:)) :)) :)) :)) Chrome all the way!!! Thank you IE, for gettin' me started!

Quote from: quiller on December 17, 2010, 05:24:45 PM

Excellent!
I remember when the oln other choice was Netscape.
Does anyone even use IE the slow overweight, underpowered tank anymore? ;D

Quote from: Solar on December 17, 2010, 06:20:37 PM
Excellent!
I remember when the oln other choice was Netscape.
Does anyone even use IE the slow overweight, underpowered tank anymore? ;D

I had occasion to use a neighbor's computer to do some printing recently. (I was awaiting delivery of a new toner cartridge for the ol' Brother.) Her machine is pretty nice, a recent-vintage Pentium, but she's not exactly computer-savvy. IE was all she had, and I needed the internet to get to my print files.

I clicked on that big blue E. And I sat there. And I sat there. (I might have napped a little.) And I sat there. And FINALLY, there it was, in all its overblown, potato-sack, bulge-butt glory! The world's most popular hacker target!

I got my files, printed them, and got the heck out of IEDodge.

Quote from: tbone0106 on December 17, 2010, 09:09:08 PM
I had occasion to use a neighbor's computer to do some printing recently. (I was awaiting delivery of a new toner cartridge for the ol' Brother.) Her machine is pretty nice, a recent-vintage Pentium, but she's not exactly computer-savvy. IE was all she had, and I needed the internet to get to my print files.

I clicked on that big blue E. And I sat there. And I sat there. (I might have napped a little.) And I sat there. And FINALLY, there it was, in all its overblown, potato-sack, bulge-butt glory! The world's most popular hacker target!

I got my files, printed them, and got the heck out of IEDodge.

Microsoft works hard to protect us from hackers, but do we really need protection from Welsh sheepherders spamming us with Lamb porn? :D

I once played with a DOS-based browser called Arachne. It was also available for some versions of Linux. Crude, but FAST, at least by comparison, on the 486 machines I was fooling with back then. Actually, I think it's still around... Have to look that up.

Quote from: tbone0106 on December 17, 2010, 09:30:40 PM
I once played with a DOS-based browser called Arachne. It was also available for some versions of Linux. Crude, but FAST, at least by comparison, on the 486 machines I was fooling with back then. Actually, I think it's still around... Have to look that up.

I think I remember that thing.
I still have an original copy of the first so called Internet phone book, it had all the direct dial numbers for all the sites so you could dial in directly...at 6 to 8K baud.
Oh how far we've come in 30 years. :o

Quote from: Solar on December 17, 2010, 09:38:06 PM
I think I remember that thing.
I still have an original copy of the first so called Internet phone book, it had all the direct dial numbers for all the sites so you could dial in directly...at 6 to 8K baud.
Oh how far we've come in 30 years. :o

My first online experience was using a Commodore 64 with a 300 baud modem. Not 300K -- 300. It was like someone tapping out Morse code. I remember saving up my nickels and dimes to buy a 1,200 baud modem -- for $80. There was a bulletin board service called Tri-State Online in Cincinnati that I loved. And CompuServe. And along came QLink, the Commodore-only service that morphed into AOHell.

By that time, I'd sold my Commodore 128 and moved on to a PC running Windows 3.1. Looking back, I'm not sure if that was progress at all.

Even Mozilla says you are better off using IE to download anything from Microshaft. I don't use IE for anything at all, except that. Meanwhile the icon sits unwanted on my desktop, and the Evil Empire refuses to let that icon be manually deleted.

Quote from: tbone0106 on December 17, 2010, 09:57:27 PM
My first online experience was using a Commodore 64 with a 300 baud modem. Not 300K -- 300. It was like someone tapping out Morse code. I remember saving up my nickels and dimes to buy a 1,200 baud modem -- for $80. There was a bulletin board service called Tri-State Online in Cincinnati that I loved. And CompuServe. And along came QLink, the Commodore-only service that morphed into AOHell.

By that time, I'd sold my Commodore 128 and moved on to a PC running Windows 3.1. Looking back, I'm not sure if that was progress at all.

It was a blessing compared to Dos, I hated Dos, and still do to this day, it was like playing Simon Says, you better not forget to say Simon says or you will be typing that command all over again.
I had Compuserve, for it's time it was great, my first venture into real time weather. 8)

Quote from: quiller on December 18, 2010, 09:09:31 AM
Even Mozilla says you are better off using IE to download anything from Microshaft. I don't use IE for anything at all, except that. Meanwhile the icon sits unwanted on my desktop, and the Evil Empire refuses to let that icon be manually deleted.

Back in my pre-XP days, I used a program called IEradicator to completely remove IE from the system. It worked for Win95, 98, and Me, but not 2000 or XP. Of course, this was years after Gates & Co. had testified famously that these OSes would not work without it. I seem to recall that the makers of IEradicator had another version that worked on XP, but you had to buy it. (The older one was a free download.) Now I can't find it. They have another product called "XPLite" that offers a tremendous range of options in XP. There is a free forever trial version, but the full version, which is $40, appears to make installing IE an option.

The company is LitePC Technologies. http://www.litepc.com/

As far as Microsoft, many of their support downloads  will not function using any other browser besides IE. I've run into a few things Chrome has trouble with -- searching on eBay comes to mind -- but it's been a long time since I clicked that blue e.