	Iexplore Vs. Firefox
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cj2005

Internet Explorer is very dangerous! I have heard about loads of insecurites in iexplore, iframes, images executing malicious code and loads more so i decided to switch to an alternative browser. After some persusion from my friend i downloaded Mozilla Firefox v1.0. I still use it and i love it, best of all it is secure. Apart from it being more secure you can download loads of extentions from update.mozilla.org. There are loads of things that firefox has that internet explorer doesnt. Heres a list of things firefox has and internet explorer doesnt

Tabbed Browsing - Excellent
Loads of Extentions
build in search bar
built in popup blocker
downloadable search engine to add onto the search bar

Firefox Rules

Jipman : this has nothing to do with exploits or any other security issue, moved to software -> internet & network clients

Mon Apr 4, 2005 Reply

jipman

Hate to spoil your dream but there are indead sploits for FireFox.

Nothing is perfect and nothing will be perfect.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...37&sid=96120750

although it probably is fixed already, this proves that nothing is unexploitable

Mon Apr 4, 2005 Reply

MajesticTreeFrog

QUOTE (jipman)

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The advantage of Firefox is that anyone can fix an exploit. People aren't dependant on Microsoft or anyone else to fix stuff. This means that patches often happen very fast.

Also, some things aren't exploitable, as far as anyone knows. Such as OpenBSD. No remote exploits found for something like 10 years. But then again, security is sort of the most important thing in the universe to that group.

Mon Apr 4, 2005 Reply

siddharthacomplex

Oh my gosh yes I agree entirely. Firefox is the heavyweight champion IMO.

Extensions galore, themes galore, support galore, security, ease of use, stumbleupon extension is brilliant, can't say enough.

Slimbrowser is also excellent, and there's always lynx!!

QUOTE (cj2005)

Tabbed Browsing - Excellent
Loads of Extentions
build in search bar
built in popup blocker
downloadable search engine to add onto the search bar

Firefox Rules

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Mon Apr 4, 2005 Reply

lloydkirk1989

Yeah, Firefox beats IE any day. Its got so many features. Whats amazing is that it was co-designed by a 15 year old.

Mon Apr 4, 2005 Reply

renshs

Fire fox is deffinatly better its user interface with the tabs and all is so good. i only have iexplorer because i cant view some things in firefox. to me thats its only down side.

Tue Apr 5, 2005 Reply

cj2005

Yeah firefox has loads of extentions and the tabbed browsing is one of the best features ever designed. I didn't know it was co-designed by a 15 year old. Where did u find that one out.

About the security issues, i am not aware of any but there are most likely to be some.

Not as many as internet explorer though. The fixes are as often as internet explorer.

Get Firefox

Tue Apr 5, 2005 Reply

lesmizzie

I personally hate Internet Explorer because, in my opinion, it has many problems. I think there are too many bugs in the program. Also, whenever I use it on the other computer (it's not on my personal computer), it also closes on me and I have to start everything all over again. :rolleyes:

It might just be me, though.

Wed Apr 13, 2005 Reply

cublux

QUOTE (cj2005)

Internet Explorer is very dangerous! I have heard about loads of insecurites in iexplore, iframes, images executing malicious code and loads more

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Most user is still using it, the main reason is, this bowser is integrated with Windows OS. Some people don't want get complicated with another browser that they have to download it, then install it manually. They just want to browse the web, and installing another browser is a waste of time. They never know about what ActiveX can do to their computer, or even worse, they don't care.

QUOTE (cj2005)

About the security issues, i am not aware of any but there are most likely to be some.

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You should aware of it, internet is a modern wildlife, there are too many security thread. Firefox has a periodic update checking, it will check for updates of extensions, themes and Firefox itself. use it and you will be one step more secure.

I personally used firefox since 0.9. Untill now, i never find any major problem, excep it doesn't suit with my 128 MB memory. Longer I use it, bigger system memory used by it. Maybe my W2K SP4 is not really stable, so the memory management is not too good. Though firefox is secure, it will be better if you use it under GNU/Linux or another UNIX based Operating System.

Thu Apr 14, 2005 Reply

tcave

I absolutely love everything about firefox. The reason I use the SBC browser is because I can sign into it and the easy login of yahoo features... I still have it installed on my computer. I use it when I don't need to login to anything (for quick access to something).

IE is out of the question

Thu Apr 14, 2005 Reply

finaldesign

firefox is better than IE but eventually it will became target of advetising company and further more there will be more annoying popups and bugs that give chance to people like "coolwebsearch" to advertise their stuff. It's just that way.

