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I meant aside from within a virtual machine
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Well, actually in a 64bit machine the OS is emulating a 32 bit machine even to run 32 bit code only it is automatic inside the OS. A 32 bit machine uses a built in emulation mode to run 16 bit apps. Unfortunately there is no 16 bit emulation directly from 64 bits so dosbox runs as a emulator for 16 bit while the OS is running it in 32 bit emulation mode.
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oh, I use them.
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lol I've been avoiding IE for a bit waiting for the fix, glad they're doing it for XP too.
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No, why would I?
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/18552..._explorer_ever
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/co...hated_so_much/ http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/32372...rnet-explorer/ Because IE lags behind every other browser and breaks web standards in the process (requiring web developers to build a special version of their website for each version of IE, plus the main one for everything else), supports ActiveX (BAD!), is feature-poor and lacks the kind of extensibility of both Chrome and Firefox. Though in all fairness, IE11 Gives Microsoft A Shot At Browser Redemption. But they have been pathetic for so long that every other browser out there has done something weird called innovating. Recent versions of IE may have improved core rendering to the point where it is now actually possible to browse normally with it, but the competition has been developing cool new features instead of recreating their whole browser as standards-compliant, and in the meantime tons of people have jumped ship. And I think I will still keep Chrome/FF until Microsoft creates a linux version of IE that I can sync settings to. And allow syncing on Win7. And profiles. And until Microsoft stops lying about whether or not an HTTPS connection is really secure. See HERE and more importantly HERE. Last edited by eschwartz; 05-02-2014 at 05:09 PM. |
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I'v never had any problems
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There are features in IE to commend it although HTML5 isn't one of them. One interesting feature of IE is if you copy a web page by select/copy and then paste it in a word processor it will actually paste RTF instead of HTML. Some word processor don't understand pasting HTML by all will read RTF.
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I'll be sure to remember that next time I need to copy-paste fom a browser into a flawed word processor.
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