Permanent Accounts, Browsers and a poll

[jenepherre]

Found this info here:

Psst, start saving up now -- permanent accounts will be available for sale sometime in the next few months. A permanent LJ account is a paid account that never expires; you guys have been asking for them a lot lately, and we're going to have a limited-time sale in the near future. We'll give you more details, including the price, as we come closer to setting a date.

So any of you who were jealous of me when I got mine wishing you'd purchased one last time they were available, I'd be watching news if I were you. And btw, the cost was $150 last time around, which was on June 7, 2005. One day only.

And now, a poll. Because I've been wondering...

[Poll #951597]

If anyone is curious, I have IE 6, Firefox and Netscape. Why? Mainly because I like to be able to check the websites I make to see how they look in different browsers. And I use both Firefox and IE 6 regularly - probably 50/50. I love Firefox, but there are still some sites that won't work in anything other than IE, plus IE is still set as my default, which means anytime I click on a link in an email it'll open in IE. But Firefox has been steadily gaining on IE, no question (for me, I mean... not just in general).

Part of the reason I'm wondering about the IE 7 upgrade is because:

• PC World and similar magazines/sites are recommending that you upgrade to 7 if you use IE at all, because even though it's not as good as Firefox, it's much more secure than IE 6, apparently.


• I'm not sure I want to lose IE 6 if a lot of people are still using it, and I don't think it's possible to have 2 different versions of IE on your system at the same time. (If I'm wrong about that - please tell me how to do it!) That would mean I couldn't check my sites in the browser most people use to visit my sites, and to me that would be a bad thing.

So... what say you all? Share your wisdom with me!

Comments

[fiercediva.livejournal.com]

I upgraded to IE7 on the only one of my older machines that I sacrificed to Vista. The tabs are nice ,but the new position of favoirtes/history took some getting used to. I also don't like the way Vista in general tries to overprotect you in the security department; the defaults are very restrictive and the OS dosn't make it easy to find where to turn things off. And the IE7 phishing filter makes pages take a longer time to load.

[armandlegg.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the new Apple commercial with the Vista security guy...it's hilarious...

http://www.apple.com/getamac/

It's called "Security" (first one on the left). And from what I've seen of Vista (one computer at work has it) it's pretty close.

Enjoy!

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

Well, I won't be upgrading to Vista for a while yet, so that's not a big issue for me. Yet. And Firefox has tabs. Hmm.

I did notice a patch for IE 7 regarding the phishing filter and RAM usage when I was snooping around the Microsoft site. It's from December, but it might be worth checking to see if you have it already or not.