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IE vs Firefox

To me its a simple and well functioning browser. Its extension system is wonderful. Downloading Adblock Plus and setting it up with filterset.g and proper subscription, you get almost no commercials.

I also like its design and ease of use over explorer, but that is a subjective thing.

Of course the security is the real seller, and according to the big guys who knows this stuff, Firefox 2.0 is more sexcure than Explorer 7.

However there's an even bigger reason why I use firefox; I run Linux. ^,..,^
 
I use Firefox for about 95% of my web browsing, but have noticed that V2 locks up on me during video playback, be it Flash clips (YouTube) or Media Player files. Then I use IE. Wish I knew what the problem is.
 
I use firefox and have all my favorite extensions installed with it. I love it, and will never choose another browser. It almost never crashes, and when it does, you can pick up right where you left off because it remembers.
 
Firefox has probably already saved me many hours of waiting for page loads, thanks to its search field shortcut feature (e.g., to search for "foobar" in Wikipedia, I have it set up so I can just type "w foobar" in the url field, instead of having to stop off at the Wikipedia home page first).

Combine that with the fine array of add-ons, tabbed browsing, and the restore feature, and it's no contest.
 
Opera, now with Speed Dial.

So awesomely amazing, I can't find words.
 
Thank you for the suggestion of Opera. I just installed it and so far I really like it. One question I have is when I go to the "speed Dial" setup page I get a message telling me that I need to upgrade my Flash player (which I just did) and/or enable JavaScript. I didn't see an apparent way to enable JavaScript within Opera's menu system. If this "Speed Dial" feature requires that, shouldn't it be enabled by default?

If anyone would be so kind as to walk me through enabling JavaScript I'd be most grateful.

Thank you.

Regards,
Brian Jackson
 
Brian Jackson said:
Thank you for the suggestion of Opera. I just installed it and so far I really like it. One question I have is when I go to the "speed Dial" setup page I get a message telling me that I need to upgrade my Flash player (which I just did) and/or enable JavaScript. I didn't see an apparent way to enable JavaScript within Opera's menu system. If this "Speed Dial" feature requires that, shouldn't it be enabled by default?

If anyone would be so kind as to walk me through enabling JavaScript I'd be most grateful.

Thank you.

Regards,
Brian Jackson
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Tools ---> Quick Preferences ---> Enable JavaScript

That should just about do it!

I love Opera...powerful browser, and easy to use at the same time!

The Speed Dial feature just makes things even better!
 
Mobyseven said:
(Just to be difficult: ) Opera.

Discuss. ;)
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I used Opera for a while, but then they went commercial, and started to ask for money. I don't see any point in paying for a browser when perfectly good free ones are out there.

I tested browsers for Choice Magazine here in Australia, and Opera and Firefox were the best choices. IE6 was a dog.

Cheers,
TGHO
 
Opera is free now, and has been for a few years. No ads either. Just free.

I think the only people paying will be Wii Opera Channel users later this year, and then only if they want the internet on their Wii.

Just FYI :)
 
I use Firefox, and have since it first emerged as Phoenix; before that I had used Netscape, but that got bloated, and Mozilla was too big too. I tried Opera years ago, but was put off by the window interface it used then (sub-windows in one main window), and haven't seen a good reason to try it again.

Haven't tried IE7 yet; I have to use IE for some pages at work, but the IE tab extension copes with most of those in Firefox.
 
For some reason Firefox is very slow to load and tends to freeze on my stupid old comp (over three years old and contains Intel stuff). So I gave up on it even though IE is a minefield of security issues.
 
I used Firefox on my win2k machine for a year. I havn't installed it yet on my xp machine I bought 5 months ago. I don't miss it.
 
I love Firefox dearly. The "tabbed" browsing thing seemed like a pointless novelty at first, but now it's my favorite feature. I like being able to peruse the main forum page, middle-clicking interesting topics to open them in tabs, so I can then work through them all one after the other. This is much more convenient than navigating back-and-forth between the main forum page and individual topics.

We have to use IE for Internet browsing at work, and until I was forced to go back to IE, I hadn't realized how accustomed I'd become to Firefox's interface, the tabs in particular.

The search bar is convenient and elegantly inegrated, as well.

In short, I just love everything about Firefox.
 
Sounds like you went back to an old version of IE. Version 7 has the same tabbed browsing.
 
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