Why you should dump IE.

[Steve H]

I realise this subject is swings and roundabouts, but I found this article quite interesting..

Linky

[aliferste]

Yup, Firefox is without question the way to go......its so much nicer and just doest seem as clunky as IE

[Bifta]

Installed Firefox, used it for an hour or so, it kept timing out on several site's, especially hyperlinks in emails/MSN etc, removed it and reset IE as my default browser and the problem went away. It also seemed to render pages a lot more slowly that IE even after some tweaks than were listed in another thread.

[Paul K]

Must admit in some ways its a nice piece of software but it does seem to render a few sites slowly as Bifta has said, I use myie2 since it has tabbed browsing which comes in handy for opening multiple sites at once.
Im using firefox at the moment to post this but I don't think I will be setting it as my default broswer just yet Especially since I've only just talked my significant other into using MYIE2 instead of Internet Explorer.

[paulyoung666]

i gave it a go and soon realised the error of my ways , if they keep working on it then fine , i will use it , until then i am afraid i am going to stick with i.e. , i hope they do get it sorted though as i reckon bg has had enough money out of ppl

[Halcyon]

I gave up Microsoft Internet Explorer (With bonus crash pack) ages ago.
Mozilla all the way for me.
Tabbed browsing is much easier and the built in pop up blocking works really well too.

[Mal]

Originally Posted by Halcyon

I gave up Microsoft Internet Explorer (With bonus crash pack) ages ago.
Mozilla all the way for me.
Tabbed browsing is much easier and the built in pop up blocking works really well too.

Mozilla Firefox here. When at work, when the only thing is IE, I miss the tabbed browsing.

Though when I first tried it, I do admit I hated, but over time I grew to like it.

[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.

[Richard M]

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.

No, that's something that Micro$oft has to address.
Read the article.

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by Richard M

No, that's something that Micro$oft has to address.
Read the article.

I have. The attitude at the moment when a site doesn't display in Firefox is "It's the site's fault - it was designed for IE". With that attitude I don't see how Firefox can challenge IE. Bit of a vicious circle though - web designers design for the popular browsers which in turn makes those browsers more popular, or rather cements their popularity. I can't see anyone going out of their way to design a site that works in IE and Firefox if few people use Firefox. Anyways - the issue for me was what it did to my system. Suppose you're going to tell me I should upgrade to XP

[Richard M]

I design in Mozilla first, I get everything looking perfect then I view it in IE to find myself having to put in nasty hacks to make it look acceptable.
There are parts of nthellworld.co.uk that aren't even visible in IE simply because it's standards support is so bad.

And yes, upgrade to XP, use FF 0.9 or Mozilla 1.7 and only use IE for Windows Updates.

[Jon M]

My requirements are .. speed, features and security .. in that order.
I use Avantbrowser for the simple reason that it's tabbed, has genuinely useful features (popup blocker, multiple default page tabs on load, integrated search bar...etc) and is stable.
I use Firefox as my secondary browser, but it's so much slower that I'm not going to make it my default any time soon.

[aliferste]

Originally Posted by s1lv3r

My requirements are .. speed, features and security .. in that order.

But Avant browser is just an addon for IE so you are inheriting all IEs security problems........if you take a broken down car and give it a nice new paint job you still have a broken down car

[Jon M]

Originally Posted by aliferste

But Avant browser is just an addon for IE so you are inheriting all IEs security problems........if you take a broken down car and give it a nice new paint job you still have a broken down car

I'm aware of that... thats why I said security is third in my list of priorities, not first.
And if it really was "broken" there wouldn't be any contest.. I'm not saying Avantbrowser is the better browser in general, just that for my requirements it definately is.

[aliferste]

Why is security third ?