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IE > FireFox

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Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Originally posted by: fivespeed5
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
i tried this sucker after everyone praised it, i find that it is hardly a match for IE, all it does is force to reinstall stuff i already have installed with IE, with IE i have a adblocking program that blocks images and pop ups, Mozilla takes longer to load, does not display certain pages as well as IE, and i feel uneasy with its meager privacy settings. I see no reason for anyone to desire this thing over IE, i could see maybe if IE was not built in to windows but with something that is better already there, why bother? i mean you get all of your updates thru windows update and its easy.


<---- in for the flaming of his lifetime
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-find as you type
-built-in google bar
-built-in popup blocker
-custom style sheets
-NO MORE DAMN IE EXPLOITS TO WORRY ABOUT.
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Doesnt IE security holes affect you still since ITS BUILT INTO THE OPERATING SYSTEM SO WE ARE ALL FVKED NO MATTER WHAT
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Only if you use IE to visit URLs, or something that uses IE's engine (e.g. outlook) and haven't replaced it witht he Moz OCX control.

Originally posted by: jntdesign
Originally posted by: thedarkwolf
tabbed browsing > *
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only for the non power user
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Hardly. If MS thought non power users would benefit from tabs, the would have included them in IE.
although i do use firefox for pr0n 🙂
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It does make it easier to cover your tracks - just 2 or 3 mouse clicks as opposed to history, temp internet files, cookies, all that crap which you never get....
 
Uh, i never run antivirus... and i've never had a virus.... i check every few months with trendmicro's housecall free scan. wtf? as for IE or any other browsers.. i'll stick with IE. once you know all the windows hotkeys... yer good to go on every friends computer, because they WILL have IE.. they might not have opera or firefox.
 
Originally posted by: TallBill
Uh, i never run antivirus... and i've never had a virus.... i check every few months with trendmicro's housecall free scan. wtf? as for IE or any other browsers.. i'll stick with IE. once you know all the windows hotkeys... yer good to go on every friends computer, because they WILL have IE.. they might not have opera or firefox.
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what hotkeys do you know for ie? Because most of them are the same in firefox.
http://texturizer.net/firefox/keyboard.html
 
windows/ie/explorer - theres a zillion...

anyways, even if looks/commands/everything were exactly the same, i'd still hate firefox or any other non IE, simply because a lot of sites are designed for IE. I was using firefox on another friends pc, just to buy something for a game online, and i couldnt get my credit card authorized using firefox. open up IE, and sure enough it goes through.
 
Originally posted by: TallBill
windows/ie/explorer - theres a zillion...

anyways, even if looks/commands/everything were exactly the same, i'd still hate firefox or any other non IE, simply because a lot of sites are designed for IE. I was using firefox on another friends pc, just to buy something for a game online, and i couldnt get my credit card authorized using firefox. open up IE, and sure enough it goes through.
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I've only encountered one site that don't work with firefox properly. MSDN
I think the benefits of firefox outweigh it's faults.
 
Originally posted by: fivespeed5
Originally posted by: Abhi
I use IE just coz... well ... i have been doing it for so long....its default (brilliant microsoft... brilliant)

As long as it works... its just about ok. I have GoogleBar, so it livable...
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you fear change. embrace the fox.
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I did... using it right now...

Its better 😀
 
I find FireFox's popup blocker to be smarter than Google Toolbar's popup blocker. Some websites popup the main content page, 99.9% of the time, FireFox will open up the page whereas Google Toolbar blocks it and you have to go to preferences and allow the popup.

Also, I love Bookmark Folders. I organize favorites in specific categories, then go to "Open in tabs" if say I want to view all the various sports websites I have in my favorites.

Furthermore, I cannot stand taskbar clutter.

So to me, FireFox > IE.
I still use IE for various things such as testing cross-compatibility for created websites, and handling things FireFox doesn't. It works for me.
 
i like firefox because you can customize the order of the tabs, you can customize the icons at the top to maximize screen space, and you can use mouse gestures. i like opera's password wand though, because firefox's password storing doesn't work all the time. ie is pretty useless i think.
 
After switching to Firefox, I can say I like it.
I didn't even notice that "open tabs" thing in the favorites until another post mentioned it and that is really cool. I also like this quick reply box here on AT.
 
Originally posted by: NFS4
(1) I use Internet Explorer + GoogleBar
(2) Pages load lightning fast for me (even on my wireless RoadRunner network, one floor down and on the other side of the house from the router)
(3) All of my plugins are downloaded automatically
(4) Google's pop-up killer kills 99.9% of all of my pop-ups
(5) I keep my system set to automatically download security updates and I check MS's site a few times a week for new updates.
(6) I run ZoneAlarm and NAV2004

**I've never been hit with a virus
**I've never been exploited by a hacker
**I've never had my system compromised by a snot-nosed script kiddie

So I say f*&k FireFox, or FireFly, or FireCracker or whatever the hell it's called.
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Exact same situation right here (minus the wireless connection and automatic security updates -- I check those on my own).
 
oh crap, I just notice you can highlight a word and right click search web for "highlighted word"

it opens google in a new tab in the back ground.
 
One thing that I don't like about Firefox is that in 2 days I already found 3 pages don't won't display at all. One was an asp page and the other ones are my classes webpages with streaming videos
 
Originally posted by: Murphyrulez
NSF4, you say you could have IE, and then install anti-virus software, run a firewall, use SpyBot every 2 weeks, don't click on suspicious links, burn incense, and sacrifice a tree frog every month.

Why not just use Firefox, and forget all that extra crap? Are you that blind?
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haha, my thoughts exactly.....sacrifice a tree frog.....ROFLMAO


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