ext_3374 ([identity profile] jimbojones.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] lauralh 2006-09-21 09:50 pm (UTC)

If only IE was an application

... but it's not, it's the actual shell you use to operate the computer. And, unlike a shell in a *nix environment, it *can't be uninstalled and reinstalled* - which, when you combine that with the fact that it's designed to be infinitely extensible *by the content you browse*, makes it unsafe at any speed.

Free Software philosophy discussions aside, IE will be unsuitable for use as a web browser as long as MS inists on both making it a godawful uninstallable, unREinstallable tangle of crap woven into the core operating system AND making it extensible.

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