Posted on 10/20/2010 8:28:50 AM PDT by ShadowAce
IMHO, Geeks don’t cotton to thinking of themselves as borg pawns.
geeks think?
Now that FireFox has become such a bloated hog (currently running 201,000k for me right now), I’m more than willing to go to IE9 if they make it good.
Chrome is simple too sparse, but I use it as the default. Opera is too “busy”.
I am using Chrome 7, with IE 9 as back up.
FireFox is distant third.
This article misses the big reason geeks hate IE - the “ActiveX” framework that lets someone fritz with your system files via the browser.
>>>geeks think?
Where others emote. :)
Firefox is what I have used for several years now. The two reasons: Tabs, which I use CONSTANTLY, and security. Because Firefox is not integrated with windows, even if you fully exploit it there are only so many places a hacker can go. It is like IE has the keys to the building, so once you get him, you have it all. Firefox just doesn’t have as much power. Even if it gives you it’s keys to it’s parts of the building, there is only so much malicious stuff you can do.
No spell check in IE. Mozzile/FireFox hights errors automatically in any entry form, the correction is a simple right-click on the underlined word.
i’m afraid to click that.
I still stick with Firefox because with the right combo of addons (Adblock, Greasemonkey and NoScript in my case) I can strip down every webpage to just what I want to see, and never have to look at a distracting and bandwidth hogging graphic, ad, or animation unless I -want- to.
I think that is the main thing. It reminds me of the dumb joke in a Firesign Theater album:
Why did the short-hair cross the street? Because someone told him to.
Why did the long-hair cross the street? Because someone told him NOT to.
Actually, you could replace short-hair with Asian or European and replace long-hair with American. It’s why we had a revolution.
It is a long heritage and what makes us uniquely dangerous to despots - eventually.
My big annoyance with firefox is that it just keeps using more and more memory. The good news is that it is no big deal to just close and re-open every couple of days. It saves all your tabs if you want.
Firefox for me, tabs reasons included....the add-ons alone are beyond what IE has to offer. The IDM/video downloader add-on alone, as an example is the best I’ve used.
Will never use any Google product/Chrome. I dont like my IP search queries being recorded.
FireFox with NoScript and Adblock are the ideal browser. No blinking ads or popups, I love it.
I don’t have time to read the whole article right now but I just want to chime in with a new reason to hate IE:
IE 8 has some pop-up when you start it (I don’t have it now and I don’t remember exactly what it says) that implies that you should get IE 8 now (even though you already have it!!!) and the only choices are DO IT NOW and REMIND ME LATER.
I mostly use Chrome and Firefox so I run into this infrequently (on other people’s computers) but it is highly, highly, highly irritating, as so much of MS can be.
My helper is a handful!
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