Good riddance, Internet Explorer!

DoctorG

@Eggcorn All these bad MSHTML features which have no real sandbox are risky.

I was laughing when i read Trident, i thought about these little demons which prick you unexpectedly in your butt.

Demon with Trident

nek0vivaldiuser

nek0vivaldiuser

@adrien_d: same

nek0vivaldiuser

Jesus Christ, Microsoft business tactics were even worse back then...

Catweazle

@Jknapp1208 , it would be desirable if Vivaldi could be the banana skin in Google's way, although it will be difficult.

Perhaps it would be possible to involve some globalplayers in this, for this reason I was glad that it has already been adopted by Renault and by PoleTar as their product of choice, perhaps it makes it possible for more manufacturers to enter as well, if they see good results.

If Vivaldi manages to implicate VAG and others, I doubt very much that Google will dare to boycott these companies.
Otherwise I see it impossible with the small percentage of the market that Vivaldi has, which, despite having acquired a good name, is still a marginal browser.

Tams80

@Eggcorn I am well aware of that.

martin21

I deleted the IE files. I have a charting program that used one of the little files in IE so now I get an error that the file is missing. I just have to press OK and it runs, but the problem came as a frustration with you advise to uninstall.

Catweazle

@martin21 , if this is the case I think that this charting programm is already very old if it depends on IE. Take a look at AlternativeTo, maybe you find a similar program more current.
You can also add Alternative To in your search engine list, so you can find quickly alternatives to given apps.

https://alternativeto.net/browse/search?q=%s

ironballz

For me, early opera browser was fantastic. It was the only one that ran fast on a 486dx2 8mb on win 95. Ie3 needed a few minutes to load any site. Netscape navigator was slightly better, still not as good as opera. The multiple mdi windows was unparalleled.

With a lot of new standards coming from Google however, does it not look like chrome is the new IE?

Eggcorn

@ironballz said in Good riddance, Internet Explorer!:

With a lot of new standards coming from Google however, does it not look like chrome is the new IE?

No, that's unfair to Chrome! Chrome's dominance is a problem, but it's a problem to the same degree as the bad old days of IE.

Hadden89

@DoctorG is pretty much what IE pre-8 used to do. Btw, poor bsd daemon associated with exploder.

@Jknapp1208 FF won the battle against IE implementing several of its bugs and quirks, is wrong, but other engines have to deal with that, sadly. Most end users only see for the results, not the compliance.(opera presto suffered pioneering standards)