Tue May 17, 2005 Reply

Solus

Definetely the best features of Firefox have to be the improved security and the tabbed browsing. I use it ALL the time when I browse a forum. You just click on "View New Posts" then ctrl+click on all the ones that interest you... like I'm doing now

And it saves you having a million windows loaded up on your start bar or having to go back to find another one that interests you. Overall, I tried Firefox one day and I'm never going back to Internet Exploiter.

Tue May 17, 2005 Reply

Billwaa

Now I go for firefox, since it better than internet explorer. I just download firefox a few days ago. It's quite cool. However, is it possivble to use that save target as function.

Tue May 17, 2005 Reply

miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG

QUOTE (Billwaa)

However, is it possivble to use that save target as function.

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I believe you were trying to say that the Save Target As function doesn't work in Firefox - but it does. In firefox, it's known as Save Link As - you get to it the same way by right-clicking on a link.

Tue May 17, 2005 Reply

zorlen

Not only is Internet Exploder (I liked the use of exploiter, that made me laugh

) bad for the user, but it's irritating for the designers as well. In my personal experience FireFox has displayed webpages that I create better than IE. I haven't really gotten into the CSS yet, just doing simple things as of yet to learn it, but IE will mess up your tabled layout if your lazy and try to make the layout a giant table, like I did before I knew better

.

As to the advertisers focusing on FireFox... As good as Firefox is, it will probably not become as widespread as IE because, as someone stated earlier, IE comes with Windows. Because it won't be widespread, FireFox won't be targeted nearly as often as IE will. That right there vastly increases the security of FireFox and explains the severe, and welcome, lack of spyware/viruses/pop-ups.

Tue May 17, 2005 Reply

DanManIt

Firefox's best feature is definitely tabbed browsing.One of my favorite features for Firefox is the ability to add extensions. This just adds so much more functionality to Firefox. If Firefox can't do something by itself, odds are an extension is there to fill in that feature.

Tue May 17, 2005 Reply

jedipi

QUOTE (DanManIt)

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IE version 7.0 is coming up.
It will come with tabbed browsing feature just like what firefox has right now.
After it is released, what will you guys choose???

Tue May 17, 2005 Reply

organicbmx

firefox is the best program ever - quite possibly.

is is just so much better than IE. tabbed browsing is the best thing. i have forgotton that popups even exist. pages look better. the program looks better. adblock and other extentions are so useful. i nearly cried when i was forced to use IE at school, its just terrible - even on a super fast connection.

but the best thing is that is is the best introduction to open source possible. it is a pro-quality program that looks and is as easy as if adobe or someone like that made it. it makes open source look good and gives exactly the right impression.

since i was introduced i have forced all my friends to use it, and my family. most dont notice - but when they find out the extra features they cant go back. and some of my friends have gone on to introduce more people, and they are far less g33k than me.

i now go straight to open source whenever i want/need a program. and want to run linux dual boot. firefox has indirectly led me to learn much more about computers.

and yes even if IE does get tabbed browsing of course i will use firefox - i just wont hate using lame windows standard computers as much.

Fri Jun 3, 2005 Reply

SpartacusUSTASA

Firefox is better

Fri Jun 3, 2005 Reply

SpartacusUSTASA

First of all hackers target popular products thus making IE more of a target than Firefox right off the bat. People have grudges against microsoft so they target their exploits and hacks there first.

IE 0 Firefox 1

Next on the security list... Firefox has a few GREAT features that make it way stronger than IE could ever hope to be. 1. Addons, 2. Popup blocking. IE has neither of these features builtin. The addons feature allows people or Mozilla themselves to provide helpful addons to provide functionality and additional security to the browser. The popup blocker is one of the more advanced I have seen... There are claims of new 'unstoppable' popups... I have yet to have a problem with any popup whatsoever using firefox.

IE 0 Firefox 2

Now you may ask... which is easier/more user friendly. Well, Microsoft as we all know aims for everything to be user friendly... Just look at the Windows Server products. A freakin blindman could be a server admin. Firefox has tabs... IE doesnt. Firefox's preferences are reminiscent of Netscape Navigator... a big plus as there are more options and its easier to follow the menu heirarchy. IE wishes it was that easy. Firefox can import bookmarks from other browsers. IE Can't. Firefox has a manageable download center with tons of customizations available. IE Doesnt. Built in theme support... IE Doesnt have it but Windows XP does.. however thats not standalone theme management... thats depending on the OS. Looks like IE falls short again.

IE 0 Firefox 6

Now since it looks a bit unfair.. lets try to even it up. Who has better support for bug fixes... ROFL um, wrong place to start.

IE 0 Firefox 7

Memory Usage... okay... well since IE is built into the kernel... it can play hide and seek with its memory usage. Firefox tends to use a bit more, but you get what you "pay" for in this case. Firefox uses more but it runs a whole hell of a lot better. Unfortunately IE takes the point here.

