Internet Explorer – The Worlds WORST internet browser

Internet Explorer – The Worlds WORST internet browser

Feb 21

This is my monthly rant about IE being slow, insecure, non-standards compliant, etc – i.e. (no pun intended) its a piece of shit!
I’ll list a few of microsoft internet explorer’s seemingly unlimited flaws:

* Major security issues – Prone to viruses and worms.
* Spyware and Adware issues in Internet Explorer.
* Internet Explorer’s lack of modern user-centric features – its missing many handy features such as tabbed browsing and integrated search.
* Internet Explorer is the slowest browser available.
* Internet Explorer has abysmal Web Standards support.
* Renders pages incorrectly – Web designers then need to spend extra time working so that pages work in Internet Explorer. This puts costs up, and slows the web down.
* Far larger program than other web browsers.
* Doesn’t support PNG images properly
* Doesn’t let people resize certain text sizes. This means those with poor sight cannot read small text on many sites.

Internet Explorer is the worst major browser. There are a number of free alternatives available. These alternatives are standards compliant, i.e. they conform to international standards. Internet Explorer is not standards compliant, and thus renders pages wrongly. Currently the best alternative to IE is Firefox, which you can download by clicking this:


At the moment the website’s new design does not render properly in internet explorer and I don’t really have time to fix this. However I am very pleased to announce that 52.9% of people viewing my website now uses firefox compared with the 35.3% of idiots who are still using IE (The other 11.8% are using other browsers – Opera, Safari, K-Meleon, Camino, etc). This is a considerable improvement from last month and I hope that this post will convert even more people to Firefox.

Posted by Jeff 9

9 comments

  1. Chris
    Posted on February 22, 2006

    I couldn’t agree with you more there Jeff. IE is a waste of time. Although IE7 does have tabbed browsing, and is an improvement from the previous version, but it is still lacking. I’ve been a Firefox user for a few years now, and I could never go back to IE unless Microsoft work some kind of miracle.

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  2. Chris T.
    Posted on November 2, 2007

    I work for an email marketing company and I’ve worked in both Support and Deliverability. I’ve seen how IE renders HTML code. I’ve seen message look totally different when using the same email client in IE than in Firefox for example. The over all functionality of IE leaves much to be desired for. IE7 is a knock off version of Mozilla Firefox 2.0. The problem is over 80% of the internet community uses IE, so our product is compatible with all browsers except Safari but we all know Safari blows. Not to mention that disabling pop up blocker (turning it off) in IE doesn’t always turn it off. I’m done with it. I can barely navigate IE any more since I’ve been in Firefox world.

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  3. shasunder
    Posted on June 23, 2008

    Tilldate, I too thought it should be the fact. But now when I tried to use my custom control in my page developed using asp, it failed to display the control where as IE displays the control properly. Whom should I blame. Whether IE or Firefox. When you google the net you can find many threads mentioning that it works good in IE and not in Firefox.

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  4. Rhys
    Posted on January 3, 2009

    IE is the worst browser due to it’s horrible rendering and pathetic security. Microsoft please give up, most computers come with Firefox built on them now.

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  5. LanseloT
    Posted on May 23, 2009

    Да уж Какой кошмар!

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  6. Eric
    Posted on September 8, 2009

    Google Chrome is far the best browser now IMO. and over three years after the author’s post, IE still sucks.

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  7. KQ
    Posted on October 31, 2009

    Haha you got that right Eric. IE still sucks. Even with Windows 7, its still garbage. Even opening and closing tabs is sloooooooooow!

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  8. Vanessa
    Posted on December 16, 2009

    Yeah, we suffer with IE too.
    One of our developers even wrote a song called “IE is being mean to me” and you can find the video here:

    http://with.us/meanie
    or
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTTzwJsHpU8

    Hope you like it.

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