Why don;t we all just start using Netscape! haha The debate goes on, i find that i switch between both for some things. Microsoft are by far getting better at there sercurity issues but other then that, IE Sucks!! Go FixFox! Secure, Easy, Clean

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If I were to be honest, I never saw a popup or a popunder in either browsers.



If you fiddled around with some of the options, you'd have found out you can turn that off. ( Tools --> Options --> Downloads )



Internet Explorer. But it comes "free" with Windows.



I didn't say it was totally the webmaster's fault - just mainly. If he wants his visitors to stay he should build round them. If people like a browser which displays pages differently and I site wants visitors then the websites should change its design. Just like if a hacker discovers a new hole, then the browsers should change their code to keep their users.



You can find out over here. IE6 users are at 68% and FF users are at 20%.

I also forgot to add that FF loads surprising faster than IE. When I load it, there's no major scratching of the hard disk.

 

 

 

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Well, I have Opera, IE, FireFox, Netscape and Mozilla installed.

I USE Firefox, the other browsers but IE are there to test sites in.

Mozilla, Firefox and Netscape use practically the same engine the Gecko engine. Netscape still is quirky about some CSS, but mostly it's all good.

IE doesn't even support CSS1 fully, and even their latest piece of junk (pardon my stab at MS there, but they kept on announcing full CSS support and png alpha transperancy in IE7 and they only fixed 2 or 3 CSS bugs - so not even CSS1 is supported fully) which means that we still have to use box model hacks, and weird solutions for what works fine in FF.

I am not even touching the topic of security yet, but the CSS, which seriously simplifies a webdesigners work, DOESNT even work in IE as it should. Just check out http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/ in IE and then give it a go in Mozilla or Firefox. THAT is CSS2.

Security : I used to have soooo many virusses, and after going to FF I do fine, I had 3 in 2 yrs. Of course not using Outlook Express and MS outlook does help But honestly, way less pop ups (if you trully wanna test it, just surf to a pr0n site with FF and look maybe one BLANK pop up, but nothing offensive -other then the site itself- and then try it in IE, have fun closing your 50 popups).

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[1] Yes, i know about that, but there are many lazy people out there.
[2]Why did you quote: free?

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[2] "Free" with Windows.... One, windows is paid junk LOL
and uninstalling IE is uhm next to impossible, I made a few attempts some time ago and it ruined the OS completely.

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I like both IE and Firefox, although I'll lean more towards Firefox because you can customize it, it's open source and it's very secure. On top of that, I found that it can load many of the websites that I frequent much more quickly than IE.

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So when you get a new program, you never look around it and find out what it can really do. Did you know that if you type google bla in the address bar it will run a google search for bla? I found out that by playing around with some of the features



What moonwitch said. Also nothing microsoft makes is free - unless it doesn't work or is a trial version. And microsoftantispyware is beta. They will make you pay for it when it's done.

Microsoft is a company which cares about sticking a price on unfinished products. I challenge you to find me some free, legal microsoft software which isn't in it's beta or trial stages.

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Another, perhaps one of the main reasons why I quoted free was because it's included in the price of Windows, not free, but they just like to make out that it is

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god i don't know who still uses ie on pc. I mean only those who enjoy spyware i guess. the thing just lets everything in i guess that's why people are pushing of ie still. too many people are making way to much money off of spyware. I'm a web designer aswell and i still think that firefox is better. I've heard rumors that they're going to get rid of ie. most people working at micro soft use firefox
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I wouldn't probably be using Firefox if friend didn't show me this browser last year. I was becoming kinda of web designer at that time. And when making websites I was making it thru Internet Explorer. But results in Opera and Firefox were bad. So i met with web standards.
So first important thing about Firefox is webstandards. I renders web site like it should be rendered.
Then you can use Tabbed browsing with Tabs. You don't have like millions of openned windows in your Taskbar. So it is more tidy.
I will not talk about security like Firefox is the king in that area. Cause hackers find security holes everyday. Internet Explorer is out on the market for longer time, so it was more exposed and tested for security issues. But I must say I haven't had any viruses for one year now. This is result of using Firewall and Kaspersky antivirus. Also Firefox has good pop up protection. So I must say Firefox is better then Internet Explorer.
I especially like download manager and DOM Inspector in Firefox. Dom Inspector comes handy when working and creating websites.
Extensions are another good thing in Firefox.
I like Graphical User INterface and Search Bar in Firefox. If you download it for your language you get Slovenians and other major search engines toolbar already installed.
I like this browser very much.

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