IE vs Firefox

[marcoo]

I?m looking for better & secure browser.

Even Firefox has some nice features like tabs, popup kill, and DOM Inspector, I'm still not sure if Firefox really better (especially more secure) than IE?

What do you think about it?

[PureEdit]

So quit talking out of your ass. I'm a long-time firefox user, but I'll never defend ignorance and idiocy.

How can you be a 'long time' user when it first came out a few months ago? Mozilla is old, but firefox is pretty new.

[nuka_t]

-Windows Integration. You can't type www.neowin.net in explorer then have it bring the page up in FF.

-Windows Update. FF can't do this last time I checked.

-Non Gecko engine. Some people don't like watching the page shift ass backwards 5 times before the page is readable.

-Comes by default on nearly every Windows system out there. Meaning you can go to a library or school and use a browser you are comfortable with right away, without having to download and install FF, something you may not be allowed to do.

-Better FTP support than FF.

-more likely to get viruses and system backdoors that way, making it less secure.

-its called autopatcher. i dont use windows update anyway.

-ok, you do that. but i dont like waiting for it to load when it loads faster in firefox. not only is it faster, but its also standards compliant, unlike IE.

-i can download firefox for any system and it will work. what if the library was using linux computers? or macs?

-i dont use an ftp, but if i did i would use a third party program anyway

[ceminess]

i'd like to take this opportunity to say that i think 7UP is the best soft drink

i also don't like BIC pens

and my tv is kinda broken..sometimes it loses vertical sync once in a while

lmfao that was awsome.

what is going on with some neowin people today, ya know there is a search link for a reason.

[Fotix]

Speak English to me please.

It is English. I don't try to dumb down my posts though.

What I said was with Mozilla you do not have to wait for some programmer sitting in his cubicle at Microsoft waiting to take action and fix a security problem. When you have the source program's code you can do it yourself or have someone else do it for you.

If you're the non-programming type (no knowledge, no compiler, etc.) you can just wait for a daily build up on the Mozilla FTP or one of those dudes that hang out at the Mozillazine forums.

Crystal now? :whistle: :laugh:

[oik]

How can you be a 'long time' user when it first came out a few months ago? Mozilla is old, but firefox is pretty new.

they may have just changed their name to firefox, but the browser, under any name, has been around for awhile (remember firebird?)

[Redestium]

How can you be a 'long time' user when it first came out a few months ago? Mozilla is old, but firefox is pretty new.

Well if you count Phoenix it is pretty old in Internet time.

I like 7-Up too.

[nuka_t]

i prefer doctor pepper. i dont like the lemon lime sodas

[zhangm Supervisor]

Hah, Firefox updates its code in realtime. What the developers do (every single day...) is instantly available in the source code. Hell, its happened before where one nightly compiled a few hours after another had additional features...

I really like it when IE "fanboys" claim that IE is good, but its so popular that hackers target it. And through their distorted logic, that somehow makes IE better... :rolleyes:

[Varsity]

4.  I didn't say it made it better, I said it was something that IE has that FF doesn't.  How many times have you walked into the library and been able to use Firefox on one of there computers right from the get go?  With IE you can do this, with FF you can't, therefore it's something IE has and FF doesn't.  Can you comprehend that concept or not?

How does that affect this discussion, about which is better? Unless you're totally bigoted one way or the other, this has no meaning.

7.  Yes, open source does have that advantadge, but MS is usually pretty timely about serious fixes.  I honestly don't think MS cares that much about whether you get an occassional popup or unwanted cookie, so I don't see why they'd spend their time on such issues.

Mainly because the vunrebilities are kept under wraps for a long time. There still isn't a fix for the latest image exploit - FF would have had one within a matter of hours.

8.  So when I go to a page that gives me a popup that didn't ask for my permission I must not be using FF right?  Or when I see a flash ad, I didn't get asked for that, yet I'm using Firefox, so what gives?  In IE you can block all sorts of things if you want.

I would be delighted to know how to block flash ads in IE. You can do it in FF, of course...

I've never had a popup with FF.

The US gets attacked by a terrorist and the island has a drunk man beat his wife, then someone says the island obviously has better security than the United States.

It might not have better security (although this has never really been tested, it may well have) - but it is more secure.

[Argote]

IE is better for multimedia heavy sites and streaming video and such

Firefox is far better for everything else

[configure Veteran]

IE is better for multimedia heavy sites and streaming video and such

What?! How?

[Varsity]

What?! How?

I think that opinion is based on Gamespot.

[AgEnTsMiTh]

I suggest looking here https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...8&hl=definitive

Really no need for yet another thread on this.

[nuka_t]

then close it already...