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Cliff
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
2897 Posts |
 Posted - 06 August 2004 : 09:42:07
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| it's a running battle between ie (with XPSP2 to make it way safer and block popups) and firefox (plusses - tabbed window, great addins like developer toolbar minuses - as it gets more popular, more and more vulns being published, no automatic update, have to de-install and re-install, installer sometimes fails to ask for required filepath). |
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Shaggy
Support Moderator
Ireland
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Posted - 06 August 2004 : 10:51:37
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Been an Explorer man since I took me first steps on the interweb. But with the lack of support for newer versions of XHTML and CSS and the fact that we're not going to see a new version until Longhorn is released, I've started making the move to Firefox. Apart from the drawbacks Pdrq mentioned, the one thing that's keeping me from dumping IE altogether is the fact that FireFox doesn't open up Notepad when I view source from the browser window.
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
26364 Posts |
Posted - 06 August 2004 : 17:03:07
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| Well when I started using the Web, there was not much more than Netscape. I really enjoyed it and I only moved to IE when Netscape stopped showing some of my frequent sites correctly. Have stayed with IE ever since and I feel happy with it. I guess i'm a bit of a conservative type, now. Never change easily if what I use works well. |
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OneWayMule
Dev. Team Member & Support Moderator
Austria
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Nathan
Help Moderator
USA
7664 Posts |
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kwhipp
Junior Member
USA
407 Posts |
Posted - 06 August 2004 : 20:32:04
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| I have downloaded and tried most browsers out there and I always come back to IE. However, for the past year and a half I've been running NetCapter, which uses the IE engine. |
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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
16655 Posts |
Posted - 06 August 2004 : 21:08:42
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Internet Explorer, because it just works.  I've tried Opera, Netscape, Firefox, etc... Just don't like them, they are alternative browsers, and they definitely feel like it. |
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seahorse
Senior Member
USA
1075 Posts |
Posted - 06 August 2004 : 21:24:02
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| Firefox. I actually worry about the security less with it than IE. The only problem are those IE sites which don'T show well. Luckily that'S not much of a problem since I'm mostly visiting very large sites which have very good compatibility. |
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Davio
Development Team Member
Jamaica
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Posted - 07 August 2004 : 01:25:56
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I'm a firefox guy, thorugh and through. What is IE?  |
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Doug G
Support Moderator
USA
6493 Posts |
Posted - 07 August 2004 : 03:33:57
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Lynx, it doesn't distract me with all those fonts and graphics and stuff :)
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Nathan
Help Moderator
USA
7664 Posts |
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chumbawumba
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United Kingdom
304 Posts |
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The Impact
Junior Member
Australia
398 Posts |
Posted - 07 August 2004 : 04:58:59
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I've tried heaps and heaps of browsers in my time. I can remember having Netscape Navigator on a Macintosh and back then it was superior to anything and everything else available. 
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stuF
Average Member
United Kingdom
561 Posts |
Posted - 07 August 2004 : 08:17:14
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has to be firefox. Firstly, it displays websites the way they were intended to be seen. Secondly, as its nowhere neaqr as prolific as IE, its not targetted by spyware in the same way. Thirdly, ive not seen a popup a didnt want to see in about three months, and lastly, it just keeps getting better, where internet explorer has been at a stand still for a long time.
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Nathan
Help Moderator
USA
7664 Posts |
Posted - 07 August 2004 : 08:52:45
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Originally posted by stuF
has to be firefox. Firstly, it displays websites the way they were intended to be seen.
Well, thats debatable. Most webpages are designed for IE these days.
Which brings up another issue, standards.
What makes the W3C standard any more valid than the microsoft standard eh? |
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