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Yesterday I furled a CNET article<\/a> which declared Mozilla Firefox<\/a> victorious. Ok, ok, firefox won from contenders like IE<\/a>, Opera<\/a> & Netscape<\/a> (8). All of which I didn’t suit me.<\/p>\n

Here’s the real story. I’ve been using IE ever since IE3. Why? Well, I’ve won a cd-rom with IE3 along with a videotape of ‘The Net<\/a>‘. Really! Well IE4 beat NS4 hands down… Ancient history.
\nNowadays I’m a webdesigner<\/a> and somewhat of a webdeveloper<\/a> and I could use some no-name, obscure, backwards browser. But then I would be cutting myself in my fingers wouldn’t I? Who needs CSS<\/a> anyway…<\/p>\n

As a webdesigner you have to follow the flock. And if the herd is using IE as their preferred browser, you have to design accordingly. I would be happy to design for Konqueror if 90% of the population had installed it. But it’s IE. So? No problem. That’s what they are using, that’s what i’ll design\/develop for.<\/p>\n

Well a few months ago I did something bold. I had phoenix\/firebird or what it was called back then. Nevermind, I had this option in the ‘Tools’ > ‘Options…’ > ‘General’ section with a checkbox to make Firefox my default browser. So I clicked it. Just to see if my Outlook would open links in Firefox instead of IE. It did. Having grown to IE I turned back to it to make IE my default browser again, who wants a beta version of a browser as their default? But… someone please, NOT, show me where the option is hidden… I couldn’t find the damn checkbox to make IE default again. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

Having being stuck with Firefox wasn’t that bad. \ud83d\ude42 I found that when there’s a javascript error, Firefox could show me the EXACT line of code that was bad. In IE times it was just guess and trackback. How sweet the alert(“over here”); was. \ud83d\ude09 It showed me what kind of HTML I was missing, or at least put in the wrong place (HTMLTidy). Where that &*(#&*$-div went, or didn’t went. What Google & Co could make of my pages. Well as a developer, I’m happy. <\/p>\n

I’ll think I make a series of the goodness that came with firefox. But later…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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