Re: Found Asa's first comment about version numbers.

On 20.08.2011 03:23, Ron Hunter wrote:

 --- Original Message ---

> On 8/19/2011 11:56 PM, Asa Dotzler wrote:
>> Reuben Morais wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Greywolf<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I think I may ask her try out IE9 instead.)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Please don't. If you're going to stop using Firefox or tell people to
>>> do that, at least tell them to use Opera or Chrome.
>>
>> Reuben, have you tried IE9? Is the experience really that bad for you
>> that you would tell others to not even try it? I think it's a pretty
>> good browser -- not nearly as good as Firefox, of course ;-) but it's
>> certainly good enough that people can test it and see if it works for
>> them or not. What is it about the features of IE9 that you don't like?
>>
>> - A
> 
> I also find IE9 quite usable, but I don't like the minimalist UI, and,
> theirs, unlike FF, isn't at all customizable.  I use it when I need to
> see if a site that looks 'funny' on FF looks OK on IE.  A surprising
> number of sites look just as 'funny' on IE9...
> 

Most everbody I know of has a reason for using browser XX and not
browser YY. Most of the reasons are because of a change in features
and/or functionality and they don't want to rekindle the learning curve,
some because of loyalty to one or the other. If Firefox sees a site that
looks funny or is unreadable then, IMHO, the site isn't worth exploring
OR using for that matter. And IF there is some merit that it's a
must-site then I use the IE Tab Plus addon.

My wife is a retired IRS Attorney and hates "change". She started with
NS Navigator then Communicator and progressed to Seamonkey - she likes
the all-in-one application. But don't tell her to upgrade just because
"it's there". She has mastered her SM quite well and I surely will NOT
stir that pot unless I'm more than an arm's length away ;-)

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