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I switched to FF from IE because I like the wide range of add-ons (mainly AdBlock+ and Download Helper). A bit slow to open but otherwise I have no complaints.
XAlan Burkhart
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As a general rule, I dislike tools that try to stand out by blantantly ignoring UI standards and conventions, such as the main menu being located in the LEFT upper corner of the window. Chrome tries to be different by being different, disrespecting both standards/conventions and its users. In spite of Chrome requiring me to "unlearn" a lot of UI habits, slowing down my work, it so much faster on very many web pages that I had that as my primary browser for a year.
Then, after some update, the Back button off my Logitech MX Performance mouse stopped working on about two thirds of the web pages I visit regularly. Not only the mouse button, but the back arrow in the upper left as well. The only way to get back to the previous page is to pull down the stack of recently visited pages and select the one I want - usually below 3-4 duplicate top entries.
This is so annoying that I have reverted to Firefox, as long as it can handle the web site. But for some forms, Firefox is so slow that the web server times out, and some news sites use video formats that are not handled by Firefox, but Chrome tacle them well.
There is another funny reason for avoiding IE, although not relevant for too many people: One of the technical discusson foras that I visit regularly openly sabotage IE: You may use IE, but then you are limited to comments of about five lines of text. With all other browsers, the limit is 5000 chars. So IE users are recognized (and sometimes ridiculed by other debates) by having to split their discussion entries into a chain of small 1-2 paragraph entries.
Another thing: The history mechanism is much better in Firefox. When I ditched IE (way back in the XP days), I was very critical to the FF history list; IE had a much better solution. FF hasn't improved, but I have learnt to live with it. Stepping even further down, to the level of Chrome, is a little too much.
A decent ad filter and flash blocker is essential to me (that's why I ditched IE!). In that respect, FF and Chrome are about the same, except that Chrome won't activate the ad filter on the startup page until you refresh it.
For now, I need all three of them: FF for daily use, Chrome for some video and a few extremely JS-heavy webshops, and IE for a few web sites with pages that haven't been updated since IE6 and can't be read by any other browser.
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I balance between FF and IE. Indeed, there are some pages that only run on IE (www.bancodebogota.com.co ==>> Enterprise). I used to use Opera also, and this is a nice browser, but has some compatibility issues in specialized pages. And I don't see the point of using three or more browsers on the same computer. BTW, I do not like Google "looking-every-where-and-everybody"  policies so for me Chrome is absolutely out of mind.
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Firefox is great and for the worst websites I use the worst browser. Never liked Google Chrome due to fear of adding to monopolism.
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My choice is Avant browser - it has three (Chrome, IE, Firefox) rendering engines built in. You can switch between engines if a page does not display properly. Once you find the engine that works, you can designate that engine as the default for that page.
When I started using it several years ago, it was clearly faster. I have not noticed much speed difference lately, but I have not paid much attention either.
Lots of options, etc. All in all, I think it is the most flexible browser available.
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I use Internet Explorer for personal and development needs, because I find the built in developer tools handy and easy to use and by supporting IE first I ensure that the websites i create work everywhere else with little effort.
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I install all of the major browsers for testing. I was a huge Firefox fan until it bloated, back in the days before Windows 7. I switched to Chrome, mostly for browsing and developing. Firefox has since speeded up and I do use that more than I used too. IE is a slow start up and it's toolbar malware clean-up sometimes can be a real problem. Opera is becoming a nice browser, but is painfully slow in starting up and is grabby with file extension permissions. Safari on windows is not a favorite workflow of mine.
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Won't touch IE even if you hit me with a cattle prod. And don't like the look and feel of Chrome either..
So primarily it's Firefox for me, mainly because I got used to some of the add-ons, beside that Opera would be my second choice...
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Here is a strange one for you. Since I installed Chrome, it seems that IE and FF have become flaky. IE starts, but does not go to the page I want it to go to. FF now brings up so many ad-ware interruptions that I am at the point of uninstalling it. Could Chrome be poisoning the others?
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Of course it is.
BUT
They could have done almost anything as a publicity stunt, but chose that.
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Agreed. I'd much rather they do something like that than plop a huge XBox in Vancouver[^]
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TTFN - Kent
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It would be nice if they'd give free training and jobs to all the Silverlight developers they are putting out of business.
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1. Unfortunately, Silverlight developers have not given their lives for their country, nor put their lives on the line for their country. This is a great thanks for all of those who served and defended their countries. Many service personnel exiting the armed services do not have the skills to get a good paying job when they leave the military. This will help them along the way.
2. IT jobs may have very minor programming involved. Mostly, it will be fixing PCs and call center help. But, it's a start.
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So Windows 9 will lose the user-unfriendly aspects of Win 8, in favour of user hostile? No more *beep* when you press the wrong button, the OS calls in an air strike...
It's a good idea - but I suspect you're right about the publicity stunt aspect rather than real work for most of them. Would you want your code written by a developer with just a 16 week course behind him? 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Plus I suspect this stunt will wreak havoc on the Q&A forum.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Oh, I dunno...it gives us a chance to get a few...um...ideas in there...:InnocentWhistleSmiley:
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Like building a Codeproject ATF (Anti Troll Force)? 
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One of the career choice options is IT project manager. 
But it's nice to see the flood of outsourcing reversed for a change.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Would you want your code written by a developer with just a 16 week course behind him?
Ok, I'll bite - I'm pretty sure most of them have learned to follow procedures - so, some of them might turn out a lot better than you might expect ... if one out of ten have the natural bent required for our glorious occupation, they will certainly make up for those who don't.
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You don't go near QA that often, do you? 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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OriginalGriff wrote: You don't go near QA that often, do you?
Not as often as I used to, I don't think it's just me - but I find that most of the questions can be easily answered by just pasting the heading into google search. I know we used to joke about it, but now there seems to be little else. I did answer a question yesterday, but then I was waiting for my flight - so I had little else to do ...
I don't think any of those particular questions are made by ex-military, it seems most of them are made by undergraduate students too lazy to even scan the frontpage of a book ...
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Espen Harlinn wrote: scan the frontpage of a book
Book? What new devilish concepts are you trying to spread?
You Sir are a heretic that must be burned at the stake for spreading this kind of heresy.
Burn! Books, pah, the work of the devil, I say!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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That's populated by the other nine in ten.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Would you want your code written by a developer with just a 16 week course
behind him? 
First of course there is the fact that they are going to be hired as software testers not developers.
Second of course how is that different, than for example hiring someone with a English degree to do it? Or hiring a number of 'interns' over several years without supervision and all with just a few years of college and none of which spends more than a couple of years on the project? Or the expectation that one can hire a college graduate, who has an engineering degree, but no real work experience and expect them to take on developer roles, again with little or no supervision (and no coherent process control either.) I have certainly seen all of those either in practice or discussed and they can in fact produce something that is usable. Or not.
Third do you have a technical requirement that will in fact guarantee that a developer will not only succeed but do so with excellence? If so I would certainly like to hear about it.
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