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Consider that they will be international figures and will include businesses that tend to be more cautious at changing software. Firefox was the alternative browser for a long time, but never really made waves on mobile. Chrome launched around the same time as Android in 2008, so to become the dominant browser in just under 4 years is pretty impressive.

For a very long time a lot of business stuff only ever worked on Internet Explorer for various legacy reasons and if you moved away from it that stuff stopped working primarily because it would use technologies that only Internet Explorer used - ActiveX was the main culprit here.

Chrome will be 11 years old next month and predated "Android 1.0" by about three weeks, though Android had been tooted for years previously. For completeness: Internet Explorer dates from 1994, Firefox as we know it now dates from 2004 but it was forked from the old Netscape Navigator project. Netscape and Opera date from 1994 but Netscape now lives on under the name of Seamonkey after Mozilla decided to throw their weight behind Firefox. The oldest web browser still going is Lynx, a text/line based browser, having started in 1992!

I still use an aggregator that's welded to ActiveX and IE.

ActiveX, the wonderful way many viruses made their way onto people's computers.

Or alternatively: "I must click 'Yes' and install God only knows what (as I didn't read any of the box) because this website told me to."

Which is what loads and loads of people did, sadly. Including my sister, the amount of times I had to get rid of the crap she kept installing. It was hard for me to find a computer that didn't have Gator or some other crap that slowed it down to a crawl installed in the early-mid 00s. The way IE worked didn't exactly make it hard to install that crap, especially for inexperienced users.

Was it ActiveX that caused the viruses, or was it because IE was the most used browser that it's plug in technology was the better target. The plug in format for netscape was just as much of a security hole as activeX, but gets none of the criticism...

Both were designed in the days of the internet being for geeks though and the idea that you could use it for nefarious purposes was generally ignored.

ActiveX was designed primarily for Intranet use where R Sole and Son could set up an applet on the intranet that their corporate users could use and install as and when. This was fine on an intranet where you could control who had access to it and what it did, but when that technology was introduced to a public web browser that could install crap like Bonzibuddy by clicking a single button as opposed to having to download, run the installer, run through the installer, omit all the other junk in the process... you can see why it was suddenly appealing, backed by the fact somewhere like 97% of all internet users were on Internet Explorer...

Is it just me, or is the search feature somewhat broken? It always seems to say that it can’t find any results...

IIRC search needs manual intervention from Asa because it doesn't start with the server. For some reason. Once Asa's noticed and given it a proverbial kick up the backside to get going again it'll be happy.

In the mean time:
Type "site:tvforum.uk" into Google followed by what you're searching for - "site:tvforum.uk bbc news" for all posts that mentioned BBC news.

Thanks for the info!

More a case of when a user has noticed!

I've finally done what I should have done years ago and added it to the startup script, so in theory it should always work now.