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GideonNarbie
09/28/09

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ahahahahahaha at LorenzoBunting.
You are joking right? Of course you can, Google.com is built lightly, simply and for all browsers.

However it is one of very few websites that work with IE6. face it dicktwag.
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Kaiser-Machead
09/25/09

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It was awesome, despite the lack of AC. I'm glad I got some video of the Star Wars theme.
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Covertghost
09/25/09

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I want to go to a tesla coil rave :(
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LorenzoBunting
09/24/09

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@SakhiTriton Really? I have no problems visiting google.com with IE6. No errors, no popups, and I can click on results. I guess your install of IE6 must be broken.
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HunterJagalagala
09/23/09

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I agree!
Our company intranet does not let half the applications on it work with Firefox... boo! Damn u IE 6 and Microsoft... why can't they get with the times. It's bad enough i have to use a Microsoft powered pc, but constraining my web browser is just crazy. Yeah it will cost a lot of money to upgrade all the intranet but i say to hell with it, we spend tons of money on all sorts of other stuff why not this too.
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WarePidgeot
09/23/09

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Just adding my two cents. I am system admin (or IT dept) we are moving our entire business email to GAE and with it we will be rolling out Chrome. The handful of non IT people we have shown and installed Chrome for love it. It will by mid next year be our prefered browser over IE7 and FF 3.5 which our users have now. All in all we give our users the choice (as long as it isnt IE).
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NessiaWalsall
09/23/09

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You have that a bit backwards. To quote Wikipedia, "Chromium is an open source web browser which Google Chrome is based on."
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chefgon
09/23/09

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My company's IT department still forbids Chrome from being installed on any work machines because of that overinflated typo in the original EULA that got blown up in the media as "GOOGLE OWNS EVERYTHING YOU DO"
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BlastThemFools
09/23/09

@chefgon: Check out "Chromium". It's the portable version of Chrome which you can run from a USB stick.
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BlastThemFools
09/23/09

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Our IT dept are still keeping us in the dark ages with IE 6.... so I just run Firefox from a USB stick I keep plugged into the back of my machine.
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mocax
09/23/09

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if IE is so bad, why not just ignore IE and code for your favorite browser?
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RedWolf
09/23/09

@mocax: Because a lot of people use computers on which they are not allowed to use anything else. Such as work or school computers, where whatever they are coding may still be useful.
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RJackson
09/23/09

@mocax: because that could create problems for a huge amount of users who use IE6 in a business situation. Changing browsers in a corporation is a huge task, and will likely only be done on an OS change:
Set up a PC with the new OS,
Configure that OS to the companies standards (permissions, networking, install/uninstall extra/unneeded software)
Create a ghost image of that PC.
Test the ghost image on a few PC's.
Return to step #2 and refine any issues
Once a good ghost image is found:
Re-ghost thousands of PCs.

And then the final step would be training the users of those thousands of PC to use the new OS.
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ShawBabalon
09/22/09

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Holy shit. Praise the non-existent Lord.. and a big FUCK YOU to IE6/Microsoft!! Makes a webdev's life living hell.
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SakhiTriton
09/22/09

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Well - Google is evil. Try to use http://google.com from IE 6.
It simply does not allow to click on search result links because of tracking JavaScript.

Firefox is evil too. Try to to http://getfirefox.com website with IE 6 (i.e. then need to install on old system) - a bunch of JavaScript errors popup.

If Google and Firefox does not care about old browsers while designing their own websites - why should anybody else bother?
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tucker
09/22/09

@SakhiTriton: i think you are dead wrong.

implying that any website should maintain IE6 compatibility is absurd. if your IT dept doesn't let you upgrade, it sucks for you - i have no sympathy.
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Christopher Cox
09/22/09

@SakhiTriton: Ummmmm no. The industry has decided on what it considers to be standard amongst web developers. Those web paces you mention work perfectly in Firefox, Chrome, and Opera because they follow a standard. If Microsoft decides to keep from following those standards it os their problem IE6 doesn't work. Either comply or risk your browser not working. IE used to have the power over web devs to move standards in their direction. If it didn't work with IE it used to be crap. Not so any more.

It's Microsoft and IE that is evil for not providing it's users with a client that can access accepted standards. Not everyone else for following agreed standards and leaving Microsoft behind. That is their doing. If they can't keep up then screw them. They deserve a browser that doesn't work.
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monkeys_suck
09/22/09

@SakhiTriton: Man, let's just support Netscape while we're at it. IE5 too.

Honestly, IE6 broke so much shit that works so well in EVERYTHING ELSE. MS wanted to make their own "standard" and failed. This is just gonna convince IT departments all over to upgrade, and if they can't, at least install this plugin.
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Cliff_Dangers
09/23/09

@tucker: word. There is not one good reason for everyone not to upgrade something as easy and free as a web browser.
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Don Nguyen
09/23/09

@Christopher Cox: I don't think MS is "evil" but other than that... agreed.
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UnderLoK
09/23/09

@Cliff_Dangers: Company intranet that was written for IE6 is a damn good one and in many cases a seriously expensive one.
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sleepneed
09/22/09

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Oh Google, you so silly. Glad I can use my laptop now that I'm in college, instead of IE on the computers.

By the way anybody know when/if there is going to be an Acid4 test?
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uRbAnlP
09/22/09

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It's probably just me but I find this to be extremely hilarious!
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Nekrik
09/22/09

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stubborn IT departments that use things like stubborn group policy and such...
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Ian Middleton
09/22/09

@Nekrik: Thank you. I hate any version of IE as much as anyone else. The fact is, unless Mozilla, Google, Opera, or any other browser maker create some decent Group Policy templates, corporate adoption will not happen. So all you complainers - don't complain to your IT guys, complain to Mozilla, Google, and any other browser maker other than MS.

The closest I have found is a hacked FF version here: [www.frontmotion.com]

I've used it on a limited number of clients in our company and it seems to work fine. I'm just a little nervous to go company wide with a hack from a company I've never heard of (and that also sells a computerized eye chart??)

There was a Mozilla run project to create GP templates, but it seems to have died a few years ago. Too bad.
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Jim Topoleski
09/22/09

@Ian Middleton: You just have to think outside of the box. Firefox is easily configurable in the GPO think if you learn how to use about:config properly.
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