End of the line for Internet Explorer in 2022

[Super-Chevy454]

After Flash, LiveLeak, Yahoo Answers!, it's now the turn of Microsoft Internet Explorer going to the graveyard in 2022. https://www.ign.com/articles/internet-explorer-for-windows-10-will-be-discontinued-next-year ( https://archive.ph/XX6xN )

Microsoft is pulling the plug on its Internet Explorer web browser for beginning June 15, 2022.

"We are announcing that the future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge," Microsoft Edge program manager Sean Lyndersay announced in a blog post today. "Not only is Microsoft Edge a faster, more secure, and more modern browsing experience than Internet Explorer, but it is also able to address a key concern: compatibility for older, legacy websites and applications."

Microsoft Edge is the newer web browser released by the company originally released on Windows 10 and Xbox One in 2015.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

Good. No one uses Internet Explorer anymore and it's the shittiest browser by far.

 

[seri0us]

Looks like they finally got a clue. Now, consoom their rebranded version of IE.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Good. No one uses Internet Explorer anymore and it's the shittiest browser by far.

Yeah and to think Firefox menaged to be even more shitty by going woke....

 

[UncleFezziesPantsPuppet]

Well, it was a good run when I used it, until I found something better. Vaya con dios, old friend.

 

[Kosher Dill]

But now where am I going to watch all my RealVideos without the RealPlayer ActiveX plugin?

 

[Madre Muerte]

Only people still using it are library computers

 

[General Tug Boat]

IE needed to finally die, because it is such a shit outdated web browser. Legit has been obsolete since the XP days. Surprised they didn't axe it half a decade ago.

Edge is a reasonable browser and Bing is actually pretty nifty search engine. I use prodomimately Brave, but sometimes I test stuff of Edge just because. Works pretty nice and is relatively light weight compared to Chrome.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Good. No one uses Internet Explorer anymore and it's the shittiest browser by far.

^This. Microsoft can't make a good browser for shit. Edge made things worse to where it made IE look like a better alternative until they said "fuck it" and copied Google Chrome for their latest browser. That's how inept Microsoft is.

Link: Internet Explorer is Spyware

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Tales From The '00s:

I remember the days when popup blocking wasn't built into IE, and this was when advertising went out of control. I wanted to disable JavaShit to stop the incessant ads, but there's at least 2 options buried deep in advanced preferences to do that. It was about that time that I switched over to Netscape 6 and 7 (which was far better than that older version of Netscape with the lighthouse logo thing). IE sucked.

(Also one time when I was used IE before, some site made endless popups pop up until the system crashed.)

 

[In Memoriam]

IE needed to finally die, because it is such a shit outdated web browser. Legit has been obsolete since the XP days. Surprised they didn't axe it half a decade ago.

Edge is a reasonable browser and Bing is actually pretty nifty search engine. I use prodomimately Brave, but sometimes I test stuff of Edge just because. Works pretty nice and is relatively light weight compared to Chrome.

A reasonable browser where? Nothing frigging works in that shit and their UI is the ugliest garbage. It’s literally IE under the hood, guaranteed. That’s how Microsoft rolls

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Too bad Edge is Internet Explorer 2: Electric Boogaloo.

 

[HumanHive]

For those in need of a browser: ignore le shill lion, use Ungoogled Chromium

Literally Chrome without Google.

 

[Beautiful Border]

How long will it be before people start nostalgically reminiscing about Internet Explorer the same way they do with other defunct things that sucked like MySpace and Blockbuster?

 

[tehpope]

Too bad Edge is Internet Explorer 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Is it? The original Edge was at least MS trying to be inventive. They scrapped it and just reskinned Chrome since Edge 2.0 is based on Chromium. Basically, Firefox is the only game in town. There's a bunch of little guys (Pale Moon, Web Browser, QT based browsers), but Google controls the direction of the internet. Firefox seems content with being SJWs rather than be initiative or competing with Chrome.

 

[Sam Losco]

It's only still around because there is still so much industrial and enterprise shit that only works in it. Hell, I used to have to use a IP based system that is still an active product that was still using Silverlight. Sliverlight only works in IE now. And it was really retarded because what it was doing could easily be done with HTML5 and Javascript or PHP or something. It wasn't anything special.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

For those in need of a browser: ignore le shill lion, use Ungoogled Chromium

Literally Chrome without Google.

Either that, or there's others to choose from

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NetSurf: for RISC OS, UNIX-like platforms (including Linux), Mac OS X. They even have a download for AmigaOS and fucking Atari

NetSurf Web Browser

www.netsurf-browser.org

Mitigation Guide: https://spyware.neocities.org/guides/netsurf.html

Surf: simple web browser based on WebKit2/GTK+

surf | suckless.org software that sucks less

Lynx: For those of you that want a strictly text-based browser

Lynx Information

Index of Information resources about the Lynx browser for the World Wide Web

lynx.browser.org

Iridium: Fork of Google Chrome that's privacy-based

Iridium Browser | A browser securing your privacy. That’s it.

Iridium Browser is based on the Chromium code base. All modifications enhance the privacy of the user and make sure the most secure technologies are used.

iridiumbrowser.de

Mitigation Guide: https://spyware.neocities.org/guides/iridium.html

Web Browser: Based on Pale Moon, so if you don't want to support furries, then use this.

webbrowser.git - Web Browser browses the web

git.nuegia.net

Qute: Keyboard-Focused browser with very minimal GUI

qutebrowser | qutebrowser

Falkon: KDE Web browser

Falkon

KDE web browser

www.falkon.org

Otter: An Opera 12.x clone without the shitty spyware attached to it

Otter Browser

Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5.

otter-browser.org

GNU Icecat: THE browser supported by the Free Software Foundation

GNUzilla and IceCat - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

www.gnu.org

Tor: The privacy browser everyone knows. Can load regular sites as well as specific "onion" links

The Tor Project | Privacy & Freedom Online

Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.

www.torproject.org

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keep in mind that even though most of these lean towards linux users, some of them DO have Windows downloads.

 

[The Last Stand]

IE needed to finally die, because it is such a shit outdated web browser. Legit has been obsolete since the XP days. Surprised they didn't axe it half a decade ago.

Edge is a reasonable browser and Bing is actually pretty nifty search engine. I use prodomimately Brave, but sometimes I test stuff of Edge just because. Works pretty nice and is relatively light weight compared to Chrome.

Well, it had a good run. Even as a joke.

 

[tehpope]

For those in need of a browser: ignore le shill lion, use Ungoogled Chromium

Literally Chrome without Google.

BTW, Ungoogled Chromium does have a windows download. BTW, you have to get an addon to use the Chromium Web Store.

 

[Blamo]

Internet Explorer wasn't that bad back in the day. The key problem is that they didn't let it be a separate product being constantly developed my Microsoft thus making it late with the updates and chaining the updates to Windows updates was a thing that really hurt them.

It is long overdue to discontinue it if they failed to do anything proper with it for decades.

I kinda hate the current browser market because you have either Mozilla or Google spyware. I have Brave now, I am not sure if it is any good. I do not use many features by principle.