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Which internet browser do you use?

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GreatBarracuda

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Just cleaned up my computer from the latest scum that's making the rounds throughout the world right now. IE clearly likes those bugs going up its many orifices...wondering if I should swith to FireFox?
 
IE at work (no choice), Mozilla and firefox at home. Sometimes omniweb if I'm using my iBook, but usually moz there too.
 
I'm using CrazyBrowser since it uses the IE engine and provides everything I liked from Firefox. I didn't really like the mozilla engine since a lot of pages looked like crap due to mozilla's more correct css rendering. Plus it loaded a bit slow.

There's a new version of IE in the works and maybe then we'll see more stuff like CrazyBrowser. Those two haven't been updated in ages.
 
i've been trying firefox. it renders faster than any other browser i've tried, but it takes much longer than mozilla to load for the first time because it doesn't sit in memory like mozilla. maybe i just haven't found the way to make it sit in memory yet.
 
Originally posted by: Alternex
I'm using CrazyBrowser since it uses the IE engine and provides everything I liked from Firefox. I didn't really like the mozilla engine since a lot of pages looked like crap due to mozilla's more correct css rendering. Plus it loaded a bit slow.

There's a new version of IE in the works and maybe then we'll see more stuff like CrazyBrowser. Those two haven't been updated in ages.
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Microsoft sucks.
Mozilla is better because of features (tabbed, popup blocker), and because the more people use it, the more likely it is people might code to the standards.
Plus it lacks some of the security issues IE has.
 
one thing i don't understand is that every company would love to be in the financial situation Microsoft is in, but even with their sucess they can't create something solid? with their resources i am suprised how many security faults are there, but i choose msn explorer
 
i used internet explorer for god knows how long, but then recently i tried out mozilla firefox and i immediately fell in love with it, the smoothness, the speed, and not to mention the design and its variety of extensions matched what i had strived to get with IE. i would recommened people to try it!
 
Originally posted by: Kwan1
Originally posted by: TechBoyJK
crazybrowser.
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What makes firefox > then crazybrowser?

I am comfortable with crazybrowser, so i am looking for reasons to switch..
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The rendering engine itself, which is the main component of the browser. crazybrowser is still based on IE's engine which is riddled with security holes and sh1tloads of rendering bugs.

Just check out firefox's extensions for cryin' out loud.. it's pretty amazing IMO!
 
I would switch to Firefox, but it is absolutely pointless for me. IF I could uninstall IE from my system, I would switch in a heartbeat. IF I could make firefox take over windows explorer, and uninstall explorer completely from my system, I would be happy, but know that I have passed on.

Why install a browser to mask your security holes and create a false sense of confidence? You cant remove IE. Its security vulnerabilities will still affect you no matter which browser you use.

Hopefully the EU will force MS to make a windows OS without anything embedded in it (and i can get an EN copy over here in the US). If that day comes, I say byebye to IE.

Call me a masochist if you will. . .
 
Originally posted by: 4dm
I would switch to Firefox, but it is absolutely pointless for me. IF I could uninstall IE from my system, I would switch in a heartbeat. IF I could make firefox take over windows explorer, and uninstall explorer completely from my system, I would be happy, but know that I have passed on.

Why install a browser to mask your security holes and create a false sense of confidence? You cant remove IE. Its security vulnerabilities will still affect you no matter which browser you use.

Hopefully the EU will force MS to make a windows OS without anything embedded in it (and i can get an EN copy over here in the US). If that day comes, I say byebye to IE.

Call me a masochist if you will. . .
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If you open a website with ActiveX in IE then you may get screwed, do the same with FF and you *should* be safe, but you have to open the website, so that's a vulnerability caused by the user that won't be there all the time.
You can get all kinds of diallers downloading themselves when you use IE, but FF doesn't have that problem.
 
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