Multiple text messages from this guy this morning has me a bit riled up about IE 6.
Can anyone in the class tell me when IE 6 was first thrust amongst us? A quick check of the Wiki (yes, IE has it’s own Wikipedia entry) tells us it was originally released in August of 2001. That’s almost 7 years.
For those of you that are still running IE 6 for whatever reason, how old is the computer you are running it on? I’m going to bet it’s not 7 years old. Hell, I’d bet most of you don’t have appliances that are that old (well, maybe that fridge in the garage, but you really should replace that anyway).
Anyway, for craps sake, let Windows update do it’s thing (if you can) and update your machine to IE7. If you can’t, it’s time to let the admins at your place of work know that they are forcing you to be unsafe online (I don’t care how many proxies or firewalls there are) and running on old technology.
If you can’t upgrade to IE7 because you are running Win98 or ME, then, might I recommend switching? If you are running Win2k, then for craps sake switch to Firefox. It runs faster anyway. If you are on WinXP, you have no excuse unless the ponytail’d admin’s running your network are too stubborn or lazy to test IE7.
If you are stuck on IE6, try running Firefox from a thumb drive if you can. Heck, you can even grab your bookmarks from home. As long as you have access to a USB port on your workstation should be a piece of cake.
With this I am officially turning off support for ie6 (and might as well throw in any Netscape product as well). You need to upgrade. I don’t need to make my shit work with your broke ass old browser.
4 Responses to “Stop with the IE 6 Already”
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April 21st, 2008 at 10:51 am
Outlook Express has an entry too. And, it’s EVEN older.
April 21st, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Yeah, work lappy is being controlled by the pony-tails. I had to procure a copy of portable apps version of firefox to get around this nonsense. I mean, tabbed browsing makes life so much easier. Oh, and I’m still not impressed with ie7 though. Or vista. Wait, you didn’t ask that did you?
April 21st, 2008 at 1:40 pm
From now on I am leaving my comments in the form of CNN.com t-shirts:
http://tinyurl.com/4bsv2k
April 21st, 2008 at 10:13 pm
And here I was, wondering, just when CNN was going to start making tshirts. Thanks Joshua!
BTW, too funny.