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If The Internet Explorer 9 Commercial Was Honest

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7 pointsnightbrawler13 comments

What has Internet Explorer on Mac, which was discontinued in 2003, to do with Internet Explorer 9? Or for that matter, the Office paper clip? Or a site that won't load?

It makes no sense to me. I am certain that IE9 has many flaws when compared to it's competitors, but this video doesn't show any of them.

For me IE is and has pretty much always been much, much faster than firefox. Like it or not, almost all websites will work with it. It's not as extensible as the alternatives, but if you use multiple computers or just don't care about extensions it can make a very good browser. It's time to stop the childish hate.

" but if you use multiple computers"

If you use multiple Windows computers!

There aren't too many of those at my house. The IE debate ends at a single vendor's operating system. All other browsers run almost on any platform they are allowed.

If you use enough computers that maintaining a set of extensions is too much hassle, IE becomes a good browser for those computers on which it runs, whether or not that's all of them.

(Yes, I know about chrome extension sync, I find it's only useful if all of those computers are your own)

I hate it when people drag the whole "it only runs on Windows" argument into it. There is plenty of software that runs on only one OS (including OSX). That does not make it crap software. It just makes it OS specific.

How is this Hacker News material?

This cracked me up, in general, but I didn't get the reference to him using IE on Mac or why he was using IE on a Mac? It kind of ruins the joke since IE9 isn't even on Mac? ...am I missing something?

the point is that ie9 is just as good/bad as a IE 5.5 on mac.

I guess that makes sense, but it seems like they put to much emphasis on that (somewhat bad) joke/reference... Haha

Lame. I know it has some flaws but IE9 is probably the best IE they've made for a long time. I don't use it much except for testing sites to make sure they work. I really don't have to do any IE9 specific tweaks like with 7. I've not had any video buffering issues specific to IE either. Generally that has to do with the source.

this is just pure childish behaviour. this "honest" version is not "honest"

I'm not a fan of IE, but I didn't expect it to be targeted on TC like this.

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