I’m starting to wonder if the new Facebook, which looks all very dandy by the way, has been especially optimised for use with Internet Explorer.

“Optimisation” harks back to the days of Web 1.0, when websites used to bear, on their splashscreens (remember those?) notices announcing that the site was better suited, or optimised, to a certain browser, usually IE, or the old Netscape browser.

Then there were the “web masters” who used to tell you their website was optimised for certain screen resolutions, and colour depths, and that you should readjust your computer and then return to their site. But I digress.

Back to 2008 and Facebook. It really drags its heels if I’m using Firefox, Opera, or Safari. Sending messages, or writing on people’s walls, are especially problematic. Yet all works like magic when I fire it up in Internet Explorer.

This is no good because I, like many others, have developed a mistrust of IE, and would much rather use another browser.

Would this, by any chance, be a result of Microsoft’s investment in Facebook last year? Tell me it ain’t so…