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Originally posted by ShawnZ
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Originally posted by markee
Personally I will never use Internet Explorer again because I know what damage I can do with it and all it takes is acceptance of activeX objects which many people don't even think about accepting because they are forever bombarded with alerts and warning pop-ups from microsoft products.
uh, all it takes on firefox is the acceptance of a netscape plugin?
While I dislike the plugin architecture (there's not enough isolation, the WMA plugin on Windows is crashtastic, and the adobe flash plugin is yuck, but neither should *ever* be able to crash the browser if the interface is defined properly), I'd be hesitant to say it's as bad as ActiveX. Installing plugins generally goes through the mozilla site, those plugins that don't get blocked, and you have to explicitly allow them.
so, acceptance of a netscape plugin takes a lot more work than accepting an ActiveX script.
was put impeccably into words at DebianDay for me last Saturday, by Knut Yrvin of Trolltech - adults try something once, fail, and then are like "ffs this doesn't work". Children try, fail, and then try again, and succeed - maybe on the second, or even fifth retry. But the thing is that they keep at it and overcome the problems in the end.
-andrewdodd13
