Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security
by Melatonic on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:06PM
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Lets face it - IE always just sucked. A lot. Whereas Chrome does not. Here on HN we might rail on it mainly for ideological reasons but the user experience is pretty solid. This is coming from a Firefox user.
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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security
by toast0 on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:14PM
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IE 4 and 6 were decent to good compared to competitors when released (although, IIRC, neither had ftp support?). What sucked was that they stagnated at that point in time while also becoming dominant. IE 5 for mac was well regarded, but I don't have personal memories.
None of the future IEs were very good though, IMHO.
Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security
by MBCook on Monday June 27, 2022 @02:29PM
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That’s my memory. I remember IE being a great browser.
It’s only what MS let happen later that turned IE into the pariah it is today.
Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security
by saratogacx on Monday June 27, 2022 @05:39PM
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At the time you didn't need to ship ftp with IE. You could load up an FTP site by opening up an FTP address in explorer. You didn't get the familiar html-netscape-like interface but you could navigate an FTP site like it was just a network folder.
Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security
by icedchai on Monday June 27, 2022 @02:11PM
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Do you remember the early 2000's? IE was your only choice for a decent browser. Netscape was bordering obsolescence (bad CSS support, generally unstable, slow rendering.) Even Apple was shipping it on the Mac! It wasn't until the 2.0 release of Firefox in 2006 that there was finally a decent alternative.
Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security
by larusso on Monday June 27, 2022 @02:35PM
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I started using Firefox in the 0. versions mainly because someone wrote an extension to have tabs with websites in one window. That was it for me and I use Firefox ever since. I managed to survive the memory bloat phase. I was super happy when the quantum version was released and Firefox was suddenly on par again with chrome. At least for a short moment. I‘m an iOS user because I try to keep google out of my live (need to get rid of YouTube though). I also use the Firefox app but only since iOS supports the feature to set a different default browser app. Before that it was useless to use a different browser app when any link from other apps always open Safari.