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One really annoying facet of building websites is the fact that different browsers treat the same code in varied ways. What makes it worse is that you can't install multiple versions of the most popular browser on a single machine. Just last week we had developers jumping from machine to machine trying to iron out a code problem that occured in IE6 but not IE7.

I haven't tried this but thought someone might like to give it a go: an installer that installs multiple versions of IE.

Via CreativeBits

Well, I laughed.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create 2 unique user accounts (for steps sake, let's call the two accounts Joe and Mary) in Windows XP Home.
2. Logout and sign-in under Joe.
3. Open Firefox and go to an e-mail site or to jdate.com or wherever.
4. Attempt to log-in to the site so that Firefox will ask whether or not you want your password saved.
5. Choose not to save the password.
6. After successfully logging in and having selected the "never save password" option, logout.
7. Log-in as Mary and open Firefox.
8. Browse, browse, browse... but you don't really have to. Just go to "View Saved Passwords," click on the tab that will show you sites to never save passwords for, and you'll see whatever painful site Joe denied to save a password for.
9. Break-up with fiancé.

It has come to my attention lately that there are some Mac users around campus who are still using Internet Explorer. It came to my attention because there were problems with some our sites displaying in IE. I recommended that people swap to Firefox or Safari (my preference for the Mac). There is a very simple reason for this: Microsoft have stopped all development on the Mac verison of IE. The number of web sites that don't work in Mac IE is only going to increase as the browser is not being updated for advances in web technology.

So, even though it surprises me that I have to persuade Mac users to dump IE, and even though I know browser choice around the Uni is sometimes a HIGHLY personal thing, make the switch and you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Earlier in the week I sent some email pointing to exclusive screen shots of Firefox 2.0 (ahem) but if you want to keep an eye on the real thing check out the Firefox 2.0 wiki.

Oh please Mozilla, move the tab close button onto the actual tab...

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