Why does Internet Explorer suck so much?

Can someone please tell me?

I mean, this is ridiculous.

I have quite a few google accounts that I spend a significant amount of time in.

I hate logging in and out of each of them, so I open up different browser windows that allow different cookie sessions and I don’t have to log out of one to log into another.

By default I use Firefox.

But, when I need another google account open, I have to open IE because it doesn’t share cookies.

However, IE always crashes!

It just freezes my computer. The mouse works fine, but nothing else responds (not even ctrl-alt-del).

Recently I’ve been able to track this problem specifically to IE causing the problem.

So, here’s my question (I actually have 2 questions):

Why can’t a piece of software that you’ve been working on for 89 years and that is an “integral” part of your operating system, just work?

Seriously, why can’t it just be a nice, functioning, leave my computer alone and don’t crash, piece of software?

My second question: Can someone help me with a different solution?

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7/27/2007

Neal Harmon @ 6:00 pm

John,

Apple just released Safari for Windows.

Thanks for the help on the Google Adwords crash course for Jeffrey. We’re diving into it.

Neal

8/1/2007

Alice Langholt @ 11:26 am

John,
What happened to writingup? Did you shut it down? It hasn’t been working for so long now that I’ve given up, and I had two blogs there! I was a real devoted community person on writingup. I’m pretty disappointed.

Would’ve been nice if you’d have emailed every blogger who gave their time to having a blog on writingup to say what had happened. (I know you have their emails.)

I’ve emailed you a few times about this, and never received a reply. Not good practice for a guy who wants to succeed in business.

Alice

8/29/2007

Vero @ 5:44 pm

Sure, use Opera.

10/23/2007

Moz @ 6:11 pm

John,

Well if you like Firefox, stick with Mozilla. Just install their Seamonkey package here:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

This used to be Netscape 6+/Mozilla Application Suite, and the browser portion should not share cookies with Firefox.

Moz

12/4/2007

Kyle McMillan @ 2:58 pm

Yeah, what happened to writingUp??

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5/16/2008

Foxx @ 12:45 am

My alternate browser is Opera, and it’s actually not bad in some ways. Yes IE does suck.

9/17/2008

mike @ 5:33 pm

you hot the nail on the head Windows internet explorer totaly SUCKS, is a pain and should go bankrupt

4/8/2009

Victor @ 7:25 am

Try Google Chrome! :)

8/28/2009

Dan @ 12:45 am

I personally feel that with the design of Microsoft’s Vista, that Microsoft is beginning it’s downhill trip to
going out of business. I have been in computers since 1984, and for the first time I am looking around for a new operating system besides a Microsoft product. For me, personally, Vista was more than a big disappointment. And now Internet Explorer seems to have bottomed out as well. Perhaps Apple now has a better system.

2/14/2010

Carl @ 1:12 am

I use opera. I just tried to open IE for a complex reason, and the fucking thing locks up for 2 minutes trying to open. Thus, I typed "why does internet explorer suck" into google out of frustration and found this blog.

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