Why should we upgrade internet explorer 6 or migrate to other web browsers

Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) is a pretty old fashioned and much slower than other web browsers like Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome etc. This includes going from web page to web page, starting up the web browser, and downloading files from the web to your computer or laptop. Speed is very important if you like being able to do many things in a short period of time. This could be checking the weather report before traveling. Whatever it is speed is a key factor.

We can’t use internet explorer 6 in a tabbed interface mode, where other browsers have this feature. Except internet explorer 6, other web browsers places newly opened Web sites in a separate tab within the same browser window. This feature hugely decreases clutter on Windows taskbar. But in Internet Explorer, we have to open a browser window; a new icon appears in your taskbar. If we open twelve browser windows, and our taskbar will quickly fill by these twelve browsers. You can invoke a windows XP feature to collect icons from the same program to cancel taskbar clutter.

If we want to see the source code of any webpage then internet explorer opened it on notepad which do not highlights the tags and properties in different colors and weights, where other web browsers open source code on separate window or tab with this highlighting feature.



Internet explorer 6 does not support many features of modern webpage design methodologies. As an example, a modern web designer design a web template with very exciting and nice features using latest techniques and methodologies and then tested the template with Firefox, Opera, Safari etc. and find everything works perfect and feel satisfied of his job. But it became nightmare when he tested the template in internet explorer 6, because many features are nor worked and also showed the template odd looking. This is why many web developers blocked visitors to visit his website contents, if the visitor use internet explorer 6.

I think these are the sufficient reasons for upgrade our default web browser from internet explorer 6 or migrate to other faster web browsers like Firefox.