Talking about browsing, some of you are possibly reading this using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE). During the early years when Netscape Navigator ruled, Microsoft was agressive, worked bloody hard, did a good job and made IE into a pretty fine web browser. IE eventually stole the market share from Netscape. After that point however, the improvement curve of IE declined fairly rapidly.

IMO, current versions of IE suffer from bloat, still don’t have productivity features like tabbed browsing and pop-up blocking, and have a rather unfortunate history of security vulnerabilites.

I don’t use IE myself (espcially since Microsoft hasn’t ported it to Linux as yet ;)), but for those of you who do, here is a site that may be of interest to you:

Have a look at what people there have to say about IE, why they switched and what they switched to. Four alternative browsers are mentioned, including my current favorite, Firefox.

The site is small & light and has a refreshingly clean look. I like it :)

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