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]

So does this mean 'yes, you should upgrade?' Like now? Is it dangerous to still be using IE6?

[larissa-j.livejournal.com]

It's not dangerous to still be running IE6. (insert disclaimer so I can't be sued)

These are just the main features that IE7 has over IE6. It is more secure.

It's hard to say what your experience will be because I don't know what else you have on your system. Appcompat is usually a deal breaker for most people. Your firewall software and antivirus software could make or break your upgrade. I've even seen router software throw errors. I'm not trying to frighten you, just make you aware.

However, we all know that websites giving wrong browser errors are the fault of the website and not IE. And I believe that MS hounded all the banks prior to the shipping of IE7 so that they were up to date.

These other problems that I see people talk about on here could be anything. They are just random mentions of problems. You and I know how hard that is to triage :D