HeartsOfWar Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 Hmm... IE Security issues Crashes all too often Tied to Explorer.exe, which means that if something happens to IE, your computer is screwed... usually No Plugins SLOW FireFox Very Secure Hardly crashes - although it is pre-1.0 status Independent - so if it does crash your computer is OK Lost of Extensions - Mouse Gestures, Ad Blocker, Pop-Up blocker, Tab Browsing, & many more Very nice source viewer \ Finder - Highlight what you want to see the source on and it highlights that part of the sorce... no searching Download manager - needs work, but its decent FAST What say you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felixml Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 the results are in! IE is getting pulverized! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnmnky Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 The nature of this website is swayed towards the alternatives. go ask a load of non techies which is the best browser, and they probably don't even know what they use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realmccoy Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 FireFox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxondale. Posted July 7, 2004 Author Share Posted July 7, 2004 Thanks everyone, sorry about people getting annoyed by the endless threads. I am about to download Firefox on my amazing 56k modem. I will tell you my opinion later. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerlb Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 both have their stong and weak points Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycan Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 Firefox for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Gil Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 There have been like 900+ threads about this. Please NO MORE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivand Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 Considering all the flaws and stuff, I think this is the best time to dump IE ad get Ffx ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxondale. Posted July 7, 2004 Author Share Posted July 7, 2004 I have it, im not sure about the current skin, can anyone recommed a cool one. Plus, when i check my hotmail emails through msn, IE comes up and not Firefox. Can anyone help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krmathis Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 Firefox all the way! (Y) I rank web browsers like this: 1. Mozilla Firefox. 2. Safari. 3. Camino. 4. Opera. 5. Mozilla. . . . 999. Internet Explorer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cork1958 Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 I have it, im not sure about the current skin, can anyone recommed a cool one. Plus, when i check my hotmail emails through msn, IE comes up and not Firefox. Can anyone help? Set it as the default browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxondale. Posted July 7, 2004 Author Share Posted July 7, 2004 Please could you help me with that? not sure how to do that....me a n00b Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cork1958 Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 Please could you help me with that? not sure how to do that....me a n00b Should be in your tools/options/prefs somewhere. Not sure as I don't use FF. It should've asked you if you wanted to make it the default browser the first time you opened it, if it was anygood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxondale. Posted July 7, 2004 Author Share Posted July 7, 2004 Yer, i have that ticked as my default one, but it still comes up in IE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyrana Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 I use firefox for everything except my company webmail, which has a disabled send box on anything but ie (not OWA, either). For those times I need to use ie, i run myie2 to get tabs and a few things. firefox is great though, my bank and other things like that all work great with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxondale. Posted July 7, 2004 Author Share Posted July 7, 2004 Is anyone else having trouble with this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted July 7, 2004 Veteran Share Posted July 7, 2004 Firefox for sure. About the msn thingy, microsoft coded it that IE shows up with it only no matter if its your default browser or not. You need to change some registry settings for that. I saw it here a while ago. Search neowin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxondale. Posted July 7, 2004 Author Share Posted July 7, 2004 ah ok, plus, can i get rid of that google search thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo_joel Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 One thing you will appreciate is the built in download manager. If your connection dies or some other dailup mishap occurs, firefox will save the progress of your download and you can resume it later when you have reconnected to the net. IE should adopt this feature somehow.. :whistle: Iv been sayin for a long time that its needed a feature like that and never did see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Lamar Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 Yea, this thread is getting old, just pick one and use it already. I like them both! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hadiz Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 FireFox :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxondale. Posted July 7, 2004 Author Share Posted July 7, 2004 Anyone recommend a skin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicane-UK Veteran Posted July 7, 2004 Veteran Share Posted July 7, 2004 I'm totally converted. Haven't touched IE in about a month.. and I actually get p***ed off when other apps just assume to call IE as the default browser! Stop it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dave164 Subscriber¹ Posted July 7, 2004 Subscriber¹ Share Posted July 7, 2004 Firefox is definately the best, on it now, what are u on about with a crapp download manager... i dont think u can pause and resume dl with IE 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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