Three new flaws found in IE - For Bifta ;)

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by aliferste

Isnt that a bit like just using a keygen to pretend you have bought it?

Originally Posted by Ramrod

No idea m8

Ah....sorry, I get it now
I suppose it is......however I am neither using Opera or condoning 'ripping it off'......I was merely ading to the discussion. Sorry if it inflamed your ethical sensibilities

[TheBlueRaja]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

Ah....sorry, I get it now
I suppose it is......however I am neither using Opera or condoning 'ripping it off'......I was merely ading to the discussion. Sorry if it inflamed your ethical sensibilities

And here was me thinking you were bing a cheeky sod.... ah well

[Millay]

I like IE myself, but amusing Firefox at the moment, as customers will soon be asking my my views on this, so am happily evaluating it.

My views are yes it is a good browser, I love tabbed browsing have done ever since it came out in nutscrape. I don't know whever it is IE or FireFox, but get confused sometimes when IE pop's up when im expecting Firefox.

It seems a little faster, but I have afunny feeling that is caused by the way it looks as it builds a page.. (would love to se some real benchmarks against IE). it builds pages fine.. no problems.. i have yet to find asite that doesnt work.

As for security If one of my clients takes out a service contrract with me, then security becomes less of an issue. As i will be ensuring they have a secure system , and with the help of WUS, they wll be fully patched. i would actually suggest they stick with IE as it integrats nicely with the rest of a MS environmnt whichi personally do no think is a bad thing...

but hey im gonna continue using it...

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Tristan

But every single one of those features (except the odd Powerpoint one) can be added to Firefox with extensions...

Relying on extensions for features is good in that it enables the user to configure the browser how they want. However I can thing of bad points too. One being that if you have to re-install the browser for any reason, you may have to re-install all the extensions as well. Also, as some people here have found out, extensions may not work on future versions of the browser. That's OK, as long as the author is still developing the extension.

When I used Opera I found the adverts *incredibly* annoying, but maybe that's just me.

Have you tried any of the 7.xx versions of Opera? They used to have one large (by large, I mean the same size as the ads on this forum). Now, they have two tiny ads (about the size of a standard Windows Menu bar) at the top of the window, so it's like and extra menu bar and I have found I can easily ignore it.

And what's wrong with Firefox, anyway? At least it's not IE...

Well, in my experience, firefox (including the current version) suffers from the same problem Nutscrape used to. It can take a long time to load. Last time I had it installed on this system, it took 30 seconds to load. Possibly not bad until you take into account this system uses Athlon 64 3000 with 1 Gig of Corsiar DDR400 ram, and runs XP Pro SP2. Opera loads on this system in less than 5 seconds. IE, being effectively built into the OS, starts instantly.

And, as I said earlier, Firefox (IMO) feels slower in use than opera.

[themelon]

Opera is fast but im not particularly impressed with its standard compliancey. I spent ages developing a standards complients Menu for accessibility based on Suckerfish only to find Opera buggers it for some reason.

Its still useable but half works and half doesnt........no other browser has this problem.

I also found it tends to make things bigger than they acually should.