Internet Explorer 6 'Funeral' Held To 'Mourn' Aging Web Browser

cnn.com:

More than 100 people, many of them dressed in black, were expected to gather around a coffin Thursday night to say goodbye to an old friend.

The deceased? Internet Explorer 6.

The aging Web browser, survived by its descendants Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8, was to be eulogized at a tongue-in-cheek "funeral" hosted by Aten Design Group, a design firm in Denver, Colorado.

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Comments

[Papasito]

11:37 AM on 03/08/2010

I only use Chrome of FF. Chrome is really a sweet browser. Fast and very resourceful.

[Papasito]

11:30 AM on 03/08/2010

I thought IE disappeared along with Netscape Navigator years ago... odd.

[politisophical]

12:52 AM on 03/09/2010

netscape never went away... it became opensource with the mozilla project which evolved to firefox.... firefox is netscape's way of spitting in microsofts face after the lawsuits in the late 90's...

[MaxPowerXP]

08:06 PM on 03/07/2010

A funeral for IE 6? It should have instead been set aflame and dropped into one of those open sewers in Los Angeles that would drop it safely out to sea.

[yesyesyes]

07:19 PM on 03/07/2010

People still use IE?

[liarsclub75]

07:48 PM on 03/07/2010

I was just gonna say....

[ramblingjohnny]

01:46 AM on 03/08/2010

Many corporations and government agency have Intranet apps that are build on top of that crap! So instead of spending the money to keep their Intranet apps updated to support a modern browser the idiots are still using IE6.

[Grada3784]

06:57 AM on 03/08/2010

I can only get Huffington Post on IE. All the bowsers I prefer to use lock up on HP.

[Lordcron]

06:46 PM on 03/07/2010

They can lay IE8 right beside it. What a dog of a Browser! So sluggish and full of memory leaks. Run that thing long enough and it'll take down your entire system. I find that I have to reboot after using ie8 for a long period of time.

I'm the biggest Fire Fox fan. What a great browser and no I don't work for the company in any way. I just love how versatile it is. The plugins are the coolest.

[MaxPowerXP]

08:09 PM on 03/07/2010

I don't think you understand what "memory leaks" actually are; do yourself a favor and look at the memory footprint of a Firefox instance that has been running a few days. Neither of them leak, you just don't understand how they use memory in the first place.

[Lordcron]

08:37 AM on 03/08/2010

Wow! Who's that breathing fire my way! First, Don't assume you know me or what I think.
To under estimate anyone is a sure way to failure. Not only do I understand what a memory leak is I have had the pleasure of plugging a few holes in my past. Yes I'm one of those who catch these kinds of things.

I've been in the game longer then you've been living more then likely. Firefox has had it's share of problems in the past and those are being addressed. Firefox is still better then IE8 and I'll stake my long standing reputation on it......

[gakabani]

06:45 PM on 03/07/2010

The problem was not the browser but the system below the browser. Windows is just that, empty "windows."

[ramblingjohnny]

04:32 PM on 03/07/2010

Good riddance! Now if only we can kill Adobe PDF reader and Flash!

[TakeSake]

05:13 PM on 03/07/2010

PDF has it's place - web pages isn't one of them. Placing links to PDF files is poor style.

Flash, now that's just a virus.

[Balzac]

01:11 PM on 03/07/2010

It should have been 7 years ago.

[tonedef]

11:00 AM on 03/07/2010

Thank goodness.

[hypnotoad72]

10:04 AM on 03/07/2010

Bye

[editorjuno]

05:47 PM on 03/06/2010

IE6 lives on among Win2K diehards -- we keep it around for Windoze Update and the odd website that doesn't like non-M$ browsers. Win2K remains the most stable and least malware-plagued M$ OS -- too bad it's about to become abandonware....

[MaxPowerXP]

08:08 PM on 03/07/2010

Hardly; every subsequent version of Windows has been far more stable, and if you really think it's the "least malware-plagued" you haven't been using it very long.

[F4Phantom]

04:10 PM on 03/06/2010

I'm getting ready to dump Firefox. YOu shut it down, and yet it keeps running and refuses to restart. It leaks memory. If a page crashes it, it immediately tries to re-open that page when you relaunch, sometimes putting you in an inescapable loop. It seems to be getting WORSE, not better, over time.

[Patrick Garies]

05:14 PM on 03/06/2010

If it crashes, you can avoid the page being reloaded by going offline or forcing the browser offline by running the program with the "-ProfileManager" parameter and selecting "Work Offline" in the dialog that appears when you try to run it. Since Firefox erases the cache whenever it crashes, that means there's no way for that page to create an inescapable loop unless it's saved locally. (I was thinking that Firefox allowed you to start a new session on a crash though, but it's been awhile since I've had a crash.)

Anyway, yes, Firefox is slow, particularly on script-intensive sites like Facebook, so I use Chrome for those sites. It's also nice that, in Chrome, when Flash crashes, only that tab crashes. That said, I don't use Chrome for long periods of time or with lots of tabs, so it's hard to compare performance. It's also hard to give up Firefox with all these extensions (including an Adblock that isn't broken like the one in Chrome).

But wait, we were talking about MSIE6. RIP. (I know it's rude to say this of this of the deceased, but it was better sooner than later.)

[CaseyAKO]

06:38 PM on 03/06/2010

Adblock extension for FF is the tits.

[CaseyAKO]

06:38 PM on 03/06/2010

FF should give you an option when you restart as to whether you want to reload the pages that were open when it crashed. If you're not getting that message, you might have clicked the "Don't Ask This Again" option somewhere along the line.

That, or you need to update.

[4600 dollars and 2 cents]

02:30 PM on 03/07/2010

type about:config in the ff address bar and set browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash to false

see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash for more info

[Danlantic]

08:49 PM on 03/07/2010

Casey and F4Phantom, I don't know what you're talking about.

When my copy of Firefox crashes and restarts it does with a pop-up listing the tabs with check boxes and asking me if I want to restart them and I had uncheck the ones I don't.

I don't know how you got your version of Fx set up wrong but it's your fault. I did nothing special. That's the way it works in 3.5.7 and later.

I finally found my crashes were caused by a Trojan that Hewlett-Packard put on my system called Marvell Usage Tracking. It was installed as a program but was set up so it could not be uninstalled by the Windows menus. I had to use the dangerous method of using Regseeker and deleting every reference to it in the registry.

Whatever MrvlUsgTracking was trying to do it crashed Fx 3.6 half a dozen times a day but 3.5.7 about once a day and 3.5.8 every other day.

3.5.8 also massively decreased that "Firefox is already running but not responding" problem that it was left in memory.

Fx is slower than IE 8 but it scores 94 on the Acid 3 test while IE gets 32. Thus IE is faster at displaying a page WRONG.

Try Safari. It gets 100 in Acid 3. You don't need a Mac; Apple has issued a Safari for Windows.