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Yeah, the detractors of IE are just mindlessly posting "IE SUCKS" over and over for no reason. It's not that the browser is seriously lacking, or that it's been behind for so long and actively blocking open standards. It's that the internet is dumb and people just love to hate.

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To be fair for every web developer with legit gripes about IE there probably are about 100 people posting "IE SUXX" on youtube.

Most discussion of technology on the internet is just noise written by people who don't have the slightest clue what they are talking about.

You forget the other side, though. There are tons of people like my in-laws who used to get all sorts of malware thanks to IE, and once they switched to Firefox or Chrome no longer do. There's a pretty large group of non-technical people out there who have found not using IE makes their life more pleasant.

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