I’ve had the fantastic IE View extension installed in Firefox for quite a while and it has come in handy on some occasions. There are some sites that stubbornly only work properly in Internet Explorer (why, I don’t know). These sites depend on errorneous programming constructs such as assuming that “document.all” exists (sorry, it’s an Internet Explorer-only thing) for their functionality.
This morning though I learned (from Phil) about an even cooler extension, Firefox View. Though it’s an extension for Firefox, it really adds a context menu item to Internet Explorer that says “view this page in Firefox”. That’s great! Who needs crumby old Internet Explorer these days, especially when you have such “minor” “security holes” as this one (thanks Dan!).
Phil also pokes fun at the .NET application that I mentioned previously this week. It’s ridiculous how many configuration options Firefox has but it’s great to have that kind of flexibility and to give the users the ultimate control over how everything behaves and performs.
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