Posted on 11/13/2004 8:34:02 PM PST by kralcmot
Internet Explorer, you're fired.
That should have been said a long time ago. After Microsoft cemented a monopoly of the Web-browser market, it let Internet Explorer go stale, parceling out ho-hum updates that neglected vulnerabilities routinely exploited by hostile Web sites. Not until August's Windows XP Service Pack 2 update did (some) users get any real relief.
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I'm on Firefox right now and it's pretty good!
Recently installed Firefox. Works great. Lot less spyware being loaded onto my system.
I am by no means anti-Microsoft (developing with their products puts a roof over my kids heads), but I am sick to death of IE. Firefox is a wonderful product, I just hope they can move fast to plug their security holes once enough people are using it to make it worth the hackers and script kiddies time worthwhile.
I happen to agree about Firefox.
Using FireFox right now. The tab browsing is what does it for me.
Been using Firefox for about a year now. Beats the heck outta IE bigtime.
I've only ever used Netscape. I tried an earlier version of Firefox and didn't see much difference between that and Netscape, but I may try the latest. Right now, though, some of the sites that weren't totally Netscape compatible have been working right, so I may just stay put. I've got tabs and mouse gestures, and that's about all I need from a browser.
Firefox doesn't work for a lot of MS-based products, like exchange-based email systems.
In FR, it doesn;t take me back to the spot I was at before.
ping
using it as we speak, I like it.. I also still use IE sometimes... Use them both..
I to am using FireFox
just for all of you that don't know Internet Explorer is evil!!!
Bump from another happy Firefox user.
I regard the author's take as hype. He is approaching the suitability of a browser from the standpoint of a basic Internet user who doesn't rely upon his browser for anything more than standard web access. If you have to use your browser for data access, and I do so extensively, Firefox does not come up to grade. And Firefox does not have anything remotely resembling what Internet Explorer does in terms of XML capabilities, and XML is still very much the future in browser technology.
I remember when I was little my Dad and I had to take the old tubes out of the back of the TV set and walk down to the local drugstore . They had a "tester" that looked like a pinball machine. Underneath the tester was a cabinet filled with new replacement tubes. We'd plug all the tubes from our old TV into the tester till we found the bad one, then drag em all back home, plug em in and marvel at the technology.........
Even with a few bugs I'm grateful for what we have today. Even if it does burp every once in a while.
Stay safe !
I'm running Firefox 1.0 beta and it periodically crashes on me, but no spyware.
I have been using FF exclusively for 2 weeks. I have found no reason to return to IE.
Updated to v 1.0 and it has almost eliminated a lot of security worries.
So...so far...so good.
Been using it a little while, but there are some applications that just won't work. Can't use my local MLS (real estate) web site and have found some web pages which require plug-in's which Firefox can't seem to locate.
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