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Originally Posted by peetzakilla
See, that's my point. Most people actually want flash/java/pdf to work without hassling them about working.
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Two clicks per domain to add to noscript's whitelist is hardly a hassle when you consider how much advertising, junk, UI hijacking, and phishing you can avoid. Auto-loading PDFs? This is the web, not companies' print-document publishing environment. Any auto-loaded document type runs the risk of vulnerabilities in that plugin being used to sneak malware onto your system.
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Originally Posted by LoneWolf22056
I personally hate firefox. It's incompatible with stuff I use on a day to day basis, like the little add-ins and whatnot that I need for my school stuff. I have firefox, but never use it. I stick to good ole IE. My virus scan runs every morning at 3 am. It's never found a thing, and my computer runs in tip top shape. AND, to top that off, I'm running vista.
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Your school requires IE plugins/extensions? Yikes.
I hate IE for the same reasons. The plugins I'm used to don't work in IE (allegedly they will in IE 8.1, though.)
Most of the sites I've seen that require IE are B2B-type websites. They have a captive audience so they can get away with that; almost everyone in the business world uses IE, but even that's started changing recently. Furthermore, the kind of aesthetic design and architecture that goes into those sorts of B2B or internal webapps tends to be at the level of gutter trash: No concept of UI design, and no concept of useful data formats/interfaces. They're often rigidly designed with proprietary interfaces that are impossible to improve or extend. Those companies are almost better off paying someone in india $10/hr to write an equivalent web app with php.
But I understand there are some rare sites that require IE and sometimes there's no alternative.