and the two are not different....lol

Shut up Jith. He says Firefox (form Mozilla.org, of course), and Mozilla (Mozilla Suite, the predecesor of Firefox).

Shut up Jith. He says Firefox (form Mozilla.org, of course), and Mozilla (Mozilla Suite, the predecesor of Firefox).