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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tarchon" data-source="post: 575832" data-attributes="member: 5990">There are Netscape and Mozilla as well.  I occasionally hit things that don't work right on or (especially) crash IE too, so if universal compatibility is your goal, IE won't get you there either.  I consider two browsers to be a minimum for a well installed system.I generally keep Netscape or Mozilla as my main browser, along with a rarely used IE (being popular and a Microsoft product, it does have the disadvantage of being a little more prone to attacks by malicious code).  I prefer Mozilla slightly, since Netscape 6 doesn't seem to invalidate the cache entry for enworld correctly.BTW, not to sound like a skeptic or anything, but I've lived through a lot of inane "security" panics on the internet over last 14 years (Good Times, Cookies, and Y2K among others), and I feel I should point out that it is a bad idea to believe everything you read about viruses, hidden files, spy programs, etc.  Mountains of complete bulloffal have been written on the subject, with motivations ranging from the innocent paranoia of some lone goofball with a website who only half understands the subject to the greed of software developers trying to create a new niche market for security software.  Fear sells.This is a lot like the PayPal thread.  Many assume that [insert company]sucks.com must be an angelically guided society of altruists trying to totally fair and honest while [insert company].com must be a greedy pack of unscrupulous villains lying through their teeth.  Think about it: has there ever been any dispute in human experience where the sides broke down that simply?  There are perfectly innocent technical reasons for IE doing what it does.  If one wants to know what they are, the first place to look is the doc files (and even - gasp - by doing experiments with the software), not just taking everything ChipOnTheShoulder.org has to say as gospel.</blockquote>

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