FireFox VS. IE VS. Other. Which one ?

[JKR Firefox]

I just picked up a new laptop and I'm using IE for the first time in years. Possibly because I'm too lazy to download anything else atm but I like IE7. It's much like Firefox and Opera now except it doesn't give as much screen space as the latter.

~Fitzy~

 

[Icarus]

IE has many security holes, and is slower than Opera. If you like fast things, go for Opera. Much more screen space for the functionality than IE.

Security holes? I never had any problems with viruses on my computer[come to think of it, I NEVER had a problem with viruses ever]. As long as you have a real time protection running on the background, you're good to go[you should have one even if you're not using IE]. Opera is even worse than Firefox about compatiblity. No thanks.

 

[Urza]

Firefox hands down on the daily. Opera when browsing from some older systems.

 

[HippoSheep]

Firefox hands down on the daily. Opera when browsing from some older systems.

Agreed %100. Make sure to vote.

 

[OSW]

50/50 firefox and opera. i like how you can choose to save sessions on opera (as opposed to firefox where you must kill the process and load the session thru recovery).
then occasionally internet explorer.

however, i will start to use opera more these days, considering i prefer the interface over the other two.

 

[redact]

firefox FTW!!!

 

[Urza]

i like how you can choose to save sessions on opera (as opposed to firefox where you must kill the process and load the session thru recovery).

Options -> Main -> When Firefox Starts: Show my windows and tabs from last time

 

[DjFIL]

i'm on mac os x... i use firefox. on os x it has some kinda of cache issue, after i browse lots of websites (30+ pages in one session, some times way more, some times less) i find it starts having issues with rendering/displaying pages (images totally missing, etc)... and have to quit and restart firefox to resolve. but even with that annoying issue, i still like it more then safari (which i find slow to run).

 

[lagman]

Added Opera to the polls options.

I'm using Firefox 3 Beta 2, it's nice and fast

and now it saves the titles of the pages you visit, so let's say you want to see what you've seen lately about Rock Band, you type "rock band" in the address bar and voila!

Maybe that was already implemented in an older version or other explorer, but damn..it's really useful.

 

[ca82686]

have you tried the new beta 3 version 2 for firefox? It now allows you to save the session, even when you close the browser, and is very nice overall. Firefox is an amazing browser, and my browser of choice, BUT, that being said, there are some things and programs that IE handles better and faster than firefox because it has to use plugins as opposed to having native support for them. (not saying that IE doesnt have plugins and activex stuff =P) They are far and few between however. For example, you can't listen to amazon music samples in firefox for some odd reason, but in IE they pop right up with more options. That is about the only thing that I've seen IE do better. I haven't upgraded to version 7, because its clunky and IE6 does everything i need it to do, which is not very much. I have used version 7 extensively and tested things with it, just not on my own computer, it might be better than 6, but i hardly use it so i don't want it. Firefox is the better browser I believe, and the only reason IE has a bigger market share is because its installed on every windows based computer =P

 

[azotyp]

Im using firefox because it was first browser in my life that had couple of option to knockout internet explorer like tabs for example. (im not talking about that latest IE because in vista IE have tabs ).

 

[bluebright]

IE has many security holes, and is slower than Opera. If you like fast things, go for Opera. Much more screen space for the functionality than IE.

Security holes? I never had any problems with viruses on my computer[come to think of it, I NEVER had a problem with viruses ever]. As long as you have a real time protection running on the background, you're good to go[you should have one even if you're not using IE]. Opera is even worse than Firefox about compatiblity. No thanks.

Well, then if you've never had any problems with IE then its just fine. From everyone else's POV (including my own) firefox/opera is only makes IE 'suck' because they offer things that IE doesn't. It's like when people would rather hump Apple's OS's over vista because 'M$ is teh sux!!1!'

I'd like to punch those un-uneducated morons in the stomach. (no offense to mac-users, but you get my point right?)

 

[rhyguy]

Netscape 9

Firefox 2 clone, but it uses way less CPU and RAM (50% sometimes)

 

[Urza]

Im using firefox because it was first browser in my life that had couple of option to knockout internet explorer like tabs for example. (im not talking about that latest IE because in vista IE have tabs ).

IE7 came out before Vista.

QUOTEIt now allows you to save the session, even when you close the browser

That feature was implemented waaaay back with the first official release of FF2.

 

[lagman]

.... For example, you can't listen to amazon music samples in firefox for some odd reason, but in IE they pop right up with more options. That is about the only thing that I've seen IE do better. ...

Poorly programmed sites, trust me, I basically can't see any site of the Mexican government in Firefox, almost pathetic, although it's even worse with Opera

 

[Mars]

Firefox is my primary browser, as it never gave me any problems. I also like to give my Firefox a new look through add-ons.
I use Opera occasionally. It's a decent browser that gives you lots of space to browse pages.

 

[Nero]

Firefox.. Nuff said.
Much better than IE, and Opera is great too.

I use Firefox on all my Computers though.

~Nero

 

[amemoryoncelost]

Was an avid firefox user before 1.5 was out, used it up until about two weeks ago. Switched to Flock and wasn't impressed enough to stay with it. Now I'm using Safari. Miss all of the options I had with firefox, but I really can't deal with the resources it takes to run it. Running at 50% is just too much for me, plus it was getting really buggy and didn't want to deal with tracking down which addon was causing issues.

Been happy with safari, runs well and doesn't use up as much memory.

 

[lookout]

FireFox

Pro: Fast browsing, quick tabs, user friendly...
Con: eat hell a lot of ram, slowdown loading youtube video ..

 

[Nero]

Was an avid firefox user before 1.5 was out, used it up until about two weeks ago. Switched to Flock and wasn't impressed enough to stay with it. Now I'm using Safari. Miss all of the options I had with firefox, but I really can't deal with the resources it takes to run it. Running at 50% is just too much for me, plus it was getting really buggy and didn't want to deal with tracking down which addon was causing issues.

Been happy with safari, runs well and doesn't use up as much memory.

Hmm.. Maybe a better computer would help?

~Nero