Why do People hate the ms internet explorer?

This is borderline flame-bait, and the lack of citing a specific version of IE creates more ambiguity.

There's already tons of threads in the "Webmastering and Programming" forum that you can search through, and likely get more qualified opinions.
 
tl;dr version- MS won the browser wars in the late 90s, so with no real competition there was no reason to be innovative. Plus, IE was notorious for breaking web standards making a pain in the ass for web developers to write workarounds in their websites to keep formatting consistent.

Long version: eh, probably not going to write it, so google.
 
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ridiculously slow
ridiculously insecure (most arent ever fully updated)
ridiculously riddled with toolbars and add ons and other shit

I would probably have 75% less computer business if IE wasnt used
 
ikilledmyagoia said:
ridiculously slow
ridiculously insecure (most arent ever fully updated)
ridiculously riddled with toolbars and add ons and other shit

I would probably have 75% less computer business if IE wasnt used
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Sounds less like a problem with IE and more of a case of PEBCAK :rolleyes:
 
AndreRio said:
why do so many people ie?
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Because IE9 was the first good browser they released. IE7 was OK when it came out but that was only because IE6 was so bad. Even IE8 is slow at rendering pages now days, compared to everything else.
 
IE is not that bad in a controlled enterprise environment where you can prevent mouth-breathers from installing 20 toolbars and emoticon apps and other bullshit. Group policy for the win.
 
Chrome sync, I like the layout better, the fact that when I start chrome for the first time I don't have to walk through 10 steps just to use it, chrome to phone, other chrome extensions, and a small bit of security through obscurity. If most use IE, exploits are more likely to be targeted for IE?
 
vsboxerboy said:
If most use IE, exploits are more likely to be targeted for IE?
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Certainly appears that way. I've had two incidents with malware having gotten through IE9's "Protected Mode" sandbox within the past two months (luckily MSE caught them before they were able to do anything). I've never had such an issue with Chrome.
 
IE9 removed the search box, moving that function to the address bar. If this sounds like a good idea, it's not. When you perform a search, the url replaces the text you searched for. Whoever thought this was a good idea must have been eating glue.
 
evilsofa said:
IE9 removed the search box, moving that function to the address bar. If this sounds like a good idea, it's not. When you perform a search, the url replaces the text you searched for. Whoever thought this was a good idea must have been eating glue.
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Chrome does it and people here get on their knee's for that browser.
 
evilsofa said:
When you perform a search, the url replaces the text you searched for. Whoever thought this was a good idea must have been eating glue.
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If you're the forgetful type, consider taking ginkgo biloba supplements.
 
I think most of the main browsers are pretty decent, here's my (albeit minor) problems with each of them:
Chrome - can't open bookmarks with middle click to a new tab. I found a bookmark add-on that allows this but then you can't LMB click to open in current window (that opens in a new tab as well), really annoying to me.
Firefox - no multiprocess architecture, causes performance issues with many tabs. Doesn't have sandboxing by default and is hackish and less secure to hack it on (can't open downloaded files from download window, malware can write to downloaded files.)
IE9 - sometimes windows lag when scrolling with scroll bar. May or may not lack on html5 support depending on how you measure.

Of all those, I find IE9 to be least fouled up for my use. Every site I use uses almost no html5 anyway (that I can tell), so I just stick with IE9. Another thing I like about IE9 is tabs open and close ridiculously fast, for someone like me who is opening and closing tabs all day I can really appreciate this. IE10 looks to fix IE9's problems (scroll lag and html5 for the most part), whereas I don't see chrome and firefox ever fixing their issues in the foreseeable future, so I'm eagerly awaiting IE10 and Win 8.
 
I like IE 9 because it currently has the best touch support out of the box on Windows tablets.
 
I have Internet Explorer 9.0 and Opera 11.61 on my netbook.

1. IE 9.0 is painfully slow.
2. For IE 9.0, it is very troublesome to turn on and off Javascript.
3. IE has bad reputation as in poor security.
 
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