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Skybird · 04-04-12, 08:08 AM

I'm rather satisfied with IE9. The bad reputation imo is overexaggerated or comes from users who insist to run it with all security disabled and all party-gimmicks open and active. Firefox just gave me bad experiences and technical issues time and again, with all versions tried, and on three different systems - last in february ion the laptop of my mother who installed it accidentally when getting fooled by a website.

Google's Art Project until maybe four weeks ago - when was the last time I visited it - did not need a personal Google account of any kind. It operated like Google Earth and to my awareness did not collect and copied data from my system. It also ran with cookies blocked (I run a policy of allowing only manually selected cookies here, all casual cookies are blocked). Possible though that Google ignores and bypasses such blocks, it was in the press some weeks ago that they can do - and do - that, with practically all available browsers. Intentionally breaching set secuirty blocks and security settings on a foreign system to me demonstrates already criminal energy.

If CCIP says it opens a Chrome window, then this is - due to the disastrous privacy policies of Google - a total exclusion criterion for me. It also tells me that they chnaged the way Art Project can get accessed maybe only for the purpose of luring people into tolerating the breaching of their systems, either by installing Chrome, or getting a Google account.

If tyrant says IE9 has HTML5 support, then Google has just lied in my face when their black screen popped up and told me that my IE9 does not support it. Nice. Another feature to lower their trustworthiness - if only any further reduction of that would be possible.

Too bad, Art Project was a nice thing to use occasionally. But one can certainly live without it.

With the only exception of Google Earth I run no Google stuff here asnymore. Even Google search I have replaced with Ixquick. Which is very nice, btw., just takes a bit longer.

Now somebody points me at something bad about Google Earth, too, and I will shut down that one, too. Hope I must not. The alternative offered by Microsoft is not en par.

04-04-12, 08:08 AM	#4
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,717 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	I'm rather satisfied with IE9. The bad reputation imo is overexaggerated or comes from users who insist to run it with all security disabled and all party-gimmicks open and active. Firefox just gave me bad experiences and technical issues time and again, with all versions tried, and on three different systems - last in february ion the laptop of my mother who installed it accidentally when getting fooled by a website. Google's Art Project until maybe four weeks ago - when was the last time I visited it - did not need a personal Google account of any kind. It operated like Google Earth and to my awareness did not collect and copied data from my system. It also ran with cookies blocked (I run a policy of allowing only manually selected cookies here, all casual cookies are blocked). Possible though that Google ignores and bypasses such blocks, it was in the press some weeks ago that they can do - and do - that, with practically all available browsers. Intentionally breaching set secuirty blocks and security settings on a foreign system to me demonstrates already criminal energy. If CCIP says it opens a Chrome window, then this is - due to the disastrous privacy policies of Google - a total exclusion criterion for me. It also tells me that they chnaged the way Art Project can get accessed maybe only for the purpose of luring people into tolerating the breaching of their systems, either by installing Chrome, or getting a Google account. If tyrant says IE9 has HTML5 support, then Google has just lied in my face when their black screen popped up and told me that my IE9 does not support it. Nice. Another feature to lower their trustworthiness - if only any further reduction of that would be possible. Too bad, Art Project was a nice thing to use occasionally. But one can certainly live without it. With the only exception of Google Earth I run no Google stuff here asnymore. Even Google search I have replaced with Ixquick. Which is very nice, btw., just takes a bit longer. Now somebody points me at something bad about Google Earth, too, and I will shut down that one, too. Hope I must not. The alternative offered by Microsoft is not en par. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.