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RE: ie, firefox..

Scouseknight — Thu, 17 May 2007 22:43:56 GMT

I personally find Firefox slower but I haven't really got into the settings - I use it for compatibility testing for my website stuff only - when I browse I use IE simply because everything works with it and I don't want to have any grief.

Of course I have protection as well - not the kind I'll be taking to the LAN though

RE: ie, firefox..

MalevolentGod — Wed, 16 May 2007 22:35:37 GMT

Firefox is nicer and more secure than IE.

Its open source, so plenty gadgets and skins for it and its also a hell of a lot faster, especially if you tweak some of the settings.

RE: ie, firefox..

arcl — Wed, 16 May 2007 20:18:51 GMT

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/05/ie_unsafe/

Apparently.

Firefox doesn't open any pop-ups unless you actually click on a link to actually cause a pop-up, unless you actually go to a site which bombards you with pop-ups.
Which 10 times out of 10 are naughty, naughty sites which you shouldn't be on in the first place.

RE: ie, firefox..

tony1869 — Wed, 16 May 2007 17:16:32 GMT

scary, must say never had that before.

RE: ie, firefox..

matty — Wed, 16 May 2007 16:35:50 GMT

I use Opera , because when i used Firefox i got 3 pop ups saying i had been on adult sites and it could jepordise my marriage ( i didnt no i had one lol ) and i could be imprisoned for going on this site , well i had only been on this site to remove my email from their mailing list so i wouldnt get anymore dirty emails , with opera it blocks all unwanted pop ups for me

RE: ie, firefox..

tony1869 — Wed, 16 May 2007 11:19:42 GMT

thanks for that again

RE: ie, firefox..

Tw1sted Demon — Wed, 16 May 2007 11:09:11 GMT

Yeah average user it doesn't really matter - I do prefer the look and feel of FF but I guess its up to the individual...

RE: ie, firefox..

tony1869 — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:49:07 GMT

ohh i see, so for mr average pc user not knowing anything about a pc/laptop it doesn't really matter what u use

thanku for the replay mate.

RE: ie, firefox..

Tw1sted Demon — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:06:38 GMT

I prefer it...simple as. I went off IE when IE6 was around, due to the fact that it wasn't very secure (apparently - I have no idea how true that is).

I use firefox exclusively now, it runs faster than IE7 (it starts up quicker atleast), its got more options for customizing which I like.

Also, as i'm at Uni doing a Computer Science degree its drilled into you that anything to do with Microsoft is utter shite (Which I don't believe for one moment, I hate using Linux or OpenOffice for example).

Also, when web-developing you will find that IE has LOTS of bugs - lots of them have been fixed from IE7 but still there are some. It causes problems because there are standards in place, which define how a web-browser handles a page. Firefox does a good job of adhering to these standards....IE doesn't. It's a pain because when designing websites, you can make them look awesome in Firefox, but they probably won't look the same in IE. Or you can make it look awesome in IE but they won't look the same in Firefox (or any other browser for that matter). I prefer to use Firefox because its standards-compliant, I design my websites for Firefox to look nice, but just make them 'work' in IE usually....

Sure someone else will have a completely different viewpoint here...but thats my way of seeing it. I have nothing against IE, but from a web-development point of view its a nightmare..!

ie, firefox..

tony1869 — Wed, 16 May 2007 09:30:33 GMT

right, could someone please explain y they use firefox for example instead of the ie browser