In reply to Bob:
> (In reply to Gordon Stainforth)
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> It's usually down to workplace IT departments, they are very conservative (with a small 'c') and they won't upgrade their systems until they are sure that everything works with it.
Yep, I have IE8 for exactly this reason. Ironically, at least one important company portal I need to use won't work with the only software with which I'm authorised to access it (I have Chrome as a back-up)
> Firefox and Chrome have regular (possibly too regular) updates
Actually the constant (and automatic) Firefox updating was the reason I stopped using it. I deliberately loaded a recently superseded version because various things I needed wouldn't work with the very latest version (but I wanted to update from the archaic IE version I had). It was a pain to get everything set up, and the next time I logged on it had updated to a version I couldn't use. I couldn't find any way of preventing this, so I gave up.
I don't really like Chrome. It seems difficult to get it to do what I want it to do, it's clunky and too integrated with Google (not surprisingly) and yet for some reason it won't let me access my gmail account. I keep it in reserve for those sites that won't work with IE.
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