For Users of Internet Explorer 6
February 22nd, 2008If you use Windows and are running Internet Explorer 6, I have a great deal of pity for you and three recommendations.
1) Hold the shift key and click the refresh button. Many of the horrible artifacts of my recent redesign will go away. You are still using a dead browser, however, so your problems run deeper than a simple shift-refresh. The next two points should help a little.
2) Download a new browser. For FREE! Firefox can be gotten here. Safari can be gotten here. Both are for Windows users. LOOK INTO IT.
3) Look seriously at a Mac. It will look back, just as seriously. o
Tags: dead browser, ie6, site maintenance, upgrade your browser
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February 24th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
I just uploaded Safari. So far so good, and what a difference!
Thanks for the tip. I was dying a slow, slow IE death!
Now all I need is a Mac…….. any recommendations?
: )
February 24th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
What I love about macs, aside from making me cool :P… is that the old G3 in my 6 year old’s room runs just as well as it did years ago. I’ve never had a PC that performed that well for that long.
February 25th, 2008 at 10:40 am
I might be the only person on the planet but we have 9 computers total in this house.
We have one MAC we got in 2007. It is my least reliable tool. And Firefox bugs out on me all the time. I like the features better then Safari but I always end up going back to Safari because Firefox gets cought in some crazy loop of functions and will not move forward.
My Mac is like a trophy wife. Very pretty and thin (AND EXPENSIVE)….but not where you go when you need something done.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Don’t forget Opera! Even though I just bought an iMac and am refreshing the tracking info every 3.5 seconds, I will continue to use Opera on the shiny new computer because it is awesome.
Also, it was awesome before Firefox was popular.
February 25th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
@nikol, It’s the exact opposite in our house. The Macs are the go to machines when it’s time to get something done.
For doing print work, PCs just can’t handle the large files in any kind of a way without spending the same money on a high end PC.
March 1st, 2008 at 9:26 am
If I were to invoice the hours I spent unable to work because of dealing with PC issues, it would pay for the Mac I bought. No regrets.