Posted on 12/20/2004 10:09:29 PM PST by Redcloak
I like the speed and compatibility of IE, but I like the tabbed interface of more modern browsers, so I use AvantBrowser now. It uses the IE engine for compatibility, but has the tabbed interface and customizability of the modern browsers. Just my two-cents.
http://www.avantbrowser.com
I run Netscape 7x on my desktop and Firefox on my laptops.
Downloaded Firefox a month ago and can't believe how good it is. Will never go back.
I run Firefox or Mozilla on my Linux boxes and am able to view well over 95 percent of the sites I visit. I use Firefox for all of my ecommerce stuff incuding bill paying and have been very happy with the results. Even on Windows, I have IE, Firefox and Opera all there, but I won't use IE, because of the swiss cheese like security, unless a site that I badly want to see will do nothing except IE.
My favorite right now is Firefox. It is fast, reliable, and doesn't have as many security problems as IE, and it runs under both Windows and Linux, although I run Linux most of the time.
The only thing I can't access with Firefox is that Toshiba copier. (Kinda odd when you think about it. The "brains" of that copier is a Linux system.)
But wouldn't a "skinned" version of IE still have all of the security problems of the original? With Firefox, you get the functionality as well as reliable security.
Just switched to Firefox, 2 days ago.
Love it.
Wrong!
Mozilla has been GREAT and an obvious no-brainer substitute for IE since 2002. Only now is it catching on, but it's been great since 2002 (v. 1.3, IIRC).
In general, I don't even use the tabbed browsing...I developed a habit of running a separate copy of the browser for each thread or page, and using the system tray (stacked two or three rows high on my Gigantotron monitor) to manage them. I suppose I'll eventually adapt, but in my opinion, tabbed browsing is not the best feature of Firefox.
Rather, I think its best feature is its open source code, and light, nimble size. It's elegant. Compared to that, IE seems sclerotic and, well, Soviet in its design. Not to mention that IE and Lookout! are like huge sewer pipes pumping virii and malware onto the hard drive.
Mozilla/T-bird is truly the best free option available.
The only thing it doesn't do is improve the weather. ;O)
Firefox is terrific. I just ran my virus scanner a few minutes ago and it picked up 2 new exploits I received from Microsoft IE security holes. I only run IE when a page won't load correctly in Firefox (which is rare) and even on though I seldom use it I still get a security breach.
I may just delete IE entirely and get it over with. Microsoft better wake up because Firefox is a real competitor and it's spreading fast.
It is extremely difficult to remove Microsoft IE. Do you know that you can paste a web address into a file explorer in windows, hit 'Go' and pull that web page up in the file explorer window?
They're the same app.
The only way I can think of defeating IE is to deny it access to winsock, but I have no idea how this would be done.
Broadband users should also check out this these tips from FReeper Korn...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts
You're right Petronski, it's too integrated to actually "delete" it. I guess I'll just have to delete all the IE shortcuts I can find so I'll have to actually hunt for it if I want to use it. That will give me time to come to my senses, lol.
You don't suppose I could buy that somewhere? ;OD
I use the MOOX builds of Firefox since they are hands-down the fastest out there with full pipelining support and custom tailored to high-speed computers on high-speed connections. (http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/)
Now if Microsoft would finally get around to releasing a version of Windows that supports the 64-bit extensions for my Athlon 64 3400+ and I'll finally be a happy man (I'm tired of having to reboot into SuSE in order to take advantage of my processor's 64-bit support while rendering videos).
My IE got hijacked by a conglomeration of adware centered
around "Bargain Buddy" ( It has a little dog icon. )
I ran Spysweeper ( recommended by my ISP ) and it finds
and removes things, but if I run IE again they "come back".
I'm subsisting on Netscape Communicator 4.79 ( which I
prefer ) and Netscape 7.02 ( since Netscape 4 is
"broken". )
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