AquaBat wrote:
IE
It was always full of security holes and big bugs, it still lags behind everyone else in terms of respecting web standards (when it's not actually pushing its own proprietary features in an attempt to smother its competition). It also slowed down the progress of the web as a whole until Chrome and mobile took over because updates were sparse and web developers had to refrain from using cool new features that were implemented by everyone else because the vast majority of users thought IE
was the Internet and wouldn't look for alternatives. IE still causes headaches to web developers because it still doesn't implement some basic standards properly so you have to write hacky workarounds for IE only or just stick with 2007-style websites. That and the proprietary stuff also means some websites still aren't functional for anyone who is using something other than Windows and IE and will never be.
When Firefox came along (after Microsoft killed Netscape by shipping IE with Windows by default), it was great news for everyone because it cared about standards and provided useful features and extensibility and was just better in every way.
Though nowadays every major browser is designed for the ignorant crowd who can't figure out tabs or windows and is scared that the Internets will take over their house through their computer so IE is only marginally worst than the others in terms of features, but it still evolves painfully slowly. That's apparently going to change with Windows 10, because Microsoft is creating a new browser with a lot of the old non-standard code removed, which should make it possible to update it more than once very two years for a change and remove a whole lot of critical security flaws.