Short of every other brower disintegrating into thin air and a mob of angry chimpanzees forcing me at knifepoint.... nothing.
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Microsoft getting indited for unfair business practices, and then the main office in Redmond gets hit with a meteorite. Why do you ask?
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Originally posted by: SeaSerpent
I think you are missing the point
How so? Question was what would motivate me to switch back to IE...and im saying a box of crackerjacks will do the trick.
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Originally posted by: CheapArse
Originally posted by: SeaSerpent
I think you are missing the point
How so? Question was what would motivate me to switch back to IE...and im saying a box of crackerjacks will do the trick.
hmm....well PM me your address, I will send you a box of Crackerjacks.
Originally posted by: SeaSerpent
Originally posted by: CheapArse
Originally posted by: SeaSerpent
I think you are missing the point
How so? Question was what would motivate me to switch back to IE...and im saying a box of crackerjacks will do the trick.
hmm....well PM me your address, I will send you a box of Crackerjacks.
really? b/c if your serious Ill do it and switch back
even though firefox has been good to me, the addition of tabbed browsing would probably turn me back. i've always liked ie's speed and compatibility
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Waiting for PM CheapArse.
Maybe you want the frozen pizza instead. I have one in the freezer.....I cant guarantee it will be frozen when you get it.
Maybe you want the frozen pizza instead. I have one in the freezer.....I cant guarantee it will be frozen when you get it.
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Is it just me, or does FF not have a "show image" function in the right click menu? How lame, the "view image" function opens in a new tab...not the same.
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What would make me switch? Nothing in particular right now. Here are the differences I see between FF and IE:
1) Tabbed browsing (including the "open in tabs" option for bookmark folders)
2) Buit-in, configurable search box
3) Extensions, particularly AdBlock, BugMeNot, WebDeveloper, and WeatherFox
4) FF offers better support for modern web standards (CSS2, especially :hover)
5) FF is more secure *out of the box* than IE, due to the focus of hackers and @#$! ActiveX
6) Microsoft goes nowhere without competition. The only reason IE was updated in XP SP2 was because of Mozilla/Firefox (ok, and maybe Opera, but I still don't know anyone who uses it). The next planned update for IE was *Longhorn*. When tabs make it to IE, you can thank the non-MS browsers again.
7) Firefox works on far more platforms than IE. Keeping the web an open system and not an extension of Windows is a good thing.
8) 'Find' built into the bottom of the browser window, rather than appearing in a separate one
9) Better favicon.ico support .. somewhat ironic, actually
10) Don't have to upgrade my OS to get the latest features (no IE upgrades for Win2k other than security)
Not that FF doesn't have its downsides:
1) Longer apparent load time (if Windows didn't automatically load IE on boot, you'd have to wait for it too)
2) Plug-in support is sometimes ... amusing
3) Glitches when viewing sites designed only for IE (and IE exclusive sites)
1) Tabbed browsing (including the "open in tabs" option for bookmark folders)
2) Buit-in, configurable search box
3) Extensions, particularly AdBlock, BugMeNot, WebDeveloper, and WeatherFox
4) FF offers better support for modern web standards (CSS2, especially :hover)
5) FF is more secure *out of the box* than IE, due to the focus of hackers and @#$! ActiveX
6) Microsoft goes nowhere without competition. The only reason IE was updated in XP SP2 was because of Mozilla/Firefox (ok, and maybe Opera, but I still don't know anyone who uses it). The next planned update for IE was *Longhorn*. When tabs make it to IE, you can thank the non-MS browsers again.
7) Firefox works on far more platforms than IE. Keeping the web an open system and not an extension of Windows is a good thing.
8) 'Find' built into the bottom of the browser window, rather than appearing in a separate one
9) Better favicon.ico support .. somewhat ironic, actually
10) Don't have to upgrade my OS to get the latest features (no IE upgrades for Win2k other than security)
Not that FF doesn't have its downsides:
1) Longer apparent load time (if Windows didn't automatically load IE on boot, you'd have to wait for it too)
2) Plug-in support is sometimes ... amusing
3) Glitches when viewing sites designed only for IE (and IE exclusive sites)
I'd love to be L33+ and all that but neither Firefox nor Mozilla display images properly on too many websites.
Plus with IE offering up such nice pop-up blocking it's hard for me to be another clueless Microsoft basher.... if I was that lame I would just run Linux and whatever the geeks say is the best browser and would still probably have issues I don't have to deal with.
Plus with IE offering up such nice pop-up blocking it's hard for me to be another clueless Microsoft basher.... if I was that lame I would just run Linux and whatever the geeks say is the best browser and would still probably have issues I don't have to deal with.
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LOL...even my mom asked me about "this new firefox, thing...do i need it?"
haha...and she was freaking out becuase i told her to backup everything since i was gonna reformat her computer...she couldnt figure out how to back up her web-based email...which is still stored on yahoo's server...so yeah, shes computer retarded
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In an effort to get the discussion back on topic:
I dont really care about all the cute little features like tabs. Just get rid of ActiveX completetly. No web site really NEEDS this. You can have web-based shopping without it. The WWW worked just fine before ActiveX was auto-downloading and installing crap for me. If I want junk integrated into Windows or IE, I'll let them know about it.
Would also be nice if the web browser was completetly seperate from the file browser. But since Linux has been using dual purpose programs for a long time, I think the problem circles back to ActiveX. Would also like more control over how Java handles stuff.
I dont really care about all the cute little features like tabs. Just get rid of ActiveX completetly. No web site really NEEDS this. You can have web-based shopping without it. The WWW worked just fine before ActiveX was auto-downloading and installing crap for me. If I want junk integrated into Windows or IE, I'll let them know about it.
Would also be nice if the web browser was completetly seperate from the file browser. But since Linux has been using dual purpose programs for a long time, I think the problem circles back to ActiveX. Would also like more control over how Java handles stuff.
NO WAY! ActiveX is one of the best features of IE (even if dumbasses get spyware by installing unsigned ActiveX controls). Fast, configuration-free plugins that just work. Remote Web Workplace's RDP connection is amazing. WebEx's customer support portal is one of the best remote admin setups that requires no client config. There are literally hundreds of others, those are two that I use daily. And if you say what about Java plugins, I'll smack you.
Maxthon, only thing I dont like about it is since it uses IE engine it sometimes has that bug where it saves the image as bitmap...
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