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# Sometimes it iritates me
like it's caching of rewrite rules, for example.

That said I spent almost all of last night fixing a bug in IE7 and all of today fixing a change they made in their implementation of base href, so I am a huge FF fan today.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Fri 15 Dec 2006, 16:54, archived)
# burn the haxx0r..he speaks of things unknown!!!
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Fri 15 Dec 2006, 17:00, archived)
# There are no bugs in IE7.
I mean, after all, It's made by microsoft. I think they know what they are doing, don't you?
(I helped save b3ta! mookid, Fri 15 Dec 2006, 17:00, archived)
# Well, no.
For example, their phishing filter is a bitch and they don't follow the markup specs, particularly CSS2, very well at all.

That said, they are big enough that, if they want to do it their way, then who are we to say which spec is right?
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Fri 15 Dec 2006, 17:02, archived)
# sorry,
I forgot to hold the sarcasm button down when I typed that.
(I helped save b3ta! mookid, Fri 15 Dec 2006, 17:06, archived)
# I actually stand up for MS a lot.
They do produce good software and a lot of their standards (like, for example, case insensitive file names) make the standard standards look a bit shit, but sometimes they piss me off.

If anyone is having problems with IE7 flagging their sites as phishing I can fix that btw.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Fri 15 Dec 2006, 17:09, archived)
# hmmmm... i do agree...
but...

MS charge a fucking fortune for stuff when you can get open source counterparts free

Open-Office for example
(likeajackhammer, Fri 15 Dec 2006, 17:12, archived)
# I used Open Office for a long time,
but it just isn't as good.

I use some open source stuff and all my hosting is Unix, but MS stuff works really well on the whole.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Fri 15 Dec 2006, 17:15, archived)
# Open Office = not all that good... (but for FREE???)
Lets drop this... this could go on for a LONG time
(likeajackhammer, Fri 15 Dec 2006, 17:22, archived)
# It doesn't cache rewrite rules, they're server side.
If your rule returns a permanent redirect (301) ('R' flag in mod_rewrite) then the correct behaviour for the browser is to go straight to the target page in future.
(I helped save b3ta! slight yoinks!, Fri 15 Dec 2006, 17:37, archived)