Microsoft Internet Explorer vs Mozilla Firefox vs other browsers

[Chairman Meow]

The only thing that is missing from Opera that would get me to use it is something similar to the Adblock extension from Firefox... if it were possible to block ads from within Opera, I'd use Opera more than I do now.

 

[hbdragon88]

Score one for Opera. Someone developed the Opera Ad Filter to block ads.

 

[Chairman Meow]

Score one for Opera. Someone developed the Opera Ad Filter to block ads.

That would be great, but unfortunately, the ad-filter is Windows-only, and I run Linux.

 

[LLXerxes]

Now, I'm to lazy to read your post so I'll say this.
Mozilla is the better browser. THe format is better, it has better features, it has it's own popup blocker, yup.
Most people hate Mozillla cause they're used to IE. They're scared of anything but IE.

 

[steviejay]

I'm an Opera user. I was a completely religious IE user until I was building a website for a museum and had to use other browsers to see if it would display correctly and I just stuck with Opera. Tabbed browsing is awesome, I love it over IE, my only complaint about it though is if you're researching something and have alot of tabs open, you accidently shut down Oracle then thats you, you have to start over, where untabbed browsing you only loose 1 page.

Also, I'm kinda irritated I can't check Gmail with it, but I tihnk thats been changed in the next version.

Opera is my weapon of choice, I love it. for some reason Firefox just doesn't have the same feel. Also, because my brother and parents don't know about it, they only use IE, which means I can check out some sites on Opera which won't show up in the IE history or auto complete

 

[hbdragon88]

Now, I'm to lazy to read your post so I'll say this.
Mozilla is the better browser. THe format is better, it has better features, it has it's own popup blocker, yup.
Most people hate Mozillla cause they're used to IE. They're scared of anything but IE.

Quite the closed-minded person you are. "Format is better" is an opinion. Better features - I'll agree. And IE has its own popup blocker, too. I hate Mozilla because not only is it overrated, but I like Opera's feel and look better than Firefox's, not because I'm "scared of anything but IE."

 

[LLXerxes]

Quite the closed-minded person you are. "Format is better" is an opinion. Better features - I'll agree. And IE has its own popup blocker, too. I hate Mozilla because not only is it overrated, but I like Opera's feel and look better than Firefox's, not because I'm "scared of anything but IE."

Perhaps this has to do with what system you have cause with WindowsME I don't see this option.
And when I said "hate Mozilla because they're scared" I meant all other browsers. Like when my mother uses my computer she prefers to use my crappy,
outdated internet explorer and refuses to use Mozilla

 

[Thrawn]

IE only has a popup-blocker with SP2. Otherwise it doesn't have one.

 

[Plexus]

As a side note: Firefox 1.0 has been released.

http://www.mozilla.org/

 

[classical_hero]

IE has to be the worst browser on the market. That is what you get for being a slave to a corpate giant.

 

[funxus]

Firefox and Opera because of:
* Tabbed browsing - loading a page in the background is the best way (after faster connection) to speed up browsing. Especially when using search engines and sites like CFC...
* Quicker loading of "previous and next"-pages (especialy in Opera, takes no time going back and forth)
* Mouse gestures - clicking right-left mouse buttons to move backwards and forwards is my favourite

I used Opera before, but after trying Firefox for a few days decided I liked it better. I had some stability problems with Opera for a while as well, and don't like the layout as much.

 

[GenMarshall]

I switched from IE to Firefox due because on IE, my home page is constantly reset to some stupid site that does not exist. I just became fet up with it and installed Firefox. Now I am starting to like it more and hhave experianced no problems since ive installed firefox .

 

[hbdragon88]

I used Opera before, but after trying Firefox for a few days decided I liked it better. I had some stability problems with Opera for a while as well, and don't like the layout as much.

Huh. You can change it...I hated 7.54's layout, so I took some time to change it back to the 7.23 default. But that's one of Opera's weakenesses - the default layout is cluttered and changing it back too a lot of itme. It took me maybe ten minutes of moving toolbars around.

 

[classical_hero]

I like any browser that has tabbed browsing becaus many times I have as many as ten different tabs up when I am on CFC, because I like to go to the different forums at the same time. Sometimes, this does confuse my thinking when I am posting, but this is much better than having ten windows up. ATM, I have five tabs going.

 

[citizen001]

I thought this discussion was over and Mozilla won by a fairly large margin!?!?

 

[tossi]

Before I found Firefox my life was a waste of time. Now I'm enlightened! Make the switch today! IE is an evil demon!

 

[Cilpot]

Opera. I'm never going back.

 

[hbdragon88]

I thought this discussion was over and Mozilla won by a fairly large margin!?!?

Pfft. There was no argument. I mentioned the advantages of FF vs. Opera and vice versa, but never bothered to make an argument why Opera was better than FF. FF is just more popular than Opera.

 

[Gogf]

My IE got a virus or something, and no longer works.

Then I got enlightened about Firefox, after suffering for a couple months with IE either crashing randomly, not opening, or, well, just being a pain.

Firefox I love because of TABS, TABS, and, ohh, did I mention that TABS? And that nifty little Google search thingie to the right of the Address Bar. Basically, Firefox is kinda like IE, same layout, just a lot better 'cause of the TABS, and it doesn't crash like IE (for me). SP2 did jack squat for IE, it still crashed and dies whenever I try to use it, and it usually makes XP crash, it takes both down. Firefox, its very, very stable. And I cannot live without TABS anymore!

It's so frusterating going on IE, and pressing crtl-t, and . . . nothing. (crtl-t gives a new Tab in Firefox)

So, you haven't experienced the wonders of adblock yet? I have a number of great extions installed.

Here's what's better about Firefox:

• TABS!
• More secure.
• Good, trustworthy extensions available.
• Customizable themes.
• Properly supports PNG transparency.
• Much better keyboard controls (CTRL+L is location bar, CTRL+E is search bar, etc.)
• Is not effected by CFC takeover ad. I originally switched to Firefox because I couldn't get onto CFC because the takeover ad kept going into an infinate loop. I never went back.

 

[Rhymes]

What about spyware distributors that specifically target explorer? Is that a legend or is it actually true?