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Originally Posted by greencreeper
I tried Firefox because of all the fuss and I didn't rate it. Has potential though. I found that many sites didn't display properly and it generally made my system behave oddly. The Net is largely designed for IE - that's a huge legacy that Firefox has to address and currently it's ignoring it.
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No, as Richard says the differences between IE and standards based browsers (such as Opera and Firebird) is something Microsoft should address, or possibly the designers who use IE only features. The problem with people designing for IE is simply that to view a site designed for IE, you need to use IE. In itself, this is sort of acceptable IF you want Microsoft to control what browser (and therefore what OS or Platform) you are using.
Increasingly, people are using the WWW on PDAs, phones or other devices that may use Symbian OS, Linux, Palm OS etc. By designing a site specifically for IE, the designers may be preventing those people from accessing their sites. If the designers stick the standards, then there will be no problem viewing sites on all devices. If IE were brought into line, it would not have problems either.
As to alternate browsers, yes, I do use IE mainly (our admin software at work requires it), but in my own time I tend to use Opera. I did use Firebird, but have found it renders things too slowly.