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Internet Explorer versus Firefox
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copacetic
King of the Hippies
Frankly, I cannot fathom why anyone would not want to use Firefox.
noswal
Executive Member
If the figures for IE are counted against every sale of a windows product then that is not representative of browser use, eg. installing windows 7, starting up IE to download firefox
murraybiscuit
Executive Member
to be expected with the success of windows 7.
it'll take at least 6 months for moms and pops to encumber their shiny new IE8 with yahoo toolbar, smilies toolbar, google toolbar, myway search bar...
that's a lot of dodgy shareware that needs to be carefully selected and installed first.
then when IE falls over, they'll download chrome or ff.
or phone me and ask me why their site isn't working.
it'll take at least 6 months for moms and pops to encumber their shiny new IE8 with yahoo toolbar, smilies toolbar, google toolbar, myway search bar...
that's a lot of dodgy shareware that needs to be carefully selected and installed first.
then when IE falls over, they'll download chrome or ff.
or phone me and ask me why their site isn't working.
murraybiscuit
Executive Member
I used to like FF, but it became to sluggish off late. I downloaded FF4 in Chrome and after 1 minute I was done. It's taking FF3 10 minutes to download FF4.I love the new Firefox 4
Because Opera and Chrome are both faster (at least they were last time I checked, I don't use Firefox).
With regards to rendering, Firefox used to be pretty far behind with regards to standards compliance (although never as bad as IE). At the moment I think most browsers are pretty equal in this regard (except IE).
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
Internet Explorer 9 will look like Internet Explorer 8 which looked like Internet Explorer 7... and they all crash just as much (if not more) than IE6.
Firefox is the Browser which made the Internet really work for most people.
Firefox is the Browser which made the Internet really work for most people.
copacetic
King of the Hippies
Well, well, I like FF. 
murraybiscuit
Executive Member
true, minefield on acid 3 wasn't particularly impressive when i tried it a while back.
let's not even talk a html5 with the -moz-xxx / -webkit-xxx stuff.
murraybiscuit
Executive Member
or run to the regulators to not bundle an os with hardware at all...
I think they are pretty much the same. I downloaded FF a few weeks ago out of curiousity, but didnt see what the big deal was.....couldnt see anything spectacular. So I went back to Safari, because I am more familiar with it
Just for the hell of it, (was bored) I downloaded FF4 in Chrome... It took +-6 minutes. Downloaded it again in FF... Took +-6 minutes... Download speed is not relative to the browser. You may have just hit a bit of network congestion at the time when you decided to download from FF.. It happens to the best of browsers! Just saying... (oops ... look there! Safari took 5 minutes! Yay for Safari)
Either way, Microsoft win.
ingeon
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I really don`t like IE, but sadly i have found a number of sites that gives problems when using firefox/opera/other.
Good examples are sites with drivers etc.
It`s almost like there is a plot for pro IE carps
Good examples are sites with drivers etc.
It`s almost like there is a plot for pro IE carps
Lycanthrope
Honorary Master
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Stats are skewed and article seems to try to suggest that Firefox is losing ground to IE. Also, more non-IE users are likely to switch between Chrome, Firefox, Opera than TO IE. Stats could also indicate simply more online PC users who, by default, use IE and don't know any better.
Statistics are rarely evidence of anything more than numbers and statistical interpretation is always dependent on the reader
I, for one, am devout to Firefox