[pillbox_girl]

OK. Perhaps not daily. But with all the undiscovered memory leaks in all the glommed on bells and whistles that have been piled into IE (not to mention it's flawed Java implementation) crashes and lockups happen often and consistently enough to prove it's a lousy product.

Case in point: my machine is currently running 768megs of RAM, and windows is reasonably stable (days between crashes). If I pull out all but one DIMM, suddenly the lock up and crash rate escalates to about once every few days (and happens almost every time I use Google Maps for more than a quick address lookup).

Now I don't know about you, but I don't personally think running on limited memory of only 256megs is "doing something wrong", but it sure bring on the crashes in IE. And on a clean install and patch, no less. Especially when Firefox hasn't given me a single problem doing exactly the same thing.

And God help the IE user who mistypes an URL and finds themselves re-directed to an ad site with malformed shockwave ads. And then pop-upped to death. Sure, mistyping the URL is a mistake, but I don't exactly think it's "doing something wrong". Instead, it's the programmers of IE who have done something wrong by creating such an easily overloadable tangle of software without including enough (if any) user controls to limit what the software is allowed to and disallowed from loading and displaying.

[Golden Eagle]

Mine never crashes. Really. If it did, I would definitely NEED something else, since 50+% of my interface with computers is through IE, and I work in this field as a professional.

[shellshocked]

"crashes and lockups happen often and consistently enough to prove it's a lousy product."

"And then pop-upped to death"


Have you moves to Windows XP SP2? It has a pop-up blocker build into IE.

[shellshocked]

"crashes and lockups happen often and consistently enough to prove it's a lousy product."


I have never crashed IE. Never. I am a software engineer and have created some significant web applications, and I have never crashed IE. In fact, dealing with all the limitations of the other browsers has been my biggest headache.

[shellshocked]

"running on limited memory of only 256megs is "doing something wrong", but it sure bring on the crashes in IE."


I can dial in 256MB RAM and I can't get IE to crash. In fact, I have even dialed in 64MB and it doesn't crash.

[TomServo]

Now I don't know about you..

Never had IE crash.

Ever.

Under any circumstance.

Last time Windows BSOD'd on me was in 1998 - which was when I caught my first (and only) virus.

Pretty much sums up my "problems" with Windows.