We made a VIDEO GAME room on Turntable.fm

[Tarman]

Come check us out and play your favorite video game soundtracks. 

http://turntable.fm/video_games_past_present_future

Of course it'll start out slowly, but once we get some regulars it's be a video game music PARADISE!!!

Alf

[newmanfamilyvlogs]

Needs more OCRemix.

[Howard_Casto]

Come check us out and play your favorite video game soundtracks. 

http://turntable.fm/video_games_past_present_future

Of course it'll start out slowly, but once we get some regulars it's be a video game music PARADISE!!!

Alf

LOL....  "This site doesn't work on Internet Explorer yet... please use firefox or chrome."

It's kind of like saying.... "screw you 75% of the english-speaking internet!!"

[Tarman]

Really people still use IE?  I'm a mac guy so I honestly am out of touch.  We had a good first night in the room though.  The more people from here the better, that way we get the good tunes rippin! 

[Gray_Area]

Really people still use IE?

I do. I do nothing besdies basic surfing that either Firefox or Chrome would benefit me. Further, I haven't found a significant boost with Firefox; a little on Chrome. But both of their interfaces have issues, especially Chrome. I hate Chrome tabs.

[newmanfamilyvlogs]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/browsers-ie-chrome-firefox-mozilla,14410.html

According to StatCounter, IE had a huge drop in usage and fell 1.98 points from 40.63 percent to 38.65 percent share.

[DaveMMR]

Really people still use IE?

I do. I do nothing besdies basic surfing that either Firefox or Chrome would benefit me. Further, I haven't found a significant boost with Firefox; a little on Chrome. But both of their interfaces have issues, especially Chrome. I hate Chrome tabs.

I suppose everyone has different needs but I find it so hard to use IE after using FF and Chrome for so long. It's not just about the interfaces, but the vulnerabilities IE exposed your computer to (though IE 9 actually took great strides to actually become much safer - but it was long after I already switched).  Plus the minimal toolbars of Chrome puts the focus where it counts: the site you're looking at.

[Howard_Casto]

Really people still use IE?

I do. I do nothing besdies basic surfing that either Firefox or Chrome would benefit me. Further, I haven't found a significant boost with Firefox; a little on Chrome. But both of their interfaces have issues, especially Chrome. I hate Chrome tabs.

I suppose everyone has different needs but I find it so hard to use IE after using FF and Chrome for so long. It's not just about the interfaces, but the vulnerabilities IE exposed your computer to (though IE 9 actually took great strides to actually become much safer - but it was long after I already switched).  Plus the minimal toolbars of Chrome puts the focus where it counts: the site you're looking at.

Chrome is far less secure than IE.  I actually wanted to switch to chrome but had to switch back to IE because chrome seems to allow viri out of webpages before the antiviruses and resident shields can catch em.  This is compared to ie 8/9 btw.  I like Chrome's interface in theory, but in practice it's severely lacking.  At least 50% of my browsing time is spent download things and chrome's dl manager is just awful.  An really, it isn't any bit smaller than IE at this point.  Chrome takes up two "lines"  and if properly configured, ie also takes up two lines but it has useful things like an actual favorites/history tab and oh I dunno, a HOMEPAGE BUTTON. 

As for firefox, I never could get used to that slow, bloated thing.  Yeah it supports every widget and do-hickey on the planet, but the only two that were ever useful were tabs and pop-up blockers and now that IE has those as well I don't really see the point. 


Regardless, my point before wasn't that IE was any better, it's just more widely used.  At any given time it takes up 40-50% of the browser share and the 5 or 6 other ones share the other 50-60% .  Also it's the default browser.  I can't seem to get some nerds to understand this. 

Not supporting IE is like if in the late 80's you had a popular rock band and you refused to release your albums on cassette because "cds are better".  Yeah they are better, but until cds get 100% market saturation or at the very least the majority of the market saturation, you better release on cassette as well.