Firefox vs IE
 

everyone,

I have seen lots of people referring to the Mozilla Firefox browser and that's it's faster and better than IE. So I decided to download it and install it for myself.

Been running with Firefox for almost a day now and I'm not sure yet if it's better then IE. Haven't yet got an error with Firefox. I installed some extensions, which seems that firefox is more customizable then IE.

I would like to know what you guys use and what you think of the 2 browsers.

I'll setup a poll to indicate what you use.

Which one is and which one makes you scream for .

Cheers

Definitely Firefox is my browser of choice. In my opinion, its a lot more stable than IE and it has some awesome possibilites for adding to it. What comes stock with firefox that I absoultely love is the built in google search shortcut. Typing "g <search string>" in the URL bar will google search for your search string and bring you the results. Very nice :) It also has similiar functions for dictionary.com and you can add your own search shortcut. Plus, it seems that a lot more people have been investing time into pointing out the flaws in IE and exploiting them (we know there are lots of them, come on... its M$, would you expect anything less? ) and firefox doesnt seem to have those massive amounts of bugs. But then again, I could be ignorant on that topic, I havent really done my research on flaws in firefox. But all in all, I prefer firefox over IE any day of the week.

I'm testing Firefox too, as I hear it's less vulnerable.

For me Firefox itself isn't impressive but Firefox useful extensions is really useful: SessionSavor + Tab Browser Preferences + FlashGot.

Same here, switched over a couple of day ago and so far I like what I see. I have also installed several extensions and I love the tabbed browsing. I've found a few shortcuts that's not documented like ctl+click to open links in the background. I do have an option to lock tabs that I haven't figured out yet, it doesn't seem to do anything that I can find.

Firefox Wins No Contest. Microsoft's browser sucks... and to think they've accually gotten sued for including it in their OS. Most I know at my college are using FireFox now.

FireFox Whats that?
 

FireFox Never heard of it hmmm. :p I like the Name tho. I have been using FireFox since last spring while it was still in Beta. I was Never a Big fan of Netscrape, but they have come a long way.
I find that not only are the extension helpful / useful, I love the Tabbed browsing, Spoofstick, Imagezoom, right click bypass, intergrated bugmenot, flashget, just to name a few. But the biggest feature that I liked as integrated, was the pop up blocker ( Even though I enjoyed the popup blocker with the Google toolbar (IE) I like the abilty to type i.e. Betaone without the http or www or the .net , .com right into the addy bar (kind of a feel luck with google. My favorite feature of Firefox is tabbed browsing I know that myIE etc also do the tabbed browsing. So far I also like the quicker response of FF.

@Firefox, you are probably aware of this, however: MF hasn't got the complete Tabbed Environment. Sometimes when you click links from external applications they open in a New Window. I hated when that happened. To act it like Opera, you will need Tabbrowser Preferenced (TBP).
http://www.pryan.org/mozilla/site/TheOneKEA/tabprefs/

I have heard that TBE (Tab Browser Extensions) is not recommended to be used. So everybody who are using TBE should move to TBP or something similar.

Firefox of couse!! For past year at least.

Anyways be sure to use a Windows SSE optimized or SSE 2 build of firefox if you got P4. :)

I perfer these:

http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/

Spell bound rocks:

http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/download

cya,
Will

I use Maxthon and Firefox.....both have their advantages...

If you wanna speed-up Firefox,check this page:

http://forevergeek.com/open_source/m...fox_faster.php

I tried it,and for me,the difference is noticable..:)

I am foxie baby ;)

:D

/JD

firefox rules!! also I'm using Adblock | flashGot (whit flashget) and some other little exstension like google preview..

also lynx is beutifull :)

I am using Forefox for about 80% of my browsing mow , Occasionally I still have IE pop up since I havent changed the default.

I use both IE and Firefox..

Firefox I use for all my daily browsing since I don't have to be annoyed by various ads.

