IE vs. ff

[YoYoYo]

Which do you use?
Which would you prefer to use?

InternetExplorer or FireFox.

FF is a "safer" browser and more "pretty", but IE can be as safe as FF and you still get the same features. Why do you need a browser to be pretty? Its used for looking at sites, not at the browsers lovely graphics.

FF dont have ActiveX. Limits the power of the browser.
99% of sites get visited more by IE users than FF users.

Vote lol :P

 

[anto]

IE for teh win.
You could of done a poll ....

 

[Shade]

Bloody crappy bandwidth message.

FF because it blocks pop-ups, viruses, spyware. IE doesn't block pop-ups spyware/viruses, it allows them to pass through. FF i have found i dnt get as much spyware with, unlike IE.

 

[YoYoYo]

You could of done a poll ....

Your blind.

 

[Shade]

Actually the poll wouldn't load... Lol.

 

[anto]

Your blind.

You're deaf.

 

[ipixel™]

FF. for tabbed browsing alone.

 

[Detritus]

FF, no arguements needed

 

[Blaminator]

Firefox > *

End of.

ps i think im back

 

[YoYoYo]

ps i think im back...

...again.

 

[urbanfox]

Which do you use?
Which would you prefer to use?

InternetExplorer or FireFox.

FF is a "safer" browser and more "pretty", but IE can be as safe as FF and you still get the same features. Why do you need a browser to be pretty? Its used for looking at sites, not at the browsers lovely graphics.

FF dont have ActiveX. Limits the power of the browser.
99% of sites get visited more by IE users than FF users.

Vote lol :P

I would just like everyone to know that his statements are not fact but his oppinions, I have outlined these in red.


As for being more 'pretty'.....ummm ok.... no comment.

As for being more safe, that's absolutely right, and still safer than IE with any tweaks. Also safe right out of the install, which the majority of users use.

As for your argument on pretty, that's a strawman argument type, where you try to build up what firefox is in your own bias'd words and then blow it down.
Unfortunetly, you forgot Firefox's most useful feature in my oppinion, browsed tabbing. Despite what you say, this is a HUGE convienence. So huge, that M$ decided to include it in IE7.

As for active X, big deal, 99.9% of the sites I visit show up fine.

Also, FF initofitself is a anti-spyware/popup blocked when compared to the IE.

So, in case it's still a doubt who I picked, the winner is firefox.


PS Moved because it got technical.

 

[LeoCrasher]

I prefer Internet Explorer's engine, but I can't stand the browser ... so I use Maxthon.

It basically gives me tabbed browsing, blocks popups aswell as all sorts of other dandy utility rubbish that I have no use for (proxys, highlighting, autorefresh, autoform completion) As much as I'd love to use Firefox, at startup... it isn't loaded into memory. Because the IE engine is loaded into memory when windows starts, it loads quicker. I know you can accomplish this with FF, but it doesn't do it at setup. I don't have time to be fitting a browser to my system, it should fit by itself.

So FF is more secure at install, yup it is and I'm sure that suits the majourity of idiots out there. Luckily, I can protect myself from anything that Maxthon doesn't. The majority of sites are built with primarily IE in mind, and that is a fact. I want a browser that works with everything I look at already, IE's engine does that, Mozillas Gecko does not.

If I do however REALLY need the use of the Mozilla engine, then Maxthon gives me the choice to use it... so I have the best of both worlds, in one browser. Why should I install FF, when I can do the same amount of work using a browser that takes the same amount of time to install, and doesn't have any of FF/Gecko's drawbacks?

So why suffer with either of them, when you can have the best from both ^^

/Leo

 

[Martyn]

"I use Internet Explorer"

also FF must use up more resources then if it does all that.. but a simple firewall. can do all that which is needed for your compter..

so basicly its usless.. just like having 3 firewalls 3 anti virses.... it wont make you nessarly more safer.

 

[urbanfox]

"I use Internet Explorer"

also FF must use up more resources then if it does all that.. but a simple firewall. can do all that which is needed for your compter..

so basicly its usless.. just like having 3 firewalls 3 anti virses.... it wont make you nessarly more safer.

umm... what does an AV or firewall have to do with firefox when it's main touting is it's ability to stop spyware???

 

[Martyn]

well i use norton internet security. n i scan my pc every 2 days for spyware, and i find nothing...

 

[michaelj:mrj]

i have internet explorer.
i have firefox.
i prefer internet explorer.

i think firefox is too difficult to get used to when youve used internet explorer since you first went on the internet. also, i think internet explorer looks better than firefox, which is too rounded and graphical.

internet explorer has activex, so you can control which sites you want to let do thinks, whereas firefox hasnt got it. doesnt this make it less safe?
i've never had any major security problems with internet explorer, and i dont think there is much danger of me doing so.

"I use Internet Explorer"

also FF must use up more resources then if it does all that.. but a simple firewall. can do all that which is needed for your compter..

so basicly its usless.. just like having 3 firewalls 3 anti virses.... it wont make you nessarly more safer.

3 firewalls, and 3 antiviruses wouldnt work together, making it so you were even more vunerable to attack than when you only had the one.

Also, FF initofitself is a anti-spyware/popup blocked when compared to the IE.

yeah, but its just as easy to use your firewall to block them, is it not?

/michaelj

 

[urbanfox]

well i use norton internet security. n i scan my pc every 2 days for spyware, and i find nothing...

You said and I quote,

firewall

, what does that have to do with anything.

i think firefox is too difficult to get used to when youve used internet explorer since you first went on the internet. also, i think internet explorer looks better than firefox, which is too rounded and graphical.

internet explorer has activex, so you can control which sites you want to let do thinks, whereas firefox hasnt got it. doesnt this make it less safe?
i've never had any major security problems with internet explorer, and i dont think there is much danger of me doing so.

I've used the 'internet' for quite some time before FF, and I had no trouble switching over, in terms of GUI they are not that different.

As for your theory, no, IE is more dangerous. As for you not having a major security problem, what you meant to say is that you have never had one of IE's security flaws exploited.

yeah, but its just as easy to use your firewall to block them, is it not?

A firewall has nothing to do with blocking spyware or popups.

 

[MiloFoxburr]

FireFox without a doubt Tabbed Browsing is the best

 

[MysteryOne]

FF sucks, am using it now.

I use IE normally tho

 

[Ragnar]

The reason most people visit sites with IE is because most of the internet users have only basic knowledge on computers. That is just my opinion tho. I am also a Firefox user and always will be .