Good riddance, Internet Explorer!

Steffie

@Priest72 Thank your very lucky stars you avoided it. So many of those poor kids were victimised badly, in all the ways you might imagine that term to imply. People are monsters.

Priest72

@Steffie I don't know,i think australia is a great nation.wish my folks had taken the plunge..literally begging for poms to resettle in oz during the 70s.

Steffie

@Priest72 Oh i see, sorry i misunderstood stupidly. If your whole family had come, you'd have been fine & safe. I was alluding to the poor kids who were sent out here alone, no parents/family.

@Priest72 said in Good riddance, Internet Explorer!:

australia is a great nation

Apart from the ghastly anti-science flat-earth fossil-fool pinstriped-suit xenophobic misogynistic fascists in charge atm. Yeah, we're ok, otherwise...

Pathduck

@Priest72 said in Good riddance, Internet Explorer!:

wish my folks had taken the plunge..

Imagine, this could've been you!

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Steffie

@Pathduck Yeah, we all look like that... especially as we browse the interwebz on our IE4.

Priest72

@Pathduck wow i could of been a star in neighbours or home and away lol

Priest72

@Steffie please do not apologise.Actually i was unaware children were being sent alone..i don't see the reason why that would be.

i think it was about 1974 and i was just a baby and families were more preferred to resettle in oz..huge country and needed populating...but yea life would certainly have been far different..and perhaps better..who knows.

A Former User

@JohnConnorBear said in Good riddance, Internet Explorer!:

He is ashamed of his own language.

You’re again referring to one my post you misunderstood? Yes, it contains the word ‘ashamed,’ but in a different paragraph. One paragraph (containing the word) was about the mistake I made when I was new here, and another (not containing the word) about the fact it’s sometimes a little difficult if your language uses grammatical genders almost everywhere. Please stop saying I’m ashamed of my nationality (or language). If I were, why would I ever say I’m a Czech?

Edit: Yay, I’m sorry Lilo, I was on another page and didn’t see your on/off-topic reminder before sending this post…

Steffie

@Gwen-Dragon Heehee, sorry about that. I was amazed we got away with it for as long as we did. I hoped maybe that i'd trick you into thinking i was back on-topic when i wrote

@Steffie said in Good riddance, Internet Explorer!:

browse the interwebz on our IE4

However you're far too clever for me!

Catweazle

IE is anyway an off topic by itself

Catweazle

@Gwen-Dragon , this is why I have always disabled it in Windows as soon as I install a browser. I would have preferred to remove it completely from the system, but this could never be done, but disabling it at least excludes it from updates, already cumbersome enough before in Windows. This has at least improved on 10, where updates are pretty quick.

mossman

@Gwen-Dragon said in Good riddance, Internet Explorer!:

I hope the InternetExploder will be removed completely and not only hidden.
No need to have such broken/unsecure browser and libs on Windows, we have the year 2020 and no IE is needed!

Unfortunately, I do still very occasionally need a fallback to check if a website has issues in Vivaldi or for specific work related websites...

Catweazle

@mossman , there are half a hundred browsers that you can use as second, third, fourth.....
I use as a second to UR (Chromium), so I can check if the problem on a page is due to a Chromium or Vivaldi problem. As a third party you can use Firefox or some fork, if the problem is based on Chromium.

mossman

@Catweazle said in Good riddance, Internet Explorer!:

@mossman , there are half a hundred browsers that you can use as second, third, fourth.....
I use as a second to UR (Chromium), so I can check if the problem on a page is due to a Chromium or Vivaldi problem. As a third party you can use Firefox or some fork, if the problem is based on Chromium.

No... for work related websites I specifically need IE! And for checking issues, I also need IE as - as I'm sure you're aware - those are usually sites which were coded for IE and don't work well in any Chromium-based browsers.

Catweazle

@mossman , sites coded specifically for IE, in view of its elimination, will have it difficult to be able to continue existing if it is not changed. They will be so absurd than pages that only work with Netscape.

mossman

@Catweazle I literally cannot book my vacation days with anything other than IE. My current client similarly has older administration systems which only work in IE. After a recent - and questionable - pivot to GSuite, there are things which only work in Chrome(*)... yay! IT departments - specifically managers who make decisions for IT departments - are that stupid, I'm afraid.

(*) I expect I could use Vivaldi if I install the many extensions and other crap they bundle into their pre-installed Chrome, but I prefer to keep my data away from all that questionable "security" stuff. I'll continue working efficiently in standalone Vivaldi wherever possible.

Priest72

I never used IE myself when i used windows as i always used firefox.
But i do think it is important not to bite the hand that feeds us..Everything has to start somewhere and criticizing older browsers is not good either.

Sure IE may have had issues but there were not many alternatives at the time so with hindsight maybe IE was not so bad after all.

"your father may be old and weary,but remember once he was once young and confident and gave you food and shelter."

Thanks,

britur

@Priest72 Good point, I will forward this to my adult kids, if you have any would you dare to do the same?? Am amazed at thee interest people are showing in this thread. I would love to see a thread on best ways of using Vivaldi as I have much to learn and IMHO it is getting better and better. All the best, Brian Englishman living and surviving so far as a pensioner in Sweden!

Priest72

@britur said in Good riddance, Internet Explorer!:

@Priest72 Good point, I will forward this to my adult kids, if you have any would you dare to do the same?? Am amazed at thee interest people are showing in this thread. I would love to see a thread on best ways of using Vivaldi as I have much to learn and IMHO it is getting better and better. All the best, Brian Englishman living and surviving so far as a pensioner in Sweden!

Hello britur.
vivaldi is indeed a superb browser and is still young and like a fine wine will taste better with age.

As for fatherhood.i was rather late to the dance and now have a 6 year old son ..i am 40 something lol.Obviously i am no spring chicken anymore and my springs do not jump so high so to speak lol.

I am still learning about everything but i am enjoying the ride.

thanks britur and enjoy your retirement.!

Catweazle

@Priest72, I've used IE in the past, when there was nothing else. But the technology is advancing in gigantic footsteps and even though MS has always been left behind with the development of the IE compared to other browsers, IE has been quickly outdated and only in recent times MS has finally been uploaded back to the car with EDGE, which is also not a marvel, but can serve as a daily browser for people who just want to check their email or participate in some social network without getting too complicated life.
Vivaldi is a magnificent browser, but there are still people who only need a letter opener and not a Swiss knife.