Make I.E. more like Opera/Fire<insert animal name here>

[Plexus]

And even if Firefox/Mozilla/Camino were full of holes, they don't have significant enough of a market share for it to really interest people who write malicious code. And whenever holes are found, they're patched immediately (for much the same reason, small market share, and because of that, they can't afford to lose users).

 

[hbdragon88]

Install Opera then. It has an easy-to-use feature which allows you to "fake" the browser version which the web servers will see (assuming your problem was that.)

munzy does have Opera; he was the one that helped me really love using it (the specifics will remain undisclosed). As for Opera's "masking" ability, it's not really that good. Even if it does identify as Internet Explorer, it still leaves "Opera" in its identifer. Many pages can and do filter out Opera (because it had poor support in its pre-7 versions).

 

[Turner]

I use avant browser myself. IE core, with mouse gestures, tabbed browsing, some other plugins... blocks flash ani's (supposed to, usually does alright, but some ads get by. Not many), pics, popups.

Not a bad little 1 mb download.

 

[crystal]

munzy does have Opera; he was the one that helped me really love using it (the specifics will remain undisclosed). As for Opera's "masking" ability, it's not really that good. Even if it does identify as Internet Explorer, it still leaves "Opera" in its identifer. Many pages can and do filter out Opera (because it had poor support in its pre-7 versions).

Well, then don't use such an idiotic pages. If webmasters are really stupid enough to filter out a large part of their potential audience, let them do it then.

 

[shadowdude]

Well, then don't use such an idiotic pages. If webmasters are really stupid enough to filter out a large part of their potential audience, let them do it then.

Thats the problem, browsers like opera and firefox have a very small portion of the market share.

 

[hbdragon88]

Well, then don't use such an idiotic pages. If webmasters are really stupid enough to filter out a large part of their potential audience, let them do it then.

Unfortunantely I must deal with those pages. From May 2003 (when I downloaded 7.11) to June 2004, for a whole year, Yahoo Mail had broken javasript buttons (Opera-only; they were sending a bad javascript). Or not use Gmail at all? (Gmail doesn't support Opera). I like the Gmail interface, should I refuse not use it and log in until they fix it? Or should I not use CFC because it looks so ugly:

 

[Ankka]

That's how it looks always with Opera? Too bad. What's the reason?

 

[Kyborgi]

Javascript is completely useless. There isn't a single thing you can't do with css you can do with javascript. And If every page used valid html/css scripts, there would be no problems at all. I think it only shows lack of skill of the creator of web pages if the pages use IE only script.

 

[Plexus]

Thats the problem, browsers like opera and firefox have a very small portion of the market share.

6% may be small, but it is far from negligible.

 

[shadowdude]

6% may be small, but it is far from negligible.

True, but it ticks me off how some websites(Microsoft.com )don't support firefox while they support netscape! Firefox probably has more users than netscape.

 

[crystal]

Unfortunantely I must deal with those pages. From May 2003 (when I downloaded 7.11) to June 2004, for a whole year, Yahoo Mail had broken javasript buttons (Opera-only; they were sending a bad javascript). Or not use Gmail at all? (Gmail doesn't support Opera). I like the Gmail interface, should I refuse not use it and log in until they fix it? Or should I not use CFC because it looks so ugly:

Is there an user error? Here's how CFC looks on my browser (Opera 7.51):

 

[hbdragon88]

Is there an user error? Here's how CFC looks on my browser (Opera 7.51):

The Post Reply doesn't look that bad, but the "Edit Signature" page looks terrible - that's where I got the pic from. I'm using Opera 7.52, so It shouldn't be that different...