Poll: IE or Mozilla?

[GRagland]

Internet Explorer or Mozilla, and why?

 

[onelin]

I don't use either, but if I had to use just one it would be Mozilla, not IE. I don't see the point of this poll/thread though...people will never all agree on one browser. Almost like CPU and GPU wars.
That said, reasons:
- mouse gestures (with plugin)
- native SVG support (not finished yet, but the fundamentals apparently work)
- MathML support project (natively?)
- it embraces w3c standards (see above)
- I don't like IE

 

[GRagland]

I just tried mozilla and uninstalled it. IE is much more simple, less cluttered, looks better.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

IE is simple at the cost of very useful features. It is the MS notepad of browsers.

You can make mozilla just as uncluttered. Also, you should probably go with phoenix at this point. It won't be long before the switch to it is officially underway and complete. (Phoenix is actually called Firebird now, but I'm still more comfortable with the old name )

Mozilla has themes, you can make it look like (god forbid) IE, or anything else that there is a theme for.

 

[onelin]

I like the phoenity series of themes...very light feel I'm more comfortable w/ the name Phoenix too

 

[Nothinman]

I just tried mozilla and uninstalled it. IE is much more simple, less cluttered, looks better.

You apparently didn't try very hard.

 

[CubicZirconia]

IE- Its always worked just fine for me, so I'm sticking with it.

 

[krackato]

Mozilla. Two major reasons:

1. NO MORE POP UPs!!!!! YEAH!!!!

2. Tabbed Browsing is awesome and it's a freaking shame that it hasn't been added to Internet Explorer.

I've got a 5-button mouse. I've mapped one button to "Open in new tab" and the 5th button to "Close Tab" The wheel button switches between tabs. Browsing has never been sweeter.

Mozilla needs to become smaller, faster, etc, but it'll get there. I use Mozilla all the time now and it's a much better better browser than IE.

Edit: And for the love of god, try a program for more than 10 minutes before you decide you hate it. And clean up that signature. Is it reall necessary to list everything in your box, when you can just link to your rig?

 

[JetBlack69]

I've been using phoenix lately. The one thing I love is NO MORE POP-UPS!!!!!

 

[Sid59]

i use IE 80% and Firebird 20%

 

[ugh]

Using Firebird 100% at home. As for work, it's IE coz the website I'm developing doesn't support Firebird. Don't ask why {g}

 

[Sid59]

although i like Firebird, i hope PopUpCop chooses to support Firebird. Im pretty keen on the popup blocks, exception list, cookie and temp file cleaning. Im just too lazy to get Firebird to work like a champ.

 

[Sunner]

Mozilla.

 

[Confused]

Firebird (The browser previously known as Phoenix)


Confused

 

[Zugzwang152]

IE, gets the job done, i've used it for years. i don't require big features in a web browser, nor do i care about being an M$-whore, just want functionality with a bit of speed.

 

[randomlinh]

phoenix.. altho i'd like the load times to improve (of the actual program). why? pop up's all gone, and fun tabbed browsing Yes, i know there are IE add-ons... but i like this better. actually, safari is pretty nice too that's what i use on the mac.

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: lnguyen
phoenix.. altho i'd like the load times to improve (of the actual program). why? pop up's all gone, and fun tabbed browsing Yes, i know there are IE add-ons... but i like this better. actually, safari is pretty nice too that's what i use on the mac.

in the nightly build i have of Firebird, they took out the option for loading Firebird instantly via a systray program. Anyone else see that option in the preferences?

 

[glugglug]

Mozilla of course

tabbed browsing
no popups
no activeX garbage
open source
And most importantly: Internet Explorer is blocked by software firewall as I don't trust it.

 

[GRagland]

i tried mozilla and it was much slower then IE w/ the speed reg patch. so i went back to IE.

 

[bockchow]

i've tried mozilla and it's good but i don't use many of the features because i just don't care for them. i don't like tabbed browsing and i don't like the gestures plug in. and it lacks the one feature of IE that i use more than any other feature and that when you hold down the scroll wheel and quick scroll the page, i forget the name for it. if mozilla had that feature i would switch to it for good. but until then i use IE. i don't know what it is about that feature but i just hate browseing without it.

 

[bockchow]

well just found a pluging that gave me the autoscroll so now i use mozilla. cool

 

[EeyoreX]

IE

There are no compelling reasons for me to switch to Mozilla, or any other browser.

I don't like tabbed browsing.
I don't need gestures to browse (save for the one finger salute when my DSL connection is acting up)
Nor do I need most of the other "features"
I am comfortable with the browser I use (ie IE)

\Dan

 

[Vadatajs]

Originally posted by: bockchow
well just found a pluging that gave me the autoscroll so now i use mozilla. cool

What's the name of the plugin? I could use something like this.

I use mozilla.

 

[sandorski]

Mozilla, the "Mo" stands for : Mo betta!

 

[igowerf]

I just updated to Mozilla 1.4 beta. I like Mozilla because it renders pages a lot faster than IE does. I used to think tabbed browsing was useless but combined with mouse gestures and such, they're really great.

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