Comments on: Could Anything Make You Use IE9?

By: 1observer

1observer — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:32:51 +0000

you're kind of an idiot… no offense but who cares? it is a browser, the only reason there was ever ANY negative sentiment towards ie was because version 6 did nothing to advance the status quo for so long and by doing so frustrated devs and hurt the internet a little bit. you are what we call a fanboy/fanatic and the fact that you would have trouble choosing which FREE browser you want to use because of the branding troubles you is a little ridiculous. good luck deciding less important things like what you want to be when you grow up…

By: Eric Ryan Harrison

Eric Ryan Harrison — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:52:49 +0000

I would use it if they gave me one feature that I absolutely MUST have in a web-browser:

Firebug.

I absolutely am unable to live without Firebug.

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:28:23 +0000

I would keep using Firefox, because of the extensions. By the way, it's = it is

By: Alex Apetrei

Alex Apetrei — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:31:04 +0000

if , and only if by magic IE9 becomes awesome and does what all the "cool" browsers do . I will consider thinking about using it.

If it will be distributed to linux machines as well ;D.

But chances are microsoft will continue to fudge it's browser, because of silly "Management" sticking it's head in the PR department's job.

When you release a tool that does what you want it to do for you , not what the user needs it to do for him well ... you pretty much kick yourself in the groin.

By: Craig Buchek

Craig Buchek — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:08:52 +0000

As a web developer, it doesn't matter if I use it — it matters if the users of my web apps are using it. And if it improves the experience for them and/or makes it easier for me to develop web sites, then I'm all for it.

But I'm VERY unlikely to use it much myself, beyond testing purposes. For one, I'm usually on a Mac or Linux. Second, I like my Firefox add-ons. I do use Safari as a backup, but primariy use Firefox because I've got it customized with add-ons that don't exist for other browsers.

By: Dustin Harper

Dustin Harper — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:07:13 +0000

Sure I will. I'll use it for a while. I try and use a browser for a while to see how it goes. I've switched several times. From Netscape to IE to Firefox to IE8, now I'm on Opera 10.5. And Opera is amazing. But, I'm not going to shoot a browser down because of it's maker. I tried Safari for Windows. Can't say it was enjoyable. I use Dolphin on the Android phone.

I'm a huge Microsoft fan, so I may be biased. But, as far as browsers go, I go for the one that works the best for me. Same with pretty much everything. Android phone > Windows Mobile.

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:37:46 +0000

I've already started to use IE, as the latest version of Firefox gets bizarrely slow (loading a page in three minutes) as soon as I have more than about 100 tabs open simultaneously.

By: Brian Crescimanno

Brian Crescimanno — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:25:48 +0000

Thanks for the note; I took care of it. I don't know exactly how it got there but I'm looking into that now too.

By: Ben Cherry

Ben Cherry — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:53:01 +0000

No, almost certainly not. Partially because I'm a Mac user now, but even on my Windows machine I would not, because I prefer using the same browser across machines, which means Firefox or Chrome.

But, more realistically, it would need to have a better interface than Firefox (more like Chrome) and have dev tools on par with Chrome or Firebug (the IE8 ones are not) in addition to the aforementioned speed and standards support, before it would be a consideration at all.

By: Mihael Konjević

Mihael Konjević — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:41:59 +0000

I actually want 2 extensions to switch. First is Firebug (because I'm web developer) and second is Tree style tab (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/...) because it handles 100+ tabs gracefully. Other than that, nothing keeps me with Firefox. Firefox got bloated and slow, and if you do any serious Javascript development it leaks memory like crazy (which is probalby caused by Firebug, of course )