Comments on: Microsoft Browser Arrogance

By: britologywatch

britologywatch — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:37:16 +0000

Don’t know about the specific MSN-related problem, but I have to admit to being a bit of a browser geek myself, and my vote by a long stretch goes to Opera: got all the features, good security, robust, faster than Firefox and looks great. If you were desperate, you could also try Maxthon (uses both the Trident (IE) and Gecko (Mozilla) rendering engine), which is the fastest of the lot, and Orca (uses the Firefox 3.0 engine but with the same features as the Avant browser): fast and has brilliant features – especially like the ‘search in this site’ feature. Orca is at the beta stage: beta 1 is better than beta 2 on my machine.

By: axel

axel — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:17:43 +0000

I’ve just changed to Firefox, there is something wrong with my IE and it was easier to install Firefox than fix it, it looks and handles fine, no more traumatic than upgrading Windaes

Do you think this is another part of my metamorphosis into a communist? I really hope i dont have to start smoking a pipe

By: axel

axel — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:15:05 +0000

I dont think it is arrogance, i think it is sloppy coding, on microsofts account, in theory, the command will be someting like “BrowserLaunch-’MSN’-'account’

But i think a lot of MS products just use “IELaunch-’MSN’-'account’

By: wonkotsane

wonkotsane — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:04:45 +0000

I’ve found Flock 2 to be very stable, even with all the features.

By: jameshigham

jameshigham — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:39:35 +0000

I’m having a lot of trouble with Firefox. In periods of heavy traffic, e.g. late evening, it just stalls. Safari doesn’t do this.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:15:01 +0000

Ah, I’ve just been playing around with my computer’s settings. It’s opening in my browser, and not IE – but my browser is powered by IE. It must be calling the IE engine dll rather than the browser itself. Hmmm. Interesting.

By: wonkotsane

wonkotsane — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:45:04 +0000

Default browser is Flock. It’s when it pops up to tell you that you’ve got a new email and you click on the notification that comes up from the system tray. Clicking on a link in a conversation launches in the default browser.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:43:03 +0000

Doesn’t launch IE here. Perhaps you need to have a look at your computer’s default browser settings.

By: wonkotsane

wonkotsane — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:39:45 +0000

Didn’t realise you were the arty type Mitch.

By: wonkotsane

wonkotsane — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:31:38 +0000

I know but I’ve had that MSN account for too many years to change it. Even if I used another account it would still launch Internet Exploder though.

By: Mitchell Edwards

Mitchell Edwards — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:50:44 +0000

Do you know you can sign up to MSN with any email address. So you can give up hotmail completely if you wanted to.