{"id":270,"date":"2006-05-19T19:03:36","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T23:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2006\/05\/19\/ie-vs-firefox-longheld-belief\/"},"modified":"2006-05-19T19:03:36","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T23:03:36","slug":"ie-vs-firefox-longheld-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2006\/05\/19\/ie-vs-firefox-longheld-belief\/","title":{"rendered":"IE vs Firefox — longheld belief"},"content":{"rendered":"

Y’all, if you use IE<\/acronym>, don’t. Just stop.<\/p>\n

My blog here looks fine and dandy in Firefox, I just used IE to check something out and decided to view my site in that awful browser and blech! Ditch IE as your main browser. Switch to Firefox! I’m not attempting to change my layout just for IE, let my ugly weblog then be a banner for Firefox usage!<\/p>\n

I’ve been using Firefox for a long while now, I mean it’s been so long I don’t know of a time when I didn’t use Firefox (not seriously, I can recall when “the internet” wasn’t a term in any citizen’s language … and I do recall a time when I did use AOL, and hated it, and got “to the real internet” as soon as possible, and dribble drabbled on in IE, when it was in it’s small version numbers … and then Firefox breathed it’s first and I jumped on board as soon as I was aware it’d been alive and breathing.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Y’all, if you use IE, don’t. Just stop. My blog here looks fine and dandy in Firefox, I just used IE to check something out and decided to view my site in that awful browser and blech! Ditch IE as your main browser. Switch to Firefox! 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