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Achtung

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Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
Originally posted by: Dedpuhl
IE. I have no need for Firefox.
I use IE, and I made my own little here's why

funny you say that, necause i as well have dual monitor goodness, however even at 3200x1200 when you have 9 browser windows upen adn a few programs you cant read what the taskbar saye and i end up licking on every one to find the page i want

with tabs you can always read the page you are on and you taskbar stays clean, for programs, I also hide the taskbar

also IE is slow as sh!t compaired to Opera and FF

Not to mention that the "Extremely precise combined toolbar" can be configured the same way in Firefox.
 

yhelothar

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I use IE
I've tried firefox, it just seems bloated.
I don't like tabbed browsing, I have a huge taskbar and I like everything there.
I have no use for cookie manager crap.
IE works great for me, no need to change.
I've also tried opera, it's even more bloated.

My neighbor keeps getting spyware because they don't know how to surf the web, I recommended them to use firefox.
 

Anubis

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Originally posted by: Achtung
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
Originally posted by: Dedpuhl
IE. I have no need for Firefox.
I use IE, and I made my own little here's why

funny you say that, necause i as well have dual monitor goodness, however even at 3200x1200 when you have 9 browser windows upen adn a few programs you cant read what the taskbar saye and i end up licking on every one to find the page i want

with tabs you can always read the page you are on and you taskbar stays clean, for programs, I also hide the taskbar

also IE is slow as sh!t compaired to Opera and FF

Not to mention that the "Extremely precise combined toolbar" can be configured the same way in Firefox.

as well as opera and it and FF do most of the stuff for you, buily in pop-up blocking and google searching

and we have mouse gestures - they really need to work these into windows itself
 

ActuaryTm

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Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
Originally posted by: Dedpuhl
IE. I have no need for Firefox.
I use IE, and I made my own little here's why
Think having 30+ browser windows open, in addition to any applications, would begin to crowd even a dual display toolbar (not to mention, begin to take its toll on system resources). Have never had such a problem in Opera.
 

FungusFeet

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Originally posted by: ActuaryTm
Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
Originally posted by: Dedpuhl
IE. I have no need for Firefox.
I use IE, and I made my own little here's why
Think having 30+ browser windows open, in addition to any applications, would begin to crowd even a dual display toolbar (not to mention, begin to take its toll on system resources). Have never had such a problem in Opera.
:thumbsup:
Firefox
 

Babbles

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I am addicted to Opera. I have tried Avant, but it is just seems mediocre. I gave Firefox a try for a week but didn't care too much for it.
 

JoPh

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sp2 new popup blocker for ie is great. might go back to ie.

its spilt 50 50 right now.
 

GtPrOjEcTX

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Originally posted by: ActuaryTm
Think having 30+ browser windows open, in addition to any applications, would begin to crowd even a dual display toolbar (not to mention, begin to take its toll on system resources). Have never had such a problem in Opera.
I was stating why I use IE. Being that I never have 30 IE windows open at one time this point is moot for me.
Originally posted by: Allio
I disagree with you, but that is such a great domain name that I can't possible argue. Bravo, wish I'd thought of it :p
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Originally posted by: Anubis
funny you say that, necause i as well have dual monitor goodness, however even at 3200x1200 when you have 9 browser windows upen adn a few programs you cant read what the taskbar saye and i end up licking on every one to find the page i want

with tabs you can always read the page you are on and you taskbar stays clean, for programs, I also hide the taskbar

also IE is slow as sh!t compaired to Opera and FF
for not seeing what window name you're looking for, the keyboard shortcut hold Alt+Tab is your friend. As for the IE being slower than FF, I have to disagree there. In my experience when using FireFox (straight out of the box), IE rendered pages more quickly.
 

Medea

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Firefox. Years ago, IE's first version was a joke, so I continued to use Netscape. Finally began to use IE when ver. 5 was released. Got a virus (can't remember the name right now) before the patch was released and never went back. Switched from Netscape to Firefox - great browser!
 

pitupepito2000

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the reason why, I only put as a choice those 3 browsers is because Firefox represents all the mozilla and it's derivatives.
IE represents all the browsers that use IE as the underlying browser such as IE, for example MyIE2 also suffers from the same security issues that IE does.
Opera is it's own option since it doesn't belong in any of the other 2 browsers.
 

pitupepito2000

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Originally posted by: rh71
Originally posted by: halik
Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
I use IE and Outlook 2003. I don't really care about any of the improvements Mozilla/Firefox have to offer. I keep my system patched, I avoid suspicious websites. And Firefox fanboys piss me off. Browser choice is just that, a choice. why don't you do something more constructive like convince vegans that meat is good for you.

i guess you never heard of the ADOB/STREAMER self executing html exploit...
it's not like firefox is known to be any percentage more secure. it's simply the fact nobody has bothered yet. I've been using IE all my life (and kept up with patching) and have never been hit with anything. Same concept... nobody has hit me via open-vulnerabilities, I'm safe. Nobody has hit FF, you're safe.

I guess you've never heard of false sense of security ...

not true, for example did you read about the "shell" problem that firefox had, well it was a pretty uggly one, of course it wasn't firefox's fault it was the Operating system's. that's why other programs also had the same issue. :) ;)
 

Trizzay

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Firefox for personal use, IE for most of our intranet/extranet sites, only for compatibility reasons.