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I find it funny that after Cindy complained about IE 7 being broken, someone suggested that she switch off the pop-up blocker, which is funny since not only should that not cause the problems that she described (in theory), but you really do need a pop-up blocker of some kind for the sake of your sanity.

But security is not what IE is especially well-known for (quite the opposite) and I do truly wonder why people insist on using a browser that does have so many insecurities and flaws, as well as living with the guilt that they make the lives of Web developers the world over miserable. OK, the latter point would only be true if people were not all so ignorant of how terrible IE really is, but I would be so glad to see the day when no-one has to try designing pages to work in IE any more (Hint: IE is so horribly badly designed that it's very painful).

The reward for using a much more standards-compliant browser (e.g. Firefox, Opera, Mozilla) is that they're not full of holes and won't give you spyware. Sounds good to me, and thankfully, quite a few others ...