I suppose one advantage that Internet Explorer has over it's main rival, Mozilla Firefox 3.x series, is that it works on all computers. I should know as I have been using it for the last week, until this morning when I downloaded Opera (I am using Opera now) after Firefox began to crash on every website, even this one. I had been having problems with Firefox for ages on "heavy" sites such as Facebook and some of the walking sites I visit that have loads of pictures on them, but it had reached the stage where it had become unusable. I had done all the recommended fixes, such as uninstalling it and deleting my profile then reinstalling etc. to no avail. The final straw was this morning when I tried to send a couple of text messages through my account on orange.co.uk, and it crashed three times in as many minutes. I even tried using it in its own "safe mode" in case one of the two Add-ons I use, Adblock Plus and Toolbar Buttons was the problem, but it still crashed on a page with hardly anything on it.
For the last two hours, I have been using Opera and haven't had a single browser crash. I don't know if Firefox 3x series is unstable on Linux as the spare computer I use to mess about on has Moziila's full suite running under Knoppix and it seems stable enough, but I will be looking at oldversion.com over the next few days to download Firefox 1.5x series, the best browser I have ever used. F**k security, I want to be able to browse the www first,I'll worry about security after.
Topic: Should you continue to use Internet Explorer? (Read 4178 times)