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

[darksylvia.livejournal.com]

I think I have IE6 somewhere buried on my computer. I use it for what you said--checking to see that my websites work in it, and if they don't, having to add extraneous IE6 specific code to make it work. I firmly maintain IE6 is the DEVIL, and now that there are such good free browsers everywhere, no one should be using it.

I also use Safari, the native Mac browser. It's really good and it never crashes, but not all media is Safari-friendly, so I've started using Firefox now, even if Safari is faster.

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

Okay wait... do you mean that there's a Windows version of Safari? Because, if so... 1) where have I been? and 2) I want it!

You are on a Windows machine, yes? So you'd have to have some version of IE on your computer somewhere as it's so heavily integrated into Windows that you can't get rid of it. That alone makes it the DEVIL. But I'm becoming more and more convinced that the upgrade to IE 7 is somewhat like the XP upgrade to SP2. Everyone is reluctant and wary at first, and not without good reason, but eventually everyone will want to make the switch, because despite the problems - most of which will probably be resolved over time - the security issue means that you're much better off upgrading than not upgrading.

[darksylvia.livejournal.com]

Hee, no I'm on a G4 ibook. My friend who has a PC explained how hard it is to get rid of IE.

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

::sigh:: Another Mac snob. I'm starting to get that whole 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em' feeling. LOL

[darksylvia.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. :D I feel like there's a sort of language barrier between Mac and PC users. It took my friend Heidi to explain to me that on a PC you couldn't just "delete" an application. We were discussing it because of IE, actually, and I said, "Well, my computer had software that I didn't want that Mac put on it, so I just deleted it. Why can't you do that with the IE?" After she explained it, it just made me despise microsoft even more, heh.

[film102.livejournal.com]

OMG, the icon is gorgeous! Is there a larger pic somewhere on the web I could use to draw or paint from. The anatomy is great. I'm an upper torso person and his is beautiful.

Lyn

[film102.livejournal.com]

OMG, the icon is gorgeous! Is there a larger pic somewhere on the web I could use to draw or paint from. The anatomy is great. I'm an upper torso person and his is beautiful.

Lyn

I thought there was a windows version of safari for some reason.