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Originally Posted by gary_580
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I use Lynx for that
IE isn't a choice for me but back in the days of IE vs Netscape, I went with IE because it was a good quick and easy to use browser. Now that I'm officially a geek/techie I can see many problems with IE, the biggest in my opinion being a disregard for hard won standards (Richard made the very good point about TCP/IP and what would happen if one company altered it so it was incompatible). Therefore I use Firefox and recommend it to others if asked.
On the point of security, it's not really about the number of flaws found because any piece of software will always have some exploit...it's unavoidable. What it is about is about how easy it is to exploit a flaw and the seriousness of it. Due to the nature of IE, with ActiveX controls and the fact that it is so closely tied with the OS, it is always going to be easier to attack the system than with a sandboxed browser. It's a sad fact that the mechanisms that make it easy for authors to write their pages and easier for the end user are always going to make it easier for people to create exploits.