Poll: IE or Mozilla?

[straubs]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

On my personal pages I dont even take non-IE users into account. If the page doesnt display correctly then oh well.

That makes you part of the problem. The Internet is supposed to be client software agnostic, standards were created so that one person could come up a web page and it would open in anything that parsed HTML on any OS. It's not a lot of work to run your sites through the w3c validator.

PREACH ON!

 

[straubs]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX

Originally posted by: GRagland
I just tried mozilla and uninstalled it. IE is much more simple, less cluttered, looks better.

ditto

You guys are so funny. Admit it, you wouldn't change even if it had the same toolbar and looked exactly the same!

And guess what, we can test that theory!

You can make it look however you want with a simple skin....EVEN JUST LIKE IE! And I mean identical.
See this screenshot

And again, don't be trying Mozilla, use Firebird. It's the next version of Mozilla.

 

[QueHuong]

And again, don't be trying Mozilla, use Firebird. It's the next version of Mozilla.

Can you elaborate on what Firebird is? Is Mozilla and Firebird going to two different browsers, or are they just changing the names, or or they going to stop developing Mozilla? Basically, what's Firebird, other than it being the next version of Mozilla?

 

[EmperorRob]

If I remember right, The latest ver (1.4) of Mozilla (not firebird) has some sort of support for Windows authentication. Anybody tested this out?

 

[Sid59]

whoa .. old thread. Initiallly i posted about using Firebird part time . Now i use it full time.

FIREBIRD!

 

[igowerf]

Originally posted by: MindStorm

And again, don't be trying Mozilla, use Firebird. It's the next version of Mozilla.

Can you elaborate on what Firebird is? Is Mozilla and Firebird going to two different browsers, or are they just changing the names, or or they going to stop developing Mozilla? Basically, what's Firebird, other than it being the next version of Mozilla?

Firebird is basically just the browser from the Mozilla suite. Mozilla contains a browser, email client, IRC client, etc.

 

[QueHuong]

After hearing all the hype, I decided to download Mozilla, and I'm not too impressed with it right now. It takes a while to load, and when it's connecting to a web page, it freezes - every time...which sorta defeats the purpose of using it to browse the net. And I really wanted to give it a chance too. I uninstalled it, then reinstalled - with restarts in between to make sure the uninstallation/ installations were clean. I d/led v1.4 available on the home page btw. I'm gonna give it another chance by uninstalling this one, and installing Phoenix. :|

 

[BurnItDwn]

MSIE, it it ain't broke, don't fix it.

 

[Nothinman]

MSIE, it it ain't broke, don't fix it.

IE's always broke.

 

[dukdukgoos]

Mozilla is the big dog these days. IE is a dead product...there will be no more major upgrades until Longhorn comes out.

 

[thornc]

The browser formelly know as Phoenix.... I use it 90% of the times, and I only fire up IE when I really need it!!

As for the speed, some nice userprefs.js settings changed a lot.... it's a lot faster now!!

 

[duhh]

personally prefer mozilla firebird
- built in popup stopper (yeah i know theres 100000 addods on IE for this, but it SHOULD be built into the browser)
- tabbed browsing
- efficient

but I still have to use internet explorer.
- support.microsoft.com advanced search. If anyone knows how to make that work in mozilla let me know.

 

[Nothinman]

Just use google for searching MS' site, it works better. Enter 'searchstring site:support.microsoft.com' and google will only search that site.

 

[straubs]

Originally posted by: rh71
I still use IE over Mozilla because Yahoo Companion doesn't work with Mozilla (which is important to my browsing habits). For that matter, my Thinkpad's scroll button doesn't scroll Mozilla web pages... that's a pisser too. The only thing Mozilla has on IE is the popup-stopper... and as nice as that is, I can't live without the other stuff I mentioned.

This isn't true. It's been ported to Mozilla! Same with Google Bar.

 

[Lonyo]

IE uses up 100% CPU more than Firebird for me.

I use IE when something opens it (if I lclick a link in a program and it opens it in IE (Like MSN Messenger does). I prefer Firebirds password saving features too, as it automatically enters info into boxes, although there does seem to be a bug sometimes in forms where a value stays on the page and won't go away sometimes :/. (Don't know if people get what I mean)

 

[Cadaver]

Tabs. I've really gotten accustomed to using tabs. If IE had tabs, I'd use it more, but for now it's Mozilla.

 

[igowerf]

I wish they would release Firebird 0.7 already...

 

[BoomAM]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
IE is simple at the cost of very useful features. It is the MS notepad of browsers.

100% right. But it is reliable, Its probably the only browser out that displays any page, how it should be, without errors.

Originally posted by: EeyoreX
I don't need gestures to browse (save for the one finger salute when my DSL connection is acting up)

ROFL

I havnt tryed Mozilla to be honest.
I use Opera 98% of the time, but i use IE when theres a website that wont display propely, such as my ISPs hompage (Tiscali).

 

[Nothinman]

100% right. But it is reliable, Its probably the only browser out that displays any page, how it should be, without errors

It's also the only browser that enables people to take over your machine simply by displaying web page and since the HTML renderer is enabled (and can't be disabled AFAIK) in OE they can just mail you that web page.

 

[Goi]

IE only displays buggy pages because it ignores certain web standards. This promotes lazy web coding, and is actually a bad idea, since god knows what the webmaster really meant the page to be displayed. When Mozilla or other Gecko based browsers displays a page weird, its often because the page has been coded wrongly, and sometimes because of an open rendering bug. These bugs are often fixed very quickly though, since Bugzilla is pretty transparent and effective.

 

[Spyro]

100% right. But it is reliable, Its probably the only browser out that displays any page, how it should be, without errors.

I do a lot of web browsing in some flavour of mozilla or another, and its been atleast five years since I ever been to a website that wouldn't display properly in mozilla but would work fine in IE.

 

[SynthesisI]

IE6- more widely used and supported, familiar, flexible, seamless plug-ins, looks better IMO.