Heheh...I thought Firefox fanbois use it because it's more secure than IE

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: DLeRium

Originally posted by: archcommus
I don't see what FF still has over IE besides extension support.

Better web compatibility in general, but both browsers are flawed and don't meet W3C standards yet.

Honestly I feel that operation is a lot smoother. IE has tendencies to stall and lock up (evne if they come back from being unresponsive) after loading a bloated site. I don't like that. FF seems like it kinda keeps going and chugging along, although its memory usage is a tad heavy

Well, to be fair, IE7 does seem a good bit faster and smoother to me than 6 did at times.

 

[EyeMWing]

This list is created from the perspective of a system administrator - and these are cited as common ROGUE INSTALLATIONS of applications which have, or have had in the past a major security vulnerability. Firefox is commonly installed by end users - not by enterprise administrators. Firefox has, in the past, had vulnerabilities. They've been patched quickly, but the end user rarely patches a damn thing. Since this is a rogue installation, the administrator now has a potential hole in their network because they can't patch it. The mozilla team isn't very willing to work with admins to make firefox enterprise-administratable, either. If you're going to do it, you have to hack up all kinds of cobbled together scripts and ****** to get all the settings right, and enforce them.

 

[Trikat]

Firefox frequently formatts webpages wrong or deletes some webpage contents. It really annoys me so that's why I still primarily use IE over Firefox.

 

[thomsbrain]

the difference is people exploit IE's holes. FF rarely gets attacked.

 

[Goosemaster]

that was the most useless article I've read in weeks.

 

[ThaGrandCow]

Originally posted by: Trikat
Firefox frequently formatts webpages wrong or deletes some webpage contents. It really annoys me so that's why I still primarily use IE over Firefox.

Actually, Firefox renders pages correctly according to the official standard. IE renders pages wrong, but since the majority at the moment uses IE, pages are built and formatted to look good with IE, even if it means going against the official standards.

 

[Pepsi90919]

that says firefox 1.0.7 which is old. what significance does this article have now?

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: ThaGrandCow

Originally posted by: Trikat
Firefox frequently formatts webpages wrong or deletes some webpage contents. It really annoys me so that's why I still primarily use IE over Firefox.

Actually, Firefox renders pages correctly according to the official standard. IE renders pages wrong, but since the majority at the moment uses IE, pages are built and formatted to look good with IE, even if it means going against the official standards.

Exactly, and what the majority does is really all that matters, whether it's "correct" or not.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: ThaGrandCow

Originally posted by: Trikat
Firefox frequently formatts webpages wrong or deletes some webpage contents. It really annoys me so that's why I still primarily use IE over Firefox.

Actually, Firefox renders pages correctly according to the official standard. IE renders pages wrong, but since the majority at the moment uses IE, pages are built and formatted to look good with IE, even if it means going against the official standards.

Actually, Firefox is CLOSER to 100% standards compliance, but falls miserably short. In particular, CSS support is incomplete. IE's CSS support is even more incomplete, though.

NO browser as of yet has reached full compliance with the current standard (XHTML 1.1/CSS)

 

[grrl]

That list is a bit worthless. Why is WinZip 8.1 there when version 10 was released at least 6 months ago?

 

[villageidiot111]

If they can put an unpatched version of firefox on there, why don't they go all out and put windows xp pre sp1 on there?

 

[RCN]

Originally posted by: villageidiot111
If they can put an unpatched version of firefox on there, why don't they go all out and put windows xp pre sp1 on there?

Firefox currently has several unpatched vulnerabilities:
http://secunia.com/product/4227/