How to make your Internet Explorer usable
Having a blog, website and such makes you usually a IE hater anyway. If you like to have a browser with a great rendering engine you will hat it even more.
But according to the stats there are still way to many IE user out there, sometimes because the have to use it. Or sometimes friends, family members and what have you still insist on Internet Explorer.
But Google has a solution for that now!
Just came across this new clip by Chris Pirillo when I was checking out the latest podcasts.
Pretty neat in my opinion.
Head over to http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/chrome/chromeframe/ top get this extension.
If you own a website you can make your pages work with Google Chrome Frame by adding a single tag, like this:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1">
I’m wondering if this will decrease the usage of IE much. Maybe Microsoft will start to work seriously on their browser. But even if they do awesome browsers like Firefox will still be ahead I guess. (Considering how 3.7 performs!)
The only problem? Those who use IE because it’s there and they know nothing about the other browsers (i.e. the internet illiterate) will not care to use this.
Though really, for someone willing to add a plugin to their browser to make it better, I think they’re crazy, and it would just be easier to get a better browser instead. Such silliness.
Yah, I know. I have no idea why someone would like to use IE anyway besides if they have to. I guess it’s for a small group of people but well… better than using the built in engine lol
Honestly, I don’t feel IE is as bad as people make it out to be (IE8 is kind of annoying to use though), but as a Chrome fangirl, I think this is pretty awesome.
The most people doesn´t care about such things. It´s the same as with the Displays an Resolutions^^
of course, more an more people start to be interrested in such things but the normal man and women want simply to surf the web without installing extra software or such things. Buy a PC or Notebook, plug-in the Cables und push the power button and start surfing.
I like my IE8.
I have FF3.5 for sites where IE is not tolerated, but overall? I can do everything I want with IE8, and it’s stable enough for me.
FF has neat things, but it also has some things which annoy me.
You can do everything yah, but not as fast as with Firefox, Safari, Chrome and such.
But tastes differ ^_^
Sadly, since I sometimes open 20 tabs at the same time, actually IE works better. With FF it creates some connection issues, and I have to refresh each screen manually so it could “connect to server”.
You know how they say imitiation is the greatest form of flattery? I agree, FF3 beat IE7 handily, in usability. But with IE8, even with all of the FF plugins, it doesn’t really come that much ahead.
The only thing putting FF3.5 ahead at the moment is the RAM, and I’m telling you, when I’ll move to a Windows 7 rig with 6-8G of RAM instead of my current 2G of RAM rig, it wouldn’t really matter.
Then again, I use Accelerators and modular IE8, by changing what the search bar looks into, how the address bar behaves…
These days, FF doesn’t offer much more. Maybe it’ll manage to beat IE due to its faster development cycle time. But until then, we’ll see
I have to admit, I noticed the “couldn’t connect” prob a few times too.
>>Then again, I use Accelerators and modular IE8
Ok, you get some sort of approvement now. Thought you went standard.
Yes, because of the dev cycle FF will most probably beat IE, considering how well FF 3.7 already performs.
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@Polprav
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