Last year Google dropped its support for the aging browser in Google Docs and Sites.Finally, Youtube stopped its support over IE6 and other older browser.Now, Microsoft as launched a new online experience designed to monitor the countdown of Internet Explorer 6.
IE6 has now become obsolete browser.IE6 has been widely criticized for its poor security and lack of support for modern web standards.
The IE6 Countdown site will be updated on a monthly basis, with Microsoft promising to celebrate whenever a new market drops under 15. 🙂
Why move off of Internet Explorer 6?
There are many benefits of upgrading to a newer version of Internet Explorer – improved speed, tabbed browsing, and better privacy settings to name a few.
Top 5 Reasons why Internet Explorer 6 Sucks
1. Slow as a Tortoise – Modern browsers function at lightening speed and Internet Explorer is still crawling along with it’s slow rendering engine.
2. Plain interface – The buttons for IE6 look so bland, un-interesting and huge, a far cry from what Firefox, Safari, and IE8 have.
3. Poor Security – It as got lots of security flaws and easy to attack.It opens door for spyware, malware, and viruses to get into your system.
4. IE6 Sucks – When you ask What you thing about IE6 to Web developers and “nerds” ? They the surely reply IE6 sucks 😉
5. Crappy page rendering – All moderb web pages looks like a mess when viewed in IE6.
Do you wish to use 10 years old browser or go with latest browser technology? It’s time to put IE6(The Ancient bowser). Please suggest to your friends and family members to stop using this obsolete browser. 😉
Web browsers come and go. Some are dying.
Yes, some browsers are dying now.
After years and years struggling as a web designer to make all my sites cross-browser compatible, I was so happy to see that even Microsoft themselves have turned their back on this archaic mess! Now we just need IT admins the world over to pull their fingers out…
Yeah Kunal you are right.Vista is too slow and its one of Microsoft’s failure Os like Windows ME
One of the best browser of its time IE6 will soon be buried:)
You are right Praveen, IE6 had loads of security holes. Microsoft at times have produced poor products. Another example being their flop Windows Vista.
Thank you Praveen! I’m by your side
Many people don’t realize the disadvantages of using IE6. Harry try to spread this to ur frzs 🙂