Comments on: Google advises users to drop IE6 for Chrome or Firefox

By: Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:22:56 +0000

Right now 9 mths later google mail works fine in ie6
what happened?

By: Bruce Trainor

Bruce Trainor — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:24:32 +0000

Google is turning up the heat on Mozilla too. I use SeaMonkey as a browser. When I tried to upgrad Google Earth it tried to uninstall Sea Monkey. I didn’t upgrade.

By: ANE

ANE — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:01:02 +0000

I have to use IE8 as a lot of things will not use Firefox for updates, etc. I tried to kill it as it is beta, but could not go back to IE7…had to reformat the drive as it let in something that hollowed out my folders that got worse as time past regardless of what I tried. Lately, Firefox is crashing for no reason. Chrome is worse in I couldn’t update anything, couldn’t get it to search correctly, and couldn’t get it to uninstall so I could try it again. But that may have been from the problem of IE8 beta…

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:16:29 +0000

Whenever I hit a website that only renders correctly with IE or the media is Windows format
I send a comment to the webmaster and whoever is listed under “contact us” that might be relevant. I’ve only used IE after an install of Windows to download FF or Opera and for Windows update.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:19:48 +0000

Many of us by corporate mandate have no choice Dave. Plus, thousands of web sites are coded to the peculiarities of IE6 and either don’t work at all or are crap in any other browser. I’d like to be rid of IE completely, but that’s a long time off.

By: Claire

Claire — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:07:44 +0000

I agree with google that it’s way past the time to ditch IE. In my opinion, it’s the most inefficiently written and least secure browser out there, so I don’t see why it still has the majority of the market share.
What google is neglecting to mention, however, are browsers that they did not develop or assist in developing. There are many other great browsers out there too like Opera, SeaMonkey, and Safari.