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

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

Yet another Mac snob, I see. ;-P Actually, with Vista out now, I'll be looking even more seriously at Macs when it's time for a new computer. The one thing that's always stopped me is that the graphics software I love isn't available for Mac. But the company got bought out by Corel, and I loathe their new version of the program. So... if I get Vista I have to get the new Corel version of the program which means there's nothing left to keep me from moving to Mac.

Putting IE 7 in automatic updates isn't a rumor. It's attempted to get on my computer at least twice already. Both of my parents' computers too. So far we've refused it, but we're starting to rethink that. Oh - there's info the auto updates thing here.

Just thought of another question, actually. Not sure if you'll know, but ::shrug:: Do you think it's possible to completely uninstall IE (any version) from Windows? Might have to do a new post asking about that.

Any info you can get on having both versions of IE on one computer would be much appreciated. Thanks Em. :-)

BTW, I totally owe you email with thanks and hugs and much appreciation for being so kind and supportive in response to an email reply you sent me... oh... slightly over a month ago. Heh. I am a horrible ungrateful friend. :-( It did mean a lot to me, even if I didn't tell you. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, let me know. That's what I get for letting it go so long. ::shaking head at self::

[armandlegg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, mac snob over here. *snigger*

Bad news - can't totally uninstall IE from windows. It's one of those essential component thingys - Microsoft doesn't like anyone using another browser to access their official downloads. Bastards. Elitists.

Everyone I've ever dealt with that has removed IE has had such nasty problems we've had to redownload it from download.com.

The two version thing? May be a beta-only thing. Not quite sure. Still checking on that tho.

BTW - I know what email you're referring to. You're not a horrible ungrateful friend - I understand how life goes. It's doing the same for me lately...so no biggie :)

::hugs::

[larissa-j.livejournal.com]

Do you think it's possible to completely uninstall IE (any version) from Windows? Might have to do a new post asking about that.

In a word, no. The only way I know of to do it is to hork the install of the OS by not allowing iexplorer to install. You have to do this by getting ahold of OEM install disks and lying to the install. It's hard to do. You have to misplace iexplorer.exe.

What you get is a horrible version of Windows that looks like a throwback to Win2K but worse. It's like NT and 95 had some sort of horrible lovechild.

It's wrong on all sorts of levels.

Any info you can get on having both versions of IE on one computer would be much appreciated. Thanks Em. :-)

I can't imagine how you could do this and have it be stable or work. Beta testers should not have been running both on one machine unless they were dual booting.

[jenepherre.livejournal.com]

Oh, I was *so* hoping you would come and voice in on this! And I pretty much knew what you're saying here, both about not uninstalling IE and about not having 2 versions on the same machine. But I had to ask.

[larissa-j.livejournal.com]

Sorry it took me so long. It's been a long week.

FYI, I've been running IE7 for a long, long time. *laughs*