{"id":121,"date":"2004-03-19T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-19T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/2004\/03\/ie-is-dead-long-live-firefox\/"},"modified":"2004-03-19T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-19T12:50:00","slug":"ie-is-dead-long-live-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/2004\/03\/ie-is-dead-long-live-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"IE is dead! Long live Firefox!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, no&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\">mozilla.org<\/a> is not paying me to publicize them&#8230; I just like Firefox so much and have got used to a lot of the features now that there&#8217;s no way I&#8217;m going back to IE.<\/p>\n<p>I only use IE for some sites that have ActiveX controls (usually the Windows Media Player control.) I know there&#8217;s a plugin that will allow WMP to work in Firefox, but the last time I installed that it messed up my Firefox install after a couple of days and I had to wipe it and reinstall.<\/p>\n<p>Readers of my blog that use IE will probably notice there&#8217;s two things broken. The &#8220;currently reading&#8221; list is literally broken into two bits in IE. I&#8217;ve yet to figure out why. It renders perfectly on Firefox. The second thing is the GNE neighbourhood browser. In IE it opens as a pop up window rather than as a drop down menu type thing.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t really be bothered, if you don&#8217;t like the way my blog looks in IE, learn to live with it&#8230; or&#8230; get Firefox! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, no&#8230; mozilla.org is not paying me to publicize them&#8230; I just like Firefox so much and have got used to a lot of the features now that there&#8217;s no way I&#8217;m going back to IE. I only use IE for some sites that have ActiveX controls (usually the Windows Media Player control.) I know&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/2004\/03\/ie-is-dead-long-live-firefox\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IE is dead! Long live Firefox!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[11,68,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}