IE vs Firefox

[zeekgenateer]

I'm just curious how many people use IE or Firefox. If you prefer one or the other give why.
For me: Firefox
Firefox is malware free (unless you deliberately do something stupid), it keeps those annoying pop-ups partly out and I don't have to worry about ActiveX and other crap. Also with the hackers trying to get through the flaws of IE its liable to break down faster than Firefox. Also Firefox's tabbed browsing doesn't feel as much of a hassle as does it's IE counterpart. When I used tabs in IE 7 I felt like stabbing myself.

[Decent_xVICIOUSx]

Firefox Is The Best

[Ghos7]

I like IE, I like the tabs, I like everything about it. I don't know why you guys hate it, I've never had problems with it. It's always worked fine for me.

[MBK]

prob more cos most FF users have been using FF way before IE got with the times and added tabbed browsing

oh and FF is very very expandable with a huge catalogue of add-ons and expansions from handy things like script blockers to nice things like being able to mod the appearance of the browser and the pages you load with it

[gobbly2100]

My vote go's on Internet Explorer 7, in my opinion default is always best, everyone has different experiences with different browsers but I am the kind of person who prefers the kind of official/standard of everything.

IE7 has alot more security with it now and is a big improvment to IE6.

If you have not tried IE7 then I would give it a try, at first it is strange but pretty sweet once you get used to it.

[connnnn]

Firefox has Mouse Gestures, which make it 100% better for me. No need for forward/back/bookmarks/homepage stuff, now I just wish someone would make a more useful control+L window plugin.

Having a wide range of themes options is nice too.

Between those 2 things I can use a very minimalist GUI which is nice (all I have is the top window title bar, and then the file/edit/etc bar). This is enough to put FF over the top as the best browser for me. It still pisses me off plenty though :|

[Ghos7]

Thanks for clearing that up gobbly.

[Decent_xVICIOUSx]

i have both but i prefer firfox

[Cynn]

I use three at work. But prefer one over all.

OPERA!! I love the ability to skin the browser it doesnt work with all sites but i would say 85% it works fine. Exploder and Fodderfox are decent enough, but I am hooked on the "O"

~cynn~

[Murvel]

Where is Opera in the vote? I use Opera both at work and at home. Excellent webbrowser.

[Littletron]

not used "O" using firefox and IE7 not too bothered which i use, but got used to firefox before they updated IE7 with tabing etc, when are microsoft going to bring out there own ideas instead of copying macs or other software companies...

[gobbly2100]

I hate the fact there is multiple browsers as they are a pain in the butt sometimes for us web builders when they render things differently, some things I do I need to use Internet Explorer and FireFox just to check that it will display the same in both browsers.

Before recently I also had to check things displayed ok in Netscape Navigator which I think is pretty dead now.

[zeekgenateer]

If there was only one browser, vulnerabilities would be found by hackers immediately. And there would be no competition to make the browser better. So in my opinion, this browser war is better.

[Ghos7]

Originally Posted by Littletron

not used "O" using firefox and IE7 not too bothered which i use, but got used to firefox before they updated IE7 with tabing etc, when are microsoft going to bring out there own ideas instead of copying macs or other software companies...

Microsoft doesn't come out with it's own ideas. It just markets other peoples ideas better.

[MazerK]

I use Firefox mostly because of the tabbed browsing, and the fact that the Microsoft website won't let me download IE7 due to its extremely bugged "Genuine Advantage" Validation requirement.

I've never tried Opera though, might do that sometime.

[Dynatics]

Had Firefox a while ago, got IE now.
I'm just not really bothered about which one is better.
They have both worked fine for me.

-Dyna,

[187 Phantom]

Originally Posted by gobbly2100

I hate the fact there is multiple browsers as they are a pain in the butt sometimes for us web builders when they render things differently, some things I do I need to use Internet Explorer and FireFox just to check that it will display the same in both browsers.

Before recently I also had to check things displayed ok in Netscape Navigator which I think is pretty dead now.

if you know CSS you can code web pages to display more or less perfect in any web browser.
i have a website for tribes 2 that i coded by hand with CSS. it looks exactly the same whether i open it in IE or firefox. havent tried with any other broswers. but CSS has a great reputation for browser compatibility.
Heres the link to it if u wanna see

[connnnn]

Originally Posted by Ghos7

virtually every large sales company doesn't come out with it's own ideas. It just markets other peoples ideas better.

I'm just bustin your balls really .

But ya that's a fairly common strategy... the small guys take risks with investment in innovations, then the big guns with all their capital swoop in and buy things out, and make everything as efficient as possible to open things up for investors. But think of it this way: now basically every browser has tabbed browsing capability... so instead of having to choose 1 feature vs another, you can get both.

I still <3 mouse gestures :>