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Perhaps its better to have Firefox, seeing as you all need more security, and IE is full of security holes.
You could argue that Windows XP SP 2 sounds like it patches things up, but many people claim that it does nothing but bad for windows.
As with security you need to grab some 3rd Party programs for protection.
yes, I use firefox, and ive found it to be alot more reliable and secure then IE. as for service pack 2, its a pretty good fix ive found, although you have to change alot of settings in it to prvent it from screwing with all your other programs
once again, the age old discussion of what may be better, or is, depending on who you are talking about. This is how I see it. Of all the people that use the internet as part of thier daily lives, maybe 10% of them actually care about which is more secure or which one is cooler and what not. The reason why people stick with IE is for 3 reasons: It comes with 99% of the computers sold in retail stores (like best buy, compUSA or wherever you go), It is "backed" by the company that makes the OS of that 99% number I gave just a moment ago, and finally, it is by far the most compatible web browser, because everything else on the web was written for IE support.
This doesn't say that anything else is bad, it's just that many get used to IE to the point that they not dare touch another browser.
You should Always have 3rd party security programs regardless of whatyou are using, and security? it may have more security, but mozilla browsers are just basically Netscape Navigator 4 on steroids (god bless Netscape Navigator, it brought internet to the common man.)
Firefox is the better web browser.
It isnt stolen, its the same as the old netscape browser.
I started to use it because i got tired of the unwanted plugins and spyware brought to me by the internet.
Still no problems with mozilla
actually Firefox is a Subsidiary version of mozilla with better features at a smaller file size, with buttons that aren't from netscape navigator. I would perfer firefox over Mozilla anyways.
And the only reason why you kept on getting plugins and spyware in IE is in actuality one or more of these three reasons.
- You dowloaded them yourself (thorugh a free program that you wanted)
- You obviously did not pay ANY attention to the warnings or messages that IE gives when a plugin or peice of software trys to install itself.
- Or maybe it's becasue you had your security setting at rock bottom. =/
Oh, yes, Firefox is teh Browser. :)
But i'm also using Maxthon because some javascripts aren't supported in Firefox. And Maxthon is much better than the normal IE.
wars over which web browser is worthless. basically all it is doing is bringing up who's perfered browser is.
Maxthon? never heard of it, maybe I'll try it out some day.
firefox - memmory managment and security feature is definately much better than IE. I dont want to repeat again..
http://forums.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=3164&start=60
Firefox- better sequrity,gogle search bar in upper corner and its not from mocrosoft:)
firefox, ie, netscape, opera ... blah .. i'll go for good ol lynx any day, fastest, smallest and the most secure browser i've ever browsed with.
Yes, i too support Lynx :-)
World's fastest, smallest and secure browser.
But it support onlt TEXT. When you add more support, there will be more security holes. IE have more security hole as its not just a browser and more popular than other browsers.
I prefer firefox over mozilla. Firefox is light, fast and secure too. In our college, we have many diskless nodes running on LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) and we use firefox as the browser on those machines. That show how light it is. Lynx on the other hand, have one disadvantage. It can only display text.
firefox advantages for me =]
1. you can have tabbed windows
2. automated pop up block
firefox DIS-advantages
1. doesnt support xanga.com
2.messes up quite a bit
i'd stick with both just don't make mozilla your default.
of course if you are trying to maximize security no matter the cost, then a text only browser is the way to go. Of course many find that too radical of a browser to use in daily life, so they find other alternatives such as firefox, mozilla and Opera.
And I'll say it again. People use IE for 2 reasons:
the standard user: it comes with their OS. No da.
the experienced user: it is the most compatible browser (ie most if not all scripts are written to support IE). they say it's good to have when you really need it, though there are other better ones.
^ yes mad boy is correct IE supports all scripts while fire fox supports some images and texts.
firefox is the answer to ost people problems with IE. so much so that even the new york times is reporting Firefox's increase in market stake which now stands at 5% or so. IE has a market stake at around 89% and not 99% ;)
the code is cleaner and much more efficient. but then all ope source projects are compared to ms apps !!
cheers all !
it might have some of the problems but a lot of the images don't show up and it messes up some blog sites.
i find firefox to be better too.
you can have several tabs in 1 window, which helps ur start bar to not be uncluttered
you can set your own bookmarks as links on the actual browser
and the icon is way cooler :D
ive had firefox for probably 5 months and i told everyone i know about it and they love it too. its way better than IE.
anyone knows a downloader which can integrate into firefox?,
right now i follow a long cut of copying a link and pasting it into DAP. it would be nice if it could auto start some downloading application (with resume support).