I was testing a site this morning in Windows XP, and it took me 5 minutes to convince Internet Explorer to behave. A while back I did the SP2 upgrade, and all seemed to be fine. This morning, Internet Explorer was trying to connect to the internet via a dialup connection.
Urgh.
Firefox did the right thing and used the pre-configured wireless connection, just like before. I've no idea why Internet Explorer picked this morning to stop working: I guess this is the joy of running Windows. Unpredictability. The only thing you can predict is that stuff will be broken in new, horribly unusual ways every time you try to do something productive.
Then Gregor J Rothfuss points to a Channel 9 Wiki of Internet Explorer bugs. A terrifying list of problems.
Last week my bank told me they didn't support Firefox because it "wasn't a final release of the browser, it's still at 0.9-something". My bank are a bunch of clueless morons. They should go look at the CERT advisories and IE bug lists.
Update: Browse Happy.
Posted by savs at September 3, 2004 10:20 AM