Firefox Or Internet Explorer that is the question...

[Dodger 0]

FireFox infected my computer!

I was doing a memory usage comparision between FireFox and Opera here: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

I opened a lot of sites in FF including some cracks sites. All of a sudden I got multiple virus warnings from Avast antivirus, and an Internet Explorer window popped up!!!

A toolbar was installed, and a spyware search thing by 180solutions was running in my system tray:

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/


Nothing happend when I opened exactly the same pages in Opera.

[Plucko 0]

I have tried IE, Firefox, Opera.. Apart from good ol' IE I think Firefox is the best browser. I sometimes have problems with opening sites in IE and then they work fine in Firefox. There are 2 versions of the transparent iFrame html code and one of them doesn't work in Firefox/Opera. Because many webdesigners use that code, some sites may look crappy in Firefox/Opera.. That's the only bad side of Firefox, in my opinion.

[badimage 0]

Firefox sucks.....

 

FireFox infected my computer!

 

I was doing a memory usage comparision between FireFox and Opera here: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

 

I opened a lot of sites in FF including some cracks sites. All of a sudden I got multiple virus warnings from Avast antivirus, and an Internet Explorer window popped up!!!

 

A toolbar was installed, and a spyware search thing by 180solutions was running in my system tray:

 

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Nothing happend when I opened exactly the same pages in Opera.

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[rectab 0]

I would choose Firefox anytime because I hate Internet Explorer and Microsoft.

[huls 0]

IE is the 1st and the worst browser i have erver used....i have a brand new pc and IE hangs it for me....Second Point Is....at least firefox has a mind to remember! when i visit a page more than once it will load much faster than the first time...IE is still the same slow thing.And i hate those error messages i get with IE, i mean if i told microsoft about the promblem 10 times,why the hell do they still ask me the same question?!?

[yoofus 0]

I use IE because FireFox keeps freezing on my PC. Even if it didn't freeze I wouldn't use FF because it is too complicated and uses too much memory.

[demongaara 0]

oh this is an easy one, firefox of course

[loky 0]

ill stick with firefox

[Erika 0]

Most definetly Fire Fox. I had Internet Explorer up until about 3 months ago. Everytime I opened a new browser, I would be hit with pop-ups galore, it woulden't let me set my homepage to anything, and then it would freeze. I absolutley hate IE. Then I discovered Fire Fox, and it works like an angel. Not one problem, and it's very organized. I adore the little tab things and the bookmark system.

[NeXDesigns 0]

firefox is way better because of its secutity and anti spyware/adware etcit had a better download manager, and has nice tabbed browsing, i would never switch back to ie now.

[gongbutan 0]

How do you expect the people to download and install that software?Most of them out there using PCs for basic purposes haven't even heard of the term browser leave alone firefox.

[brokebloke 0]

Firefox is great, one other good thing about it is pages with CSS look proper compared to IE at the moment, a good example is if you go here :-

http://http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspiral/demo.html

and watch how the transparent blocks of text works flawlessly and then compare that page in Internet Explorer

[heavensounds 0]

I would say NEITHER, because OPERA is far better from both of them as it is a lot faster and it has the advantage of having many windows opened in the same program. I tried all of them and Firefox did impress me until I read that opera is the fastest. Than I needed 3 days to get used to it and now I wold never go to another browser again (pop up blocker that works great, super-wand (fills forms), multi-window,...). All this things makes it better than IE or Firefox so GIVE OPERA A TRY and this discussion will be closed very soon;)greetz

[clagnol 0]

Some of you mentioned that you prefer Internet Explorer because Firefox doesn't render certain pages properly. I maintain that this problem is, in fact, Internet Explorer's fault. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) creates standards, which, I might add, to which Firefox generally adheres. Internet Explorer, on the other hand, flips the bird to the W3C by creating its own standards which work with no other browsers.And some of IE's ideas are pretty snazzy. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) filters, for instance. Want to make your image or text fade from opaque to transparent? You can do that with CSS filters! But only Internet Explorer users will see the effect. Another way of creating this effect is to produce a PNG image with fading transparencies. Internet Explorer does not support this kind of image, whereas Firefox does, because it is a W3C standard. If IE would just adopt the PNG image format, designers could do much more with graphics. But as it stands, PNG is being held back by Internet Explorer's unwillingness to cooperate with standards. Too many of the Internet's denizens are IE users. Thus, one who explores the power of the PNG risks alienating a large percentage of his/her user base.Another IE peculiarity is the colorful scrollbar. It generally looks like crap, and doesn't match the rest of the IE GUI (Graphical User Interface). No loss there.There are plenty of such quirky features, but no others that immediately come to mind. So this is where I speak of IE's actual rendering flaws.One thing that has always annoyed me about IE is its refusal to display divs correctly. If you specify for a div to be 100% wide, Firefox will spread it across the screen, while IE spreads it about 95% across the screen and then gives up. You have to specify something like 105% just to make it look right.I am SO tired of writing two versions of a page and then writing a javascript to redirect the browser to make up for Internet Explorer's terrible rendering jobs. It's enough to make me shout out promises of foul things I'll do to William Gates III's tender areas for ever daring to start the worthless company that Microsoft has always been.To recapitulate: Internet Explorer is abominable refuse, and Firefox is the thinking man's browser; a portal to the Internet for the modern sophisticate.

[hansley 0]

Duh...what a silly question, of course I prefer Mozilla Firefox over Internet Explorer. For one thing, Internet Explorer does not support Tab System, which is really matter for people who like to access multiple web at the same time. Internet Explorer is also slower than Mozilla Firefox. Firefox also has a better password storage management. However, there are two things that I prefer Internet Explorer than Mozilla Firefox. Using Internet Explorer, I can find resource file after accessing a web or playing a streaming video using the Internet Options. And also, my download accelerator/manager only works on Internet Explorer. Oh yeah and one more thing, Internet Explorer is faster at start up than Mozilla Firefox. Thus, accessing a stored web (offline) will be better using Internet Explorer. Oh and almost forget, Internet Explorer supports the best HTML format for web.Otherwise, Mozilla Firefox is my first choice.