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> ...the IE6 conditions of yore...

I'm sorry, but comparing modern Safari to the worst software ever widely used is just not remotely reasonable.

IMO Netscap on Linux was worse. Maybe it was already Firefox by that point? I don't remember. But I do remember the crashes. It crashed so cleanly too. One second you had a browser and the next you didn't.

I don't know if I am rewriting history but when Chrome came out it felt like Google went "hold my beer" and in 6 months developed the first decent browser.

I'm speaking to depths of despair and mass of devastation, for which IE6 has no equal.

I can imagine the 7 people who used Netscape on Linux were very annoyed every so often.

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