France also warns against Internet Explorer use

There's nothing wrong with IE8, but I'm using Mozilla Firefox : ) I occasionally use IE but for the most part it's Firefox for it's mass amounts of customizations and ease of use.

Internet explorer all versions are heavily compromised. It's safe to use if you are using it in a virtual environment and have a multi antispyware software running in the background.
It's not a browser that newbies should be using with there limited internet knowledge.
It's good the french and Germans have finally pointed out the obvious to the rest of the world.

I'm glad they are telling everyone to switch to an alternative browser. I've set up all my friends and family on both Firefox and Chrome, I then tell them "Play with them both and in ~six months (depending on Internet usage) I'll uninstall which one you don't like (or don't use)."

Most of them like Firefox better but I use Chrome on my machine.

When it comes it IE, as far as I know, Microsoft has nothing to lose in a decline because the countries are just saying "Don't use Internet Explorer" and not "Don't use Windows", which is where Microsoft makes their money.

IE8 is full of problems in terms of providing what is considered by many of the 'tech community' to be a 'modern browsing' experience. Javascript works better on Firefox and Chrome. It is faster there too. There is no native JSON like in Firefox, so that is also slower. CSS is (as always) completely screwed up; even IE 8 needs fixes (but far fewer than IE7 and 6). The thing I cannot advocate is that Microsoft force Windows users to have IE 8. Some apps are (stupidly) hard-coded to rely upon IE 6 or 7's engine embedded, and IE 8 is therefore incompatible. Even the compatibility mode in IE 8 does not completely mimic IE 7, so it is not a replacement for testing.

This is the best you can do if you want to be nice and not rude:

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<!--[if IE]>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.location="http://getfirefox.com";
</script>
<![endif]-->

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<?php
if (preg_match('/MSIE/i', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {
  header("Location:http://www.getfirefox.com");
}
?>

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"It's a conspiracy I tell you!"

Microsoft must've really pissed off the NWO somehow for all these countries to all come out and say this.

i dont know why they even made IE. every version of the browser had problems as much as each version of the windows OS did and still microsoft "promise" that the next version will be better. still we are ignorant enough to use it and not move to a differet browser which is faster, easier and more secure. if you dont like IE or whatever tell me why are you using it again?

Originally posted by fgamer:

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There's nothing wrong with IE8, but I'm using Mozilla Firefox : ) I occasionally use IE but for the most part it's Firefox for it's mass amounts of customizations and ease of use.

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Originally posted by tatsh:

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This is the best you can do if you want to be nice and not rude:

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<!--[if IE]>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.location="http://getfirefox.com";
</script>
<![endif]-->

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or in PHP:

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<?php
if (preg_match('/MSIE/i', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {
  header("Location:http://www.getfirefox.com");
}
?>

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Seems kinda nosey for the government to tell you what programs to run.

Originally posted by bam431:

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Seems kinda nosey for the government to tell you what programs to run.

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Originally posted by bam431:

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Seems kinda nosey for the government to tell you what programs to run.

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Yeah...and they keep telling people to quit smoking too...those bastards.

Firefox is a nice browser, but the creators are so full of themselves that it is held back. They refuse to implement basic features from Internet Explorer 4.0 because they say it would compromise security...BS...anything can be done securly. Without these features, Firefox is nothing more than a Lite browser.

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Firefox is a nice browser, but the creators are so full of themselves that it is held back. They refuse to implement basic features from Internet Explorer 4.0 because they say it would compromise security...BS...anything can be done securly. Without these features, Firefox is nothing more than a Lite browser.

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