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No More IE for Mac?

Postby Locke » Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:22 pm

I think they found out I was carrying a usb drive with camino inside to school to use on the macs...

http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/05/12/18/227225.shtml?tid=113&tid=3

Still, is this even a bad thing? M$ is even recommending to use Safari instead!
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Postby Rogie » Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:42 pm

I knew it was going to happen sooner or later. Actually, to be honest, I thought something like this had already happened. I've been telling people to drop IE for the Mac for ages anyway. I love Safari.
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Postby glitch1501 » Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:49 pm

it is a good thing, its a piece of garbage on mac AND pc...get firefox...

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Postby shooraijin » Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:00 am

*I* use Camino.

IE is still a nice browser for OS 9, though (hate to admit this, but it's true). My OS 9 boxes here use it, so I've got a copy on the fileserver now for archiving.
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Postby glitch1501 » Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:02 am

i dont think ive played with camino at all....at school(on the g5's) :) we use firefox and ive used firefox on my pc since before it was firebird


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Postby Locke » Tue Dec 20, 2005 4:29 pm

Firefox is a little glitchy for me on Macs, thats why I use Camino at school now.
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:35 pm

why would a mac user use IE?????

sadly some people do... like the schools at my old middleschool
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Postby Mithrandir » Thu Dec 22, 2005 10:37 am

I thought they made this decision two years ago. Did I miss something...? *reads article* Ah. They don't SUPPORT IT now. Question:

"What has Microsoft done to support IE for Macintosh since they stopped updating it?"
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Postby Arnobius » Thu Dec 22, 2005 10:44 am

I think that means if you have a support question, you're on your own... though with MS, it's hard to tell at times.
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Postby shooraijin » Thu Dec 22, 2005 7:29 pm

I remember complaining about proxy support in the then-current version of Mac Messenger and getting a fat load of nothing (they're supposed to support it, but it doesn't work). So I don't think this changes much, really.

To be fair, the support offered for their free Windows programs isn't much better either. At least they're being upfront with it here. ;)
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Postby Arnobius » Thu Dec 22, 2005 7:50 pm

Get what you pay for eh? ;)
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Postby shooraijin » Thu Dec 22, 2005 9:14 pm

Yup, exactly that. ^^
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