Does it happen to you that you click on an Excel file link and end up opening it in Internet Explorer? If you have faced this issue, then you might want to know why this happens. Many people wonder about it when their Excel documents open up in this Web browser rather than opening in the appropriate Office program. When you happen to look at it, you would notice that it is usually an HTML link to an Excel document that you have been trying to open.
While it might the one of the oldest ways to surf the internet, Internet Explorer’s journey in the highly evolving market of internet browsers hasn’t been a comfortable one. What was once the most favored browsers with market share as high as 95 percent, is now usually being suffering from widespread hatred, owning to more reasons than one. Though there is no single answer to the question of why people actually hate this internet browser, a few of the most common reasons have been summed after the break.
