Topic: Stupid messenger service pop - ups return!

[Praxis]

Please excuse me if these posts are a little bit offensive; it's what the people actually said.

I showed what you said to a Mac user I know in Holland.  The only thing he said was, "Idiot."

I showed what you said about IE being the best browser to a Mac user I know taking Cisco Networking Certification.  He just laughed and shook his head.  He had deleted IE right off his Mac's hard drive because he hated it.

I showed what you said to a Linux/Windows user.  His response? "Some people just like being ignorant.  Even if I was using Windows instead of Linux, I would never touch IE."  When he hit the part about 75% of Mac users using IE, he practically chocked and said, "What? How?  Through Wine?  Only a few people use Wine for everything, and almost nobody uses IE through it!"

Pestalence...you're the first person I've ever seen who actually loves IE, having tried the others.

As for what you've said about ActiveX, as I understand it the only place that uses ActiveX (microsoft's attempt at defeating Java, that failed miserably) is Microsoft Update...practically everything else is viruses, since ActiveX can easily take over your computer.  Since Windows Update essentially blocks anything but IE, I simply don't download an ActiveX plugin, and I'm *perfectly* secure.

And BTW...there are all kinds of spyware and viruses that only effect IE.  You should see what my mother did to my old computer, it's filled with IE popup spyware, and IE bar ad spyware, and spyware that changes the homepage constantly, etc etc...NONE OF THAT EFFECTS MOZILLA!

Since Mozilla can view almost any page IE can unless the webmaster is an idiot/can't program properly, and views flash and everything else just fine, I have no use for IE except to use Windows update.  I almost never touch IE anymore.