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Warren Pnigel
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Hi, me and my friend are debating something. My mac is running internet explorer as a browser, and when I opened my browser he laughed, and said it's a terrible browser. I've heard this on windows, but is internet explorer on mac still good?? thanks :)

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the default browser on mac is the best BY FAR

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It's the same on MAC I would assume. Just use Safari

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IE Is actually, just... Fine! In fact I'd say people complain more about it now than when it was at it's worst.

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Hi, me and my friend are debating something. My mac is running internet explorer as a browser, and when I opened my browser he laughed, and said it's a terrible browser. I've heard this on windows, but is internet explorer on mac still good?? thanks :)

 

How old is your mac? IE for Mac was discontinued in like 2003, IE does not exist on OSX the default apple browser is Safari and its very good

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Safari is better and CHrome is better IMHO

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How old is your mac? IE for Mac was discontinued in like 2003, IE does not exist on OSX the default apple browser is Safari and its very good

 

I prefer Safari to Chrome, it's just so damn ugly on Windows.

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I've been using firefox since I don't even know when... I just use that. You can't analyze website code in IE... nor can you customize it.

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I swear there hasn't been ie on Mac since ie6. If you're still using ie 6, on behalf of all the web devs out there, please take out the drive that it is installed on and destroy it permanently. Seriously, ie <10 is horrifically terrible (and ie10 is far from perfect).

Safari, chrome and firefox are good. IE is not.

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I bought my mac about 15 months ago, for those asking. Also I'm currently running Internet explorer 10 

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I never thought anyone would install IE on a mac. 

 

You cant anymore

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You cant anymore

Lol wut since when?? I installed IE 10 about a month ago and I love it, it's alot better than safari

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Lol wut since when?? I installed IE 10 about a month ago and I love it, it's alot better than safari

 

uh.. how?

 

"On June 13, 2003, Microsoft announced that it was ceasing further development of Internet Explorer for Mac and the final update was released on July 11, 2003"

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IE for Mac was discontinued roughly a decade ago. So how are you running it...   :huh:

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IE for Mac was discontinued roughly a decade ago. So how are you running it...   :huh:

 

yeah I am confused by this

 

Are people confusing safari for IE or something, much confused

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yeah I am confused by this

 

Are people confusing safari for IE or something, much confused

Maybe he is running Windows on his mac and is talking about regular IE

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Maybe he is running Windows on his mac and is talking about regular IE

 

That would make sense, but then it would be no different to running IE on a normal PC

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Let me put it this way. In the evergreen words of John Gruber:

 

"If Daring Fireball looks goofy in your browser, you’re likely using a shitty browser that doesn’t support web standards. Internet Explorer, I’m looking in your direction. If you complain about this, I will laugh at you, because I do not care."

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Maybe he is running Windows on his mac and is talking about regular IE

No I'm using OS X

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IE on mac isn't very good. IE on windows is fine, well IE 11 that is.

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uh.. how?

 

"On June 13, 2003, Microsoft announced that it was ceasing further development of Internet Explorer for Mac and the final update was released on July 11, 2003"

I bought my Mac a bit over a year ago, and I installed IE 10, after wanting internet explorer instead of safari. 

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uh.. how?

 

"On June 13, 2003, Microsoft announced that it was ceasing further development of Internet Explorer for Mac and the final update was released on July 11, 2003"

I bought my Mac a bit over a year ago, and I installed IE 10, after wanting internet explorer instead of safari. 

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I bought my Mac a bit over a year ago, and I installed IE 10, after wanting internet explorer instead of safari. 

 

IE10 is not availble for OSX outside of VMs/Parralels etc

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IE10 is not availble for OSX outside of VMs/Parralels etc

You must be joking, cuz ive got it on my mac and it runs osx, and i havent done any changes to the software

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