Originally posted by SPeedY_B
Rigsta, i agree that the extra functionality can be ahcieved on an IE Browser, but why should you have to go out your way to get it? it's be nice if Microsoft added in these fearures for a default install.
Yes, it would be nice if those options were available on install, particularly tabbed browsing. It's quite unlikely that MS will officially support freeware like ad-shield though. Ad-shield is the only extra I have installed, and it was painless in the extreme to install and get used to, so I don't see it as going out of my way. That's a personal opinion though
Originally posted by mbunny
Don't bother trying to convert IE ppl to Mozilla. Although we are right, the IE ppl will not want to escape their comfort zone and are usually put off by the ugliness of the default (and i mean DEFAULT) theme of Mozilla. They don't explore the program fully and already have a negative ideal before even launching the program.
They don't weigh up the pros vs cons.
Oi! it's not nice to make generalisations like that. I find those comments to be very unfair. We're all intelligent, technically-minded people here, so why not keep the conversation that way?
As it happens, I like the idea of tabbed browsing and changeable themes, but I also like the super-fast loading time of IE, the fact that I rarely notice any errors on loaded pages, the integration into the OS,
Ad-shield, the quicksearch function (eg. I can type "goo XP" into the address bar to launch a google search for XP - although this is admittedly a tweak - guess where I got it from?
). Finally, I've been able to configure the controls layout to take up such a tiny amount of screen space that a change to the browser theme would barely be noticeable. I prefer to look at the website, not the browser
It's also worth noting that Ad-shield is more like a plugin than an external program (A "Browser Helper Object" or BHO to be exact - any budding programmers reading this please note that it's a great example of modular programming
). And yeah, I think I'll stop plugging Ad-shield for the time being
To conclude, why go out of my way to change? Sure there may be other very noteworthy browsers out there, but I happen to like the IE+Ad-shield on my computer. We could argue for days about which one is technically better, but it's down to user preference in the end. Changing would be a pain, and I can't be arsed with it.