There are also no more features or fixes , which is bad news for software that has such a long history of bugs and oddities. Microsoft does still support the most recent version of IE, version However, even on their own product support pages, they encourage users to download their new browser: Microsoft Edge. Web browsers read the code on a website and interpret how they should visually display that information to you.
Most web browsers do this in a similar way — but not Internet Explorer. IE, especially older versions, are notorious for displaying websites differently than other browsers.
Web designers try to account for this, but it often means adding special coding, just for IE users. Just look at what at what it did to our website. You know when you try to open a web page, and it just thinks… and thinks… and thinks? So frustrating.
According to most benchmarks, Internet Explorer, even the latest version, is still significantly slower than its competitors. The lack of security in ActiveX is what prompted me to jump on the Firefox bandwagon even prior to version 1. ActiveX may be locked down a bit more than it used to be, but how many Internet Explorer users understand the security related prompts about running an ActiveX control, let alone the configuration options for ActiveX?
To me, a browser that doesn't support ActiveX is safer. ActiveX was the first approach to extending browsers with extra features and functions. Now, both Firefox and Chrome have a huge number of available extensions. Internet Explorer has only a handful. Both Firefox and Chrome do some checking for outdated extensions. Internet Explorer does none. As Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols wrote :. Of these, the latest version of Internet Explorer, version 9, runs on only one.
Many people use more than one computer and are likely to deal with more than one operating system. Firefox and Chrome provide a cross-platform experience including Linux that Internet Explorer does not. And, if you use multiple computers, both Firefox and Chrome have built-in features to synchronize bookmarks and more between different instances of the browser.
Internet Explorer at least up to version 8 can't do this. On Windows, I am a huge fan of portable applications, Windows programs that can run without first being installed. There are portable versions of both Firefox and Chrome. There is no portable version of Internet Explorer. A portable application is totally self-contained, which lets you have multiple installed copies that are totally independent of each other. In terms of browsers, you could use one copy of a portable browser to test new extensions.
Or, since extensions can potentially spy on you , have a copy of your browser with no extensions at all for online banking.
Or, kick the tires on a new version of your browser, while still having the old version available. Or, multiple people sharing the computer can have their own copy of the browser with their own favorite extensions and modifications. And, of course, you can move or copy a portable browser to a USB flash drive or another Windows machine. When you do, your favorite extensions come along, as do any tweaks you may have made to the user interface.
Perhaps the best thing about portable applications is that you can back them up before making changes. Backing up an application is something Windows has never offered. If Internet Explorer starts acting funny, you've got a hassle ahead, potentially a big one. If a portable browser breaks, just delete the folder where its stored and fall back to the last backup.
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