I.E. vs Firefox

[Mark]

Never got on with the Opera browser. It seemed too buggy when I last tried it about two years ago.

[71 dB]

Never got on with the Opera browser. It seemed too buggy when I last tried it about two years ago.

Internet pages are buggy*, Opera browser is not that buggy.

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*Pages are written mainly for IE and that shitty browser does not follow standard.

[Mark]

Internet pages are buggy*, Opera browser is not that buggy.

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*Pages are written mainly for IE and that shitty browser does not follow standard.

The sheer irony of which is that IE is now so 'standard', you'd think it would be the other way around.

[Iago]

Well, I installed Firefox.
And its working perfectly.
Much better than any version of I.E., I've ever used.
It's certainly just as fast (if not faster). And its simple uncluttered layout is just what I like.
My ONLY criticism of it is that I am forced to change the text size for each web page that I go to.

[Xenophanes]

I've used Firefox for some years for most things.  I'm sure it will give you little trouble.

For my Hotmail account or for downloading large essays (i.e., magazine articles) in Adobe Acrobat I find I.E. works better.

[Conservationist]

Opera is far, far less buggy than FireFox, The People's Browser.

[Gurn Blanston]

Well, I installed Firefox.
And its working perfectly.
Much better than any version of I.E., I've ever used.
It's certainly just as fast (if not faster). And its simple uncluttered layout is just what I like.
My ONLY criticism of it is that I am forced to change the text size for each web page that I go to.

I am fairly sure you will be happy with it, I have been for over 2 years now. Oddly enough, I have that text issue too, but I put it down to my eyes getting older.   I hope you take the easy way and use ctrl + plus sign/minus sign to make the text larger and smaller. The only one it really bothers me on is my email (gmail) program, and I leave it open in its own tab all the time, with larger text always.



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[71 dB]

Opera is far, far less buggy than FireFox, The People's Browser.

At least more security holes are found in FF.

[mahlertitan]

At least more security holes are found in FF.

so, how many times is Opera greater than Firefox in this case?

[beer]

I dont know nothing about security issues (neither do I care) but I've used both Opera and FireFox and Opera is especially good at dealing with font sizes, zooming in etc. I can remember that FireFox enlarges only the text like in Internet Explorer, while Opera enlarges everything on the page. That and the built in mouse gestures Opera has and the minimalism beyond that is why I still use Opera and really really dislike FireFox.

[71 dB]

so, how many times is Opera greater than Firefox in this case?

Greater?  Less security holes are found in Opera than in Firefox. Simple as that. 

[drogulus]

     I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a FF extension that handles the text size problem. FFers can go here to check out all the wonderful add-ons for your browser.

     One of the most useful, directly relevant to another frequent complaint, is IE View, which allows you to right click on troublesome web pages to bring them up in IE.



Just download IE View and it will automatically install. You can keep a list of "always open in IE" as well.

      Firefox 3 Beta 1 is out. Download it here. And don't forget to create a new profile. 

[drogulus]

     Firefox 3.1 alpha is available for the adventurous. I'm running it now and it's the fastest browser I've ever used. Your themes/extensions won't work, though.

[George]

I'm running the new 3.0 version and it's great. So far. What theme are you using Drogulus?

[drogulus]

Here they are:
     

[George]

So your using pitch dark?

BTW, when I click that link I get nothing.

[M forever]

What are those themes? Skin styles?

BTW, M has tried Firefox, but not much. M uses Opera. One of the main reasons for that is that M downloads a lot of music sometimes, from places like Operashare, and the download list in Opera is the best, it's easiest to keep track of what's downloading and what the progress is, etc.
Apart from that, I can not say I see a huge difference between Opera and Firefox or IE. Now that they all have tabs, at least. Maybe I am not a real "power surfer"

[Bonehelm]

What are those themes? Skin styles?

BTW, M has tried Firefox, but not much. M uses Opera. One of the main reasons for that is that M downloads a lot of music sometimes, from places like Operashare, and the download list in Opera is the best, it's easiest to keep track of what's downloading and what the progress is, etc.
Apart from that, I can not say I see a huge difference between Opera and Firefox or IE. Now that they all have tabs, at least. Maybe I am not a real "power surfer"

Who are you, Elmo? Referring to yourself in third-person and such...

[M forever]

M is not a person, neither the third nor the first. M is a state of being, elevated, removed, elusive, forever.

[Joe_Campbell]

Well, firefox is not giving me a video viewing problem I had in iexplore.exe. Also, facebook chat works without a hitch. So right now, I'm slowly mosying to ff's side.