Solved RIP - Internet Explorer

Edwin · Jun 16, 2022

Edwin said:
I don't enter any personal data onto anything.
My entire online identity is purely fictitious.

Oh, btw..., did I mention, I'm often so full of sh*t my eyes are brown!!!

idgat · Jun 16, 2022

Winuser said:
...or was it because Internet Explorer was preinstalled? IMHO, a very large number of Internet Explorer users only used it because it was preinstalled and didn't know or didn't care that they could use a different browser.

Which is one of the reasons (also included WMP) why MS got screwed in the EU courts for abuse of its dominant position in the market.

idgat · Jun 16, 2022

Lots of references to IE and "POS" ... I didn't know IE could be used for Point of Sale transactions ....?

Ooops, Oh, I get it, those "POS"s don't stand for Point of Sale, do they ...

JAM83 · Jun 16, 2022

TraderGary said:
I agree. I use Microsoft Edge on all my devices. The difference here is that I subscribe to Microsoft 365. I think it's an incredible bargain at $69 annually. I get all of Microsoft Office, always up to date, including my email favorite, Microsoft Outlook. Very importantly for me, Microsoft 365 includes 1TB of Microsoft OneDrive. I keep all my data in my OneDrive folder and get a real-time mirror backup in cloud OneDrive.

I got Office Student Edition back when I was in school in 2010-2015. . I still get free updates to this day

Ghot · Jun 16, 2022

Edwin said:
I don't enter any personal data onto anything.
My entire online identity is purely fictitious.

Wise is the fictitious surfer.

TraderGary · Jun 17, 2022

Edwin said:
I don't enter any personal data onto anything.
My entire online identity is purely fictitious.

You mean you're a nobody? :lmao:

A Guy · Jun 17, 2022

Edwin said:
Oh, btw..., did I mention, I'm often so full of sh*t my eyes are brown!!!

That's not even his beard!

A Guy

Edwin · Jun 17, 2022

TraderGary said:
You mean you're a nobody?

All my life!

Edwin · Jun 17, 2022

A Guy said:
That's not even his beard!

Now wait a minute! The beard's real! I paid $9.99 for it at Walmart!

Josey Wales · Jun 17, 2022

Well when I updated EDGEIUM yesterday it put back all the files I deleted so maybe MS does not want those files removed?? I try again-I do not use EDGE anyway!

WXC · Jun 17, 2022

Josey Wales said:
Well when I updated EDGEIUM yesterday it put back all the files I deleted so maybe MS does not want those files removed?? I try again-I do not use EDGE anyway!

I think that may be why I ran into issues yesterday, after deleting, as well, Josey.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Josey Wales · Jun 17, 2022

WXC said:
I think that may be why I ran into issues yesterday, after deleting, as well, Josey.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Well do not try this, it messed up everything just like it did for you. Thank God & Greyhound for Macrium Reflect. I could not even open Firefox.

WXC · Jun 17, 2022

Josey Wales said:
Well do not try this, it messed up everything just like it did for you. Thank God & Greyhound for Macrium Reflect. I could not even open Firefox.

Thank you , Josey.

Yep, I saw it immediately, and restored everything. Fortunately it all returned to normal.

CornishRattler · Jun 17, 2022

Josey Wales said:
Well do not try this, it messed up everything just like it did for you. Thank God & Greyhound for Macrium Reflect. I could not even open Firefox.

It's the browser that just keeps on giving

pgallagher72 · Jun 17, 2022

Edwin said:
I don't enter any personal data onto anything.
My entire online identity is purely fictitious.

you use the internet, what you search for, the sites you visit, that's your personal data that they siphon.

browser with this ID was searching for this and that, and visiting these kinds of websites, send ads for things that match up with habits in that browser.

your name and personal details aren't relevant, they don't care about paltry things like identity, they care about behaviour, so they can send predictive information back to try and get you to buy things, and charge money to the people who want to sell those things to get those ads in front of you.

Dch48 · Jun 17, 2022

pgallagher72 said:
you use the internet, what you search for, the sites you visit, that's your personal data that they siphon.

browser with this ID was searching for this and that, and visiting these kinds of websites, send ads for things that match up with habits in that browser.

your name and personal details aren't relevant, they don't care about paltry things like identity, they care about behaviour, so they can send predictive information back to try and get you to buy things, and charge money to the people who want to sell those things to get those ads in front of you.

And that's okay with me.

Ghot · Jun 17, 2022

pgallagher72 said:
you use the internet, what you search for, the sites you visit, that's your personal data that they siphon.

browser with this ID was searching for this and that, and visiting these kinds of websites, send ads for things that match up with habits in that browser.

your name and personal details aren't relevant, they don't care about paltry things like identity, they care about behaviour, so they can send predictive information back to try and get you to buy things, and charge money to the people who want to sell those things to get those ads in front of you.

That must be why I keep seeing those ads for: Women in wetsuits near me.

Try3 · Jun 17, 2022

I like IE. It's the only browser that saves Favourites/Bookmarks directly to disk so they can be manipulated in File explorer.
I tried searching for another that would do this but without success.

IE also allows shortcuts to other applications in its Favourites so I can, for example, launch Notepad to read & edit text files with helpful notes about that particular group of Favs.
- Firefox lets me run shortcuts to open text files in its Bookmarks hierarchy but only as read-only.

Denis

Dch48 · Jun 17, 2022

I greatly preferred the UI of IE for favorites and downloads in particular. When Edge came along, it had pretty much the same UI. The new Edge is very similar to Chrome in those aspects and I miss the old Edge. I was disappointed when MS went to the Chromium version but now that I'm used to it, I love it.

TraderGary · Jun 17, 2022

Dch48 said:
I greatly preferred the UI of IE for favorites and downloads in particular. When Edge came along, it had pretty much the same UI. The new Edge is very similar to Chrome in those aspects and I miss the old Edge. I was disappointed when MS went to the Chromium version but now that I'm used to it, I love it.

I agree. I used Chrome for a couple of years and then started using Edge (Chromium) when it was introduced. The new Microsoft Edge is decidedly superior to Chrome. And Microsoft isn't selling your browsing history to advertisers like Chrome does. I too love Microsoft Edge.