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11-8-2009: Sorry for the inconvenience. We finally upgraded to vBulletin 3 !! See you there, Larry Internet Explorer, t3h cool?Go to the Tech-Forums Discussion Home PagePosted by: amnesty_puppy What don't people on this forum like about Internet Explorer? I'd like to know since I consider it a good browser, loads pretty quickly, can squash the toolbars nice and small, no useless features slowing it down... Posted by: It's all personal preference bud. I find Mozilla better for me, others prefer Opera etc etc. Mozilla has better built in options and extras than IE does. IE has quite a bit to do to make me even consider swicthing to IE. On another note - are you a Floyd fan, by looking at your sig that's a quite from "Welcome to the Machine". Posted by: amnesty_puppy I just want to hear people's opinions. Well spotted lyric there, yes - I'm a prog fan :D Posted by: xotix ie has to many problems. every month m$ issues another patch for it, its just not safe and stable. i love firefox, has more built in features than ie, and pages load faster. and i just think that firefox looks better. its also more configurable if u really want to get deep into firefox. Posted by: amnesty_puppy What sort of things can you do to configure firefox? I'm pretty new to Linux, using Firefox, and short of delving into the source code I'm not sure about configuration, is it all held in text files - which seems to be where most settings are kept (aside from preferences)? Posted by: beedubaya I use MyIE2. Firefox loaded way to slow for me. MyIE2 has the feel of IE but has many more features. Posted by: koldapu my firefox is pretty great . . . pages load fast and i love the tabbed bars plus, you can customize better Posted by: hygor I love firefox... [list] built in pop-up blocker a huge list of extensions available online that are p*ss easy to install... such as tabbrowser (so all your pages open in tabs in the one window) its the fastest browser I have used... and I have tried most of them its not microsoft it has nice looking skins its very customisable, even down to the buttons on the toolbar has a built in search box in the tool bar, that comes with google but other search engines can be added... and unlike the google searchbar it does not drain resources or contain spyware it has a nice logo (well not really a reason to use it... but it looks nice on my object dock) I personally think that webpages look nicer though firefox... i makes some css pages look chunky and the text weird.. but with the DOM extension, firefox makes them look pretty. [/list] Personally I use firefox all the time now! I recently had to go back to IE for a few tasks and I hated it... I know that now win xp SP2 is going to ad a popup blocker to IE, but its too little too late for me, I just prefer firefox! Posted by: xotix hygor - the man speaks true words people. the only reason i used ie is like you hygor. to update m$. i've actually customized that google search bar. i can also look up words right from the browser (ie can't top that) from dictionary.com because i read alot. amnesty_puppy try it, you won't regret it. goto mozilla.com and look under extensions to see how many ways you can configure firefox to suit your needs. Posted by: koldapu lol xotix, you and i do the exact same thing, during school, i switch it from google to dictionary . . . tis awesome and yeah, the only time i use ie is to update ms and to view those microsoft pages only viewable on ie on another note, what skins do you guys use? Posted by: Qiranworms [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by amnesty_puppy [/i] [B]What don't people on this forum like about Internet Explorer? I'd like to know since I consider it a good browser, loads pretty quickly, can squash the toolbars nice and small, no useless features slowing it down... [/B][/QUOTE] Good Browser? Firefox=better Loads Pretty Quickly? Firefox loads just as fast if not faster Squashing Toolbars? Firefox can do that No useless features slowing it down? Nor does Firefox...it feels just as 'light' and simple as IE IE is just full of security flaws. That's why we have the spyware problems we do. With Firefox, spyware worries are almost none (unless you already have some sort of spyware that is downloading more in the background, which many spyware apps do). Unlike many other IE competitor browsers, it does not have HTML rendering problems (because most web stuff is designed for IE). Also, pop-up blocking is BUILT IN! It is actually FASTER then Internet Explorer in my experiences, it has a built in search bar which is assignable to most search engines (Google by default). It has tabbed browsing, which is so useful you'll wonder after a while how you ever got on without it. It's just really great. As Hygor says, Join the Firefox Revolution!!! :cool: Posted by: Shroud Security is so bad, DoD (Department of Defense) even bans IE! WTF is BEEDUBAY mean? Posted by: xotix same with me koldapu, only time i use it is to update m$. Posted by: amnesty_puppy what's the point of tabbed browsing when there's a perfectly good taskbar that does the same job, even using Firefox I use new windows instead of tabs, I find it more organised to be able to control each window seperately. If you want to get back to a web page it even takes an extra click, which is more important than it sounds, to get to that unfocused tab from unfocused Firefox. Posted by: TheOne IE sucks ****, the only reason IE is good is cause it's more compatible with some websites than FireFox is.Same with me, I don't use tabbing. Posted by: Qiranworms [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by amnesty_puppy [/i] [B]what's the point of tabbed browsing when there's a perfectly good taskbar that does the same job, even using Firefox I use new windows instead of tabs, I find it more organised to be able to control each window seperately. If you want to get back to a web page it even takes an extra click, which is more important than it sounds, to get to that unfocused tab from unfocused Firefox. [/B][/QUOTE] What's the point? Well, if you're like me...I keep about 5-10 windows NOT INCLUDING the web browser open at a time, and that's broken the point when Windows XP catagorizes them by program. With 20 web pages at a time, that makes for long lists to look through. With the tabs per program, within Firefox I can see all my web pages and through the taskbar all my progs. By the way, I don't consider the taskbar 'perfectly good' at all, but that's my opinion again. Oh well, the usefullness of these things depend on personal preference and the way you use a computer. At least it's a feature you can easily ignore (tab bar is easy to permanently hide from the preferences)...and it's not the ONLY good thing about Firefox anyway. Please Visit the Online Configurator, Email Hosting, Internet Marketing , Computer Schools , Software for Real Estate , AAOutlook , Search Engine Site |