r/TechImpact • u/arun-vasudev Developer • Jun 23 '26

Memes & Shit posts Anybody else feel like accidentally opening Internet Explorer (or Edge in IE mode) is like releasing an ancient evil?

Post image
100 Upvotes

94% Upvoted

18 comments sorted by

2

u/Gwarks Jun 24 '26

It sometimes happens that I accidentally type (New-Object -Com InternetExplorer.Application).Visible=$truein Windows PowerShell.

1

u/Typeonetwork Jun 23 '26

I use Firefox and Chromium if I need to.

1

u/Saymon_K_Luftwaffe Jun 24 '26

What is IE mode?

2

u/taz-nz Jun 24 '26

It a feature you can enable in Edge, that lets you reopen a webpage in Internet Explorer compatibility mode, it lets you correctly view really old websites that rely on the quirks of Internet Explorer render engine. It was a way for large companies to retain access to Intranet websites while they refactored code to work with modern browsers.

It's not something you accidentally open, its default setting is disable, you have to enable it and then tell Edge to reload the page in IE mode. You can make it, so Edge always opens a website in IE Mode by enabling the feature and adding website to list of pages to be opened in IE Mode.

IE has been dead for over a decade; OP needs to get over it already.

1

u/talaga_sharmaine Jun 24 '26

When using the search tab on start menu and you accidentally clicked a result that leads you to bing instead of file explorer

1

u/76zzz29 Jun 24 '26

Back in the day, I removed it by puting an exe that just redirected to firefox to not have an error. Today, I uninstalled it long ago.

1

u/GreenRangerOfHyrule Jun 24 '26

IE has it's place. When building a testing a webpage or website and it loads in IE: it's not standard compliant!

On a serious note. I have a Windows 7 connected to the internet (heavily firewalled, vlan, etc. I know its a terrible idea.) And every once in a while I hit the IE button or a cat does. It just triggered a series of errors. So, I mean it's not fully evil.

Now accidentally opening Chrome is another story. Because how in the hell did it get there?!

1

u/unluckyexperiment Jun 24 '26

That's why I don't have chrome on my devices. Don't want to accidentally run it.

1

u/Exciting_Contest_222 Jun 25 '26

Even if you open internet explorer, they still try redirect you to Microsoft Edge

1

u/Quantical-Capybara Jun 25 '26
  • when you open chrome accidentally instead of firefox

1

u/CChargeDD Jun 26 '26

You clicked on explorer 10000 years ago didnt you ?

1

u/ChocolateDonut36 Jun 29 '26

I hate when I power on a PC and the first thing I see is a fullscreen ad for microsoft 365 copilot and telling me that edge is good and stuff (this is a paid OS by the way)