IE 1 Firefox 8

...feel free to add on to this.

Sun Jun 5, 2005 Reply

jpod999

I like Firefox a lot, because of the tabbed browsing and the integrated search engines. But it seems that lately a lot of pop-up ads are getting past it. I don't know why because it never used to do that. It won't stop me from using Firefox, it is just kind of annoying.

Fri Jun 10, 2005 Reply

bob3695

I think IE is good. I have played around with firefox and didn't really see anything that interesting except the tabbed browsing. I think MS could pull that off if they relly wanted to but they are to busy with windows and all the other programs they make.

Fri Jun 10, 2005 Reply

mzwebfreak

Honestly, to be perfectly honest, I have generally stood by Internet Explorer, mainly because the only alternative I knew of, until acouple months ago, was Netscape, which, IMHO, sucks next to Internet Explorer. But, now that I've read about Firefox, I'm going to download it and play around with it for a couple of reasons. First, to see how much better it may be than IE, and also to check my sites in Firefox to see how well it may or may not be coming out, so I can better manage the designing of my sites, since it seems like more and more people are moving over to Firefox, so it would behoove me to be able to give the same kind of browsing experience to both parties.

Mon Jul 11, 2005 Reply

Esper

Besides the fact that explorer is widely exploited and is hacked often, it doesnt even work on my computer. Also all my pop-ups come from that one browser even though i never installed it on my computer. I use Netscape and yes im sure its just as bad. But just like everyother browser ever made Firefox will eventually end up like all the others. Even though nobody should have to deal with something like this.

Mon Jul 11, 2005 Reply

PinQ

Have no doubts... It IS Firefox! Or whatever they choose to call it the next version (It was called firebird earlier tongue.gif )

Firefox is technically superior and there is no doubt regarding that. But we should keep in mind that it lacks something that IE is blessed with. IE is bundled with Windows and Windows is the OS of >90% (I think) of all the Pcs in the World!!!

Most of the people out there using PCs for basic purposes haven't even heard of the term 'browser' leave alone 'firefox'! So how do you expect them to download and install that software?

Most of the 'learned' men with whom I work do not even know the basics of surfing... how do we expect them to 'switch' to firefox?

Firefox CANNOT rule the World. Unless Bill Gates buys it or adopts it tongue.gif ...which will be a shame if it happens...

So, the truths:
1. Firefox is the superior browser
2. IE is the dominant browser
3. Firefox may never be the dominant browser
4. It is a pity... and a shame...

Hope I will be proven wrong...

Sun Aug 21, 2005 Reply

amit

I feel that Internet Explorer is very miserable with the security concerns,But it is more of the buzz for FireFox rather than service that is bieng offererd by the FireFox.

Like all the features that you have in FireFox is also supported by Opera,but nobody cares to appreciate Opera.

Sun Aug 21, 2005 Reply

unimatrix

I mainly use Safari. I will say that I am not surpirsed that FF borrowed some the interface design from Apple. (like the Search bar, tabs, etc...)

When I am in windows I use Netscape 8 now which gives me the choice of rendering with either the MSIE engine (trident? iirc) or the FireFox Engine with tabbed browsing and some other features that are cool and like.

Sun Aug 21, 2005 Reply

spacewaste

**Adds Poll**<---Although we already know who the winner will be

.

My personal opinion: IE loads faster...But Firefox does not have so many security issues.

If IE could get tabbed browsing (coming inside IE7), and then if it found a way to solve ALL of it's issues involving so many spyware breeches and hacks onto it's software...Then it'd definately way in against firefox.

For now though, firefox has all those qualities...Minus the ultra fast load at times...(and the big resource hoggyness).

Sos my final decision has to be...Firefox...And I was the first to vote

Mon Aug 22, 2005 Reply

MajesticTreeFrog

Its not the tabs, or even the security that makes me love FF (though they help a lot). It is the extensions like adblock, flashblock, and stumbleupon. They just can't be beat.

Mon Aug 22, 2005 Reply

hazeshow

Internet Explorer is faster, looks better and the toolbars can be customized much better. I don't need tabbed browsing, I use Windows taskbar. I turned off ActiveX, but only because I can't stand no stupid Flash banners anymore.

Concerning security: Security holes and exploits for these are floating around just because Internet Explorer is the most used browser. Little holefinder kiddies are much more interested in IE. Internet Explorer simply is a larger target, that's what I'm thinking.

I wonder why Firefox users never seem to get tired of telling how evil and unsecure Internet Explorer is. It's cool if they have found a better browser for themselves, but why are they always talking about it? I will never understand.

GreetingZ

Mon Aug 22, 2005 Reply


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