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to: Adam Flinton
from: Antti Kurenniemi
date: 2004-09-28 19:48:50
subject: Re: MS to secure IE for XP only

From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in
message news:415931cf{at}w3.nls.net...
> Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
>> I have Firefox installed, and it too is slow. At least it starts up real
>> slow - the actual loading of pages is not an issue IMO, with the ADSL
>> line I have. I still think these replacement browsers have ways to go
>> before they catch up to IE in usability, which for me at least is an
>> important point.
>>
>>
> I'm the opposite. I can't use IE now as I find it simply annoys & feels
> like I'm back using mosaic. E.g. the lack of tabbed browsing & indeed
> bookmarks of a tabbed group. e.g. I have a tabbed group called mags etc.
> which loads the thereg, /., etc.etc.etc.

Hooray for preceived usability over reality!


Antti Kurenniemi
(It's mostly what we're accustomed, right? I know it is, but won't usually
admit it - "that f*cking piece of shit doesn't work right" is
much more fun
;-)

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