I used IE mainly for check my cc online when I was at school.. so.. I really don't have too much to use IE for. :(*sigh*

About the only diff I see in firefox is that you can't do things as far as security, (activex is disabled by default, and there is no chance of changing that) certian things like banking and such are not available to use. So you will need to use IE for that. Other than that Firefox is a very good browser to use.

Well I almost forgot - Since ActiveX is not in the program media playablity is also not very good. Reszing of media windows is not available. The only functions are the minimul. Some of the plugins for media content don't work. There are some pages that you go that will not allow you to view because of using firefox.

I know I based it all on activex, well my opinion is they should have a a smart activex system. Otherwards, Say you go to a site that requires it. A pop up comes up saying that there is activex and proceeds to ask you if you want to enable it for that site or not. If you say yes it adds the site to a safe list, if you say no it adds the site a block list. This way certian things will be able to work right. I feel the biggest problem firefox is having with certian sites is because activex is nto available. I know there is an extension you can download, but that does not work very well ...

Anyway, end of rant .. :)

Been using Firefox for about 6 months now; absolutely no reason to use IE ever, anymore, except for windows update, getting Hotmail from your MSN Messenger, and thats about it...I have no problem using Firefox for banking and credit cards stuff, so I am not sure why some of you feel you need to use IE for that....Am I missing something??

Besides, firefox is at least 20% faster than Ie, in both loading itself, loading pages, and web surfing..try doing some speed tests with both of them and see for yourself!

I never notice a increae in speed using firefox as apposed to IE. Somtimes Firefox is actually slower .. Especially in the start up phase ..

Too bad they got rid of the Quick Launch feature which was in Mozilla. :(

Did you try the speed hack I posted????:)

Firefox won't load from limited user account
 

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I did a clean install of firefox (obviously from the admin account) didn't modify any settings in it, then logged out of admin and logged in as the limited (and default) account, I tried to open Firefox but it wouldn't load. I have experienced this problem before and restarting has always alleviated my problem, but this time, Firefox won't load AT ALL from a limited account. I have a Firefox entry in the task manager after attempting to open, and I am asked to end the process when I try to shut down.

http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback....30&state=reply

That's the SAME EXACT problem I am experiencing at the moment. Although I didn't point this out before. I didn't know it was not my problem.

No I didn't dude, I didn't see the post ... I'm not sure if they actually work or not. I got the one that was hyped up for adobe acrobat reader and it didn't make it any faster .. I will try your though to see. What's the link ???

This thread,buddy......just a few posts back....;) :D

O.k you can beat me at will lol .. I can't believe I missed that lol..

[edit] I already had that done except for the last part .. I don't really notice much of a speed diff.. [/edit]

OK, I've tried FireFox again for the third time (and 2 days testing) after I heard there was a new version. My results are the same....IE still wins hands down. I've tried all the FireFox speed tricks, but IMHO it's nothing more than an illusion that makes it appear to be loading faster than IE, but there's no difference in the final results. Although IE isn't perfect, I like the right-context options I can apply, download managers work better, my financial sites work were FireFox doesn't, and for me personally an extra window is preferable to tabs, although either is OK. Bottom line, FireFox is a bunch of hype, and IE delivers more of what I want.

Call me wacko and non-mainstream, but I don't care. The first time I tried Netscape back in 1995 it sucked and IE worked to my liking, and I find the same true today.

torataka

Since yesterday, I use only Mozilla because IE is always crashing my internet connection :(

Bad Firefox
 

i used the new firefox for a week when it was first released and i some how recieved 2 trojans. i would have thought firefox had some sort of security against things like that. i never had anything wrong with internet explorer, i went back to IE because of the trojans. not very secure if u ask me!

About the only time I use firefox is when i go to ceritan sites. As for anything else I use Maxthon. Firefox has to many things wrong with it. And, I also don't like how people are listening to a 20 year old kid when it comes to security. Like he would know what he is talking about.

Hello all. I use both but Firefox for main browsing.